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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:
See also MBtu, which is 1000 BTUs, because apparently Roman numerals are cool. Oh, but don't get confused with MMBtu, which is a million BTUs. Also fun is the freedom unit for BTUs with respect to time, Tons, which is the amount of BTUs required to freeze a ton (weight ton) of water into ice over a day.
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Jaded Burnout posted:At least we all agree on what a billion is these days. try less than 13 hours of the US military budget ($698.5B for 2019)* *discretionary budget only, does not include supplemental and nondiscretionary spending Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Dec 27, 2019 |
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Dec 27, 2019 22:13
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Jaded Burnout posted:At least we all agree on what a billion is these days. Roughly 1/100th of the Mormon Church's (known) holdings?
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Jaded Burnout posted:At least we all agree on what a billion is these days. More like 1/10th of a week smdh
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Dec 27, 2019 22:21
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Its easy, execute the religious, the military and the politicians. 
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Dec 27, 2019 22:22
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I worked deli for 3 years. I would have given you 9-10 oz and if anyone bitched about less than an ounce, I just ate the slice or two I took out later.
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stealie72 posted:Don't make me go off on a tangent about how the metric system makes tons of sense for educated people, but imperial measurement made more sense for an uneducated population to get close enough. That's just not true. We're dumb as gently caress in Australia and we use metric just fine.
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Leperflesh posted:try less than 13 hours of the US military budget ($698.5B for 2019)* I apologise for underestimating your garbage country. If it helps the UK government spends 0.1% of GDP on web hosting.
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rndmnmbr posted:I don't... i don't understand... fractions of a pound? Am I the only one who orders two pounds of deli meat and a pound of sliced cheese and then proceed to eat them rolled up, no bread, just dipped straight in the mustard jar, 2 AM, in my underwear, in front of the open fridge door, like an animal? While I do generally buy the grab & go pre-packed cold cuts and make sandwiches or wraps for my work lunches, I'm only slightly ashamed to admit I also frequently buy the pre-packaged "slices of prosciutto and mozzarella wrapped together" pack and devour it in my car like some kind of monster on the way home from Kroger.
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B-Nasty posted:See also MBtu, which is 1000 BTUs, because apparently Roman numerals are cool. Oh, but don't get confused with MMBtu, which is a million BTUs. There’s also the use of BTU as a unit of power, with an unstated denominator of one hour.
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Wasabi the J posted:I worked deli for 3 years. I would have given you 9-10 oz and if anyone bitched about less than an ounce, I just ate the slice or two I took out later. This entire conversation is why I just ask for "about 3cm of thinly sliced" and avoid weights altogether.
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Dec 28, 2019 02:47
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Megillah Gorilla posted:This entire conversation is why I just ask for "about 3cm of thinly sliced" and avoid weights altogether. Gimme two fingers of roast beef.
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Dec 28, 2019 02:56
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Good evening sir I would like 11/32nds of a stone of roast ham please!
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Dec 28, 2019 02:57
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Riddle me this, Butcherman!
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Dec 28, 2019 03:05
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Slice me off a hand of ham, sir.
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Jaded Burnout posted:I thought a mil was a thou D: It's also 1/1000 radians of arc!
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Slice me off a hand of ham, sir. And yet Americans would think nothing of asking for a foot 
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Megillah Gorilla posted:This entire conversation is why I just ask for "about 3cm of thinly sliced" and avoid weights altogether. thinly sliced what
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Jaded Burnout posted:I thought a mil was a thou D: LOL years ago I had to learn to interpret the ramblings of my aging and post deaf machinist father in law. "This dial ain't perfect but it gets you within a couple thou and that's good enough for me. If I got 3 phase running I could finish the rest with my surface grinder." B-Nasty posted:See also MBtu, which is 1000 BTUs, because apparently Roman numerals are cool. Oh, but don't get confused with MMBtu, which is a million BTUs. Banking also uses M and MM. Mil meaning thousand and mil mil meaning a thousand thousands.
