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[–] arnitbier@sh.itjust.works 92 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I dont like this nonsense. They never tell you what constitutes a chirp, is it chirp chirp? Is it each chirp cause that means its 140°. Like have you ever tried to actually use this in RL? It simply doesn't work.

Its for a very specific region and a very particular cricket. So its bullshit to pass it off like some natural law

[–] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 months ago (11 children)

You’re telling me you cant keep track of 30-45 simple chirps off a standard reference cricket in a 15 second period? Did you even go to school dude?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago

You’re telling me you cant keep track of 30-45 simple chirps off a standard reference cricket in a 15 second period?

That depends on whether it's a frictionless sphere.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

standard reference cricket

Fuck

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[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Counting the negative chirps is the worst. Like, why is there a -20ch marker if it's never -20?

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cricket will go "yeeep" if the temperature is in the negative Fahrenheit

[–] Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Check out Cricketunes cry for a great cricket sound

[–] bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

It must be in that small part of the world where temperature is measured in Fahrenheit. Eurasian, African, Australian or even South American crickets would never do that.

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 73 points 2 months ago (19 children)
[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

His degrees X would be a good way to show changes over long periods of time by simply graphing the annual adjustments.

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[–] FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone 73 points 2 months ago

least convoluted way to measure a US measurement system

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 59 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is that an AI generated thermometer? The scaling makes no sense whatsoever lol

[–] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago

It makes absolutely no sense lol. Definitely AI

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, it's what happens of you don't use a metric unit

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No mate look on the right side, the number 20 is repeated. Ye imperial units are fucked but we are not at a point where 20 Celsius is equal to 2 different Fahrenheit values.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

look on the right side

Thanks! I looked at the wrong side at first

No, I was just kidding, including the first comment. Both sides are messed up, it was a variation of the "anything but metric" meme.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Left side is wrong too. -10 Fahrenheit is colder than -20 Fahrenheit apparently.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

No wonder the weather has been so weird all week! We had the wrong insect controlling it!

[–] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What use is the Fahrenheit measurement though? I thought only one or two countries use it.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Two countries and crickets apparently.

[–] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Just as God intended

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago

US and ... maybe Israel? Those are the two countries that use the US "Simple English" while the rest of us know what a U is for and how to say Z... so if they also both used F that would track.

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Exactly. Quick image search will show you that cricket looks like this:

[–] xylol@leminal.space 19 points 2 months ago

We should stop using Fahrenheit and Celsius and use chirp

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago

And people say farenheight doesn't have a use...

[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

This is bullshit

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I was trying to think of any situation where this would be useful and the only thing I come up with is a way to keep kids occupied during a camping trip.

[–] Devadander@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Europeans in shambles

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I'm going to hunt one down, and isolate it from all the others just so I can count its chirps so the count won't be screwed up by being confused by other chirpers - all to avoid simply looking at all the other sources of said information that are much more readily available and convenient

Unless you're doing some sort of environmental science experiment while living in a post-apocalyptic world where every pre-existing analog thermometer device for accomplishing this has somehow been destroyed, this is utterly useless.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Only in the sense that knowing the exact temperature on an arbitrary scale is utterly useless. Even Celsius scale is arbitrary, I guess it does use one molecule at an arbitrary atmospheric pressure as a loose guide though…

Is it always 100 degrees Celsius in a vacuum? Because water boils in a vacuum.

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

100 degrees Celsius is defined as the boiling point at exactly _1.0 atmospheric pressure _

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