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- By the end of 2026, how useful do you think agentic/multi-agent AI systems will actually be in your daily work or personal projects? Posted on March 11th, 2026 | 12842 votes
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- By the end of 2026, how useful do you think agentic/multi-agent AI systems will actually be in your daily work or personal projects? Posted on March 11th, 2026 | 40 comments
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I hate to break it to you, it's not humidity. The Levees broke again, and you're actually underwater.
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"I'm sure with the oil spill...ya'll won't be missing the fully 1/3 of the seafood that we used to produce down here. I'm sure you won't be missing any of that oil/energy production we do down here either with all of that being cut off too by the current administration."
The sea food was a recreational dish, easily replaced by other sources.
The oil is still flowing (to market), because the moratorium wasn't complete. Stopping deepwater exploratory drilling and pumping /= stopping oil production.
The container
Re:FIRST (Score:5, Funny)
TYFM?
Thank You Fairy Man?
Trucking Yalta For Moonbeams?
Tom's Yogurt For Moms?
TARDIS You Failed Me?
Re:FIRST (Score:5, Funny)
Now if you'll excuse me, I have work to attend to. I've just received several reports of wormsign. Looks like it's going to be a big one.
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It needs the methane to power the distillation unit.
North-hemisphere centric (Score:5, Insightful)
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It's all relative! It's either hot or it's not.
Does it feel hot to you? No? Then vote not so hot!
It's 14C right now where I am and to me that feels warm, when it hits 24C it's gonna feel hot. 14C for some dude living somewhere else is probably going to think that that would feel like the dead of winter or something.
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Actually, in this case that's perfectly valid- he's pointing out that not only are they grasping on to a logically useless argument, they're *cherry-picking* the data for the logically useless argument they're grasping onto.
In other words, they're "not even wrong". They're just flat-out stupid.
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Actually, I'm in the northern hemisphere, and it's pretty chilly here (about 60F).
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No, it's known for alcoholism and spousal abuse.
Not really (Score:4, Funny)
I'm from the Southern Hemisphere, you insensitive clod!
So what? I'm in northern Canada, what is this 'hot' you speak of?
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Hot is the stuff that melts the ice.
Re:Not really (Score:5, Funny)
The Canadian Fahrenheit
Temperature Guide
+50 New Yorkers turn on the heat: Canadians plant gardens.
+40 Californians shiver uncontrollably: Canadians sun bathe.
+35 Italian cars won't start: Canadians drive with the windows down.
+32 Distilled water freezes: Canadian water gets thicker.
+20 Georgians wear coats, gloves, & wool hats: Canadians wear T-shirts.
+15 Californians begin to evacuate the state: Canadians go swimming.
0 New York landlords turn on the heat: Canadians BBQ before it’s cold.
-10 People in Nashville cease to exist: Canadians lick flagpoles.
-20 South Texans fly to Mexico: Canadians throw on a light jacket.
-40 Hollywood disintegrates: Canadians rent videos.
-60 Mt. St. Helen's freezes: Canadian Girl Guides sell cookies door to door.
-80 Canadian Boy Scouts put off "Winter Survival" camping till it gets cold enough.
-100 Santa Claus abandons the North Pole: Canadians put on their toques.
-173 Ethyl alcohol freezes: Canadians get frustrated – their screech kegs won’t thaw.
-287 Canadian cows complain of farmers with cold hands.
-460 Atomic motion stops: Canadians start saying, "Cold nuf for ya, eh?"
-500 Hell freezes over: the Stanley Cup returns to Toronto!
Clearly Made Up (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Clearly Made Up (Score:5, Insightful)
Hence the need for the scale, puting fahrenheit into terms Canadians DO understand.
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We need the Celsius version
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The Canadian Celsius
Temperature Guide
+10 New Yorkers turn on the heat: Canadians plant gardens.
+4 Californians shiver uncontrollably: Canadians sun bathe.
+2 Italian cars won't start: Canadians drive with the windows down.
