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  • frog@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Smartest person in Florida.

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    • AreaKode@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They self-actualized upon leaving the state. I’m telling you, that place is contaminated.

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      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        One big SCP containment zone. But it’s leaking too much and fucking up the whole country.

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    • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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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  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    reading this on voyager was a trip

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    • BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Dawg I was like how tf did a Lemmy post get 48k votes.

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    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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      • Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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:

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        Here’s Android comparison:

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        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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    • yamper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      i miss apollo every day

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  • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Americans will go so far that one day they will come back to the metric system

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    • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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      • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Only 3 countries use the shit Imperial/SAE measuremnts. USA, Liberia and Myanmar. WTF!?!?

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      • kayohtie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • iveseenthat@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Still a nonsense measurement. The metric system is vastly superior.

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    • CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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!

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      • Botzo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        As always, we catalog the creativity at !anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de.

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      • Screamium@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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      • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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      • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        only ever been one kilogram

        Nobody tell them

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      • pishadoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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      • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        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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      • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        metric updates reference values sometimes as well

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The Florida Oblast should be proud of their high school graduates and education system.

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Are you saying they aren’t?

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  • hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • BetaBlake@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That could be an ad campaign for NSW, genius

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      National Science Foundation, Wow

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  • Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maybe there are stupid questions. :P

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    • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No; stupid questions!

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      • Kertyna@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Oh! They got this all screwed up.

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  • razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Standard unit of methurement down south.

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ll explain it to you, just give me a New York minute.

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    • papertowels@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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)
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  • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    …my first thought was cocaine, but I guess that’s Florida kilos

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  • hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I read it as “lubs”

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      • Lemmisaur@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I still read it as this gross sounding “^u^llbss” and have to correct myself.

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      • figjam@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Libs

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I read it as ullbs. leading shwa sound, like “bulbs” without the b.

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s how you measure your Kentucky Jelly.

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  • somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What is this front-end?

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    • carl_the_grackle@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • vodka@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It is 1:1 with Voyager

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s not Florida Australia?

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