I guess they might be appropriate for some roads (in poor or very rural countries)

But not here

Where does it lead? I’m not brave enough

The Germany of Asia

Just recently my country exchanged land with a neighbouring country to adjust for the changes of water, each giving and gaining the same amount of land. When water marks the border it’s much easier to know when you’re crossing it.

Edit: looked it up: in march we (Austria) traded 239 m² with Liechtenstein

Also great that the source is being listed, proving that it is not an AI generated image

Why? Apart from such cases being rare, everyone gets a half island

Ice too. Glaciers are flowing.

I love it when it’s -10% hot in winter nights or 110% hot around the equator. Makes perfect sense.

Yes, it doesn’t matter which example you take, Fahrenheit never makes sense imo.

0°F is the coldest night Mister Fahrenheit has ever witnessed, thinking it couldn’t become any colder than this.

100°F is Mister Fahrenheit’s slightly feverish body temperature.

???

PS: Pretty much all other countries also had their own measurement systems and simply switched to metric because it made sense. I’m glad we did, and that pretty much all others did too.

PPS: I’d also be up for revamping time measurement, why can’t we have 10h a day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute? 100.000 seconds in total per day, currently we have 86.400 so a second would only become slightly shorter.

The French tried to implement that in the First Republic, together with 12 months à 30 days per year, 3 weeks à 10 days per month and 5 (6) extra days at the end of the year to make it work (from Christmas to New Year, how thematic!)

It failed because the French were fearing they’d have to work more (if they’d also only have 2 days off per 10d instead of per 7d). One of the biggest tragedies in French history. Without the week reform the time reform might’ve succeeded.

Fully agree with you. How does that make sense:

Really hot summer days (30°C) are 86°F

Usual summer days (25°C) are 77°F

Room temperature is ~70°F

Spring / autumn days (20°C) are 68°F

Chilly outside / late autumn / early spring days (~10°C) are 50°F

Cool outside / warm winter days (~0°C) are 32°F

Cold outside / usual winter days (-10°C) are ~15°F

Winter nights (bit below -20°C) are ~ -10°F

Fahrenheit users keep saying how strange it is to have negative temperatures when using °C, but it’s just the same in Fahrenheit except the whole scale makes less sense since it’s using fully arbitrary, not recreatable points for 0 and 100.

Kelvin is the SI unit. Anyway also for the weather Celsius is clearer: Below 0 = snow, above 0 = rain. And Celsius at least has fixed points that can be recreated - if all thermometers and data on scales were lost we could easily recreate °C, but not °F.

Context?

We have oil for that

I really don’t get why the USA does this.

In developing countries it’s understandable that the state can’t pay for education, but in a first world country (at least in the cold war era meaning) it’s insane that education is FOR PROFIT.

In Europe the countries don’t pay for education out of pure idealism. Educating a large percentage of the population is needed for a functioning and stable democracy (that hopefully doesn’t fall for populism, although we’re currently fighting with that too, still far better than the USA’s Trump cult) and especially needed for staying internationally competitive in the long term.

Just a few days ago I’ve paid my fee for this semester, studying at a well known university (not worldwide but at least in my country and neighbouring countries) with a good reputation: 24.70€ (27.3$). I could also pay the same at an internationally more known uni but they’re pretty similar quality-wise, the other just is in a bigger city = has more students = publishes more.

For international students from non-eu-countries it’s ~750€ per semester, still not that much.

Notably, this doesn’t work with dogs, as they have no souls.

Which kind of motion detectors? The ones I know work on everything that’s moving, including my cats (don’t have dogs) or even just throwing something past it

The rules are the same. Add 3 to 5 and you’ll always have 8. Geometric calculations can’t change how they work either. Etc.

Universal. How else would you calculate or solve equations?

German quality

Did you know that there is not a single city, with a population over a million, where the sea level sits more than ten metres above the median ground level of the city.

Am I misunderstanding or are you saying that there’s no big city >10m below sea level?

(Sea level more than ten metres above city level)