+0 Distilled water freezes: Canadian water gets thicker.
-7 Georgians wear coats, gloves, & wool hats: Canadians wear T-shirts.
-9 Californians begin to evacuate the state: Canadians go swimming.
-18 New York landlords turn on the heat: Canadians BBQ before it’s cold.
-23 People in Nashville cease to exist: Canadians lick flagpoles.
-29 South Texans fly to Mexico: Canadians throw on a light jacket.
-40 Hollywood disintegrates: Canadians rent videos.
-51 Mt. St. Helen's freezes: Canadian Girl Guides sell cookies door to door.
-62 Canadian Boy Scouts put off "Winter Survival" camping till it gets cold enough.
-73 Santa Claus abandons the North Pole: Canadians put on their toques.
-114 Ethyl alcohol freezes: Canadians get frustrated – their screech kegs won’t thaw.
-177 Canadian cows complain of farmers with cold hands.
-273 Atomic motion stops: Canadians start saying, "Cold nuf for ya, eh?"
-296 Hell freezes over: the Stanley Cup returns to Toronto!
Re:Not really (Score:5, Funny)
Dude. You sat there with your calculator and did the conversion. Or worse, you wrote a perl/C/C++/Python program to grab the first column and convert.
Or worse, you wrote it in Assembler.
You are a true fucking Geek. You have no life. You have no social skills. You are a weirdo.
You are my hero! Rock on!
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awk '{$1 = ($1 - 32)/9*5; print}'
AWK rulez!
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I don't experience heat. It's 95 degrees F here, but I find it very comfortable. Everybody around me's sqeltering, though...
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Probably just a fumbled w, but sqeltering has a nice ring to it.
Seconded. (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently, no-one has told them about central-heating. Thankfully, I have karma to burn.
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Not to mention lack of well insulated houses. Any heating won't do you any good (unless you live in apartments, but that too can vary). With the high energy costs here it's more economical to wear coats if it gets that cold.
Then again, Canadian winters have trained me well, I laugh at people who complain about the cold here.
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I'm from the Southern Hemisphere, you insensitive clod!
So? I bet there are various places on the Southern Hemisphere for each alternative even right now. Perhaps you are being Aussieocentric?
Re:North-hemisphere centric (Score:4, Insightful)
It is Hot when your body is straining to keep itself at a constant healthy temperature by trying to release the excess heat in the body.
It is Cold when your body is straining to keep itself at a constant healthy temperature by trying to generate more heat for the body.
There is more to science then astrophysics.
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Sorry for the typo. Should have been:
Here in my parents basement it is actually quite temperate all year. The only difference is that they let me out sometimes during the Summer when it is cloudy.
Coastal CA (Score:5, Funny)
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The weekend was cool and overcast in Portland. The coldest 4th of july I've experienced since I moved here in the late eighties. In 1994 we installed air conditioning. I don't think we've used it since 1998. I don't even know if it works.
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Re:Coastal CA (Score:4, Insightful)
Every winter it gets cold, then it snows and its NATIONAL NEWS!!!
On behalf of the rest of Canada let me say GET OVER IT TORONTO! IT'S CALLED "WEATHER!"
August in Portland, OR (Score:3, Interesting)
The weekend was cool and overcast in Portland. The coldest 4th of july I've experienced since I moved here in the late eighties. In 1994 we installed air conditioning. I don't think we've used it since 1998. I don't even know if it works.
Are you high, extremely heat tolerant, or have you just never spent August in Portland since 1998? I just broke down today and bought a $400 "portable" AC because I am NOT going through another August without one. I've experienced more days above 100 deg F in the past 3 years in Portland than I did in the past 10 in Atlanta.
(Or maybe I just never noticed in Atlanta because people there who can afford not to live in a slum don't have the sheer hubris to live without central AC in the summer).
