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The rest of the world: 36 meters wide
Americans:
6 Oct 2023 at 3:10 | Open on beige.party
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LAUREN
TC 💖

@noondlyt what is that like seven capybaras?

6 Oct 2023 at 3:12 | Open on beige.party
LAUREN

@talia_christine I am pulling up my rodent conversion table

6 Oct 2023 at 3:18 | Open on mastodon.social
LAUREN
🤖 Lazaro the dog
Dressed to Oppress

@talia_christine that's a standard measurement. everyone uses it

6 Oct 2023 at 3:11 | Open on nitecrew.rip
Calamity Caitlin
TC 💖

@squeevening @DMX the most confusing part is this is their measurement for width.😭😂

6 Oct 2023 at 3:16 | Open on beige.party
Dressed to Oppress

@talia_christine @squeevening we measure height in bags of skittles, but you gotta lay flat on the ground to do it

6 Oct 2023 at 3:18 | Open on nitecrew.rip
Philip Setnik

@talia_christine @squeevening @DMX

Out of context, this is unintentionally hilarious.

6 Oct 2023 at 3:19 | Open on mstdn.social
vieuxnez

@talia_christine

Why not just measure it in the standard microtexas?

6 Oct 2023 at 3:16 | Open on mastodon.social
Lot⁴⁹
Martha Howell

@talia_christine
I know we're bad at math, but honestly, figuring out the width of 100 pugs strains my brain more than "a generous 36 yards."

6 Oct 2023 at 3:25 | Open on mas.to
Vicente

@talia_christine So lazy. They should know that the proper scientific measurement in the US is 10.3 Volkswagen Beetles.

6 Oct 2023 at 3:29 | Open on weird.autos
Andrew Glisson

@talia_christine The metric system is too confusing for us!

6 Oct 2023 at 3:39 | Open on mastodon.social
thepoliticalcat
Davie Duck

@aglisson @talia_christine I remember the “stop metric madness” campaign when I was, ahem, a bit younger.

6 Oct 2023 at 4:10 | Open on mastodon.social
Andrew Glisson

@WackyIdeas @talia_christine Seems like a completely different planet, looking back.

6 Oct 2023 at 4:12 | Open on mastodon.social
bkm
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TC 💖

@allenstenhaus this was legitimate science news! 😂😂

6 Oct 2023 at 4:04 | Open on beige.party
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@talia_christine I have no doubt it's legitimate. But I try to think about the motivations behind using such headlines given how commonplace it is. The only thing that makes sense to me is it gets people to click or share because of the ridiculous headline leading to more people viewing the content & the publication bringing in more revenue.

Sure, it's not a clickbait headline in that it's untrue, but it's designed in such a way to significantly draw attention for what I see as garbage reasons.

But, 100 pugs is a bigger attention getter than using a traditional measurement.

Now I want to watch 100 pugs playing in a park.

@talia_christine I have no doubt it's legitimate. But I try to think about the motivations behind using such headlines given how commonplace it is. The only thing that makes sense to me is it gets people to click or share because of the ridiculous headline leading to more people viewing the content & the publication bringing in more revenue.

6 Oct 2023 at 4:10 | Open on toot.site
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@talia_christine I'm going to be thinking about pugs the rest of the night, & I'm not even mad about it.

6 Oct 2023 at 4:10 | Open on toot.site
Pseudo Nym

@talia_christine

Americans will really go to any lengths (or widths or heights) to avoid using the metric system, won't we?

6 Oct 2023 at 4:02 | Open on mastodon.online
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Layla Low

@pseudonym @talia_christine There was a big push to change to metric during the Carter administration and it made some progress. I remember road speed limit signs having both.

Reagan quashed it. I recall when NASA crashed a Mars lander, I think it was, because somebody forgot to make a conversion.

Metric is so easy but Americans cling to the clunky system because how dare anyone inconvenience them with change, even if it would be an improvement.

6 Oct 2023 at 4:13 | Open on mas.to
TC 💖

@nesmb @pseudonym honestly it's way easier to understand plus it's necessary if you ever plan to visit literally any other place.

6 Oct 2023 at 4:15 | Open on beige.party
Samhain Night

@talia_christine @nesmb @pseudonym Yes, but the conversions were a pain in the ass to learn.

