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  • Once this has been implemented, something worse can be implemented.

    I don’t like these slippery slope arguments. You might as well reduce it to any legislation.
    Once people are allowed to make laws, bad people can make bad laws.
    Which is why we must continue to vote in the right people, not abandon the concept of laws.

    In this case, I don’t doubt that copyright infringement and general censorship are on some people’s agenda.
    But this current proposal is bad enough itself and should be opposed because of that and not because someone might make other, even worse proposals in the future.










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    4 months ago

    tell me the last time a regular person had platinum-iridium ingot

    What, you don’t?

    But yeah, I agree, units are made up. I mean, why is the boiling point at 100C and not any other number? Someone made it up.
    I’m just saying the argument “0F is really cold” is just as true as -10F is really cold or +10F is really cold.


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    4 months ago

    Is there a difference between 19, 20, and 21 Celsius?

    First off, nobody claimed that Celsius is based on human perception so humans not being able to differentiate between these is simply irrelevant to the argument.
    Second, the bounds of 0 and 100 are based on the freezing temp of water which are specific, non-arbitrary temperatures.

    I’m not arguing one system over the other, I just think the “human scale” argument has been made up just to have an argument.


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    “human scale” is dismissed as even existing by the Celsius users

    Celsius user here.
    I find “I’m more used to it, therefore it makes more intuitive sense to me” is a perfectly understandable argument.

    The problem with the human scale argument is that it makes it sound completely arbitrary.
    To a human there is no objective difference between -1F, 0F or +1F. They are all about the same degree of “cold”.