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stealie72 posted:Don't make me go off on a tangent about how the metric system makes tons of sense for educated people, but imperial measurement made more sense for an uneducated population to get close enough. I'd actually be interested in that tangent.
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Dec 28, 2019 05:52
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Pounds and ounces makes it easy to ask for 5/16ths of a pound. I've never had to, but it's nice to know that's out there
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Dec 28, 2019 07:06
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canyoneer posted:Pounds and ounces makes it easy to ask for 5/16ths of a pound. That would confuse someone. But so would probably asking for 5 ounces.....
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Lord Zedd-Repulsa posted:I'd actually be interested in that tangent. It’s easier to precisely divide things into halves by eye or with simple equipment, like by measuring length with a string and folding it over on itself, or halving mass by putting it on either side of a balance beam scale, or cutting a pizza (representing angular measure) repeatedly into halves. Imperial units sometimes let you do this indefinitely, and other times it divides units into threes and sevens because gently caress you.
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Lord Zedd-Repulsa posted:I'd actually be interested in that tangent. Imperial measurements are based on things that are easy to halve and quarter (16 ounces, 12 inches), which is easier for a less-educated population to deal with, since fractions are (initially) easier to understand, as they are literally unsolved math problems, unlike decimal math. Imperial also has naturally stepped sizes/divisions of things, like 1/2, 1/8, 1/16th, etc. This is bad for precision (as exemplified by this discussion starting over 2/5ths of deli meat), but great for simplicity when you're dealing with a 19th century population that didnt get a ton of school time. Of course, it doesn't help that it took a long time to standardize things like a cup and a foot, and dumb poo poo like a tablespoon still exists instead of just calling it a half ounce. Metric is clearly better and I wish the US would figure it the gently caress out, but imperial is not without its reasons.
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Dec 28, 2019 07:28
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Of course the supposed benefits of these traditional units are eroded by a whole bunch of legacy bullshit
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That illustration hides some things under the rig. There can’t be both two yards to the fathom and a thousand fathoms to the nautical mile. That would imply that there are six thousand feet in a nautical mile. The illustration itself confirms that there are not. A fathom fits either of those definitions, depending on who’s talking. Likewise, a league isn’t unambiguously three nautical miles. It’s three (shorter) statute miles on land. Even survey miles and statue miles differ, though only minutely. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 11:28 on Dec 28, 2019 |
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Dec 28, 2019 11:25
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Also, in Scandinavia a mile was 36,000 feet (and is now 10 km)
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Dec 28, 2019 11:34
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Platystemon posted:It’s easier to precisely divide things into halves by eye or with simple equipment, like by measuring length with a string and folding it over on itself, or halving mass by putting it on either side of a balance beam scale, or cutting a pizza (representing angular measure) repeatedly into halves. This is also why cloud cover is still measured in oktas, or eighths, because you can look up and mentally divide the sky in two a few times, vs trying to divide it into 10.
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Tunicate posted:thinly sliced what Of whatever luncheonmeat I feel like cramming down my gullet at the time.
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Dec 28, 2019 12:56
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The only useful American unit is ESK.
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Dec 28, 2019 13:01
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A twip of seranno ham my good meatsmith,
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This really is an amazing derail. voted 4/10.
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Tunicate posted:thinly sliced what Does it really matter?
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GotLag posted:Of course the supposed benefits of these traditional units are eroded by a whole bunch of legacy bullshit This is pretty amazing, I think I'll get it tattooed on my body for quick reference.
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GotLag posted:Of course the supposed benefits of these traditional units are eroded by a whole bunch of legacy bullshit This chart shattered my psyche and now I am but a shade of my former self
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7x-RGfd0Yk
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schmug posted:This really is an amazing derail. voted 4/10. I'd give it no more than 13/32.
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cakesmith handyman posted:I'd give it no more than 13/32. Is that in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit?
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wesleywillis posted:Is that in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit? First one, then the other.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiwWaIvIeao ElectroBOOM: 'Let me do something so dangerous that you know it is deliberate because no-one could be that negligent' Contractor: 'Hello!' Shut up Meg fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Dec 28, 2019 |
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