@hellinhandcarts @HiddenYorkshire Some northern Irish accent (I forget exactly which) can pronounce mirror, mayor, mare and myrrh similarly 😁
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@HiddenYorkshire Mirr for mirror
Gramm for Graham
Cregg for Craig
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Sorry, not going to listen to Americans complain about pronunciation when they pronounce "niche" as "nitch"
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@SirFlatpipe @tmuxvim This. Ultimately, all the scales are defined by 2 arbitrary points, and then we learn the scale through school, or going outside to discover "Oh, the weather forecast said it would be 10C, this is what it feels like".
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@tmuxvim None of the scales is superior over the other. To a European 38° C makes just as much sense as 100° F to an American. It's just a matter of which scale you are familiar with.
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eurocucks always defend celsius this way but nobody ever uses a thermometer to measure their boiling water
people reference temperatures for how it feels outside - that’s all that matters
Splachi@SplachiFS
water when it's 212% hot
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@cheapfreddo @mrs_alyse I see where you're coming from now. Tbh, I just dismissed the original post as disingenuous rage bait and mentally jumped to state/country because they're comparable 😅
Great username BTW, I'd love a caramel Freddo right now!
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@koji1400 @mrs_alyse they were asked to point out europe and replied with nebraska, you’re making the exact same point as me. i brought up roscommon as a comparison to nebraska just as they brought up nebraska as a comparison to europe
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@AtticumFloreat The Nameless Isles has a ring to it, but I feel like some video game already took that
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@truecorrective @LauraPowellEsq Interestingly, Liberia and Myanmar also use Imperial, so not quite 100% but not far off 😂
Being the largest remaining user of the system doesn't entitle you to claim credit for its invention (at least, that's how I would interpret "Fahrenheit is American")
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@koji1400 @LauraPowellEsq Yeah, but the Imperial system is 100% associated with the United States only. It has become de facto American.
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Fahrenheit is superior to Celsius if for no other reason than its degrees are small enough that you don’t need fractions to hit your preferred room temperature.
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americans be like 100° F feels hot that’s why it makes sense and then drive at 65 mph on the highway instead of 100 km/h
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@lilrobhornsby @theistinthought Thanks for the info! I'd like to think that a lot of tourists won't affect my opinion (since I'll be one of those tourists). Any time I've heard people talk of Prague though, it's always been a positive review.
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@koji1400 @theistinthought Prague is a great city, very walkable and a brilliant tram system. Also very busy with tourists, which might colour your view slightly. Most European cities are designed for walking around, it's only really the US that designs things assuming that everyone is driving everywhere.
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Question to the ‘walkable city’ advocates who hate cars:
If you go to the grocery store and have eight bags (or even four bags) of groceries, how do you get them home? You push around a little cart or something? Sounds bad.
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@proxy_vector @IamAroke Haven't encountered this extreme yet, but have had a few occasions where, while pairing with a colleague, their immediate instinct was "hmm, let's ask Claude"
Why are we even pairing if you're just going to talk with Claude 😂
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@caffshepherd @DataminerTTS @TormentedSapien I'm not from the UK so I wasn't aware of that w/r/t nursing homes, but given that the problem has only been getting worse, they can't keep kicking the can down the road.
I'm not sure whether Irish nursing homes typically have AC (I would guess not). Time to look into that!
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Like I’ve said, I don’t really care whether the English prefer air conditioning or not.
But I think it’s kind of nuts that old folks homes in England don’t generally require AC. Especially since those deaths are likely old people whose preexisting conditions are exacerbated by heat. I get it that England is cooler than the US but even Canada uses it.
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Can you PLEASE STOP lecturing us Europeans about A/C when it's hot??? PLEASE.
First of all, A/C is expensive.
Secondly, it resolves a problem that I can no longer bitch about.
Thirdly, YOU ARE NOT EUROPEAN STOP TELLING US HOW TO RUN OUR COUNTRIES.
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@Dhruvam987 "I HAVE NO TOOLS BECAUSE I'VE DESTROYED MY TOOLS WITH MY TOOLS"
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@Lord_oftheSkies @LordNelsonUK @manonfilms Mine aren't either, but that hasn't stopped the wind and rain from trying! Unless there's a bra for flat chested guys, I may just be out of luck!
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@caffshepherd @DataminerTTS @TormentedSapien It's a pessimistic measure, but from a public health perspective, I think that approach is useful to guide policy in order to reduce these deaths (rather than understating the number, which would dismiss the severity of the issue).
Whether these policies are being enacted... 🤷
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@uniquefurnish @LeannaRapier Crisis averted, we can stop complaining about the heat.
