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Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 10:28:36 JST Bread up, Bro

just tell the wind to chill, man.
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  Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 10:28:32 JST Hoss Delgado
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  I thought newtons were a measurement of force.
  
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  Eiko Sarada (Alt/Back-Up) (echo@stereophonic.space)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 10:28:33 JST Eiko Sarada (Alt/Back-Up)
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  @coolboymew @graf @sickburnbro When is that low, it doesn't matter.
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  cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 10:28:34 JST cool_boy_mew
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  @graf @sickburnbro oh, right, thank god
  
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  cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 10:28:35 JST cool_boy_mew
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  @sickburnbro -40C?!
  
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  anime graf mays ?️? (graf@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 10:28:35 JST anime graf mays ?️?
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  @coolboymew @sickburnbro That's an American channel so that's F
  
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  Eiko Sarada (Alt/Back-Up) (echo@stereophonic.space)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 10:33:04 JST Eiko Sarada (Alt/Back-Up)
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  @Hoss @graf @sickburnbro @coolboymew Yeah, I've never heard of it being a temperature, either. This calculator app does have "regular" Newtons as well. :shrugAkko:
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  pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 10:53:15 JST pistolero
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  @sickburnbro I'm here to argue about systems of measurement but that image features a town that is one letter away from "Battlebro".
  
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  pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 10:58:34 JST pistolero
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  @graf @sickburnbro damndamnfuck
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  anime graf mays ?️? (graf@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 10:58:35 JST anime graf mays ?️?
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  @p @sickburnbro It's two 🫵🏻
  
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  Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 10:58:59 JST Bread up, Bro
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  -45F is pretty nasty though, -20 is about my "why am I doing this" level
  
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  brokeassredneck (brokeassredneck@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 10:58:59 JST brokeassredneck
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  @sickburnbro -8 made my snots freeze in my nostrils .. no thanks
  
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  hammerswinger (hammerswinger@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 10:59:25 JST hammerswinger
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  @graf @coolboymew @Myshkin @fknretardlol @sickburnbro F makes human sense for weather bc 100 degrees is really fucking hot and 0 degrees is really fucking cold.
  
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  cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 10:59:26 JST cool_boy_mew
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  @Myshkin @fknretardlol @graf @sickburnbro In QC we use both for weird reasons. We don't use Cs for cooking, only F, for example
  
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  anime graf mays ?️? (graf@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 10:59:26 JST anime graf mays ?️?
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  @coolboymew @Myshkin @fknretardlol @sickburnbro Cooking with F makes more sense because it's more granular than C
  
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  Myshkin (myshkin@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 10:59:27 JST Myshkin
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  Ijs. I have to use both so I don’t really care.
  
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  Myshkin (myshkin@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 10:59:28 JST Myshkin
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  We should have gone metric. Count by 10’s is much easier than counting by 12’s
  
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  fknretardlol (fknretardlol@decayable.ink)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 10:59:28 JST fknretardlol
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  what in tardation ?
  its for lazy simple minded droolers
  
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  anime graf mays ?️? (graf@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 10:59:29 JST anime graf mays ?️?
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  @coolboymew @sickburnbro -40F is -40C
  
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  fknretardlol (fknretardlol@decayable.ink)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 10:59:29 JST fknretardlol
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  we need to free Canadia from the inferior metric system
  
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  pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 11:04:53 JST pistolero
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  @hammerswinger @graf @coolboymew @fknretardlol @sickburnbro The US measurements almost all have the property that the first digit makes a difference. 60 is fine, 70 is warm, 80 is hot, 90 is very hot. 4' is kid size, 5' is small, 6' is tall. First significant digit for height in metric is always "1": nobody's under 100cm, almost nobody's over 200cm. Under 100lbs, over 100lbs, over 200lbs. This is what you get if you have a bunch of French decide to make the units easily derived from the distance from Paris to the goddamn Equator, you know, you just get a bunch of bullshit measurements that have less visual difference for quantities that you care about when going about your business.
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  pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 11:27:55 JST pistolero
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  @hammerswinger @graf @coolboymew @fknretardlol @sickburnbro The US measurements almost all have the property that the first digit makes a difference. 60 is fine, 70 is warm, 80 is hot, 90 is very hot. 4' is kid size, 5' is small, 6' is tall. First significant digit for height in metric is always "1": nobody's under 100cm, almost nobody's over 200cm. Under 100lbs, over 100lbs, over 200lbs. This is what you get if you have a bunch of French decide to make the units easily derived from the distance from Paris to the goddamn Equator, you know, you just get a bunch of bullshit measurements that have less visual difference for quantities that you care about when going about your business.
  
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  Jezza™ (jeremiah@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 13:38:46 JST Jezza™
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  @p @fknretardlol @graf @hammerswinger @sickburnbro @coolboymew some fun details, specific to the fahrenheit scale. 0 to 212 at first looks obtuse, but: 0 is the freezing point of SALT water, 32 is the freezing point of FRESH water, so, a maritime culture embedded here. 212-32 = 180. 180 degrees from the freezing point of fresh water, to the boiling point of water. Prior to mechanical and electronic calculation, highly composite numbers were used for scales (degrees, time, etc.) for ease of computation / avoiding unnecessary fractions.
  
  What does the SI/metric system offer? A bouncing decimal point and Frenchness.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number
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    Highly composite number
    
    A highly composite number is a positive integer that has more divisors than all smaller positive integers. If d(n) denotes the number of divisors of a positive integer n, then a positive integer N is highly composite if d(N) > d(n) for all n < N. For example, 6 is highly composite because d(6) = 4, and for n = 1,2,3,4,5, you get d(n) = 1,2,2,3,2, respectively, which are all less than 4. A related concept is that of a largely composite number, a positive integer that has at least as many divisors as all smaller positive integers. The name can be somewhat misleading, as the first two highly composite numbers (1 and 2) are not actually composite numbers; however, all further terms are. Ramanujan wrote a paper on highly composite numbers in 1915. The mathematician Jean-Pierre Kahane suggested that Plato must have known about highly composite numbers as he deliberately chose such a number, 5040 (= 7!), as the ideal number of citizens in a city. Furthermore, Vardoulakis and Pugh's paper delves into a similar inquiry concerning the number 5040. ...
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  pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 13:39:48 JST pistolero
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  > 0 is the freezing point of SALT water, 32 is the freezing point of FRESH water
  
  Holy shit! I did not know this.
  
  > highly composite numbers
  
  Absolutely, yes.
  
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