I just realize
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I spent my formative years in northern California, and went to college in Phoenix, AZ. A couple things I discovered upon moving to Portland, OR: (1) You think you have TRAFFIC here. (2) You think you have HEAT here. It's really amusing.
Heh. Compared to parts of CA? No, definitely not on the traffic. Atlanta has Portland "beat" hands down there.
As for heat, can ANYWHERE in the US compare to Arizona and New Mexico? Nope. And that's why they have AC there, like in the Southeast where I grew up.
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Actually, I live a bit east of San Diego proper (near the Big Lemon, which should give you my general location if you're a local) where it does get noticeably warmer in the summer than downtown S.D. so I don't mind too much when the weather stays cool.
None the less, it's a bit unusual for the marine layer to still be here in force in early July.
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L.A.! (Score:2)
In L.A., it is cloudy and actually had light rain/showers/drizzles this morning! I wasn't expecting that! Traffics sucked big time too. :(
Re:Coastal CA (Score:4, Informative)
Mark Twain put it best when he said the coldest winter he ever spent was summer in San Francisco.
Unfortunately he didn't actually say it [snopes.com].
I was pretty annoyed when I found out I'd been misattributing it for years, too.
From San Francisco (Score:3, Informative)
It's overcast and cool, as it has been most of this week. It doesn't really get that cold in San Francisco, but cold days in winter aren't much colder than cold days in summer here. It also doesn't get very hot.
The East Bay tends to have similarly stable and moderate temperatures year round, but warmer and drier than San Francisco.
It surprised me when I looked at an atlas and discovered that San Francisco, California, is at almost exactly the same latitude as Athens, Greece.
Try Arizona (Score:2)
I’m sure this will come across as an exercise in male member measurement, but I have only limited sympathy for those undergoing the heatwave right now.
Sympathy because I understand full well that those kinds of temperatures carry real risks, especially to those who aren’t acclimated, don’t know how to deal with it (if nothing else, be constantly sipping water), and don’t have the infrastructure (A/C) to make it comfortable (or survivable for those in certain risk groups).
On the other
Re:Try Arizona (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes it does matter.
As long as you drink plenty of fluids you can at least feel a little better while sitting in the shade. Your sweat glands does it job very well when the humidity is low.
Where I'm at my thermometer reads 100 in the shade but with humidity frequently around the 90% or more, shade offers little relief.
You will not find swamp coolers (coolers that use water evaporation) in my neck of the woods (or more precisely swamp).
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Sure, try taking a nice little hike at 115 degrees (in the shade, 130+ in the sun) and just happen to forget your water bottle (or a couple gallons if it is a long hike) and YOU WILL DIE.
Bring along a beloved pet, maybe a child or elderly relative and THEY WILL DIE
Maybe just take a wrong turn and get a tire buried in a sandy wash a few miles from town and YOU WILL DIE
btw, it is not just a "fall asleep and die" like freezing to death, but a tongue swelling until you choke, metabolically imbalanced, screaming
Re:Try Arizona (Score:5, Informative)
At a given temperature the place with the higher humidity is the most dangerous. Your body cools itself by sweating, remember. But in case you forgot, sweating by itself does not cool you, it is when the sweat evaporates from you skin that you get the cooling effect. If it is 90% humidity, your sweat will not evaporate very well, and you overheat. Even when the temperatures are in the 80s F or less, if the RH is very high and you are working hard, you can very, very easily overheat. Heat stroke is heat stroke, it doesn't matter what the temperature is. What matters is how well the conditions allow you too cool, and whether your sweat can actually evaporate off you skin is a big part of it. That's why cooling is an important system in a space suite. It can be near absolute zero outside, but if you can't channel the heat from your body, you die. I don't want to be in either of your places right now. But all in all, I think Arizona is a better choice.
