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How to measure things like a Canadian (lemmy.ml)

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[–] fake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Centigrade

For the last time its celsius

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

I thought you weren't supposed to deadname. So much for the tolerant left.

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[–] fake@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

Brother centigrade hasn't been a thing since the 1940s, and it isn't exactly equivalent to celsius.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

The Nazis haven't been a thing since the 1940's but here we fucking are.

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[–] fake@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 months ago

Well maybe if you'd adopted the metric system this wouldn't have happened!

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