#metric units

[andyteacupcultist]

In reasonable people units, conversion done with calculators and not yet checked so godspeed:

227 g unsalted butter, softened

1 egg 200 g sugar 250 g flour 1 tsp vanilla ½ tsp salt Turbinado/ Raw Sugar for dusting

Preheat the oven to 200°C. Chill a 23x33 cm baking pan in the freezer. Do not grease the pan.

Using a mixer, blend the butter, egg, sugar, and salt together until it is creamy.  Add the flour and vanilla and mix using your hands until the mixture holds together in large clumps. If it seems overly soft, add a little extra flour.

Using your hands, press the dough out onto the chilled and ungreased baking sheet until it is even and a bit more than half a centimeter thick. Dust the top of the cookies evenly with raw sugar.

Bake at 200°C until the edges turn a golden brown, about 12-15 minutes. Remove from the oven. Let cool for about five minutes before cutting the cooked dough into squares. Remove the squares from the warm pan using a spatula.

[chandrabhnashukla87]

Understanding Automotive Weight: Imperial and Metric Units Examined

The Prevalence of Metric Units

In the automotive industry, both imperial and metric units are used to measure car weight. In countries that primarily adhere to the imperial system, such as the United States, car weight is typically expressed in pounds. However, the growing global dominance of the metric system has led to a trend toward the use of kilograms as the standard unit of weight for cars.

[ztlawton]

United States Units for Measuring Volume

There are two confusingly-similar systems of measurement for measuring volume in the United States, both largely based on multiples/divisions of two.

The older and more familiar (to Americans) system is based on historical, customary measurements, and is what most home recipes use.

The newer system is based on the metric system, created by defining the metric teaspoon as 5 milliliters and keeping all other relationships the same, and is used for food/drink regulations and nutrition labels.

These charts use a logarithmic scale, with each horizontal line marking a multiple of 10^0.3 ≈ 1.995 and 1 mL used as the baseline from which all other measurements are positioned.

[vaxxman]

Could I request Medic having The Mom Grip on Scout’s shoulder after the speedy moron almost let a mercenary secret slip while they weee getting groceries?

Three Europeans and two Americans walk into a grocery store in New Mexico.

I hope this is the right meme.

More silliness below.

This comic is the antithesis of the "wtf is a kilometre" joke.

The faces they make when they can't quite identify the type of brown bread in the bread aisle.

You don't know how [insert nationality here] you are until you go overseas and things are different.

Spy obviously has no problems with pretending to know how much a gallon of milk is, he just peeks into his conversion chart notes, pretending it's his shopping list.

I want to think Heavy is completely fine with having to readjust to a new unit system, he just eyeballs most practical things anyways by holding them up and mumbling about how they approximately weigh like a chicken or his kettle bell etc. He's always been living in practical ignorant bliss.

Medic has a peer reviewed meltdown the first time he realises there's no uniformity in "a cup of ____" because every object has different densities. He's diligent about memorising the conversion rates for ounces, pounds, the most common things etc., and recovers ok. He goes through the same stages of grief rage when he finds out about distances and lengths.

Just remember four inches are 10.16 cm and pray no one asks you to specify anything bigger than inches.

Everyone does a mental victory lap when they manage to guess how much Celsius the weather is because they keep forgetting it's Celsius*5/9+32=Fahrenheit, Engineer reminds them patiently.

The true victories are the correct temperature guesses we've made along the way.

One time, a friend asked me if I actually knew how much a tablespoon of flour was in gramms to convince me that metric users also make use of volume based units without thinking about them. But little did she know a heaped spoonful of 405 flour is about 15g and a level tablespoon is 10g.

They claim Oolong just tastes better when it's boiled to 80°C exactly with a Bunsen burner.

You only asked for one scene but somehow I came up with a bunch of other things. This post was drawn across 2 months so the artstyle is all over the place. Thanks for your ask!