Then again, any time I have been in southern Arizona in the summer, everyone stayed inside with the A/C. Made me shake my head when they said they wouldn't go to Canada because it was too cold in the winter. They stayed inside with A/C in summer as much as I stayed inside with heat in the winter when I lived in Winnipeg. More actually, because I just had to put on more clothes and could go skating, cross country skiing, etc. There is only so much clothing you can take off before you get arrested for public indecency... even in a very hot place. :) And by the way you don't just fall asleep if you get hypothermia and die/freeze. It is pretty damn unpleasant as your body heat drops. Before anything freezes (frostbite) those body parts hurt. (Until they are frozen and you don't feel them. If you get to warmth before permanent damage, then they hurt ten times worse as they come back up to temperature.) And then you start acting stupid as your brain shuts down as your body temp drops... just like what happens when you get heat stroke. I don't think overheating or hypothermia is fun. But for what its worth, there are people who have died metres from their own front door because they stepped away from the house in a blizzard and couldn't find their way back due to disorientation from white out. Doesn't happen very often... quite rare, but it happens. Not really in southern Ontario but further north. Not sure if I've heard of anyone getting heat stroke going out to the curb and back to the A/C.
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Actually the greatest danger in Arizona is the people.
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There are people in Arizona? Why?
Why? Yes, between 100-150 people there.
Believe it or not, there is actually a town called Why, AZ. Quite a small town, really.
And people in Arizona understand the reason for a town called Why.
In other news, you know you have been in Arizona too long when you no longer associate rivers or bridges with water.
Re:Try Arizona (Score:4, Funny)
Let's do a little fact checking shall we? First off: "During 1993--2002, a total of 253 deaths in Arizona were attributable to heat exposure" [cdc.gov] That would be 25.3 deaths per year.
Secondly (From Google)
Population Arizona: 6,595,778
Population Manitoba: 1,119,583
So Manitoba would be expected to be about 5.89 times lower, or about 4.3 deaths per year.
"Deaths form excessive cold in Manitoba from 1992-1999" [gov.mb.ca] MALES ONLY, were 56. Which works out to 6.22 per year.
Therefore, Manitoba has a higher relative rate of temperature related deaths than Arizona.
QED bitch.
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I disagree with your humidity argument - I feel like the humidity gets more important as the temperature goes up. I grew up in the Northeast, where the humidity hovers around 80% in the summer, and moved to Colorado a few years ago. I couldn't believe how much of a difference the lack of humidity makes. In our area the humidity goes between 20% and 40%, and on days when it's ~100F outside, you feel like you're going to get a sunburn, but you don't feel hot. In the northeast, if it's over 80F, you feel l
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Living in the mohave desert.. I get really tired of hearing the "it's a dry heat" argument. Sorry, once you get above about 155F or so.. it's just f**king hot.period. My oven is a dry heat, and you don't see me sticking my head in there to get some relief from the humidity.
Having said that. The low humidity has it's own risks. Namely dehydration. Especially for those people use to higher humidity, they get out here and they "don't sweat". They are actually sweating considerably more than they would back hom
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Y’all are missing the point.
It’s not the low 100s with no humidity we’re comparing to the upper 90s with high humidity.
It’s 118 (and above) with 40% humidity (and above) we’re comparing to the upper 90s with high humidity.
It’s the overnight lows here that are in the upper 80s to mid 90s this time of year, not the daytime highs. As in, I’ve been outside at 3:00 in the morning when it’s been 95F. 110F at 10:00 at night in the middle of a heat island (like poolsi
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Heh, nothing like trudging through head-high corn in mid-July with temps in the mid-90s. Dark green leaves all around, black dirt under your feet, humidity in the high 80s — it'll make a man out of you, or send you cryin' home to momma!
On my permanent list of "Things I Don't Miss About Iowa".
Humidity (Score:2)
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Having grown up in Maryland, but now living in New Orleans, I just have to say be glad you only get a few days/weeks of that. Down here we get it for 3-4 months each year.
Sing a song (Score:2)
Oh the weather outside is frightful
But the AC is so delightful
And since we've no place to go
Burn baby! Burn baby! Burn!
