Objective and simple. And having some baggage. That's what metric is.
And celsius is fully objective and simple, with none of the baggage the meter, kilogram or h:m:s have.
No one said metric was perfect, because it's not. It's the dumb dumb standard we have. But it works well enough for the vast majority of things.
Yes. Just as feet and inches are for height. And miles are for distance. And pints and quarts for liquids. And ounces and fluid ounces.
We can make as many of these exceptions as we want, and the only clear winner of the "most ubiquitous use of imperial" has to be inches on porn sites.
But what objectively is the truth is: the rest of the world, save for Liberia and the other place use metric for everything, with the UK being another strange holdout, use metric. International communication is less and less America-centric, and Fahrenheit is American hieroglyphs for us Europeans, because metric is very nice a system as well:
10°C is cold and 20°C warm. 0°C is very cold, 30°C very hot. 20+ is T-shirt territory, <10 is for a winter jacket. Two sentences to catch 80% of the nuance, tops.
To become an expert in Celsius you only need to know 0-40. For Fahrenheit? 0-200 from what I gather. Celsius is very coarse, so every degree means something 15 is noticeably less cold than 14. Everyone has their t-shirt temperature. Mine's 17-18, someone else's 14-15.
Also, when dealing with the weather, you never use decimals. Not needed. A gimmick. As with most other things. The only time you use them is when you look for a fever. 35-37 is normal body temp, 37+ a fever, when measured under the armpit (which seems most common).
Tbh Amazon always had outrageous pricing for me, raging from 1.5-4x the price on other platforms. I don't think I'd ever seen a competitive deal on the site.
I wonder if it's their algorithm taking a distaste for me in particular or a local glitch, but no one in my area uses it either.
In any case, locally marketed price aggregators never even showed me an Amazon listing in the first place, so it's probably an issue on their end, as most people aren't willing to pay $76.5 + $115 shipping fees for a product worth at most €50.
In fact, day 1 patches should either not be a thing, or cost as much as a voluntary recall of the first batches of disks did in 2005.
Instead of being happy they don't need to spend billions to prevent a fiasco, they squirm at the thought of someone not going through their racket to get a loicence.
A legislated digital refresh on the second hand disc market would be nice consumer protection policy. But no, community servers are too much to ask for from these fucks.
No it isn't.
It's a law that says you can buy one yourself (in your thousand dollar a month place) and the landlod can't say no. Except for the way too many carveouts.
Nowehere does it say what it should: an AC is a minimum requirement like heating, running drinking water and electricity.
Working for an idiot with peers that are his fellow idiots. Definitely worse than just working for an idiot.
To be honest, this seems like a stupid fix to a non-issue.
There's already Latex, and the purists calling it Lateh only make it seem like they know and are ashamed.
Or Uranus being pronounced not as your-anus but urine-us. The "alternate/kid-friendly" option is just plain worse. It also teaches kids certain words are bad, which is a bad idea for a multitude of resons I won't get into.
I say keep GIMP GIMP, loud and clear. No need to be ashamed, because it isn't shameful.
Attempting to avoid this absolute non-issue by ingenious pronounciation or rebranding just exacerbates the issue.
It's called "GIMP" and not "Fuck Me then Go Out The Door". Wether or not GIMP was a moment of "funny humor" or not is beside the point. The "official" explanation is perfectly belieavable, and therefore suitable enough. Just run with it.
If an idiot asks "Why's it called like [insert-here]", just say it's a fucking coincidence and you don't care. Call them dirty-minded for bonus points.
I hope Italian dockworkers are determined enough to dock imports for a while. Hopefully without armed intervention from the state.
There's the EU-wide ePrivacy directive, explicitly stating (Art. 5):
Member States shall ensure the confidentiality of communications and the related traffic data by means of a public communications network and publicly available electronic communications services, through national legislation. In particular, they shall prohibit listening, tapping, storage or other kinds of interception or surveillance of communications and the related traffic data by persons other than users, without the consent of the users concerned
There's also other EU-wide stuff, like:
Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (Art. 7):
Everyone has the right to respect for his or her private and family life, home and communications.
European Convention on Human Rights (Art. 6):
Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.
Then there's the UN-wide Universal Declaration on Human Rights (Art. 12):
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence
And as if that wasn't enough, most member states have confidentiality of communications codified in their constitutions. They are:
Belgium (Art. 29):
The confidentiality of letters is inviolable.
Bulgaria (Art. 34):
The freedom and confidentiality of correspondence and all other communications shall be inviolable.
Croatia (Art. 36)*:
Freedom and privacy of correspondence and all other forms of communication shall be guaranteed and inviolable.
Cyprus (Art 17)*:
Every person has the right to respect for, and to the secrecy of, his correspondence and other communication
Czechia (Art. 13)*:
No one may violate the confidentiality of letters or other papers or records.
Denmark (Art. 72)*:
Any breach of the secrecy that shall be observed in postal, telegraph, and telephone matters, shall not take place
Estonia (Art. 43)*:
Everyone has the right to confidentiality of messages sent or received by him or her by post, telegraph, telephone or other commonly used means
Finland (Sec. 10)*:
The secrecy of correspondence, telephony and other confidential communications is inviolable.
Germany (Art. 10)*:
Secrecy of the mail as well as secrecy of the post and telecommunications shall be inviolable"
Greece (Art. 19)*:
Secrecy of letters and all other forms of free correspondence or communication shall be absolutely inviolable
Hungary (Art. VI):
Everyone shall have the right to have his or her private and family life, home, communications and good reputation respected."
Italy (Art. 15)*:
Freedom and confidentiality of correspondence and of every other form of communication is inviolable.
Latvia (Art. 96):
Everyone has the right to inviolability of his or her private life, home and correspondence."
Lithuania (Art. 22):
Personal correspondence, telephone conversations, telegraph messages, and other communications shall be inviolable."
Malta (Art. 41):
No person shall be hindered in the enjoyment of [...] freedom from interference with his correspondence.
Poland (Art. 49):
The freedom and privacy of communication shall be ensured.
Portugal (Art. 34):
Personal homes and the secrecy of correspondence and other means of private communication shall be inviolable.
The Netherlands (Art. 13)*:
The privacy of correspondence shall not be violated, [...] The privacy of the telephone and telegraph shall not be violated
Austria, Luxembourg and France are outliers in that I didn't find anything in their constitutions during my brief little search.
Threats of physical violence are the only tool they have in their toolbox. THE ONLY tool.
And actual gun violence. They're the sniwflakiest and wimpiest of the all, bringing an AK-47 to a civilised discussion and feeling "threatened".
It's not even the highest bidder that gets the data, it's all 1278 data partners. Talk about data prostitution!
Firstly: I'm not the downvoter.
Secondly: you didn't have to - you chose to.
And as most chatbots list sources, you can always check them out yourself and cut out the middleman. Most of academia - some 45% do that. Another 45% don't even bother. A lone 10% still do things the old fashioned way. In any case, you're not alone in relying on AI to find obscure information.
With search engines becoming increasingly infested with low-quality and obvious-slop sites, relying on the same methods as the slopmasters isn't even a big stain on your morality. Because of it was, the slopmasters would be drowning in the ink required, and billionaires would already have caused another biblical flood of it.