I think we could, theoretically, take very drastic action. Currently there are more than enough resources in the world to accommodate for everyone and also enough brainpower to reorganise the production and distribution of these resources to stop being dependent on climate destroying practices reasonably quickly. After all, we survived quite well before the advent of fossil fuels, and you have to remember that a big share of all the resources produced went to the richest class.

It is just that all our resources and development potential all lead to the richening of the rich, because that’s just what our economic and political system is hard-wired to do. I would argue that that’s pretty analogous to the experience of Greg – sure, he could theoretically stop drinking entirely very quickly and survive (with some withdrawal symptoms), but his brain; his governing system is hard-wired to continue because of his addiction.

Nah, pretty sure that is just a (very mild) hallucination because it couldn’t find an actual good example

Yes, that is correct.

I don’t fully understand your comment, but just to be clear, it’s a joke.

Well if it weren’t for those “tankie devs” you couldn’t be here. I’d say show some gratitude for their hard work.

100°C is an acceptable sauna temperature. You won’t last much longer naked in 0°C!

Edit: To make my point more clear, I know some crazy people who go directly from a close to 100 degree sauna to a close to 0 degree ice bath. I think that could be described quite well as going from 100 to 0 % within the human temperature tolerance.

Also, that’s not my initial point. My initial point was that “percent hot outside” means nothing in Fahrenheit or Celsius.

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might be

We are.

Take my updoot and get the hell out of here

Edit: side note: the two actually have the same etymological root, the Latin infans meaning “infant”. It were the Spanish that somehow turned infante (originally just “youth”) into “foot soldier”

Also, fun fact, infans comes from in- (negative prefix) + fari (to speak); “one that does not speak”.

Your comment has more downvotes than the post, which I think is actually primarily downvoted because people don’t think it qualifies as me_irl. So I suspect it’s just the strong (often thoughtless) antireligious sentiment around here. I guess that it’s pretty inherent to social media that people refuse to think.

Because freedom 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅

Well, there is basically only one country that has been too afraid to change from its archaic measurement system to the internationally agreed upon standard.

I don’t think people understood the joke…

@Tarastie@lemmy.world already provided a solution: by strapping magnets to the cat, the cat becomes the generator and never has to touch anything

I found it on Wikipedia. At first, he fixed zero at the stable temperature of a “mixture of ice, water, and salis Armoniaci [transl. ammonium chloride]” and 96 at the human body temperature, but later he would change the lower reference point to water’s freezing point at 32 and still later the upper one to the boiling point of water at 212. So it has always been pretty arbitrary.

Edit: But I will agree that the scale of zero to one hundred does correspond more closely to how warm humans feel.

I see. But is zero degrees Fahrenheit based on anything?

Are you just trolling? “100% hot out” literally doesn’t mean anything.

Edit: Ah, I see :P

But the human body temp isn’t 100 °F, though

Percent of what, exactly? It has been a lot more than 100 Fahrenheit and a lot less than 0.

Edit: Kelvin is the scientific standard with 0 at absolute zero, and that translates directly to Celsius.