reading this on voyager was a trip
Florida ounces
Submitted 3 weeks ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
BigDiction@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dawg I was like how tf did a Lemmy post get 48k votes.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
It’s 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 like different, as does the top bar with the back button.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
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.
yamper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i miss apollo every day
iveseenthat@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Still a nonsense measurement. The metric system is vastly superior.
CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
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!
Botzo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As always, we catalog the creativity at !anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de.
Screamium@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My toilet bowl blew up after I returned from Europe and forgot to convert from tons to ass-loads
sundray@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
I’m gonna need that in fractions or multiples of a Rhode Island.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
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.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
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.
Mac@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
only ever been one kilogram
Nobody tell them
blarghly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Iirc, metric was invented because french merchants and tax collectors couldnt agree on what their units of measure actually were. There were riots.
pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Metric has its advantages but imperial does as well, primarily that the units of measure that humans generally interact with have more whole number factors than in metric, making it very easy to “work with.”
A foot is 12 inches, which has whole number factors of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12. A yard is three feet.
So, it’s really easy to divide things into half, quarters, thirds, etc. Great for construction math, great for a lot of stuff.
I’m not saying that you can’t achieve the same end with metric. I’ve lived in many countries and I’m very familiar with both, and I know 333mm is pretty dang accurate if you want to divide a meter in thirds, but it’s not an exact measurement.
For most use I don’t think it really matters. Metric is a much “cleaner” system but imperial does have its advantages.
They both work. Nobody quibbles about which version of an oz you’re using in daily life. I bet most people don’t even know there’s different versions because it doesn’t make a difference in 99.9% of situations, and in situations where it does people know the differences.
baines@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
metric updates reference values sometimes as well
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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.
hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Every time I see “NSFW” my brain goes “New South Fucking Wales”. Help.
BetaBlake@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That could be an ad campaign for NSW, genius
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
National Science Foundation, Wow
Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Maybe there are stupid questions. :P
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No; stupid questions!
Kertyna@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Oh! They got this all screwed up.
razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Standard unit of methurement down south.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The Florida Oblast should be proud of their high school graduates and education system.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Are you saying they aren’t?
MissJinx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Americans will go so far that one day they will come back to the metric system
tempest@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I mean I’m pretty sure the American system is defined using SI units so it’s mostly because of American exceptionalism and a fetish for unit conversion.
kayohtie@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Ain’t called the “imperial” system for nothing.
Brits gave it to us and then we changed the spellings and decided it made us special I guess.
So, partial credit where partial credit is due. It’s just way the fuck older.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Only 3 countries use the shit Imperial/SAE measuremnts. USA, Liberia and Myanmar. WTF!?!?
TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I’ll explain it to you, just give me a New York minute.
papertowels@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.
- Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches, #4)
hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Damn, I’m old enough to remember this post the first time it happened on Reddit. I laughed about this poor fool all day. Good times.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
You can’t convert them. Fluid ounces are volume. Regular ounces are weight (which isn’t quite the same as mass, though they’re used interchangeably on earth).
1 fl oz = 1 oz when the substance is water (at slightly above freezing). Any other substance would involve a specific mass factor.
MBM@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
…my first thought was cocaine, but I guess that’s Florida kilos
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Also everytime I see “lbs” I will always read it as “L B S” separately by default. I forget how did libera become pound.
blarghly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I read it as “lubs”
figjam@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Libs
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I read it as ullbs. leading shwa sound, like “bulbs” without the b.
Lemmisaur@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I still read it as this gross sounding “^u^llbss” and have to correct myself.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s how you measure your Kentucky Jelly.
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
What is this front-end?
carl_the_grackle@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Looks like Apollo for Reddit (screenshot is likely a few years old)
vodka@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
It is 1:1 with Voyager
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s not Florida Australia?
Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Acthually, all Florida ounces have an extra two grams in them as ordered by Desantis. It is called the “dealer’s ounce” and they throw a little extra in to show you they care.
frog@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Smartest person in Florida.
AreaKode@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They self-actualized upon leaving the state. I’m telling you, that place is contaminated.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
One big SCP containment zone. But it’s leaking too much and fucking up the whole country.
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Tbf, they (1) asked a question to learn something new and (2) where open about the result. That’s highly respectable