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Not to take anything away from the episode's point but 15Β°C in late August honestly sounds really nice for the SF bay area though Trek is, after all, utopian scifi.
Oh hey and Gavin Newsom just put out that awful executive order about clearing camps, it's all coming up Star Trek (in the worst way possible)
The assumption that the US would use Β°C in 2024 was also pretty optimistic :-p
Star Trek writers: I think in thirty years, globalization will finally force our hand into using Celsius.
Also Star Trek writers: There's no fucking way we're adopting YYYY/MM/DD
very realistic that americans would change date systems, but only to an even worse one
i've been watching through Star Trek for the first time recently, without talking to anyone about it prior, and without knowing basically anything about what's coming up. I hit this episode near the start of 2024. I really can't adequately describe the bizarre sense of foreboding i got from seeing a dystopian story, about extreme political unrest kicked off by the police killing a black man, set only months in the future. Let's hope it works out as well for us as it did for them.
and also, it was only a single episode after the one where an empath got extremely horny and accidentally caused everyone on the entire station to start making out with each other.
15 degrees Celsius is actually totally normal for San Francisco proper in August (although it tends to be warmer in most places outside of the city). It is currently 10am on July 27th and it is 14 degrees Celsius.
an overcast day in late July, sure - we call it "No Sky July" for a reason - and even early August (aka "Fogust"), sure. but late August? pretty good chance it's gonna be hot. climate change has meant that the hell period of September drifts earlier and earlier each year. my apartment doesn't have central air conditioning and it has a dramatic impact on my quality of life during that period.
it definitely could be 15C on the 30th this year, and i hope it is! but i've learned to brace for the worst once it gets past the middle of the month, and for the entirety of September.
Yeah I guess my point is that it is absolutely within the range of possible temperatures even though yes you are correct that by late August summer does tend to have finally arrived in San Francisco. Also this can vary wildly by where in the city you are but I doubt the location in the screenshot is at like 42nd and Taraval lol.
To close the loop on this, it is 9am on August 30th in San Francisco and it is currently... 16 degrees Celsius
and it'll be 22C in a few hours, and pushing 30C in a few days. https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.7801&lon=-122.4202
I'm not trying to be an asshole here and would appreciate you not treating me like an idiot? I live in SF and even if I didn't I'm a human in the world and I understand that days get hotter in the afternoon.
I apologize, and definitely wasn't assuming you were an idiot. I'm too used to internet discussion being a "gotcha" exchange and had zero reasonable reason to assume you were doing anything remotely like that here, and didn't check my own tone carefully enough to make the former clear. Won't happen again.
yeah, turns out the idea that California would generously provide a whole ghetto where unhoused people could freely live on the streets was actually part of the utopianism jfc
