Americans have compatibility issues with the rest of the world, and it's not getting any better - in more ways than this one.
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As a Minnesotan, 30Β°F is still shorts weather
Minnesotans at 30Β°F are a great example of direction mattering, and not just temperature; hit 30 on the way down and you'll see them change out of shorts, but hit 30 on the way up and you'll see them change into shorts
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When it's 30F and sunny I'm on my snowboard in a t shirt. Course, I'm in Chicago, 30C feels like a nice cool day to do shit outside in summer.
Maybe this is from growing up in a place with seasons, but 30C to 30F is a comfortable temperature range and I would be quite pleased to live in a place where those are the extremes.
When I was young it was between -5 and +25C max. Now it's -10 and 42C max. And yet still there are people who say climate change isn't real.
Oh and it's humid AF, 42C feels like 48C. I prefer 35 dry heat over 25 humid.
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30 degrees Fahrenheit? Hell yeah. It's practically tropical. If it's sunny as well, I'll be rolling my windows down.
(Not me in pic, but I've been him)
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You fuckers argued to much No more relative temperatures for you, weβre all using kelvin now
Today is 42.2 C for me today. Then you factor humidity on top of that and it becomes like the gates of hell. Then I remember that I live in dallas and I basically already am in hell.
The European mind can not comprehend...
I was going to make snark remarks on the fact that a lot of people live in hostile environments and it's not super sustainable because we need climate control year round in every building and cars, but I live in Canada and it would be pretty hypocritical given the fact that I need climate control most of the year too. In fact, sometimes in winter when I watch the endless ballet of machinery burning oil to plow and move the snow, I wonder why we go through such trouble to live here.
I guess we get used to a lot of things. However 42C is too much for my taste. I go vacationing in the Caribbean where it's usually around 30C, and it's pretty much my limit.
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That's why I'm glad I live where I'm more likely to complain about it being -40.
Eh, it's all the same to me
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30 C isn't that hot.... hell, half of the country is regularly above that for over half the year.
And 30 F isn't really that cold. Throw a hoodie on or maybe a light jacket.
I wish it were 30 F right now. I'm ready for summer to be over.
why they are still not using metric?
Unofficially, people are stubborn and anti-Europe.
If it makes you feel better, some cooks, all scientists and and all people involved in the drug trade are fluent in metric.
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Iβm slowly trying to convert myself to metric. Temperature is a hard one for me because itβs so ingrained in my psyche.
Length is easier. 440mm is much easier than 17 21/64 in. Plus all the CAD software I use is easy to switch to metric. Weight isnβt hard either since most of the maker things I use (filament/resin) are in metric. My doctorβs office even weighs me in kg thinking they can sneak it by me. I know what 92.4kg is you cheeky bastards.
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