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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Despite being metric, Celsius is barely used with a prefix when describing temps high enough to warrant it (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (12 children)

Would just be confusing. Temperatures above a few hundred degrees have no place in most people's daily lives, so that would be mostly for scientific notations, and scientists use Kelvin anyway for precision.

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