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August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Quick Celsius breakdown from a Canadian:

40+ - most Canadians stop eating food and hope for a quick death
35 - you might just be able to live with this if you do nothing at all
28 - right about the place where comfort gives way to a general sense of warmth, something that makes any Canadian uncomfortable
23 - room temperature, and why "room temperature IQ" is an insult only Americans could have come up with because their scale was made by a madman
15 - If it's Autumn you are wearing a light jacket, if it's Spring you are sweating
5 - sweater time
0 to -10 - that stereotypical TV winter experience, where everyone is skating and sipping hot chocolate? Yeah that's like half the year here. You better like hot chocolate.
-15 - We enjoy the fresh air, others will probably find it painful to breathe directly; put on a scarf! Do not brush your teeth immediately before going outside unless you want to experience mint-flavoured pain.
-20 - Canadians put their boots on by now. Exposed skin on a windy day can get frostbite in as little as 10 minutes.
-30 - We will debate putting a coat on to put the garbage out at this temperature, usually erring on the side of caution in case your kids lock you outside again. Seriously invest in good winter gear for this, this temperature can kill surprisingly fast and it only gets increasingly unpleasant from here.
-40 - turns out you can't form snowballs in hell because the snow is too crispy

Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Here in Canada I've seen much the same behaviour for both Liberal and Conservative voters. "I vote Liberal because I've always voted Liberal" is a surprisingly common statement especially among the older generations, and to a small extent even the Green party has a few loyalists in BC.

Always voting the same way no matter what happens is just giving your vote away for free.

One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense" in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It doesn't help that the Rust community tends to bring extremely divisive politics with it in places and ways that just don't need to happen, starting battles that aren't even tangentially related to programming.

Dune Awakening devs: "No private servers at launch" but "could" be done after in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not buying this game at launch but could be convinced to do so after private servers come out.

Interesting to see how dead the MMORPG genre has become. Are there still players around? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I used to be a heavy industrial player in EVE Online and Foxhole fills the hole, surprisingly. Each faction has at least one group whose sole purpose is logistics, and they're both decent.