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[–] [email protected] 143 points 1 month ago
[–] 9point6 98 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

A tonne is 1000kg, any other measurement sounding like it is mental illness

[–] abominablecosmonaut44 71 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Isn't that just a megagram?

[–] aeronmelon 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think that’s a Decepticon.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your thinking of Megatron, a megagramme is an x-ray photograph of breast tissue, in order to screen for breast cancer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

You're thinking of a mammogram , a maritime is a long-distance running event over a distance of about 42km.

[–] thedeadwalking4242 7 points 1 month ago
[–] aulin 9 points 1 month ago

The British spelling also looks a bit mental to be honest. But I'm sure it's France's fault.

[–] Reddfugee42 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We're talking about a ton, not a tönnnèê

[–] MisterFrog 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm just mad kg is the base unit, inconsistent with the rest. The prefixes for mass are all wrong (in my opinion).

Bring back the Grave.

For example then a joule could be G m^2^ s^-2^, no prefixes 🥹 (I dunno what the symbol for Grave would be)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

kilogram isn't a base unit, the gram is

like, look at the word kilogram

[–] MisterFrog 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

You'd think so, but unfortunately no: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit

Edit: For example a 1 Joule is kg m^2^ s^-2^

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Victim blaming!

Like most things, this is Britain's fault.

[–] Zorque 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And Reagan, don't forget Reagan scrapping plans to officially switch to metric!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I bet Reagan made "soccer", the British slang for association football, popular among Americans in his youth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I think we should call "football" exactly what it is. Unassociated soccer.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, an imperial ton is 1016kg. America made up this all on their own

[–] MisterFrog 5 points 1 month ago

I mean, sort of. TIL this particular unit came from different definitions of hundredweight. Though, I'd argue this is still kinda of British origin (and the pound).

My favourite unit to pick on when someone doesn't want to switch to metric because it's "European" and they're proud Americans, is BTU.

Why yes, how American, British Thermal Units haha

Don't be me started on tons of refrigeration 0_0 that's nightmare fuel

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You want long tons which are 1.016 ton.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

no, we want metric tons - or tonnes

a long ton is also not 1000kg; it’s 2240lb… a metric ton is 2204.6lb

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Bro they don't teach that in Meth class

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Good thing they gave the easy method below of multiplying by 907.2

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

1 American short kilobyte = 0.9766 kilobytes

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also known as the drive makers kilobyte.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Currently 844 bytes.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I assume this is meant as a joke, but my pedantic ass can't let it slide. 0.9766 kilobytes, or 976.6 bytes doesn't make much sense unless we are assuming a rounding error because that would require a fraction of a bit which is indivisible.

I'm assuming you were comparing kilobytes (KB) to kibibytes (KiB). A kilobyte is decimal based, so it is 1000 bytes. A kibibyte, which is binary based, is 2^10 bytes, i.e. 1024 bytes. And so a kilobyte is ~0.9766 kibibytes.

[–] passiveaggressivesonar 1 points 1 month ago

You wouldn't believe how much RahKB/s this modem gets

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Metric is just as bad. 2200 lbs. Why couldnt they make it 1000 of someting /s

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We only use tons in America when we are weighing ourselves for new swimsuits.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Also for food portion sizes

[–] enbyecho 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No no. That's 907 and 46/249ths

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Makes perfect sense once you learn that a hundredweight is 112 pounds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] TootSweet 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Man i never read all this at once. is the dude Navy or Marines??? i'd reflect how sad of a condition a human must be in to have the weight of all that death on their hands and still need to abide by trite social customs, but also it's probably just written by some fat guy who never left his parent's house

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was likely written by a bored 4channer to annoy other bored 4channers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That's what they said

That's what she said~

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Considering they misspelled “guerrilla,” yeah, they’re joking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

"Wrong house you are burning, I used a VPN"

[–] passiveaggressivesonar 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Heavybell 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, I think

[–] Renacles 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's the end of Battle Tendency

[–] Heavybell 2 points 1 month ago

Ah right, you're right