A cool guide Units of measurement

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Year; Month;Day for file organization.
- ISO 8601
  
  ISO8601 gang represent!
  
  The iso 8601 needs to be baught right? RFC3339 it is.
https://youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk
- That video is geo-restricted and I can't watch it.
  
  Oh man. It's Nate bargatze pretending to be George Washington on Saturday night live discussing his dream for America. It's very funny!
- I use °C, cm, and g in my daily life. Be the change you want to see in America
- Did you try?
  
  No
"Arbitrary scale at which water freezes" is such an annoyingly dumb representation of the Fahrenheit scale, that even as a European I feel the need to defend it.
https://youtu.be/aM3FkdkWzaM
I generally agree that metric is better, but there's an argument for Fahrenheit.

It was based on human body temperature, so its easier to inuit if a temperature "feels hot"
- How? it is just numbers, there is no human relation. i grew up learning both measures. i know that 20C is comfortable the same at 68F is comfortable. If anything C makes more sense, at 0 things are going to want to freeze on my body. For F that is 32...an arbitrary value
  
  IIRC the original reference temperatures for Farenheit were ice brine (0°) and human body temperature (100°).
  
  Nowadays it's formally defined in relation to Kelvin.
- 0-50f is cold enough to kill you by exposure, 75f is comfortable, 100f is uncomfortable, higher than 100f can kill you. Seems kinda arbitrary to me.
  
  Sounds like it goes from "can kill you" to "can kill you". Kinda important milestones
  
  75 F is not comfortable at all, 80 F is deadly, 170 - 200 is fine as long as it's about 400% rel humidity and in a wooden room
  
  Kind regards, a nord
- Can't that be done with the Celsius scale as well? If you think about it..
  
  Sure. Kelvin is the proper scale. Celsius is just water from freezing to boiling at some atmospheric pressure divided into 100 units. Not because there's anything absolute to it, but because water is kind of important in our lives.
  
  Everything can be done with the other scale if you're willing to think about it
- Sure there's an argument, but it's a terrible one and you should feel bad for even making it
After the dutch and indian language, Americans are the second thing I hate the most in the world. God its almost unhealthy.

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