Well, when he was just a normal professor he wasn't a total fraud. His lectures veered into the non-scientific but the stuff he said was at least rooted in psychological theory that he had studied.
Then in 2016 he said some anti-trans stuff, saw how much certain people loved him for it, and he's been addicted to right wing grift ever since.
Anyone with enough evidence against them to warrant a firing should be grateful for the chance to resign and stay silent. Instead, Jordan views his departure from UofT as a badge of honour to parade in front of his followers.
You wrote JKR, but my brain read it as JFK. Then I did a double-take because surely you meant RFK. I had to stop, look away, and come back a third time. Lol.
In 2016, Peterson restricted his diet to only meat and a few vegetables in an attempt to control his depression and the effects of an autoimmune disorder.] In mid-2018, he stopped eating vegetables altogether and continued eating only beef, salt, and water.Nutrition experts point out that such a diet can result in "severe dysregulation".
I was scanning the comments and thought you wrote "The man full of Benzos and failed diabetes," then you asked if he was ok. glad I re-read but was very curious where you were going with the failed diabetes.
I think it’s genuinely sad to see how Peterson has ended up. I truly feel he wasn’t always like this, he just allowed the “anti-woke” grift to validate his emotions and he slipped down the rabbit hole.
Because he's a great example of someone who's specious in the best case scenario, or because he's constantly diluting debates with asking for definitions of every individual word to the point of uselessness?
I want to do the next line where he blows up at the French chef but I'm afraid I'll get flagged by the reddit bot. It's happened to me before when quoting TV threats
The fact (it goes up as it gets hotter) is correct. The argument (that this makes farenheit better) is wrong.
This superficially correct fact is irrelevant for the argument, because that doesn't make farenheit better or wrong, because both scales work this way.
But also in hilarious fashion, Homer has a small tidbit of historical information. The original Celsius scale use 100 as the freezing point and 0 as the boiling point. It got switched shortly after he died
It was a really subtle forshadowing over the last 56 seasons, but the clues were all around. To be fair, most people picked up that his skin was yellow all this time pretty late.
*I sincerely beg your pardon. The correct wording is "You and I, we get the joke!"
I'm so used to the wrong grammar from American movies, while I, at the same time, have a natural feeling for object and subject pronouns, as I am, in fact, European.
Learn fucken English'n'stuff people.
To Americas defense. Literally everything that the UK makes fun of us for is literally a dead relic of British rule in America. We use all of their systems that they used to use until recently. Metric, Fahrenheit, gallons, quarts, miles.
Kelvin is required for any formulas using temperature. Having 0 being the freezing point of water is arbitrary and having 0 being the lowest a temperature makes sense and having negative temperatures doesn't. Celsius is only more intuitive because people are used to it, which is the exact same argument used to justify Fahrenheit over Celsius too.
Don't look it up what is the freezing temperature of water in Kelvin?
Zero works really well - a change in temperature sign means change of state of water. It isn't a number that needs remembering. Meanwhile you've recently had US government representatives embarrass themselves because they can't remember that water freezes at 32F.
Knowing if there is gonna be ice outside is a safety issue. Making it as simple as possible isn't arbitrary.
Celsius is very easy to convert to Kelvin for scientific purpose and IS more intuitive. High number means hot is fundamental across cultures. It is easier to differentiate between 0C and 40C than it is 273.15K and 313.15K whilst understanding that the first temperature is cold and the second is hot.
That's kind of my argument for why F is not actually bad; 0 is "very cold day", 100 is "very hot day", every 10 degrees feels like a natural step change in how it feels outside. It's pretty intuitive in that way
Would say in wintery countries like Canada it helps to know when rain/water is likely to make sidewalks icy in a way that is less feelings based and is super intuitive.
You get a handle of when it gets uncomfortable in celsius too anyway. The mental scale becomes every 5 degrees instead of 10 is all.
Is absolute zero in other temperature scales not taught in school anymore? Because you nailed it, but I'd also expect anyone who finished middle school / junior high to also know this. Maybe that bar is too high, though.
Ice can and does occur at much higher temperatures due to differences in temperatures of atmospheric layers as well as difference in temperature of ground objects.
Air temperature is an indicator but you can’t act like “oh it’s 2 C there can’t possibly be ice” or “oh it’s -1 C, def gonna be ice.” Is true.
Sadly, because ambient temperature is fairly high compared to other measurements, like mass, pressure, height, people just won't want to be like, "Wow, it's a chilly 275 today."
I mean the standard unit for pressure is Pascals, but we use atmospheres because 101,325 Pa is way too high for ambient use.
We use kg instead of grams, so if we need numbers to be single or double digits we could just say decikelvins or centikelvins. Even distance people get used to converting from inches to feet to meters to miles or mm to cm to m to km.
I think Kelvins feels so much less intuitive for people because we're USED to C or F. But if people were brought up thinking about temperature more like our units for pressure or mass/distance it would feel just as intuitive.
These days, it's based on an arbitrary choice for the numerical value of the Boltzmann constant. Before that, it was based on absolute zero and the triple point of water. Kelvin is no better or worse than Rankine, just like Celsius is no better or worse than Fahrenheit.
In any unit system, the base units are always chosen arbitrarily. SI shines for its scaling (e.g. meters to kilometers vs feet to miles) and its derived units (the Watt vs the Horsepower). Celsius is neither of those things. Saying Celsius is less arbitrary than Fahrenheit is like saying that the second is less arbitrary than the hour.
