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[–] x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's the most amount of copium I've seen on lemmy so far.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You think that's some copium, watch this:

When you're a child having a sick-day, you get to stay home from school and watch TV, which is absolutely 💯. What temperature do you need to have to get a sick-day? 100°

In foreign units, 100° is the temperature at which water boils. What has boiling water ever done for anyone? Literally nothing. But in freedom units, water boils at 212°. 212 is a palindrome and palindromes are so cool, they could be classified as 💯. As we all know, 100 is the coolest number, which is why that's how high grades go.

Finally, using USA standards, calculating calories in food merely requires measuring how much energy is required to raise 3.5 oz water 1.8° F by burning the food and then dividing by 1000. Using your weird unpatriotic methods, you'd have to measure how much energy is required to raise 100 grams of water 1° C by burning the food and then not dividing by anything??? Sounds lame!

Someone give me a Gatorade, those mental gymnastics were a hell of a workout

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Even better, I don't even feel a fever until it's 104°F. I've just looked it up, and that's exactly 40°C. Even my body likes round centigrade numbers.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

riddle me this then mr european man (i assume for the context of shitposting)

would you feel ok with getting half of everything you did being completely wrong, or would you feel ok with only three of those 10 things being completely wrong.

half is formidable, like you tried, probably. 7/10 is on the way to being good at it though.

[–] x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand this shitpost question.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 3 months ago

it's a question surrounding human bias on the subject of correctness. Most people would argue that 7/10 is "ok or good" where as most people would argue that 5/10 is "not the worst, but not good"

we're not fundamentally biased to the midpoint of something, we're fundamentally biased to the perceived average of something.