What does it express?

The AI one looks neat, but it lacks expression.

What is the lower chamber for?

Do you live in northern canada?

Dry bulb is the temperature independent of humidity. Wet bulb is has a wet cloth on the thermometer bulb. This simulates how much sweat cools you in the current humidity and wind.

Measuring humidity instead and cross-referencing to get heat index is more common these days, but IMO it’s worse. 120 in the desert vs 120 heat index due to humidity is the difference between someone using a hair dryer on your face and getting cooked in a steam room, and it doesn’t consider wind and cloud cover.

In the same way a US ton and a metric ton is like 10% different, a 556 bullet is actually 5.7 mm across.

Kelvin is used for math pretty regularly. Rankine was too.

Yes, it does a better job of impressing that is all of the hot (or cold), and then 10% more than the difference between 38 and 43

100F was defined as the human body temperature (The guy they used had a cold or something so it’s off by a degree and a half.)

That’s useful for perception of heat. When the dry bulb gets above 100F, wind only cools you down by sweat evaporation, and when the wet bulb gets above 100F, even that can’t cool you down, and you will die if you don’t get to a cooler or drier environment.

This is more intuitive than 36.5C.

But really it is much better for human temperatures.

It’s just intuitive, 0F is 100% cold, and 100F is 100% hot.

When the dry bulb gets above 100F, wind only cools you down by sweat evaporation, and when the wet bulb gets above 100F, even that can’t cool you down, and you will die if you don’t get to a cooler or drier environment.

OK, but with Rankine, if it’s 101 out, you can go Five Hundred and SIXTY degrees??!

Korea

The Korean War included the greatest retreat in US history, which was only stopped because we were fighting an enemy with barely any industrial capacity to resupply troops, or even supply them with enough radios, and we failed to achieve the objective of a unified Korea (letalone the bloodthirsty moron MacArthur’s objective of invading China and becoming the “ceasar of the east”).

Kosovo, Yugoslavia

We bombed a bunch of civilians, showed the world that our B2 stealth bomber could be shot down by 30 year old, man-portable AA. I’m still unsure what strategic use bombing embassies and apartments was.

Greek civil war, Afghanistan Russian war, Arabian Israel wars

America didn’t didn’t directly fight any of those.

the war of 1812

We lost that one, our objective was to take Spanish America, and we failed that. They also burned the whitehouse.

WWI, WWII, Spanish American war

Those the US did manage to achieve some of it’s objectives, but WWII was 80 years ago.

American civil war, and the American revolution

Those were primarily against other Americans.

If successful means achieving none of your strategic objectives, but wasting trillions killing a whole bunch of civilians, sure.

What is the count of those vs. the number of surrendered Russians being treated well?

There is no credible data.

Which one is more likely to be in the news?

Neither, I live in America, the news only intentionally covers Russian war crimes. I say intentionally, since I remember a CNN segment near the start of the invasion where armed Ukrainian soldiers jumped out of an ambulance in the background.

The opposite would probably be true if I lived in Russia.

Which one is more likely to be spread around by Russian bots?

I assume it’s not Russian bots posting Ukrainian drone footage to the combat footage sub.

Which will be more likely to be suppressed?

Well I haven’t seen any news covering Ukrainian war crimes and I’ve seen plenty of news covering Russian war crimes, and I know it’s not because Ukraine isn’t doing any war crimes.

The reverse would probably be true for someone living in Russia.

Maybe, but I’ve seen plenty of videos of Russians attempting to surrender to drones, and getting killed anyway.

The point of these laws is to protect civilians from weapons that can’t be used to target just military targets. Do you give a shit about the people in Ukraine beyond their use as cannon fodder?

It’s because of their indiscriminate nature.

The US use of napalm on cities in Korea contributed to the nearly 20% of their population that was wiped out.

Modern science is, but there’s plenty of old journals from the 80s and earlier that use degrees Rankine and gallons.

Well we should get some when the AI craze finally dies.

You said “the network that is barely used in most parts.”

I looked it up and showed you that it’s used so much they’re continuing to expand capacity along most routes.

I didn’t bother to address the railroads being run at a deficit because the neoliberal brainrot it requires to think that mass transit must extract a profit is painful to even imagine.

Do you think public roads, buses, and subways should be run for profit too?