I think of it like housework. No one should be compelled by the law to do housework. But if one person in the house is doing no housework, the others have a real and justified complaint. It’s not legal grounds for eviction, but it should be a material point against them in any dispute mediation that takes place.
To translate that: if one party in a marriage is withholding sex, they don’t get to claim a full 50% right to all the assets in the marriage. I’m not saying zero, but…
I suspect she complained it was dirty because it had visible spots but their server is now turning that into “she needs it polished.” As a diner you have no way to know if something is just water spots or leftover detergent or leftover dirt. And frankly the server doesn’t have a way to know that either. The only reasonable thing to do is get them a new set.
She asked for clean silverware? What a bitch.
I know Russia has a proud tradition of marching its forces into the meat grinder en masse but fuck.
These numbers are just off Wikipedia but I wanted to refresh my sense of the proportions of America’s losses in the Vietnam War:
2,709,918 Americans served in Vietnam total with a peak of 543,400 at once, in April 1969.
Casualties:
58,281 dead, with 47,434 dead from combat (which means over 10k poor bastards lost their lives to illness and accidents - war is fucking ridiculous).
303,644 wounded (including 150,341 not requiring hospital care).
So if these numbers are accurate, Russia now has as many dead as America had wounded in all the Vietnam war. And remember, Russia is less than half the size of the US.
And they aren’t making any signs of quitting. It’s like they need to dispose of a whole lot of able bodied young men for some reason. How miserable.
It’s hard to fathom that Russians are just putting up with this.
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It is in fact getting to be a bit of a hobby to mention Fahrenheit’s good points, just to see people wet themselves and complain when their worldview shatters.
You think every molecule in a pot of boiling water is at exactly the same temperature? Of course there are variations throughout. You don’t need to invoke the fundamental laws of the universe to figure that out.
They get to sleep all they want, with no responsibilities. I never feel a moment’s hesitation about disturbing them :)
Do you respond to everything everyone tells you with a complaint that they haven’t already told you it before? This is a discussion. I’m not defending a written doctorate thesis.
C is highly intuitive if you are a water molecule. Absolutely brilliant for those chaps. Wait… I have assumed this whole time you are human. Are you a water molecule?? You never mentioned that before!!
Well, that last point suggests that you don’t need the Celsius scale to use water’s phase changes as a reference / definition. Which undermines your entire case for Celsius being superior because it’s based on that.
All I’m saying is that F has some human usability merit in that the scale just happens to corresponds nicely to a human quality. Since any scale can use physical qualities as a definition, why shouldn’t we use one that’s more human-centric.
Yes it will. Who told you it won’t? This is how thermodynamics works.
I agree that Celsius’ definability and reference points are more sensible.
All I ever say on this is that F has its appeal in everyday usability terms, because of how nicely 0-100 encapsulates our comfort zone. Not that it’s designed that way, it just happens to work nicely.
And whenever I say this much, people (not you) begin screaming at me about how I need to live my life by water’s phases changes :/
Boiling water is full of pockets of steam that may be higher than 100C, and will have cold spots too. It’s really not very easy at all to get any quantity of water to 100C stably and consistently throughout. Not easy enough to be a foundational reference, with the tools of a century or two ago. Boiling is also sensitive to altitude and pressure changes, and may be shifted slightly based on the mineral content of the water. It is in fact not dead simple.
I explained it in objective terms. Human habitability range. We’re in a thread about weather exceeding what humans can withstand. That point is pretty easy to remember in F, as if the scale were determined by the extremes we can withstand, a fairly relevant range, regardless of what anyone is “used to.”
You may be shocked to discover that we can also measure the temperature of water in F.
Your talking right and wrong is beside the point. No one scale is superior for any use, strictly speaking. The point is that 1-100 in F relates in an intuitive way to the range of human habitation. That’s a more intuitive thing to base a scale on in my opinion. Now tell me my opinion is wrong, I dare ya!
I appreciate the elegance of your field calibration, but it will not be “exactly right.” The boiling point of water is readable repeatable but sensitive to altitude and the contents of the water. Freezing is also sensitive to salt and mineral content, but even more basically: where’s this “freezing water” you can stick your thermometer into, that’s reliably == 0 degrees? Ice keeps getting colder, and melted water can be any temperature above 0.
Good in theory, but even if field calibration were a real need, it’s not very exact. And anyway, if you can work all that out, you can do it for F or C. Since no one will every forget 212 and 32, as you point out.
Don’t take an analogy literally. That’s bad faith.
And if you don’t think marriage is a stated intention to have a sexual relationship, then we simply disagree. But your opinion, much as I honor it, is your own innovation.