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[–] prex@aussie.zone 140 points 1 day ago
[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 90 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

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

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

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)

[–] aulin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

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

[–] abominablecosmonaut44@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Isn't that just a megagram?

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think that’s a Decepticon.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 5 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We're talking about a ton, not a tönnnèê

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Victim blaming!

Like most things, this is Britain's fault.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours 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

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The long (British) and short (American) ton are both 20 hundredweights. The American hundredweight is exactly 100 pounds, while the British hundredweight is 112. You tell me which of those is more reasonable.

That said, both units did, in fact, come from Britain. The old Imperial system often used the same name for different units depending on what was being measured and for what purpose. Both countries passed laws to simplify and consolidate these measurements in the early 19th century, but in many cases chose different versions to standardize on.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't it also because they would use the same units but undercut the American buyers or something? Same why a pint isn't a pint?

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The pints thing actually has the same cause as I was talking about above: The British standardized around the Elizabethan ale gallon, while America used the Queen Anne wine gallon.

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 2 points 21 hours ago

fuckin'. WHAT!?

like i absolutely believe you, but this sounds completely insane

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] bricklove@midwest.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] kchr@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] late_night@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 day ago

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

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You want long tons which are 1.016 ton.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 16 points 1 day 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

[–] kbal@fedia.io 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

1 American short kilobyte = 0.9766 kilobytes

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also known as the drive makers kilobyte.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 1 points 18 hours ago

Currently 844 bytes.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

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

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago

Also for food portion sizes

[–] sepi@piefed.social 24 points 1 day ago

Bro they don't teach that in Meth class

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago

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

[–] enbyecho@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago

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

[–] moonlight@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day 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

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 20 hours ago

That's what they said

That's what she said~

[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

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

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

[–] passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Heavybell@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, I think

[–] Renacles@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's the end of Battle Tendency

[–] Heavybell@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Ah right, you're right