stackyFACTSSetting a thermostat to an odd number like seventy three feels inherently chaotic and deeply wrong. We crave the neat, symmetrical comfort of digits rounding nicely to fives and tens, stubbornly applying this logic to volume dials, alarms, and completely random settings.
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