[emptyheadgamer]

Consider though that centi and milli prefixes indicate fractions, 1/100th and 1/1000th respectively. From this we can infer that other multilegged pedes would also follow this pattern, giving us theoretical specimens such as the ten legged decipede or a million legged micropede

We can further extrapolate that prefixes for units larger than the simple pede such as a decapede, kilopede, or yes even the gigapede, would imply multiple bodies per singular leg.

The words centipede and millipede imply the existence of the much larger gigapede. Perhaps even a terapede

[victusinveritas]

[fishcat076]

Yeah About a Hug's Worth

Think about it: If a kid is trying to measure their mood or love with their arms, saying "I love you this much" or "more than this much" it's an actual unit of measurement! If someone says "my love for you is unfathomable" they're saying "my love for you is more than which an embrace can convey." Sailors literally talk by saying "yeah this square knot takes about six hugs of rope" The words "fathom" "unfathomable" "fathomless" all relate to hugs! We have been measuring length in hugs for 5 centuries! I think that's beautiful.

[vividblaze]

Did the thing that's been going around. With bonus doodles of what she'd cook for the team back at the Lighthouse. [template link]

[esmeislewd]

One of the most annoying things about being a European into feederism is the unit hell. Thanks to the dominance of Americans in the space pounds and inches have sort of become the main unit for gainers (in the english speaking parts of the scene). However, I literally only ever use pounds when it comes to the weight of a fat person. Literally that's it. I couldn't possibly tell you what a pound of flour looks like, they're just the magic hot lady unit XD

[soath]

me: possessiveness as a theme for the dark barons absolutely makes sense. in contrast to the hyperindividualism and isolation fostered in the un, the fold seems to be about how community itself can become strangling. the crowded street scenes, the busy webs of character connections. we have vesta and her sister smothered by family expectations, the mothers who are always around the corner and always ready to serve (even at the cost of their own life). kurushu on their tail, crisp and stifling. when everything is connected how much of a person can you be? dark sonia, a twisted mirror of the grandmother, preys on the grief and doubts of people who’ve lost family, who question their worth. dusty gives in to her to save the people he’s beholden to. baxford wanion’s first words on the stage are for the sake of his underling; because walden is his. even weepe-as-swinzey’s robber baron capitalism is possessive: what’s yours is mine, what’s mine is also mine. everything is about what you owe to each other, what they owe to you, a knotted network that culminates in paralyzing fear, because when you’re responsible for so many there’s so much more to lose.

also me: you sign one employment contract with dark sonia or baxford wanion and they’re out here saying the most alarming things. “i am what waits for you at the end and what knew you at the beginning” “never again will I lose what’s mine” this is seasonal work! where did you come from!

[blowery]

I don't get why anyone finds US volume units confusing. Perfectly normal system. 61,440 drops to the gallon, as the creator intended.

[clove-pinks]

In the continuing Americans Will Use Anything But The Metric System saga.... uhh, it's because of pirates from 230 years ago! No really!! :(

To be less flippant—I doubt anything would have changed, had that ship reached its intended destination. Embracing the metric system seems to have been a thing with Thomas "Invade Canada" Jefferson alone, without a broad base of support, and the USA is just Perfidious Albion 2.0. I mean, right after the French won our war of independence from Britain for us, we turned around and started the Quasi-War against France? I just don't see us loving the kilogram over more familiar (English) customary units.

[chiprewington]

imagine brute forcing yourself to learn blender just so you can modify toontown models to look more like your vision

[yesokayiknow]

it's so funny how the uk pretends to be fully metric and then whenever america's not looking we're like oh it's only a couple of miles away. can you pick me up a pint of milk and half a pound of bacon. i think he's six foot two? ugh i was so sick i'm pretty sure i lost like a whole stone. can't believe you need to drink like a whole gallon of water every day. how hot is it gonna be tomorrow? oh sorry can you tell me that in fahrenheit i don't know celsius

[unidentifiedfuckingthing]

heres your random frustrating fact of the day

[zeravmeta]

shaking my head so that the audience understands that its wrong that im giving a gacha game props for its gacha system but also holy shit do I wish other gachas had the wishlist system of alchemy stars