Canada (Score:5, Funny)
I do not experience heat.
In fact, we don't actually have a summer. Our seasons are Winter, More Winter, Almost winter, and Road Construction.
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Pfft, sounds like Eastern Canada if you have "almost winter". We go from Winter directly to Construction here in Alberta.
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Actually I'm in Alberta here too, but that was just how I heard the joke the first time.
However, there's been a bunch of scattered rain this past week or so. Whats up with that?
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I know! I've been confused by these prolonged nice days and cool evenings. Something is afoot!
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Oop, spoke too soon, clouds rolling in yet again.
As long as it's hot by the end of the week I guess...
But yeah, what's up with all this moisture? The road crews seem more confused than usual.
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Sheesh, won't you two just rent a room?
Re:Canada (Score:5, Funny)
In northern alberta the rooms cost $1200 a night... so no, they wont rent a room.
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Aye.
A Canadian once told me "We have ten months of really good snowmobiling and two months of not so good snowmobiling"
and we have a saying in New York: "the warmest place in Canada is colder than Plattsburgh!
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we have a saying in New York: "the warmest place in Canada is colder than Plattsburgh!
Which is bogus; while it's true of most of Canada the Niagara Peninsula is much milder in the winter than upstate NY, VT or MINN.
But I'm sure that the denizens of Vermont are puzzled by the frost bitten French speakers who invade in January looking for warmer weather but can't afford to go all the way to Florida.
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I do not experience heat.
In fact, we don't actually have a summer. Our seasons are Winter, More Winter, Almost winter, and Road Construction.
And in Quebec there is a province wide "Construction Holiday" ... so they spend the first half of July tearing up the roads and putting up detour signs and the second half of July swearing about all the traffic jams.
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Man Bluesfest is going to fucking rock tonight!
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Man Bluesfest is going to fucking rock tonight!
We have to stop calling it bluesfest... I've been driving past the venue for years on the way home and I've never heard anything I'd call blues. Last year KISS headlined... WTF?
Denver Colorado (Score:2)
Currently 81*F and it was 54* or so this morning on my bicycle ride in to work. It's supposed to reach 88*, probably 3 or 4pm latest.
Last year we didn't break 100* all year. And low humidity. I think we hit 100* this year a few weeks back. But we had heavy thunderstorms over Independence Day.
I used to live in Virginia and hated going out side. Now I bicycle to and from work and go hiking in the cool cool mountains.
[John]
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...but rudeboys never give up their guns. (Score:2)
No shit, the other day I saw a guy burst into flames in the direct sunlight. All I heard him say was, "Meh... it was hotter last year."
Damn northerners! (Score:3, Funny)
Florida gulf coast here... (Score:2)
It is actually one of the coolest days all year.
Why so hot if this is US centric? (Score:2)
Check your numbers (Score:4, Informative)
I know folks from Chennai, and they assure me it doesn't get nearly that hot there. Which is a Good Thing, because a wet-bulb temperature above about 38C is incompatible with human physiology. No acclimation, fans, or sweat will cool you down enough to prevent hyperthermia and eventual death.
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While not that hot... (Score:3, Insightful)
It's not always that hot here that makes me long for mere hellfire. It's the heat + the humidity. Think about trying to go about your day in a sauna. Yeah, that's what it's like down here in Fla often during the summer.
A Chicagoan goes to Hell (Score:5, Funny)
A Chicagoan dies and is transported straight to Hell. He's greeted at the gates by Satan.
Satan says to the Chicagoan, "Hot enough for you?" HAHA!!
Chicagoan says, "Well, it makes me kind of nostalgic. It's kind of like Chicago in June."
Satan's irritated. He increases the heat by a factor of two. The ground is melting. The air begins to burn.
Chicago, "Well that really takes me back. It's almost like Chicago in July."
Satan's pissed. OK, fine, he thinks, can't burn 'em, we'll go the other way. Satan shakes his mighty fist and the fires go out, and are replaced by sub zero winds and ice. The flames freeze in air and shatter into bright red shards.
