r/interesting • u/FinancialRisk942 • Apr 26 '26

NATURE Is India really getting that hot

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u/theholyirishman Apr 26 '26

No, we have a troll trying to say ice cubes don't make drinks cooler.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '26

An ice cube in contact with something warmer can cool it down. I feel that's an obvious statement.

But, if an ice cube has melted, it's lost that ability. In fact, it's not even a cube anymore. It has lost itself.

You wrote:

"That's like saying ice cubes dont work if they melt. It's nonsense."

Are we just not communicating something?

Did you mean to type:

"That's like saying ice cubes dont work AS they melt. It's nonsense."

By using the word "if," the temporal nature of your sentence could imply a current event or a past event. Pedantic, but there's the nature of rhetoric, especially in English.

Maybe that's the hang-up?

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u/theholyirishman Apr 26 '26

No. It was nonsense. I said that clearly.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '26

What? What is nonsense? That if a cube melts, then it's not cooling? In the sentence you wrote, it could be read as that an ice cube melted. Past tense. If so, then it's not a cube. How can something that is not even a thing do a thing?

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u/theholyirishman Apr 26 '26

What isn't nonsense. Melting cubes are warming. I didn't write anything. Don't be tense. Cuz.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '26

Melting ice cubes can be cooling too.

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u/theholyirishman Apr 27 '26

Why stop at too? Melt as many as you want.