I think the wording in your original comment is pretty misguided. Nowhere does it say the poor are "doing better than" the wealthy. They just had the strongest short-term wage growth since covid. This does not equate to prosperity. Perhaps it is you that has the restrictive social circle.
If anything it'll be below 100 due to altitude. For example salt water for making pasta boils still at approx 100 deg. C. It takes quite a lot of salt (way more than you would ever want to consume) to meaningfully raise the boiling point.
You must be at altitude. That definitely makes a difference for the boiling point, but of course water freezes at 0. Impurities that you'll encounter in tap water, for example, will not have a large effect on freezing point.
Even if it was different by a few degrees, how does that make the scale any less intuitive?
I don't know what high school you went to, but we sure as shit didn't cover stuff like partial differential equations and functional analysis.
Not at all. People (engineers?) seem to forget that experimental physicists exist
What of experimental physicists?
Ah yes, okay I see what you're saying. I think I'm very fortunate to have a couple of friends who care about media the way that I do, and we know each other's tastes and take recommendations seriously. I have a lot of other friends that are absolutely not like that, so I guess it's an individual sorta thing ya know.
Yeah I just don't take it personally. I get what it's like, people have their tastes and aren't necessarily quick to try something on a recommendation. Honestly I don't think it's something you can really expect of people, and certainly it shouldn't be so transactional.
Quite some years ago I offhandedly recommended a band to a friend, and like a week later she texted me thanking me for the recommendation, and gave me her thoughts. I thought that was really cool of her, because it's all too common that recommendations are ignored. I decided then that I would do my best to actually follow up on recommendations from friends and then try to let them know what I thought. It's a practice that's generally very well received.
I also then decided to be more honest about whether or not I actually will check something out. For example, I don't really listen to podcasts so I'm pretty upfront with people that it's not likely I'll listen to whatever they recommend. I think it's had a ripple effect of generally being more honest in my relationships, which has been transformative. I highly recommend it.
You're straw-manning. No one is advocating for flooding the country with foreign money. I've been reading your comments and I think you might be misunderstanding the argument. It's a more nuanced criticism about capitalism, not an argument for how much workers for foreign companies in the Philippines should be paid.
I disagree. The connotation and literal meaning of the phrase "doing better than", combined with the comment on social circles indicates that they're trying to suggest the poor are somehow doing well, whatever that means.
That's how I read it, anyway. And I think that's why they're getting down voted as well.