Yes, I'm going to take my gloves off, reach into my pocket to grab a tissue at -45F. Jesus, why didn't I think of that.

Yes it does. I've been there enough times to know that.

This is dumb. Axios is an American publication catering to an American audience so they're going to use units that are standard in the US. Should they have written the article in Italian since the article is about a heatwave in Sicily? For a second there they mention Greece and Turkey, should they switch to Turkish and Greek for those sentences?

TBH you could be making up the 212F thing, I don't know the number and don't have it memorized because I don't need to know it. Water boils when the kettle gets hot and steam pours out. That's the boiling point. I don't need a thermometer to tell me that a kettle is boiling when I can just look at it.

It's spelled liter.

The thing you gotta explain is the purpose of the numbers between 40 and 100 C. If we’re doing science or engineering, sure I get it, but when we’re measuring air temps, those numbers are meaningless. You might as well get rid of them because nobody ever experiences them. On the other end of the scale, 0 C just gives you a moderately cold temperature that occurs fairly commonly, and there’s a bunch of other cold temps below that are also common, but they’re all negative numbers

So I propose a new Celsius, let’s shift the current 40C up to about 110C where the number would indicate it’s relative level of comfort, and then drop 0C down to where -15 or -20C is currently. That way you can use the full range of numbers for measuring air temps and you can be more precise without having to stoop to using decimals.

I didn’t say freeze, I said stick.

Did you go outside during that time, cause it doesn't seem like you did.

You clearly haven't spent a winter skiing at -20F or woken before dawn all winter to deliver newspapers and had to wear a balaclava because your ears would freeze off. Trust me, -20F is the temperature where your nostrils stick together when you're breathing through them.

Face it, Fahrenheit is just more logical for people. You wanna do science, do Celsius, but knowing that 100 degrees is unpleasantly hot is just simpler.

Fahrenheit is a human scale, Celsius is a scientific scale. If it’s 100F, you know it’s hot. If it’s 120F you know it’s fucking hot. If it’s 0F you know it’s cold, if it’s -20F you know it’s very cold and is also the temperature where your nostrils stick together when you're breathing. The only other thing that matters is 32F. 50 - 60F is nice hiking weather, 70F is a nice indoor air temp. What does 30C tell me? That I’m 1/3rd of the way to being boiled alive?

I though Zuck was all about sharing. He seems happy to share user data with Cambridge Analytica and he loves it when users share everything on their accounts. But why doesn't he want to share?

A company that can't decide if they want to hire someone after two rounds of interviews doesn't know how to hire people. Nine rounds is a sign of incompetence, a serious red flag for a candidate about the quality of the company, and massively disrespectful of a candidate's time. Run don't hide from companies like that.

Facebook is definitely killing people. From genocide in Myanmar to nationalism and wild rumors in India, to nationalism and fascism in the US, Facebook is a straight-up murderer. Or at least it profits off of wild rumors that have no basis in reality that make people angry and lead to homicides.

I deleted my FB account as a way of celebrating Mark Zuckerberg celebrating, cause fuck that guy.

I spent hours trying to figure out how to make an EV work in my life in a state like Maine. I used charge maps and route planners to figure out how I could travel around the state in the winter without having to stop at a grocery store after it's closed in the middle winter multiple times during a trip, or how I would I could charge my car on a regular basis considering that I don't have a house with a garage and that the nearest charger is at a car dealer over a mile away. You think I want to hang out at a car dealership in January? So yeah I looked at your fucking map.