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  • All Palestinians are terrorists

    All gays are pedophiles

    All men are dangerous

    Obviously all this is stupid and dumb and inherently hateful, the following is what it should be

    Any Palestinian could be a terrorist

    Any gay could be a pedophile

    Any man could be dangerous

    There we are, perfectly non problematic statements that are objectively true. Its not my fault that I’m a terrible judge of character and have to treat any individual belonging to those groups as if they were the lowest common denominator. I’m just protecting myself and you need to respect that you fucking fascist.





  • Fleur_@aussie.zonetomemes@lemmy.worldW Celsius
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    4 days ago

    They are both made up but what is the fahrenheit? Where does the scale start? How much does it increment by? How does it relate to other units?

    Celcius starts at the melting point of water at sea level and each increment is 1% of the required change to turn water from frozen to boiling. This is arbitrary yes, but the importance is not if it’s arbitrary but that it is a description of a physical property in our world that can be experimentally repeated, tested and verified. No authority can arbitrarily decide that a degree Celcius is actually different from what it was last year.

    There’s a reason that all imperial units are scientifically described by their relation to their metric counterpart and it’s because metric units are based on physical properties of the universe around us and so we can measure them as opposed to just define them.