• ares35
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        168 months ago

        that’s when it starts to get ‘cold’. before that, it’s just a ‘little chilly’.

          • @Piafraus@lemmy.world
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            58 months ago

            The worst part is that vodka freezes right in the plastic cups. It’s not fun to drink vodka with icy mush.

            • @0x4E4F@infosec.pub
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              🤔 🤣… ummm… i’ve drank wine half frozen wine from a cup at -30C 🤣… not fun, but it kept us warm that night 🤣. too bad we didn’t have vodka at 3AM 🤣.

              I think we drank like 10L of wine that night 🤣. Vodka would’ve been more efficient 🤣.

            • Flying Squid
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              18 months ago

              You drink Russian vodka. Made with ethylene glycol. Is antifreeze. No vodka ice!

        • @PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
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          18 months ago

          I know this is a joke but as a Minnesotan I think right around -15°F (-26°c) is where it starts to get ‘cold’. This is where the air really begins to sting your face and people have issues starting their vehicles.

          • ares35
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            18 months ago

            am a native and lived there most my life. only had problems with my piece-of-shit cars when it got colder than -20F or so. block heater (on a timer) and a newish-battery and they always started, though, even during that record cold snap (-60F).

  • Sabre363
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    368 months ago

    Kelvin and Celsius are literally the same just offset by 273.15°

      • Sabre363
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        258 months ago

        Kelvin was developed from Celsius. The only difference is that 0° is based on absolute 0 (because it’s logical and constant) rather than the rough freezing point of water (a vague and inconsistent reference point). Every degree change in one unit is exactly the same change in the other.

        • Sneezycat
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          178 months ago

          Except Kelvin aren’t degrees (e.g. it’s just 273’15K not 273’15°K). But a change of one Kelvin is indeed equivalent to a change of one degree Celsius.

    • Zorque
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      138 months ago

      Theyre also not pointing guns at each other in the picture.

    • @MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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      18 months ago

      Rankine is based? The same way pound-mol and 1000th of an inch are based?

      AT THAT POINT, WHY NOT JUST USE METRIC o_0

      I bite my thumb at Rankine, sir.

  • YAMAPIKARIYA
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    168 months ago

    Because 0 is not a lack of temperature like the measurements. (With the exception of Kelvin)

  • @Pantherina@feddit.de
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    68 months ago

    Sounds funny but really, why would a weight or length measurement start with ≠0?? Like “size of the dick or prince Charles”?

    • @Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de
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      28 months ago

      But that argument would go for temperature as well. Yet, here we are with the most commonly used ones having zero as wey more than the “nothing”-level.

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        18 months ago

        Zero comes from experience, at least in Celsius. Its semi-scientifical as water is a pretty big part of our world. For our life and all it is pretty much the turning point, isnt it? But of course it could also be 50 or so, as below is possible