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Cake day: July 17th, 2023

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  • It would be useful if you live in the United States, or any of the dozens of countries that use the system either as a standalone measurement of temperature or as part of a dual system. The British Virgin Islands, Antigua, Barbuda, the Bahamas… Etc.

    I find it actually kind of a fun way to start a conversation with anyone outside of the U.S. by attempting to convert my local weather to Celsius. I’m on international calls fairly regularly and (can’t blame anyone for this) telling anyone outside the US or the countries above the temperature in fahrenheit is like speaking a foreign language.








  • This.

    I had someone the other day tell me the Tiananmen “tank man” incident never happened. We were discussing cognitive biases and she used this as an example of confirmation bias. But naturally she was arguing that anyone who didn’t share her world view suffered from confirmation bias.

    When I said “the incident did happen and there’s photographic evidence” she told me "Google it there’s no photo "

    Well, we googled it and there is, in fact, a photo. There’s more than one, actually.

    I decided that presenting facts no longer was the point of the conversation when she shifted to the argument “that photo is known to be staged.”

    🙄