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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 04:24:41 JST Adrianna Tan

   ‘Fahrenheit is what humans feel’

   No, Fahrenheit is what Americans feel

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 04:25:29 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Frankly the more I hear people say that (and only Americans say that) it makes me feel like you all have a very small definition of what it means to be human

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 04:26:14 JST Adrianna Tan

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     People who persist on this point: it’s factually correct that ‘Tom Brady is a famous football player’ but to the rest of the world, it’s the wrong football, so Tom Brady being famous is factual but irrelevant. Just like Fahrenheit

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 04:27:01 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Maybe consider that *all humans should intuitively understand my very insular and unique system* is a rather patronizing belief and many people are saying that actually we don’t understand it at all. Like literally we don’t understand what is 0F or 100F. At all

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     Coprolite9000 (coprolite9000@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 04:29:00 JST Coprolite9000

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     @skinnylatte
     You've prompted me to finally figure out how to switch some very American digital thermostats to display stuff in Celsius. Yay!

     (I've lived in the USA for ~15 years and I *still* have no basic intuition for Fahrenheit. Next task: the oven...)

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     S. LELLI (s_lelli@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 04:29:52 JST S. LELLI

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     @skinnylatte Very old people in EU got used to Euro from national coins in a few months but USA cannot learn metric units and dd/mm/yyyy dates.

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     ChickenBabs (chickenbabs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 04:30:46 JST ChickenBabs

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     @skinnylatte suddenly Americans care about base 10 for some reason

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 01:01:24 JST Adrianna Tan

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     There’s this thing I call the ‘Internet Walgreens test’. It helps me understand how insular a person is on the internet.

     It’s when someone says ‘hey where can I find this? I’m in Japan / Thailand / Germany’.

     The people who say ‘you can find this at Walgreens’ and are surprised that there’s no Walgreens where you are, are people who have no concept of how the world works beyond their own. However the rest of the world knows about Walgreens.