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Cake day: August 20th, 2023

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  • This is Asheville in north Carolina according to the screenshot which has recently been hit by hurricane Helene. There is no way that I know of to ‘plan a city’ in a way that prevents a hurricane from devastating the area and killing dozens. If such a measure existed, then why wouldn’t it have already been implemented on the south-eastern US coast where hurricanes and tropical storms are most frequent?

















  • Kirby@discuss.tchncs.detoMemes@lemmy.mlThis post
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    1 year ago

    to a european like me 90 ‘%’ or 20 ‘%’ human comfort would be very confusing - you could probably guess that one is hot and the other’s not but I’d have no point of reference until I convert it to Celcius. I think the numbers that someone grows up with will always make more sense no matter what