| ▲ | waldarbeiter 5 hours ago |
| "4,000 tons is almost four million kilograms" |
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| ▲ | mathieuh 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Maybe targeted at Americans and using US customary short tons (which is 907 kg) |
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| ▲ | tosti 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 4,000 tonnes is almost exactly 4 tonne. Could be 4,0004 tonne. | | | |
| ▲ | mindslight 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | As an American, I'm going to need this as a volume, either in terms of Olympic-sized swimming pools or the height of a pile in an [American] football stadium. Maybe I'd accept weight as a quantity of Ford F-150s, but you'd be pushing it. |
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| ▲ | ihaveajob 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I guess you're quoting it because it is EXACTLY four million kilograms? |
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| ▲ | NitpickLawyer 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Probably for our freedom unit loving friends, they have a different ton (because why not). | | |
| ▲ | throwway120385 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Our freedom tons are built for our particularly large trucks. | | |
| ▲ | MisterTea 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Believe it or not the Europeans run heavier trucks than Americans. Ours just get to be longer. |
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| ▲ | localuser13 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I also like to take potshots at Americans, but come on. It's unlikely that a newspaper called "the berliner" in a article about Berlin included this line specifically thinking about citizens of a far-away foreign country who don't use metric units that often. Occam's razor says that it's actually one of our noble and enlightened European journalists who made that sloppy remark without realising it. |
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| ▲ | __MatrixMan__ 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | They only reported one significant figure, could be as little as 3500. kg or as much as 4499.99999... kg |
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| ▲ | nayuki 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| "4k tons" is 4 gigagrams (Gg). |
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| ▲ | Perz1val 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| LLMs couldn't've written that! |