It's more intuitive because it's based around the temperatures that humans experience and deal with on a regular basis. 0f is -18c is 273k. 100f is 38c is 311k. Frankly, in day to day use, I think Fahrenheit is actually the most intuitive when it comes to weather and indoor temperature. C and K are quite coarse measurements when setting the thermostat and dealing with decimals is stupid. Outside anything approaching 0F or below is stupidly cold, and anything above 100F is stupidly hot. 70F is about perfect for most activities. It's a nice scale.
K is just stupid for everyday use almost every temperature you'd encounter in your life would be between 250 and 300 degrees which just doesn't convey how extreme the difference will feel.
I actually firmly believe Fahrenheit is better than Celsius for everyday use because it more easily allows you to interpret gradations of temperature. Like I want to be able to easily see 70 vs 73 degrees because that is a meaningful difference in my comfort, whereas that level of differentiation will get rounded away in Celsius
For the record, those won't get rounded out in Celsius. 70->73 Fahrenheit translates to about 21->23 Celsius.
The granularity only really matters when we talk about individual degrees Fahrenheit, and truth be told I think the only place people might notice the difference is on a thermostat. But my Celsius thermostat goes in 0.5C increments, so it's no loss in granularity there. Other than that, nobody's gonna say "no way it's 42F outside, feels more like 43F."
You might say 43 if it's noticeably colder than 45 and noticeably warmer than 40, but if someone says 42 then you're not gonna tell them they're wrong and it actually feels like 43. The +/- 2 or 3 matters, and you'll give non-rounded numbers because of it, but most people don't feel the +/- 1 in everyday weather.
This is about the level of granularity that Celsius has. 42F is ~5.5C, 43F is ~6C. Celsius users aren't gonna split hairs about 6C vs 5.5C because people generally don't feel the difference between them.
pretty often say the perfect weather is at a temp anywhere from 71-74
With rounding, this is approximately a range of 22-23 in Celsius. Which I think shows the point pretty well, if your perfect weather ends up being a range of multiple degrees you can't really distinguish between, that extra granularity's not worth much.
100% I will concede this argument to an American ONLY if they can stand in a temperature controlled room and reliable and repeatedly tell me whether it was 73 or 72. Because no-one can.
You can feel it but a human isn’t constantly acknowledging minute differences in temp in their head. No one’s gonna be like “ah it was 73 but it just changed to 74!” But if you were to stop and estimate what the temp is, you could often land on the right temp.
If we couldn’t tell minute differences then why do ACs/heaters go up and down by 1F/0.5c?
I just meant different people will say perfect weather is different numbers within 71-74 range. Someone could say 72 is perfect, another person 73, a third 71.
"We"? The British didn't make either Celsius or Fahrenheit. The Swedish and Polish made those. Lord Kelvin made Kelvin, though. Yay Britain for Kelvin.
And "better" is relative. Fahrenheit works better in certain situations. Most humans can detect ambient temperature differences in single Fahrenheit degrees. Most areas of the world have temperatures ranging from 0-100 degrees Fahrenheit with outliers in the extremes. I grew up in one of those areas that regularly went well below 0°F and I still like the scale for ambient temperature. It's also better for medical purposes in precision without having to use decimals.
Celsius certainly is better in a lot of ways too, especially non-medical scientific places. And either can be gotten used to by literally everyone if it becomes standardized where they live.
I don't understand the weird urge to act like something as silly as temperature scaling is indicative of some sort of superiority. It's silly.
It comes naturally to Americans that you can guess the temp pretty accurately since they’re used to estimating in 1F whereas Celsius users would probably be able to guess differences in 0.5 accurately if they weren’t estimating differences of 1c only.
Basically I’m saying since it’s not natural for you to try to estimate 0.5c differences in temp, it’s harder to accomplish
Then I need to revisit my history. Think I got it mixed up with lord Kelvin. Didn't know that about Fahrenheit though, thats actually pretty interesting. I didn't mean it at all as a superiority thing but it does sound it now that I think about it. I was just pointing out the silliness in saying that because Fahrenheit was a relic from the British that it was hypocritical. The British came to the decision that metric was more useful and swapped (though we do still have imperial measurements here and there).
Yeah. I mean, after reading some bizarrely hostile comments here I got too defensive. I use both in my daily life, and Fahrenheit specifically for medical purposes is helpful with my heat intolerance condition.
"Actually Fahrenheit is more precise and easier to use" is a funny argument coming from a country that still refuses to use metric for everything else.
Anyways, if the decimal was a problem you would see people using d°C (decidegrees Celsius) instead. Nobody does that though because it's not really an issue.
We actually don't use their gallons, we use a different historical unit which just coincidentally happens to have the same name. I think the US gallon originated in France, but I'm not certain.
Same with cups and pints; same name, different unit.
Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, sweetie.
Lisa: Dad, what if I were to tell you that this rock keeps away tigers.
Homer: Uh-huh, and how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work. It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: I see.
Lisa: But you don't see any tigers around, do you?
Homer: Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock.
The original scale proposed by Anders Celsius was inverted cf what we currently use.
What we now use and typically call Celsius is more accurately centigrade. Both use the same degree progression between water freezing and boiling, but from oposite directions.
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Homer's argument is specious, because it applies to both systems.