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    #11

    As always, just a great unit of measure.

    • Is called "fluid weight", but is actually a unit of volume. All liquids have the same density right?
    • An "imperial fl.oz." is ~28.41mL
    • A "US customary fl.oz." is ~29.57mL
    • A "US food labeling fl.oz." is 30mL

    Also found out that you have "liquid pints" and "dry pints" as well, for some reason.

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      Every time I see "NSFW" my brain goes "New South Fucking Wales". Help.

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      • ickplant@lemmy.worldI [email protected]
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        What is this front-end?

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          Ridiculous. The metric system is all the same. How many millimommies in a decamommy? I dunno, but it's 10 or 100 or 1000 or something like that. Everything is a factor of ten, and the unit conversions are even a factor of 10! You can look that up in a table, and a 6-year-old can properly measure things. Booooring!

          Now look at the Imperial/English/Standard/US/Florida system: how many hogshead in a cubic furlong? Nobody knows offhand, so you have to get creative. Is it a US standard colonial, also called a tobacco hogshead? Or is it the British hogshead? It may depend on the contents, like whether it's brandy or sugar or fish (the species matters!). You can convert to firkins if you wish, but that's optional. As for furlongs, it used to depend on the horse, but sadly they standardized it to 40 rods, because German feet were longer than English feet, probably due to the toes. Fortunately, some states in the US still disagree on definitions, so the length may depend on the state. Once you figure that out, you can easily calculate that using a English wine hogshead and an international furlong leads to about 34,136,818.7 hogshead in a cubic furlong. Explain to me how that's not better than your silly metric system!

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          As always, we catalog the creativity at [email protected].

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            Maybe there are stupid questions. 😛

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            No; stupid questions!

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              What is this front-end?

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              Looks like Apollo for Reddit (screenshot is likely a few years old)

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                reading this on voyager was a trip

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                  What is this front-end?

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                  It is 1:1 with Voyager (just with reddit)

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                    It's how you measure your Kentucky Jelly.

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                      reading this on voyager was a trip

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                      Is that iOS? It looks different here on Android and I can't tell how much of it is because I customized it. I don't quite remember how I customized it but I remember that I did.

                      My buttons are colored orange instead of blue, that's definitely something I would do. The share button looks different, as does the top bar with the back button.

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                        Ridiculous. The metric system is all the same. How many millimommies in a decamommy? I dunno, but it's 10 or 100 or 1000 or something like that. Everything is a factor of ten, and the unit conversions are even a factor of 10! You can look that up in a table, and a 6-year-old can properly measure things. Booooring!

                        Now look at the Imperial/English/Standard/US/Florida system: how many hogshead in a cubic furlong? Nobody knows offhand, so you have to get creative. Is it a US standard colonial, also called a tobacco hogshead? Or is it the British hogshead? It may depend on the contents, like whether it's brandy or sugar or fish (the species matters!). You can convert to firkins if you wish, but that's optional. As for furlongs, it used to depend on the horse, but sadly they standardized it to 40 rods, because German feet were longer than English feet, probably due to the toes. Fortunately, some states in the US still disagree on definitions, so the length may depend on the state. Once you figure that out, you can easily calculate that using a English wine hogshead and an international furlong leads to about 34,136,818.7 hogshead in a cubic furlong. Explain to me how that's not better than your silly metric system!

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                        My toilet blew up after I returned from Europe and forgot to convert from kilos to ass-loads

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                          Also everytime I see "lbs" I will always read it as "L B S" separately by default. I forget how did libera become pound.

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                            Is that iOS? It looks different here on Android and I can't tell how much of it is because I customized it. I don't quite remember how I customized it but I remember that I did.

                            My buttons are colored orange instead of blue, that's definitely something I would do. The share button looks different, as does the top bar with the back button.

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                            Holy shit you made me realize there's a Apple Android option on Voyager. I'm on an Android phone but I was using the Apple layout:

                            Here's Android comparison:

                            NGL, I think I like the Apple one more...

                            Also voyager voting buttons are Blue/Red no matter what theme you use unless you specifically pick the reddit Blue/Orange theme.

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                            • F [email protected]

                              As always, just a great unit of measure.

                              • Is called "fluid weight", but is actually a unit of volume. All liquids have the same density right?
                              • An "imperial fl.oz." is ~28.41mL
                              • A "US customary fl.oz." is ~29.57mL
                              • A "US food labeling fl.oz." is 30mL

                              Also found out that you have "liquid pints" and "dry pints" as well, for some reason.

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                              This is the true reason metric is better. A lot of people think it's inherently better for various reasons: it's decimal and it's based on the constants of nature. While nice, that doesn't make it a better system.

                              The reason it's a better system is that there has only ever been one metre, there has only ever been one litre, there has only ever been one kilogram. If you use any metric unit there is no ambiguity, there has never been ambiguity and there never will be ambiguity. There's just one system.

                              For the imperial system and all of its branches and predecessors, that's just not the case. The foot has had different measures, the mile has had different measures, the fl oz still has different measures as you noted. You can speak to someone and say some measure, they hear your exact words and interpret it as some different measures.

                              That's the real problem with imperial, and that's why metric was invented.

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                                Smartest person in Florida.

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                                Tbf, they (1) asked a question to learn something new and (2) where open about the result. That's highly respectable

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                                • killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

                                  No; stupid questions!

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                                  Oh! They got this all screwed up.

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                                  • dreaming_novaling@lemmy.zipD [email protected]

                                    Holy shit you made me realize there's a Apple Android option on Voyager. I'm on an Android phone but I was using the Apple layout:

                                    Here's Android comparison:

                                    NGL, I think I like the Apple one more...

                                    Also voyager voting buttons are Blue/Red no matter what theme you use unless you specifically pick the reddit Blue/Orange theme.

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                                    where do you find that setting?

                                    I'm also on Adroid, here's what it looks like for me:

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                                      Every time I see "NSFW" my brain goes "New South Fucking Wales". Help.

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                                      That could be an ad campaign for NSW, genius

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                                        Ridiculous. The metric system is all the same. How many millimommies in a decamommy? I dunno, but it's 10 or 100 or 1000 or something like that. Everything is a factor of ten, and the unit conversions are even a factor of 10! You can look that up in a table, and a 6-year-old can properly measure things. Booooring!

                                        Now look at the Imperial/English/Standard/US/Florida system: how many hogshead in a cubic furlong? Nobody knows offhand, so you have to get creative. Is it a US standard colonial, also called a tobacco hogshead? Or is it the British hogshead? It may depend on the contents, like whether it's brandy or sugar or fish (the species matters!). You can convert to firkins if you wish, but that's optional. As for furlongs, it used to depend on the horse, but sadly they standardized it to 40 rods, because German feet were longer than English feet, probably due to the toes. Fortunately, some states in the US still disagree on definitions, so the length may depend on the state. Once you figure that out, you can easily calculate that using a English wine hogshead and an international furlong leads to about 34,136,818.7 hogshead in a cubic furlong. Explain to me how that's not better than your silly metric system!

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                                        I'm gonna need that in fractions or multiples of a Rhode Island.

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                                        • dreaming_novaling@lemmy.zipD [email protected]

                                          Holy shit you made me realize there's a Apple Android option on Voyager. I'm on an Android phone but I was using the Apple layout:

                                          Here's Android comparison:

                                          NGL, I think I like the Apple one more...

                                          Also voyager voting buttons are Blue/Red no matter what theme you use unless you specifically pick the reddit Blue/Orange theme.

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                                          I literally can't tell the difference, but if you tell me, I will instantly become strongly opinionated which one is best

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