Pegging Celsius to freezing/boiling point of water makes it VERY easy to calibrate thermometers. That’s a huge advantage that makes it so anyone with a freezer and stove have a great reference point for calibration.

Yeah, I like tech too but also enjoy cleaning ancient coins. It’ll be nice if someone else found my community and it would pick up. I’m trying to post ever so often so anyone that stumbles on it will know I’m still around

Wow this is really neat, I didn’t realize sun spots occur in bands like this. I always assumed they occur across the whole surface

My brain refuses to accept someone voluntarily drinks their own piss regularly when they have other options readily available… If someone actually does this please post an ama… I have so many questions

Before the fiasco in Thailand I was a Musk fan, my opinion of him has falled greatly since then; even more so since Twitter. Now I groan whenever I see a headline with his name.

Is this a humble brag for how many books you’ve read?

This is blowing my mind right now… Those things gave me nightmares as a kid thinking they crawl into people’s ears…

What really gets me is he carves their names into a structure and adds the date. The date was 23… As if 23 means anything to a structure that was built by people who were around in the actual year 23.

What’s the top image, is it some Microsoft x-windowing system?

They’re not advertising or telling people to come to lemmy.world… people are coming here and they’re just accommodating them instead of blowing them off