#1645: Toasts
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[[A person looks at their phone. Someone speaks to them from out of panel.]] Other: Hey, what's the temperature outside? Person: (thinks) Should I give it in ºF or ºC? [[Above their head, a bulleted list appears.]] DEGREES CELSIUS international standard helps reduce America's weird isolationism nice how "negative" means below freezing physics major loyalty easier to spell we lost a Mars probe over this crap [[Another list appears above their head.]] DEGREES FAHRENHEIT 0ºF to 100ºF good match for temperature range in which most humans live rounds more usefully (70's, 90's) unit-aware computing makes Imperial less annoying SI prefixes less relevant for temperatures Fahrenheit likely more clear in this context valuing unit standardization over being helpful possibly makes me a bad friend [[He's still thinking.]] Person: (thinks)Crap, gotta pick something. Uhh... (says) ...0.173 radians. Other: I'll just go check myself.
Title text:Platonic solids for my real friends and real solids for my platonic friends!