Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Despite being metric, Celsius is barely used with a prefix when describing temps high enough to warrant it (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Interestingly, I hear people use terms like millikelvin and microkelvin often enough, but never kilokelvin. In fact, there are some hilariously impractical ways to avoid large scientific notation for Kelvin. There's T4, which is the temperature in kelvin divided by 10^4, and there's electron volts, which is almost the same value, but preferred by different fields.