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What the fuck is "half a pickup truck" for a measure
American or European pickup trucks?
This is SpaceX so I assume they meant cybertruck
About 0.000000281 Saarländer
And are we talking a reasonable work truck, or one of those American abominations referred to as 'pickup trucks.'
Americans will use anything other than the metric system.
As an american, I am 100% onboard on switching entirely to measuring things in terms of pickup trucks.
But the reference objects keep getting bigger!
It's like a cubit, it changes depending on who's in charge.
Ditto
This is a Canadian publication.
EDIT:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narwhal
Somebody about to realise no one can tell the difference between these two countries...
Unfortunately, a lot of Americanisms have infected Canada due to our historically extremely close trade and cultural relationship with them. Measurement ignorance is one example. Some Americanisms actually become arguably worse in Canada, because we are effectively rudderless, pulled in all different directions by both our own laws and customs and American laws and customs at the same time, resulting in an even less well-defined choice of units. Another example is dates. The US uses mm/dd/yy which is already stupid on its own, but Canada uses BOTH mm/dd/yy and dd/mm/yy seemingly without rhyme or reason, which results in complete ambiguity of many dates, or trying to figure out based on context, looking for other dates that might use a day number >12 to identify which one actually is the day vs the month.
It's awful. I am happy we are distancing ourselves from the US right now, but I'm not sure it will ever be enough to totally escape their shadow.
Maintains our cognitive health. Can't just look at a date and know what it is without doing math and logic (method of exclusion)!
and when it's 2/3 which is it?
Fuck it. Let's just outlaw time. Let's just make it illegal to own a clock!
Calendars too. We'll just live in the eternal now.
Then you get to exercise probability theory. 😆 Worst case scenario gotta talk to people.
talk to people? ugh
Real
okay point for canadians being american in that american covers the continents sometimes, not just stupid ol' statesia
yeah, we have fucking idiots who have no idea what a kilogram is.
Maybe if we tricked them into saying, like, "as heavy as a three hundred kilogram box of bricks"
but that's not as much fun as saying as tall as a three hundred kilogram box of bricks.
😭
Which US state is Ca.?
but it's 0.5 Pickup Trucke.
is that an old fashioned pickup truck or an electric pickup truck
Metric pickup trucke
Americans will use literally anything except the metric system 😔
Go to Boston, and you will near the story about how an engineering class from MIT was asked to measure the distance across a bridge without using any established unit of measure. So this picked this guy named Smoot and counted off how many Smoots the bridge were.
For some reason, they tell this story to tourists as proof of ingenuity but it was the most pointless exercise I could imagine in engineering.
There is a metric. The metric is one truck!
It's a Canadian website.
Must've been writing at the same time - I checked to see if anyone had said the same thing first too.
You posted a minute earlier, but the other guy got the upvotes. Or maybe the timing is based on instance?
I’m unbothered by that - It’s lemmy, them’s the breaks sometimes 🤷♂️
Two of them is roughly the size of a pickup truck...
Like, it's volume, they could say X gallons, but it would be hard for people to visualize. So people use an example most readers would be familiar with.
Have you honestly never wondered why journalists use random things? Or has no one taken the time to answer before?
It's been common literally for centuries before either of us were born, but most likely all of human existence. Just with animals like buffalo instead of pickup trucks.
I think the issue is half of a regular truck or a 'Murica' truck. I got loaned one of the latter last I had some work done on my regular vehicle, it wouldn't fit in the garage and I had to actually use the steps/handles to get in. As a 6 foot plus person that's kinda abnormal.
And which 'Murica pickup truck?
It's funny because every single person who uses the metric system can visualise what 1-4m³ looks like, which many of these "random object" measurements often fit into. So much easier as there's no definition of what size a "pickup truck" is.
The problem is he’s Unfortunately, short, so he has a hard time on visualizing things like the size of pick up, which are quite large
Half of the standard passenger vehicle around here.
what rural Murica understands.
What does rural canada understand?
Oops
sorry, eh?
Hockey rinks!
Probably 1.25x the size of a washing machine
It's the perfect fit when something's too small to compare to whales and too big to compare to bananas.
A normal car.
Front or back half? They are substantially different on volume