The Chicagoan's face brightens to big beaming smile and he begins to dance around in ecstasy. "Cubs win!" he screams, "Cubs win!!!!!"
Re:A Chicagoan goes to Hell (Score:4, Funny)
"On the upside I don't live in Nebraska."
General Custer and his men are at Little Big Horn when his 2nd in command comes over to him...
Custer: What's the status?
2nd: Well, there's good news and bad news.
Custer: What's the bad news?
2nd: We're outnumbered ten to one, surrounded on all sides, and will surely die today.
Custer: Holy shit! What's the good news?
2nd: We won't have to travel back across Nebraska.
Hell (Score:2)
I had to go with "Super Hot" (Score:5, Funny)
Super hot. For here. (Score:3, Informative)
It's 95 F in Portland, OR right now. Which, for Portland, qualifies as "Super hot."
An Indian(Asia) perpective (Score:3, Informative)
38 degree C, 40 degree C, hot?
Well its a nice warm day.
Right from March, when winters ended a bit too soon, we have seen temperatures of 35+ in Delhi and rising.
May June were the worst with 47-48 degree C sustained for many days.
Worst still, the minimum temp was around 35 degree C, so even at night there was no respite.
With monsoons arriving, the day temp has fallen to a comfortable but humid 35, with cooler nights at 25.
With more rains, it will drop, only to rise in September, and after mid oct we will get the winters again.
Then its like 20 degree C during day, and minimum around 8, with a few days in january going down to 12C and minimum to 3-4C
Re:Hot for Europeans, cold for Americans (Score:5, Funny)
ROFL -- I grew up near the Canadian border and the over-the-air TV channels we could receive were 90% Canadian. (I knew the CFL teams better than the NFL ones :D )
When the Canadian news did the weather forecast, they would state U.S. temperatures in Fahrenheit, the Canadian temperatures in Celsius.
Which is great... until a little kid watching the channel in November where the US will have a low of 29 degrees, and right across the border it'll be -2! I remember thinking, "WOW, Canada is COLD!!!!"
Re:Hot for Europeans, cold for Americans (Score:5, Funny)
until a little kid watching the channel in November where the US will have a low of 29 degrees, and right across the border it'll be -2! I remember thinking, "WOW, Canada is COLD!!!!"
Well yeah - how do you think they knew where to put the border?
They just kept walking north until the temperature dropped by 30 degrees, and that part was Canada!
Re:Hot for Europeans, cold for Americans (Score:5, Funny)
I worked in McDonald's in Fort Erie when I was 13-14 yrs old. I still clearly remember the american car pull up, and buddy got out wearing long pants and a turtleneck. It was the second week of August, and at least 35deg Celcius.
I happened to be doing the mopping and garbage cans that day, so he walked up to me and asked where the skiing was.
I happily replied, "Go straight up the QEW, past Toronto on the 400 until you hit Highway #1 (The Trans-Canada Highway). Once you get there, turn left and drive til you hit the mountains!"
(for the geographically un-familiar, Highway #1 is at least 4 hours from Fort Erie, and the "mountains" are about 2 more days worth of driving.)
He was ecstatic and promptly hopped back in the car and peeled out of the parking log.
That was one of the happiest days of my employment at that job.
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Where the hell are you?
I keep looking around the globe right at the cancers and stuff and the highest I find is 30C
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Might be Winnipeg with the humidex. We've been in a heat streak recently, with recorded temps as above 40 Celsius after humidity adjustment ( I think it was 35 Celsius without the humidity).
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Humidex says 44C in Ottawa.
It's days like these I love my workplaces AC.
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Re:43 (Celsius) (Score:5, Informative)
Celsius means "anywhere except the USA", which is quite a lot of world.
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Is that like "having their high-beams on"?
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I'm at work, where the only possible answer is "not so hot".
And it has nothing to do with the temperature, heat index, or humidity.