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A metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg). (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol, that sounds very much “as a black man”

You mean the „engineer“? Well, what can I say, he was insisting his professor at uni taught him „a true engineer can work with every system“.

I mean yes, but the difference is one engineer is just happily pushing around decimals, the other one goes pale when you ask what 1/5th of a gallon in cubic inches is…

[–] CIA_chatbot 8 points 1 year ago

Hehe, yea, I was poking fun at the “engineer”. There was a congressman a while ago that got caught posting right wing stuff on twitter from an alt account “as a black man” (dude was white of course”