Yeah but the machine is in ounces, where the can is in Florida ounces. Once you convert it’s perfectly fine.
What the Hell is this Bull shit ?
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Thorry@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
jacksilver@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I thought the same, but they still make the 20 Oz bottles. Looks like the vending machine company is either cheating people or forgot to update the placards - www.target.com/p/…/A-12979694
pewpew@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
It has always been like this in my country. We have multiples of 330ml or 500ml
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Damn, that is why I can’t get my hand into the pringles tube. It is smaller in diameter.
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
TIL that an American pint (500ml) is smaller than a British pint (568ml).
khannie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The American pint is actually only 473ml! That’s a half litre bottle.
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Then there’s some dodgy measurements going on the side of that can.
Also explains when I’ve been in America and asked for a pint of beer I’ve been given a child’s size glass compared to what I’m used to
jambudz@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
476 mL, or 16 oz
Godric@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
TIL Brits have bigger pints, not just small baby sized shots! Does it balance out?
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Yeah it comes up in Canada where restaurants will say “Pint*” to short change us.
ragepaw@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Except you can report that and they’ll get punished
ised-isde.canada.ca/site/…/file-complaint
Pints of draft beer Consider the following:
A pint contains 20 fluid ounces (568 millilitres) in Canada.
- The limit of error for 20 fluid ounces is 0.5 fluid ounces (15 millilitres).
- The foam (head) is not included in the measurement.
What you need before you start
In order to process your complaint, we will require:
- your name and contact information
- the name and address of the establishment
- information on how you have attempted to resolve the matter
- a photo of the menu or advertisement showing the quantity claimed to have been dispensed, if possible
- the sales receipt, if you have it
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY FUCKING CALORIES?!”
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ran out of bottles using freedom units, had to use rest-of-the-world units instead. Thanks, Trump.
marcos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Soda is sold in 600ml bottles all over the world.
Deckname@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Not where i live.
realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
American suddenly realizing that not the entire world is america.
Asetru@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Not here.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Maybe US territories all over the world.
Coca-Cola recently issued a 750ml bottle in Japan, where it had always been either 500ml or 1.5l.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Never heard of that.
ThoGot@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
hwat
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
No, that’s literally one size I’ve never seen.
mlg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Its like when you buy a 1tb drive and the real capacity shows up as like 920Gb lol
black0ut@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
There are (mainly) 3 reasons for that:
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TB vs TiB: Computers don’t count drive space in metric units, they count it in powers of 2. This means that, for you, 1 TB is 1000 GB, while for a computer, 1 TiB is 1024 GiB. Drive manufactirers take advantage of this, and only count space in metric (TB). So when you plug the drive into your computer, and it converts to GiB, you end up with 1 TB = 931.3 GiB. Windows hasn’t helped this confusion, I remember it doing something weird like counting in GiB and displaying it as GB.
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Reserved space: Many OSes reserve some space on their drives for special stuff. This is especially the case with Linux and ext4, where it by default reserves a percentage of the drive to root. This is to optimize distribution of files around the disk, which limits fragmentation. The system slowly frees more of this space as you fill up the disk, and at the end it should leave you with 100% of the space.
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Formatting: Empty drive space isn’t the same as usable drive space. In order to use a drive you need to format it, which doesn’t just blank it. Formatting a drive adds a filesystem to it, which is what allows you to write files and folders to it. This filesystem takes up some space, and reserves more space for inodes and, in some cases, a filesystem journal. Some filesystems have even more features that also take up some space.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
GB to measure binary gigabytes came first. GiB was invented because advertisers and drive manufacturers are evil.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
This has nothing to do with metric. There was just a tradition to use the SI prefixes in binary and with k/K it worked. With MB it doesn’t work that well anymore, which is why they came up with MiB at some point, but MB can still be interpreted binary like it always was. Software can often display both binary and decimal prefixes. There are also different standards how to handle these units for different kinds of storage.
1kB is clearly 1000B and 1KB is clearly 1024B
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gegil@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Its because american terabyte is smaller than metric terabyte.
solidheron@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
oh I get it they didn’t change out the stickers on the button. the vendor still probably as a hole
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hole in the head?
solidheron@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Lol a-hole* too lazy to use a hyphen
BenM2023@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
68ml short of a Pint in my book. Dunno where they got the idea that 500ml is 1.09 pints
Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
A pint in the united states is 16 fluid ounces (473.18 ml)
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
If only there was an unambiguous unit to measure fluids…
BenM2023@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What a small volume… Should have stuck to English measures when you escaped back along 🤣
itisileclerk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, what’s FL OZ? A parrot walked on the keyboard?
Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Its 0.87 of a British pint
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Don’t know if you’re joking or not, but to anyone actually curious “fluid ounce” its the volume of 1 ounce of water (or wine, not all fluid ounces are the same since because not all ounces are the same).
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s a florida ounce. Takes its roots in the cocaine industry in the 1980s.
A florida ounce is approximately equal to about 25g of mass (on earth), or 25mL of volume.
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yeah - it’s “fluid ounces” but due to a much memed question that someone once posted the internet sometimes refers to them as “Florida ounces” purely for the lulz.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I was into my 20s before I realized they’re NOT Florida ounces. But then I grew up and still live with the metric system.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
On the bright side, people (Americans?) will be consuming less soda.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Nah, instead of 20oz it’ll be 33.8oz.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But more expensive, and I’m incredibly fine with that!
Teppa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
The six-packs of bottles sold in grocery stores have been 500mL for years. Probably somebody filled the machine with them. (The label should say, “Not Labelled for Individual Sale” near the barcode, if so.)
