chiliedogg

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Imagine that you're standing on a train and have a baseball. If you throw the ball off the train, the ball will still have momentum in the direction of the train's movement.

If you want to throw the ball to a friend the train just passed, you have to be able to throw the ball faster than the train is moving or it will never reach them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I cited and linked my source from the 18th century when it was redefined. What's yours?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Welcome to peer review!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

The scale was adjusted later to make freezing and boiling points land on exact numbers with an easily-divisible 180-dregrees between them (180 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 20, 36, 45, 60, and 90).

https://archive.org/details/paper-doi-10_1098_rstl_1777_0038

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Should use Rankine with that logic. It comes out to 566.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

Fahrenheit literally meant to base the scale with 100 being human body temp.

It was later rescaled by Cavendish to put the freezing point of water at exactly 32 and boiling point at exactly 212, giving a nicely-divisible 180-degree separation between freezing and boiling. That shift is why body temperature is 98.6.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Correct. And I appreciate that. A couple wanting a religous wedding should know that the pastor that's blessing the union supports them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In this case it is. All 50 states are required to perform gay marriages as of June 26th, 2015. The ruling took immediate effect nationwide. Clerks were having to hand-edit marriage licenses to allow for same-sex certificates because within an hour of the ruling people were showing up at courthouses to get married in states where it had been illegal.

Churches aren't required to perform same-sex marriages nationwide, however.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

All 50 states are recognize gay marriage since Obgerfel v Hodges in June 2015.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

According to the GSS, only 10% of Americans reaponded "Agree" or "Strongly Agree" to the statement "Homosexuals should have the right to marry" in 1988 (first year the question was asked).

In 2004, it was 30%.

In 2022 it was 67%.

Also according to the GSS, 40 years ago a third of Americans thought homosexuals shouldn't have the right to speak.

We've made remarkable progress in a very short period.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Our dachshund picks up and eats all kind of shit. She's a destroyer of SHOES and CPAP masks, of course, but she also eats rocks, plastic, or whatever else she finds.

The other day I walk in, and she has 2 milkbones (we don't buy them and I have no idea where they came from). She just moved them around for a few days and never ate them. But a stick is fine dining.

Dogs are weird.

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