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Cap your meal off with a NIST 1196a standard issue cigarette? I am told they taste like drywall and taxes. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2020/02/nist-releases-... Perhaps you would prefer some standard issue meat. https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/sial/nist1546a
A suggested product is "domestic sludge", lol. This is such a fun rabbit hole: https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/sial/nist2781
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You want numbers to be understandable and K produces illogical numbers. (There is a reason it is common to drop the century when talking about years, humans are less skilled at numbers over 100) And I know temperatures in Fahrenheit go higher but it is common to refer to Phoenix as "over 100" even when it's high can peak over 120.
what makes a number illogical? i havent heard of that concept wrt to numbers
Most people generally fundamentally know what 30 means in their unit but might have a harder time with 303 (or 272)
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Shows $508 for 2 cartons, so 254 per. NY has probably most expensive smokes, ranging $140-155 per carton
Australia is US$350-$400
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Now do metric vs imperial.
Nothing screams freedom more than using ancient terms like horsepower and measuring tires in inches and percentages. The other day I heard an American talk about a TV being 65 inches. Took me a while to understand they had a 165 centimeter diagonal television.
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Australia is US$350-$400
Good, making them very expensive is one of the most effective ways to reduce smoking and all associated suffering, cancers, health costs, deaths.
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Good, making them very expensive is one of the most effective ways to reduce smoking and all associated suffering, cancers, health costs, deaths.
And increase smuggling, black market, and risk of harm by consuming dubious quality products.
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It provides greater granularity in the range of human comfort, without descending into decimals. How is that not more useful for day-to-day human usage? 0F is cold, 100F is hot. I experience both of these temperatures outside where I live every year. -20C to 40C seems much more arbitrary as a way to measure the zone humans mostly live in. I would wager that the outdoor and room temperature are an overwhelming majorit…
> 0F is cold, 100F is hot. I experience both of these temperatures outside where I live every year. Most people never experience anywhere near 0F in their lives. > -20C to -40C seems much more arbitrary as a way to measure the zone humans mostly live in. The zone most humans live in does not routinely (if ever) get anywhere near -20, to say nothing of -40.
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The -40C was a typo, should have been 40C, to mirror the 0F to 100F, rounding a bit to make it less silly. It’s been fixed now. Millions do experience 0F, and it’s ok to not use the full range. At or around 0F is cold, as you move closer or beyond it, it’s cold. As you move closer to or beyond 100F, it’s hot. Most people would likely prefer to never deal with 100F.
> Millions do experience 0F, and it’s ok to not use the full range. That’s not even an argument. Billions never experience freezing temperatures let alone 0F, and it’s ok to use negative numbers. > At or around 0F is cold, as you move closer or beyond it, it’s cold. The exact same statement can be made about 0C. Hell if you live in a subtropical area 10C is cold. > Most people would likely prefer to never deal with 1…
Can we stop arguing now?