A ton of bollocks, more like

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• prex@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A tonne is 1000kg any other measurement sounding like it is mental illness

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  • abominablecosmonaut44@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Isn’t that just a megagram?

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think that’s a Decepticon.

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    • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes

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  • Reddfugee42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We’re talking about a ton, not a tönnnèê

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    • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ñ

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  • aulin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The British spelling also looks a bit mental to be honest. But I’m sure it’s France’s fault.

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  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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)

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      kilogram isn’t a base unit, the gram is

      like, look at the word kilogram

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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Victim blaming!

  Like most things, this is Britain’s fault.

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  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And Reagan, don’t forget Reagan scrapping plans to officially switch to metric!

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    • bricklove@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I bet Reagan made “soccer”, the British slang for association football, popular among Americans in his youth.

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  • Buckshot@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, an imperial ton is 1016kg. America made up this all on their own

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    • Malgas@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You want long tons which are 0.9979 ton.

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  • pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    no, we want metric tons - or tonnes

    a long ton is also not 1000kg; it’s 2240lb… a metric ton is 2204.6lb

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    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• late_night@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good thing they gave the easy method below of multiplying by 907.2

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• sepi@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bro they don't teach that in Meth class

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• humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Metric is just as bad. 2200 lbs. Why couldnt they make it 1000 of someting /s

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• enbyecho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No no. That’s 907 and 46/249ths

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Makes perfect sense once you learn that a hundredweight is 112 pounds.

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• passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anime name?

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  • Heavybell@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, I think

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    • Renacles@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s the end of Battle Tendency

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