• nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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          F-350°F for F-150 minutes.

          I think this could be an untapped cookbook market. Make it look like a shop manual and I’m in.

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          This is what it’s like for Europeans to follow American recipes!

          1 cup of any liquid… no problem, that’s 240ml.

          1 cup of raisins… who fucking knows.

        • DomeGuy@lemmy.world
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          Since most automobiles are water-cooled, the pickup truck temp is probably about 110 f / 43 c, so you’d want to preheat to 3 1/2 pickup trucks.

          Similarly, since the mean life of trucks is probably 20 years, we’d measure casual time in a subdivisions of 175,320 hours / 10,519,200 minutes. One picotruck would be 1/10th of a minute, so you want to bake for 300 pico-trucks

          We will of course maintain this system once trucks become 50-year lived semi-autonomous drones that never get over 35 c, because the one constant in defining units is that rejiggijng definitions is preferred to technical precison.

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            Your oven will preheat in about 5 minutes, which means it’s heading at 3pickup trucks per 50 picotrucks, or, once you reduce the units, 60 billion.

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          This pickup truck can accelerate to thirty thousand pickup trucks per hour, and fuel efficiency is one quarter quarter quarter toy pickup truck per pickup truck.

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            Things got confusing when my electric meter started reporting pickup truck pickup truck pickup trucks.

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        Somebody about to realise no one can tell the difference between these two countries…

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        Unfortunately, a lot of Americanisms have infected Canada due to our historically extremely close trade and cultural relationship with them. Measurement ignorance is one example. Some Americanisms actually become arguably worse in Canada, because we are effectively rudderless, pulled in all different directions by both our own laws and customs and American laws and customs at the same time, resulting in an even less well-defined choice of units. Another example is dates. The US uses mm/dd/yy which is already stupid on its own, but Canada uses BOTH mm/dd/yy and dd/mm/yy seemingly without rhyme or reason, which results in complete ambiguity of many dates, or trying to figure out based on context, looking for other dates that might use a day number >12 to identify which one actually is the day vs the month.

        It’s awful. I am happy we are distancing ourselves from the US right now, but I’m not sure it will ever be enough to totally escape their shadow.

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        okay point for canadians being american in that american covers the continents sometimes, not just stupid ol’ statesia