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A tonne is 1000kg, any other measurement sounding like it is mental illness
Isn't that just a megagram?
I think that’s a Decepticon.
Your thinking of Megatron, a megagramme is an x-ray photograph of breast tissue, in order to screen for breast cancer.
You're thinking of a mammogram , a maritime is a long-distance running event over a distance of about 42km.
Yes
The British spelling also looks a bit mental to be honest. But I'm sure it's France's fault.
We're talking about a ton, not a tönnnèê
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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)
kilogram isn't a base unit, the gram is
like, look at the word kilogram
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^
Victim blaming!
Like most things, this is Britain's fault.
And Reagan, don't forget Reagan scrapping plans to officially switch to metric!
I bet Reagan made "soccer", the British slang for association football, popular among Americans in his youth.
I think we should call "football" exactly what it is. Unassociated soccer.
No, an imperial ton is 1016kg. America made up this all on their own
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.
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?
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.
fuckin'. WHAT!?
like i absolutely believe you, but this sounds completely insane
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
You want long tons which are 1.016 ton.
no, we want metric tons - or tonnes
a long ton is also not 1000kg; it’s 2240lb… a metric ton is 2204.6lb
Bro they don't teach that in Meth class
Good thing they gave the easy method below of multiplying by 907.2
1 American short kilobyte = 0.9766 kilobytes
Also known as the drive makers kilobyte.
Currently 844 bytes.
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
Metric is just as bad. 2200 lbs. Why couldnt they make it 1000 of someting /s
We only use tons in America when we are weighing ourselves for new swimsuits.
Also for food portion sizes
No no. That's 907 and 46/249ths
Makes perfect sense once you learn that a hundredweight is 112 pounds.
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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
It was likely written by a bored 4channer to annoy other bored 4channers.
That's what they said
That's what they said
That's what she said~
Considering they misspelled “guerrilla,” yeah, they’re joking.
"Wrong house you are burning, I used a VPN"
Anime name?
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, I think
That's the end of Battle Tendency
Ah right, you're right