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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • As a metric person, I can confirm.

    Indoor temperatures are basically 18-22 for most people most of the time.

    15-25 covers the whole range of indoor temperatures that people with functioning heat or A/C would see.

    For temperatures outside we commonly round to the nearest five:*

    • -5 and below: very cold winter weather
    • 0 cold winter weather
    • 5 mild winter weather
    • 10 autumn weather
    • 15 spring weather
    • 20 summer weather
    • 25 beach weather
    • 30 heatwave
    • 35 and higher heatwave in the Sahara

    The only thing I admire of the Fahrenheit scale is that it can round to the nearest 10 and still be a little bit more precise than Celsius with the nearest 5. And when discussing fever temperatures, Celsius needs half degrees and Fahrenheit does not.

    But it’s an absolutely awful scale for cooking.



  • The difference is that this “may end”, while Ukraine and Gaza are killing lots of innocents.

    Also, we have the technological means to stop this one if we really want to. We just don’t want to.

    Aerosol spraying for $1B a year can buy time.

    Spending $100B a year for a decade on nuclear power plants built to Chinese/Korean safety standards in addition to current spending on solar, wind and electrification can stop our emissions in two decades.

    Which is why it is good that this author is writing this article. We must fight apathy against climate change.






  • This is true, but not everything that gets promoted gets popular. A lot also flunks.

    Taylor Swift just happens to hit a sweet spot that appeals to a lot of people.

    And music has a self-reinforcing spiral. People listen to music from artists that they like, and which their peers like.

    So a popular artist could theoretically release an album without any promotion and it would still become popular, just because people will be curious to listen to the new songs from an artist that they already like (of course, record labels will always heavily promote work from their popular artists to make them even more popular).






  • This.

    It was always a white lie to claim the US was sending Ukraine billions in aid. The Democrats liked to pump up the numbers, because supporting Ukraine was and is politically popular. And the spending bills also contained nice pork for the military industrial complex.

    But it has almost exclusively been old stock being sent. Stuff that is very valuable, since no other Ukrainian ally has the huge stockpiles that the USA has, but it was always worth much less than it was being billed for.

    Now Biden is following a more boring, but more honest (in accounting terms) procedure.

    Similar to what the Germans did.

    As for helping Americans, he has also explored every possibility to reduce debt and prescription drug costs and to invest in infrastructure.

    For example, much more has been spent on student loan forgiveness than on Ukraine.

    For student loan forgiveness, I believe the tally is $137B. And that is real cash. For Ukraine the total is $75B, but a lot of that is pumped up valuations of old military stock. The actual value of what Ukraine received is closer to $40B