Enk1

@Enk1@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨everything actually important is already metric⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, man, you got us!

  Wait. I’m being told that the US is the largest exporter of agricultural goods in the world, exporting 20% of its agricultural production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨everything actually important is already metric⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you say kilometers per litre or miles per gallon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨everything actually important is already metric⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention that every single food product has metric measurements on the label as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨everything actually important is already metric⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe Canada and the UK do similarly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨everything actually important is already metric⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same for 5.56 and .223.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tethered plastic caps⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy solution: only buy drinks in aluminum cans or glass bottles. World is already drowning in microplastic pollution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need another rebellion⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The spelling of whisky/whiskey is not tied to the speaker’s dialect, it’s actually tied to the whisk(e)y’s origin.

  Scotch, Canadian, and Japanese whiskies are spelled “whisky.”

  American and Irish whiskeys are spelled “whiskey.”

  So “bourbon whisky” would be incorrect in any English dialect, as would “Canadian whiskey.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4202 g⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heritage breeds are the way to go if you can find them. Taste better and typically more humanely raised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This would be a nice temperature for Easter, not for Christmas Eve.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet you’re fun at parties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another example of shrink flation... oh, my beer...⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where is this at? I’ve never seen 440ml or 440ml cans in North America. Canned drinks/beers usually come in 355ml (12 US ounces), 473ml (16oz), 500ml (16.9 oz), or 19.2 US ounces (20 British ounces aka British pint). Other less common sizes are 8oz (236ml / Red Bull) and big beer formats like 24oz and 32oz (just shy of a litre).

  404ml is around 13.66 US ounces or 14.2 imperial ounces. 440ml is around 14.7 US ounces or 15.5 imperial ounces.

  Usually when you get a measurement that’s not a nice round number like 500 or 750 it means it was probably converted from some other measurement standard. But both measurements seem completely arbitrary for what I assume is an English speaking country.

  I looked through some antique measurements but didn’t find anything useful. It seems to be more than half a chungah, but far less than a butt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨keep going lads!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More broadly, we developed more slow twitch muscles that granted us greater fine motor skills, and subsequently the ability to create and use tools. Other apes retained their fast twitch muscles, so their ability to use tools is limited, but pound-for-pound they’re FAR stronger than humans.