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Break's over, it's raining now, start complaining!
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I live in Arizona. This year we had 100+ degree F (38 C) beginning in March and we can have that till October. The normal inside temp of my house (with AC running) in the summer is 80 F (26 C). But I still have a heater, for the two days I might need it in January.
🇬🇧MSJ For Britain🇬🇧@MSJD1998
All I’m seeing is Americans making fun of Brits because we’re complaining it’s too hot. Their response is “JuSt UsE an AC” Our houses don’t have build in ACs and if we were to install an AC, do you realise how much energy it costs? Especially when a heatwave comes for like a few weeks per year. Our houses are build with insulation to keep in the heat because we have more cold weather than hot. Saying that, don’t a lot of states get hurricanes and tornadoes and yet their houses are wooden or have thin walls? Because they’re built for the hot weather right? So if we want to complain about the heat, respectfully let us. Anything you complain about, we’ll let you. It’s not that difficult 😀👍 #Heatwave #UKWeather
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@FreedomFactor76 I'm not sure if "conversations on this platform" are a reliable measure of... anything, really
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According to the conversations on this platform, apparently now Europeans don't have air conditioning, or clothes dryers.
Is America the only damn modern nation on earth? We can cool our homes, dry our clothes, and what else? Do Europeans not have microwaves, either?
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@cheapfreddo @mrs_alyse To be fair , asking where Roscommon is and asking where Nebraska is are not really comparable; Nebraska is more than double the size of Ireland
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@mrs_alyse why would you equate knowing the location of a singular state with a whole continent? If that’s the approach, then tell me where is Roscommon?
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@lilrobhornsby @theistinthought Good point. My local city wouldn't be a walkable city by definition, but they've done a lot of work to improve alternative transport options in recent years.
Google tells me that Prague ranks highly as a walkable city, so I'll get a chance to see it first hand very soon!
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@theistinthought @koji1400 If you actually go to some walkable cities the solution is to not put major supermarkets in those car-free areas, but nearby on arterial roads.
If you live a 10 min walk from a shop though, you also don't need to do big weekly 8-bag shops, you can do smaller shops more often.
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@DataminerTTS @TormentedSapien Over 60k people died from heat stroke in Europe in 2024.
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@ondrejhanslik @OliWebster3 @interstatejuche That would make sense. The EU banking standards have been good on that front (from a consumer perspective), even though my bank took its sweet time in meeting the standard. It was only recently that I could use biometric login instead of "Enter PIN digits A, B and C"
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@OliWebster3 @koji1400 @interstatejuche Banks in USA started with digitalization earlier than banks in Europe which caused US bank systems to be more obsolete and harder to modernize. Additionally, EU forced banks to modernize by enforcing common standards.
That's why PayPal and similar were so popular in USA.
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lmao friendly reminder that euros haven't invented laundry rooms yet, they do their laundry in the kitchen
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@interstatejuche Why? If the sun is out and why not take advantage of it? Dryers are loud even if you ignore the energy cost.
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@J_Von_Random @Evilspawn4 @ShamashAran I don't have much knowledge, but isn't part of the reprocessing issue that it is massively expensive? I remember seeing something recently, which suggested that France was the only country that makes significant use of reprocessed fuel in commercial reactors.
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@Evilspawn4 @ShamashAran Waste is a complete non issue. Either you do the stupid thing and bury it in a way which lasts for millennia. Or you do the smart thing and reprocess the perfectly good fuel.
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Yes, wind energy is great, until the wind stops blowing.
Solar is great for individuals, but the sun starts setting just as demand rises, and if it's cloudy, then you're kinda screwed.
Nuclear and gas doesn't care about any of that.
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@ShamashAran @SaraForTexLege Girl! That’s all propaganada slop. Btw, Texas is #1 in Wind energy and #2 for solar 😂.
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@KevinBDD @WellitHappened1 Exactly. Once it works, who really cares? In Ireland, you can have timber-built houses, it's just not common - large developments will be brick built, someone building their own home has a choice, but they'll probably choose what they're most familiar with.
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@WellitHappened1 US builds with wood bc we have plenty. Euro has much less. Carpentry is also easier than masonry. The entire discourse over wood vs brick is stupid.
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Europe has been bragging about its houses being made of brick and how they are actually made of solid material. Yet they are are actually just hollow shells filled with insulation just like our homes but somehow worse.
TJ Treacy@TJTreacy
@unyielding_h @VineOfNorthLDN @genericnam94703 @RefinedPopulist Yes, we know. That’s why block cavity construction with insulation in the cavity has been mandatory in the U.K. for decades.
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