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.
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.
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.
oh, a good pickup truck. not one of those statesian monstrosities. enshrined in gold in brussels and shrinking ever slow slightinly through pickup trucke radiation.
Go to Boston, and you will near the story about how an engineering class from MIT was asked to measure the distance across a bridge without using any established unit of measure. So this picked this guy named Smoot and counted off how many Smoots the bridge were.
For some reason, they tell this story to tourists as proof of ingenuity but it was the most pointless exercise I could imagine in engineering.
The point of the lesson was to teach creative problem-solving. And a by-product of that, all measuring systems are simply arbitrary units made up by some random dude. And that in the end, no one standard is better than another. All that matters is that enough people agree upon a standard that is reproducible to a level of accuracy that is Good Enoughtm and fit for purpose.
I don’t mind the “size of common everyday thing” for a news article. It gives an easy to understand measure of the scale.
It’s the “half” part that is infuriating. Like, you couldn’t just pick another common object of the right size? Like, I’m pretty sure you could just say “a sedan” and be pretty close to the size. Is this just AI writing titles?
Just another method of getting clicks. Writing stupid titles like “half a pickup truck sized” so people click it to understand what the fuck they mean.
What the fuck is “half a pickup truck” for a measure
Americans will use anything other than the metric system.
As an american, I am 100% onboard on switching entirely to measuring things in terms of pickup trucks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Things got confusing when my electric meter started reporting pickup truck pickup truck pickup trucks.
This recipe serves 2-3 pickup trucks
The test results are back, you are HIV pickup truck.
But the reference objects keep getting bigger!
It’s like a cubit, it changes depending on who’s in charge.
Centipickuptruck
Ditto
Are we talking OG Ford ranger or new Ford ranger?
A 2026 Ford Satellite
This is a Canadian publication.
EDIT:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narwhal
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.
Maintains our cognitive health. Can’t just look at a date and know what it is without doing math and logic (method of exclusion)!
and when it’s 2/3 which is it?
Then you get to exercise probability theory. 😆 Worst case scenario gotta talk to people.
talk to people? ugh
Real
Fuck it. Let’s just outlaw time. Let’s just make it illegal to own a clock!
Calendars too. We’ll just live in the eternal now.
ISO-8601 master race
(e.g. 2026-04-24 for the uninitiated)
yeah, we have fucking idiots who have no idea what a kilogram is.
Maybe if we tricked them into saying, like, “as heavy as a three hundred kilogram box of bricks”
but that’s not as much fun as saying as tall as a three hundred kilogram box of bricks.
😭
okay point for canadians being american in that american covers the continents sometimes, not just stupid ol’ statesia
Somebody about to realise no one can tell the difference between these two countries…
but it’s 0.5 Pickup Trucke.
is that an old fashioned pickup truck or an electric pickup truck
Metric pickup trucke
oh, a good pickup truck. not one of those statesian monstrosities. enshrined in gold in brussels and shrinking ever slow slightinly through pickup trucke radiation.
Which US state is Ca.?
I think it’s Californada?
I’m a little upset it took someone took this long to include California, nice
Americans will use literally anything except the metric system 😔
It’s a Canadian website.
Seems like they’re ‘Murican enough based on this article.
You posted a minute earlier, but the other guy got the upvotes. Or maybe the timing is based on instance?
I’m unbothered by that - It’s lemmy, them’s the breaks sometimes 🤷♂️
Must’ve been writing at the same time - I checked to see if anyone had said the same thing first too.
There is a metric. The metric is one truck!
Go to Boston, and you will near the story about how an engineering class from MIT was asked to measure the distance across a bridge without using any established unit of measure. So this picked this guy named Smoot and counted off how many Smoots the bridge were.
For some reason, they tell this story to tourists as proof of ingenuity but it was the most pointless exercise I could imagine in engineering.
I live in Boston; I am familiar with the Smoot unit lol
So, how would you make that measurement?
The point of the lesson was to teach creative problem-solving. And a by-product of that, all measuring systems are simply arbitrary units made up by some random dude. And that in the end, no one standard is better than another. All that matters is that enough people agree upon a standard that is reproducible to a level of accuracy that is Good Enoughtm and fit for purpose.
About 0.000000281 Saarländer
what rural Murica understands.
What does rural canada understand?
Oops
sorry, eh?
Hockey rinks!
Ize da gy tha bilz da boa’ I’ve da gy tha saiz em
M R birds M R Knot M R Sew Cedar IT Bitey Vings? Whale oil beef hooked! M R birds!!!
Half of the standard passenger vehicle around here.
And are we talking a reasonable work truck, or one of those American abominations referred to as ‘pickup trucks.’
It’s about an average elevator in downtown cleveland
but how many hamburgers is it?!
I don’t mind the “size of common everyday thing” for a news article. It gives an easy to understand measure of the scale.
It’s the “half” part that is infuriating. Like, you couldn’t just pick another common object of the right size? Like, I’m pretty sure you could just say “a sedan” and be pretty close to the size. Is this just AI writing titles?
Just another method of getting clicks. Writing stupid titles like “half a pickup truck sized” so people click it to understand what the fuck they mean.
14 fridges
I don’t know why that’s more frightening
Edit: I realized it’s childhood trauma.
https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Supreme_Commander
Billy?
because i pulled it out of my ass?
Probably 1.25x the size of a washing machine
American or European pickup trucks?
This is SpaceX so I assume they meant cybertruck
A normal car.
It’s the perfect fit when something’s too small to compare to whales and too big to compare to bananas.
Front or back half? They are substantially different on volume