Florida ounces
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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!
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
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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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.
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.
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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No; stupid questions!
Oh! They got this all screwed up.
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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.
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.
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!
I'm gonna need that in fractions or multiples of a Rhode Island.
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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.
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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reading this on voyager was a trip
Dawg I was like how tf did a Lemmy post get 48k votes.
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where do you find that setting?
I'm also on Adroid, here's what it looks like for me:
wrote last edited by [email protected]Go to settings > appearance > themes, scroll down and there should be a category saying "System", pick between Android and Apple.
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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
wrote last edited by [email protected]Of the minor but noticable changes:
- Bottom icons and text are bigger for some reason on Apple mode. Maybe more readable?
- Share icon is the "network dots" on Android, but the weird "up-arrow page" icon on Apple. Honestly I've never liked that Apple icon, hated Safari cause that icon doesn't scream "share" to me.
Biggest issue for me? Why the hell does Android mode throw a grey bar at the top unlike the all pitch-black that Apple mode has. It looks clean and smooth on that mode and jarring and ugly on Android mode
Edit: So I figured it out, if you have "pure black dark" mode enabled, it will apply that to the bars on Apple mode, but not Android mode. Top bar also doesn't follow the app color scheme, it's white no matter what, unlike the blue in Apple mode.
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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.
I read it as "lubs"
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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.
Iirc, metric was invented because french merchants and tax collectors couldnt agree on what their units of measure actually were. There were riots.
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Every time I see "NSFW" my brain goes "New South Fucking Wales". Help.
National Science Foundation, Wow
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I read it as "lubs"
I read it as ullbs. leading shwa sound, like "bulbs" without the b.
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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.
Teaspoons and tablespoons do the same thing. A US customary teaspoon (found very often in cooking recipes, a set of measuring spoons is extremely basic kit in an American kitchen) is something like 4.98mL, a tablespoon is 3 teaspoons. So you'll find a lot of products especially medicines and such diluted for dosing at 5 and 15mL, to be extremely close to a tea- or tablespoon. Because if you need to give your child a dose of dimetapp at 3 in the morning and don't have the little measuring cup that those come with, you've got your kitchen measuring spoons.
A fluid ounce is two tablespoons.
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The Florida Oblast should be proud of their high school graduates and education system.
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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.
My android with theme changed
