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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • As a metric person, I can confirm.

    Indoor temperatures are basically 18-22 for most people most of the time.

    15-25 covers the whole range of indoor temperatures that people with functioning heat or A/C would see.

    For temperatures outside we commonly round to the nearest five:*

    • -5 and below: very cold winter weather
    • 0 cold winter weather
    • 5 mild winter weather
    • 10 autumn weather
    • 15 spring weather
    • 20 summer weather
    • 25 beach weather
    • 30 heatwave
    • 35 and higher heatwave in the Sahara

    The only thing I admire of the Fahrenheit scale is that it can round to the nearest 10 and still be a little bit more precise than Celsius with the nearest 5. And when discussing fever temperatures, Celsius needs half degrees and Fahrenheit does not.

    But it’s an absolutely awful scale for cooking.






  • The difference is that this “may end”, while Ukraine and Gaza are killing lots of innocents.

    Also, we have the technological means to stop this one if we really want to. We just don’t want to.

    Aerosol spraying for $1B a year can buy time.

    Spending $100B a year for a decade on nuclear power plants built to Chinese/Korean safety standards in addition to current spending on solar, wind and electrification can stop our emissions in two decades.

    Which is why it is good that this author is writing this article. We must fight apathy against climate change.