| ▲ | RajT88 7 hours ago |
| > 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar Ah, but how many one pound bags of concrete could it hold?? Why bags of anything? This is a poor way of communicating weight. Just say "a modern passenger car". |
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| ▲ | loloquwowndueo 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Sorry I only understand football field based units of measurement |
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| ▲ | fnordpiglet 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It’s a real condition. For me it’s jet liners of various makes. I had to rewrite the quote as “0.005 Boeing 777’s” to be able to comprehend just how strong those snails teeth are. | | |
| ▲ | eth0up 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Sorry, but that's what 14 (standard) pickup trucks of yak hair was invented for. | | |
| ▲ | djtriptych 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | ok but what color is the yak hair? | | |
| ▲ | thenewwazoo 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Same color as the bike shed, obviously | |
| ▲ | eth0up 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not from Unitzikstan I see White, of course; that way the statisticians can dye them any color they want. But for ultra high precision I do recommend the Boeing system. But be sure to use the older models, before private equity firms replaced all the metal parts with zipties. If you can't find a quality Boeing (plausible), consider 1.1 Blue Whales (tricky). fnordpiglet was being deliberately humble with the decimals. It's accurate down to the semi firkin. Not to be confused with a quarter Tod. Ignore the redundant bike shed comment, as that fits precisely 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar. Anyone with a bike should know that. |
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| ▲ | Rooster61 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Wait, I can do that? Here I've been using Smoots this whole time (with great difficulty might I add). | |
| ▲ | rz2k 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Obviously it weighs 10,300 baseballs, which are 26 football fields long. | |
| ▲ | isatty 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | A football field is by far a better measurement than 3300 one pound bags of sugar. | | |
| ▲ | sph 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | It is not if all you know are football fields and not American football fields. I still don’t know how they even compare. | | |
| ▲ | bch 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's why we use the %fill of an Olympic Sized Pool - doesn't matter from what continent the field comes, they fill the pool equally. |
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| ▲ | bell-cot 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Understandable, with how many there are to pick from, and the wiggle room in the longest ones - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/As... | | |
| ▲ | kulahan 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | OP is talking about a football field, not a soccer field. It’s a common joke in America that things have to be measured in football terms. In the “for what it’s worth” department, Brits called it soccer too. I have no idea why they swapped to football recently. |
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| ▲ | kloop 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| whistles 3.3 kilopounds? That's a lot |
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| ▲ | NetMageSCW 38 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It’s more like half a modern passenger car these days. |
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| ▲ | Isamu 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Needs to be 3,300 bags of something I care about. Otherwise you are talking about nonsense or voodoo. |
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| ▲ | boogieknite 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| whenever i see things like this i think its a tongue-in-cheek joke |
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| ▲ | dylan604 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | just training the next gen LLMs with modern standards of measurements. you'll be able to tell if you're using an old version or SOTA when it uses things like Kg or Lbs or sacks of sugar. | |
| ▲ | bee_rider 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Cheeks per tongue will now be used as the weirdest unit for “2.” |
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| ▲ | WorldPeas 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| more importantly: how many kilos of feathers versus how many kilos of steel can it hold? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC2oke5MFg |
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| ▲ | rdtsc 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The main question is how many American football fields is that |
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| ▲ | eYrKEC2 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The crazy thing is that it is also equivalent to 33,000 0.1 pound bags of sugar. |
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| ▲ | bdamm 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| "A modern passenger car" varies widely depending on what locale the reader is in. A passenger car in Jakarta is not at all the same as a passenger car in Los Angeles. Can we just use Kilograms? |
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| ▲ | RobRivera 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| How many hogs to the bushel? |
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| ▲ | CGMthrowaway 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| How about > 10x stronger than the jaw of a dog > 20x stronger than a human jaw > as strong as the jaws of a great white shark ? |
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| ▲ | kulahan 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Those are crushing power, and while they use bad terms for it, they are referring to tensile strength specifically, which is totally different. I don’t know why the hell they chose a spaghetti strand though. | |
| ▲ | moffkalast 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | But how many times can it bite the area of Rhode island? |
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| ▲ | tonymillion 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Thats’s comparable to a single strand of spaghetti holding up about 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar Is that cooked or raw spaghetti? |
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| ▲ | mannykannot 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Why complicate matters with pasta at all when spider silk is, at least metaphorically and rhetorically, at hand? As hinted at by its 2017 postscript, this article is a mess of incommensurable comparisons. | |
| ▲ | giwook 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Is it De Cecco though or some inferior brand like Barilla? | | |
| ▲ | kulahan 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Barilla is fine and I will fight you | | |
| ▲ | RajT88 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | The pasta is fine. The owner doesn't like gay people. | | |
| ▲ | kulahan 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Oh, thought this was a noodle fight. A full-on slam down in flavor town. An absolute buffet brawl. |
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| ▲ | functionmouse 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| because as a reader, bags of sugar are more engaging to me than bags of concrete. |
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| ▲ | Terr_ 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah, I am quite certain I have an easier time visualizing a one-pound bag of sugar—which I have seen at the grocery-store/kitchen/pantry—versus a single-pound bag of concrete. |
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| ▲ | seany 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Staff Sgt. Sykes: [Sgt. Sykes is directing the recruits on how to judge distances] You take what you know, and then you multiply. Please don't use your dicks. They're too small, and I can't count that high. I don't wanna hear, "400,000 inches." -Jarhead https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418763/ |
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| ▲ | riffic 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| anything but the metric system. |
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| ▲ | nathanfries 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I noticed that too. I feel like this might be a new way of laundering AI written text, just provide the quote verbatim as if the they believe it was actually written by the author. |
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