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flashingathena t1_j6orkti wrote

Reply to comment by eggtart_prince in World peace is absolutely achievable. by [deleted]

Conflict is different than wars fought with horrendous weapons that can destroy the environment and wipe whole civilizations out. Conflict will always exist, yes. That doesn't mean that we have to have catastrophic wars or wars at all.

It's really getting under my skin that people are misconstruing what OP is saying though I think they probably know better if they think about it. It's like you're being deliberately obtuse.

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American_PP t1_j6orb6c wrote

Reply to People who stop talking to you when they're in a relationship do it because they're secretly more in love with you than the person they're with by omissionpossible

Maybe. I was getting hit on a lot by this woman in Thailand I have no interest in. She followed my facebook and would comment all the time. One day, I saw she went to Germany and was dating some old German man and I simply "liked" the post......very very quickly she blocked me on social media.

Not like I care, but it made me laugh a bit. Well, maybe it had nothing to do about liking me, probably she was just mining for gold.

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mgslee t1_j6opkdc wrote

Reply to The direction of temperature is arbitrary. There is no reason for hot objects to be assigned a larger number than cold ones by Crux_AMVS24

Congratulations, you've discovered that number systems are all arbitrary!

However, even when things are arbitrary, we would want to design them to be intuitive.

So I'll stay over here with my metric units.

Another thing is that these number systems do eventually interact with each other and having outlandish conversation tables is annoying and needless.

So yes we have good reasons why some of them are the way they are. Kelvin is scientifically easy to use, intuitive and fits right in with complex physics equations while Fahrenheit or whatever reverse system you are proposing would not.

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