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  • As I understand it, yes it was a saturated solution.

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  • You're totally correct that Celsius is the more sensible scale with easier to replicate reference points (when using water). It was also invented almost 30 years after the Fahrenheit scale and with all the insights gained from that period of technological advancement. In fact in the modern day the Celsius degree size is defined in reference to the Boltzmann constant since Celsius is essentially the Kelvin scale with the numbers moved around.

    It also used 100 as the freezing point of water and 0 as the boiling point when originally proposed, which changed after Anders Celsius died because everyone knew that was a weird way to do it.

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  • It makes no sense because that's not what the 0 of the Fahrenheit scale is. The 0 point is the coldest an ammonium chloride brine mixture can be cooled to. The 90 point was an estimated average for human body temperature (it was adjusted up over time). These were chosen because the goal of the scale was to provide a way for people to have a defined temperature scale with a range and degree size that could be reliably reproduced without passing around standardized tools. 100 is really hot because human bodies were used as a reference for the high end, but the low end has nothing to do with the human body.

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    Looking for a self-hosted alternative to the Canary (home security)
  • Frigate is the go-to open source self hosted solution for this. https://frigate.video/

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    Doesn't matter how you try to justify it...
  • Yes. I would say people shouldn't have to pay for the basic necessities required to live. Why should anyone live with the threat of homelessness and starvation?

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    Shits these days
  • It's a two pack, so $5 per cap. Slightly less ridiculous for a niche tool.

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    US House passes bill that expands definition of anti-Semitism to comparing Israel with Nazis
  • There is a world of difference between taking issue with someone making a poorly received argument and a government deciding that making that argument is inherently illegal.

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    Best Android wifi calling option for kids
  • Ah dang, I forgot it was still needed during signup.

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    Best Android wifi calling option for kids
  • Signal can do messaging and calling over wifi and can be set up with just a username.

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    party time
  • This same fungal infection causes the males to have sex until their butts fall off, so I'm pretty sure some humans would seek it out.

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    Conservatives are warning about noncitizens voting. It's a myth with a long history
  • So what you've demonstrated is that a fraction of less than 1 percent of voters registering in a few states MAY be non-citizens, a number so small it's barely a rounding error, and that of that small number of people it seems we catch most of them long before they vote. I do not understand why this issue seems worth the effort you're putting into it.

    I'll concede then that it does and has happened. However, I still think you're going too far by claiming there's no consequences while literally linking to attempted convictions.

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    Conservatives are warning about noncitizens voting. It's a myth with a long history
  • I'm not the person you responded to and I've moved no goalposts. I'm pointing out that you're misrepresenting reality to make your point. I'm in a state (Georgia) that gives you the option to register to vote when getting or renewing your license. On the form it is simply a checkbox. This seems like a clearly abusable system if you do as you have, which is to look at the surface level of the situation and cry foul, but the underlying reality is different.

    In order to get my license I was required to provide documentation of my citizenship (in my case an original birth certificate) as well as evidence of my current address (in my case a utility bill). This underlying evidence is what is used to control my voter registration and prove I'm eligible to vote. Car registration is supposed to be tied to your home address and is handled by parts of the local government that share information, so being given an option to update an address for voting purposes when updating registration makes sense to me. I am not aware of if that is possible on my state. While I do not personally have experience with obtaining a license while not being a citizen and resident of my state, I know that whatever process exists for that doesn't also allow you to register to vote.

    If you'd like one I'll give you a goalpost. Prove me wrong and show me a single state where a non-citizen can register to vote, go to a polling place and vote, and then have that vote counted.

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    Conservatives are warning about noncitizens voting. It's a myth with a long history
  • You're making it out like states that don't require a photo ID at the time of filling in a ballot have zero checks on the identity of a voter. I only looked at a few, notably California since you have brought it up, and that is not the case. The identity verification happens during registration and then again under certain conditions.

    Even if an undocumented person went to vote in California they'd have to use a provisional ballot and that would of course be checked and rejected.

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    Brought to you by the vertical mouse gang
  • You just have a bad trackball. My Kensington Expert glides smooth.

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    Great news from 2023
  • Do you go to restaurants and complain there is food there? This is a place for linux memes.

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    Reblog if youre american
  • The health benefits are overblown and the evidence is largely from flawed studies. While not as debilitating as clitoris circumcision, it's still genital mutilation and it's regularly done in the US for no good reason beyond cultural pressure.

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  • You're right. Most people use this meme entirely wrong.

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    Just realized yesterday I watched an episode of Voyager, read another chapter of Voyager, and worked on Voyager crossposts
  • How would you handle detangling a mistaken git merge of two branches to create the Tuvix branch? Kill that branch and clone down the originals or let them stay merged?

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    Google will no longer hold onto people's location data in Google Maps — meaning it can't turn that info over to the police
  • I've used my location history to remember names of places I went to over a year ago, addresses I was given and expected to write down but forgot, confirm for myself I actually went and did something that I couldn't recall fully...

    It's great for someone with a shite memory.

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