6 Oct 2023 at 5:34 | Open on mstdn.social
Hawkmoon
vruz

@talia_christine

In the American system:

100 pugs = about the size of 10,000 Maniacs.

6 Oct 2023 at 4:10 | Open on mastodon.social
🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭

@talia_christine 1 football field = 100 capybaras = 5000 Baluchistan pygmy jerboa

6 Oct 2023 at 4:13 | Open on techhub.social
vruz

@talia_christine

This should give you a fairly good idea of what the asteroids are like. (in the US)
6 Oct 2023 at 4:17 | Open on mastodon.social
BunRab

@talia_christine
I liked the 1000 capybaras one, myself.

6 Oct 2023 at 4:18 | Open on mstdn.social
SallyTAB

@talia_christine I do believe you mean 100 “Freedom Pugs”.

6 Oct 2023 at 4:40 | Open on mas.to
laurent

@talia_christine are you *sure* they meant adult pugs? Could also be baby pugs.

6 Oct 2023 at 4:41 | Open on bsd.network
Doug Baker

@talia_christine What’s that in football fields or Olympic swimming pools? Or Volkswagens?

6 Oct 2023 at 4:50 | Open on mstdn.ca
Deborah Pickett

LB Would you rather fight ...?

6 Oct 2023 at 4:52 | Open on old.mermaid.town
Peter

@futzle I'm assuming the pug will not be travelling at 16km/sec when I attempt to fight it.

6 Oct 2023 at 5:07 | Open on scintilla.social
Peter

@futzle (also, I looked up the source for that headline to find out how fast the asteroid was going when it whizzed by us, and the whole thing is extraordinary m.jpost.com/science/article-72 )

6 Oct 2023 at 5:08 | Open on scintilla.social
Jargoggles

@talia_christine
But how did all those pugs get into space?

6 Oct 2023 at 4:59 | Open on mstdn.social
Ben Todd

@talia_christine

Wait, are the two asteroids 100 pugs big together or 100 pugs each. That headline is confusing.

6 Oct 2023 at 5:02 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
SiderAU 🦜🦮🎶💻⚖️⚫️🟡🔴

@talia_christine nose-to-tail or shoulder-to-shoulder?

6 Oct 2023 at 5:15 | Open on mstdn.social
🤖 Lazaro the dog

@talia_christine

How many quarter pounders does it weigh?

6 Oct 2023 at 5:17 | Open on mastodon.social
Mark Armstrong

@talia_christine are these pigs nose to tail or stacked side by side? I don’t think this new sizing system compares favourably to the standard cubit.

6 Oct 2023 at 5:29 | Open on aus.social
Pell Silversmith
Grum999 :verified:

@talia_christine pugs??
🤔
on an another side, their customary units is too complicated and I can understand them, trying to find more visual reference :ablobcatcoffee:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United

6 Oct 2023 at 6:02 | Open on masto.ai
Stephanie Moore

@talia_christine that’s a choice. Not one that helps me understand the size or scale of a meteor. But it is a choice.

6 Oct 2023 at 6:23 | Open on mastodon.online
Andrew Whise

@talia_christine head to tail or shoulder to shoulder?

6 Oct 2023 at 6:25 | Open on mastodon.social
Jenkins

@talia_christine How many London buses though? That's the UK post-Brexit standard measure for such bodies.

6 Oct 2023 at 6:43 | Open on toot.wales
ConTeXt group

@talia_christine We would support this unit of measurement!

6 Oct 2023 at 6:49 | Open on fosstodon.org
Alan Campbell, Слава Україні!

@talia_christine funnily enough, I commented on a tech article today about these new TSMC fabs in the US. The area involved was measured in football fields. Football fields? Wtf is a football field? It makes as much sense as measuring satellites using elephants.

6 Oct 2023 at 7:59 | Open on techhub.social
Magenta Rocks
Brian Stafford

@talia_christine In the UK the standard unit of volume is a washing machine.

6 Oct 2023 at 8:59 | Open on mastodon.ie
Deniz Opal

@talia_christine

This is from the Jerusalem Post.

They always do this.

It is so that people post the article on social media tagging it "Mericans amiright??"

And it always works!! 🤣

6 Oct 2023 at 9:03 | Open on syzito.xyz
Angus Marshall

@talia_christine How big is that in siamese cats?

6 Oct 2023 at 9:05 | Open on thx.gg
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