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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Kelvin is the SI unit. Anyway also for the weather Celsius is clearer: Below 0 = snow, above 0 = rain. And Celsius at least has fixed points that can be recreated - if all thermometers and data on scales were lost we could easily recreate °C, but not °F.

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

From my limited insight (only seeing it on the internet since this only exists in English) it seems to be a loose term to refer to many, but not all progressive societal movements that contradict the world view of the last few decades.

Examples: LGBTQIA+ culture (pride month / parade, featuring them in movies/books (this one isn't new but still apparently counts as woke), ...), new laws to require a certain percentage of [whatever, for example a company's employees] to be female / to be coloured, ...

Somehow apparently not included (correct me if I'm wrong, again, I only know this term from the internet): Women getting less children but working more, the fight for equality for women.

So far I've usually seen it in negative context, not always but often hostile.

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

We have oil for that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I really don't get why the USA does this.

In developing countries it's understandable that the state can't pay for education, but in a first world country (at least in the cold war era meaning) it's insane that education is FOR PROFIT.

In Europe the countries don't pay for education out of pure idealism. Educating a large percentage of the population is needed for a functioning and stable democracy (that hopefully doesn't fall for populism, although we're currently fighting with that too, still far better than the USA's Trump cult) and especially needed for staying internationally competitive in the long term.

Just a few days ago I've paid my fee for this semester, studying at a well known university (not worldwide but at least in my country and neighbouring countries) with a good reputation: 24.70€ (27.3$). I could also pay the same at an internationally more known uni but they're pretty similar quality-wise, the other just is in a bigger city = has more students = publishes more.

For international students from non-eu-countries it's ~750€ per semester, still not that much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Notably, this doesn't work with dogs, as they have no souls.

Which kind of motion detectors? The ones I know work on everything that's moving, including my cats (don't have dogs) or even just throwing something past it

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

The rules are the same. Add 3 to 5 and you'll always have 8. Geometric calculations can't change how they work either. Etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Universal. How else would you calculate or solve equations?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ihr übersetzt es nicht, sondern ihr erfindet ähnlich aussehende deutsche Wörter.

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

They are expected to have between 25 and 30 percent*

And usually prognosises tend to value them higher than they end up, so I guess we can expect them to get around 25%. Plenty of space for other parties to form a coalition.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

For the USA, yes, but there are other countries too where democracy still kinda works

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

German quality

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