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[-] Armageddon@ttrpg.network 9 points 1 month ago

are you this dense on purpose?

[-] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

Heh.

It's impolite to use only Fahrenheits on an international forum. Most readers won't be able to make heads or tails of "103 degrees", so a person posting on an international forum should definitely bother checking what that's in Celcius. It's much less work for the person writing the text to check that than thousand individual readers checking the same thing on Google.

If it's somehow "okay" to ignore the 95 % of the world that has no idea of Fahrenheit, then it is similarly okay to be as if Fahrenheit didn't exist.

I simply let the impolite person taste his own medicine. And no, I still don't know if "103 degrees" equals 30°C, 45°C or 55°C. But the description "very uncomfortably hot" is absolutely enough to get what the person was talking about. So, some temperature that is unusual where the person writing the comment lives.

[-] krussfarn@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

It's a post blasting the US. I think it would be safe to assume responses to the contrary would be people in the US. Also, common sense and minimal thought would be enough to figure out the units given the number.

Maybe as an engineer I should require everyone to only give me temps in Kelvin...

this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2025
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