You're being laughed at because you don't understand the distinction between fiction and myth.
A myth is a sacred story.
The Odyssey is mythic, a sacred story that is foundational to Greek culture and to the West.
The details of myths inform the character of its people.
@KaiserLoengramm Some photos I took from inside the National Museum of American History last week. Profoundly anti American and uninspiring. By far the worst of all the museums in DC I visited.
The National Portrait Gallery also has Spanish everywhere.
@KaiserLoengramm Some photos I took from inside the National Museum of American History last week. Profoundly anti American and uninspiring. By far the worst of all the museums in DC I visited.
The National Portrait Gallery also has Spanish everywhere.
@KaiserLoengramm Some photos I took from inside the National Museum of American History last week. Profoundly anti American and uninspiring. By far the worst of all the museums in DC I visited.
The National Portrait Gallery also has Spanish everywhere.
@KaiserLoengramm Some photos I took from inside the National Museum of American History last week. Profoundly anti American and uninspiring. By far the worst of all the museums in DC I visited.
The National Portrait Gallery also has Spanish everywhere.
“Ancient history is irrelevant”
Our founders were reading Homer, Herodotus, Tacitus, Livy, Ovid etc thousands of years old and yet they furnished the tools to overcome contemporary problems
Your inability to see back past WW2 demonstrates exactly who holds you in thrall
I'll actually make the argument since this post is kind of terrible:
Celsius is a naturalist temperature system, just like Kelvin. 0 and 100 degrees Celsius represent phase shifts of water. Systems like this work well for naturalist ends, such as scientific endeavors.
Fahrenheit, not even entirely* on purpose but as a matter of circumstance, ended up scaling numbers more favorably towards human experience. Dan's focus was composite (highly divisible) numbers. Why? Because humans actually hate speaking and looking at fractions and decimals. Round numbers, wherever they are, are easier for us to understand, measure, and mentally track. The central temperature difference being recorded for humans was to put 64 degrees between water freezing and average human body temperature.
Since 64 is 2^6, It's really, really easy to continuously divide on, say, a glass thermometer. You don't need precise measurements. Because the increments are so easy to bisect, a human is able to intuit the temperature distance between hot thing (internal body temp) and cold thing (water freezing)
Pure water freezing at 32 (2^5) means you can more easily intuit the temperature difference between different brine solutions (0 being the coldest mixture he could produce in his lab)
People that grew up on Fahrenheit don't typically know this trivia, but they understand the reality of the numbers. They *feel* it's easier to understand temperature differences (because the scale was made for them to mentally gauge, not perform hard calculations) They feel the temps 0 to 100 encompassing the general range of a human being's temperature experience to make better intuitive sense (If it's close to or under zero, I'm in danger. If it's close to or over 100, I'm in danger)
And as it turns out, while not exactly what they mentally imagine, Dan Fahrenheit was actually making the most human-friendly temperature system possible. While the "composite whole number" aspect of the system fell to more precise calculations later (human temps went from 96 to 98.6) the chosen range works excellently for mental/napkin math and rough estimates made while doing actually productive things requiring more of our attention/brain power.
Celsius and Kelvin fail in these categories. No offense to people adjusted to the Celsius longhouse, but we will keep our very human measurements. Not out of some irrational competition with Celsius, but because we psychologically favor them for non-scientific purposes 100% of the population is engaged with at all times.
And also because we do what we want. We're American. Our world, not yours lol.
Compare the way Tyler Robinson’s father immediately turned him in against the way that the killer of Henry Nowak’s family immediately instinctually lied to police to protect their son.
That’s the difference between Western civilization and failed states.
@RoKhanna It cannot be ignored. It must be amplified and multiplied until no illegal would ever choose the United States as a destination. Or any economic transient exploiter for that matter. Patriots only.