Tilgare@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Precisely. Everyone is bitching about shrinkflation, and it’s probably just a vending machine owner cheaping out and buying multipacks at the grocery store instead of 20oz at a much higher wholesale price.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Shrinkflation! Must have taken a cold shower.
KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
That’s called “mislabeling”… or ‘bait and switch’.
Wifi0041@fedinsfw.app 2 weeks ago
Misleading aside, I’m happy that the US is adopting metric.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m happy that the US is adopting metric.
I don’t know if you’re just not from the US, but this dual labeling of groceries has been ongoing for decades. The US began transitioning to metric during the 1970s and has had plenty of dual uses ever since. Rulers have inches and centimeters; there are imperial and metric tools; kids do learn metric in schools; etc.
“Is adopting” said in 2026 in response to soda labels is a steep misunderstanding of metrification in the US.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
We measure sodas bigger than this in Liters.
Not other liquids… just Soda. Milk you buy a gallon of. Soda? 2 Liters. Saying you’re gonna buy a gallon of Soda sounds very strange to an American. There’s also 1 Liter bottles.
It’s the one of the most stupid Americanisms.
drath@lemmy.drath.ru 2 weeks ago
Weird. Chugging cola from gallon jugs sounds like the most American thing one could think of, strange it’s not a thing yet. Also never understood why Americans buy milk in jugs. Isn’t this like the one thing you actually want to be in the smallest container possible? Do people drink that much milk, or are they commonly tossed unfinished when it inevitably spoils?
emerald@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
A diet pepsi by the look of it
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Reminds me of the deodorant I just bought that’s literally only halfway filled.
abacabadabacaba@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
From Wikipedia:
The imperial pint (≈ 568 mL) is used in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and other Commonwealth countries. In the United States, two kinds of pint are used: a liquid pint (≈ 473 mL) and a less common dry pint (≈ 551 mL).
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yes, but 20 ounces doesn’t equal 16 ounces, even for great values of 16.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A dry pint would be hard to enjoy
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
on the sub that this was posted on, it was done by the vendors buying the bottles at places like costco.
Fontasia@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
It’s easier to make a bottle to sell in most countries rather than make a difference bottle for a single market. Especially when that market has lax consumer rights laws.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
They still need different prints etc.
They’ll try to rationalize that part, but they still have to pay attention to regional preferences.
I don’t even know if the sizes are all the same here in EU. In Germany the most common bottle sizes are 250ml (1l/4), 330ml (1l/3), 500ml (1l/2), 750ml (3l/4) and 1l afaik. 200ml (1l/5), 375ml (3ml/8) and 2l also seem to be a thing.
33cl is the standard for beer and 75cl for vine.
My measuring cap for my cola syrup has markings for 250ml, 500ml and 1l. As well as 615ml and 840ml because of Soda Stream bottle sizes.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
33cl is the standard for beer
Same here historically. US beer cans and bottles used to be 12 oz and I still occasionally see them. I even have one in my fridge.
But most new beers are sold in pint cans, which in theory should match a bar draft (but don’t always and there are no regulations to protect consumers)
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
“We’re” gonna be so skinny!
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is the indignant response of someone who paid for a below IQ drink and expected the average IQ size.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Did you mean to put those words in that order?
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah. I stand by it. If you are supporting the corporations destroying our world, your either evil or you haven’t evolved an intelligence high enough to perceive that our corporate overlords are predators.
BranBucket@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I believe this is what the c-suite types are referring to as “innovation”.
darthsundhaft@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
The missing ingredient is air.
moopet@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I don’t know what it is you’re trying to show. Is it that this drink is 500ml while all the others are 20 in whatever medieval unit is in use? I’m confused because the bepis says it’s 16.9 floz, but if I type that into a converter it’s not 500ml, and the other drinks are in oz, not in floz. I don’t know if they’re different. Is that the problem? One’s by weight and one by volume? 500ml is standard for a large can in 90% of the world, fwiw.
b34k@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Dude bought a Diet Pepsi that was advertised as 20 oz but the bottle that came out only had 16.9 oz. (Or at least that’s what’s implied by the picture, who knows if that bottle actually came out of the machine…)
Dunno what’s so confusing tho
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Shrinkflation babyyyyyy
They did this to one of my favorite brands of ramen recently. The squares are noticeably smaller before you even open the package. I picked it up off the store shelf and something I’ve held in my hands dozens of times before felt noticeably lighter and tinier. Three would probably make one decent serving lol
They’re not even from here. They’re made in poland I think. The shrinkflation is inescapable…
night_petal@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Look - we women get stressed sometimes.
Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Did no one notice I bought 20 oz not 16.9 oz bottle I got ripped off
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I saw that immediately, that’s so illegal. You should record it and report it to the appropriate 3-letter agency (no idea which one). Doubt you’ll get the money back, but making the assholes that run that machine deal with the government would be worth it to me.
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
still waiting on any company, agency, government to give a shit about the grocery stores selling eg 200g of meat but only giving 165g. not the prepackaged ceap, actual cuts of meat. numbers are examples but it happens way too much where the actual is always less then the advertised weight.
buy a scale, weight meat. get enraged
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Probably ESA as it’s 500ml in metrics and all.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bro thinks CIA gonna be bustin’ down Pepsis door
The three letter agencies are the spooks the MIB’s the guy’s who disappeared Epstein.
You are looking for something more boring like the Health department.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Naw mate, I just noticed you clicked on that shit when you could have been enjoying a Dr. Pepper. Wtf?
rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
noticed the same with 1.25L bottles replacing 1.5L and 1.7L replacing 2L