Falsehood: Weather affects the entire world equally.

Snuggle commented 5 years ago

Weather is different in different places!

1) Not everywhere has a sunrise/sunset:

http://web.archive.org/web/https://twitter.com/AustinJ/status/1144655793612107778

2) `December != Winter` and `August != Summer`

Seasons aren't the same everywhere. Too many times, I've had a friend from the Southern Hemisphere complain about getting a little snowman animation in their weather applet or on the Google homepage during December, when it's the middle of a blazing Summer for them.

3) Temperature doesn't mean the same everywhere:

What might be "Mildly sunny" in one part of the world might be dangerous to those who live in a country without air-con in the slightest, legislated double-glazed/vacuum-insulated windows, brick-walls and with people who are not used to wearing sun-cream or how to prevent heatstroke.

algogrit commented 4 years ago

That tweet has been removed. What did it say?

Snuggle commented 4 years ago

@algogrit If I remember correctly, it was somewhere along the lines of a phone crashing and being bricked if you were so far north enough to not have a sunset time.

Snuggle commented 4 years ago

@algogrit See here: http://web.archive.org/web/20190629004510/https://twitter.com/AustinJ/status/1144655793612107778

kdeldycke commented 4 years ago

Thanks @Snuggle for these contributions! I'll be happy to add them to the list but it is the first time I receive raw content. Other times I always get links pointing to external articles.

Do you have any proposition to properly made these tidbits available other than in a GitHub issue? Maybe I can self-host these falsehoods directly in this repository. What do you think?

redbar0n commented 1 year ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20231014042509/https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood/issues/46

😜

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