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.
Two of them is roughly the size of a pickup truck…
Like, it’s volume, they could say X gallons, but it would be hard for people to visualize. So people use an example most readers would be familiar with.
Have you honestly never wondered why journalists use random things? Or has no one taken the time to answer before?
It’s been common literally for centuries before either of us were born, but most likely all of human existence. Just with animals like buffalo instead of pickup trucks.
It’s funny because every single person who uses the metric system can visualise what 1-4m³ looks like, which many of these “random object” measurements often fit into. So much easier as there’s no definition of what size a “pickup truck” is.
You know what is roughly half the size of an American pickup truck and very common? A sedan. Like a regular sized car.
The annoying thing isn’t using a common object to show scale. It’s that they are cutting it in half. Like, you have other whole objects to choose from. It kind of ruins the point.
That’s what frustrates me about the title at least.
God I hate stupid fucking pretentious responses like this. Especially when you can just use something as simple as a Google Image search.
I live in America mate. I know how large an f150 is. Here. Choose a truck and sedan at your leisure. Heres the top selling truck next to the top selling sedan.
You seem to be the one that doesn’t know how big an American pickup is. Though it is always enjoyable when a pretentious reply like yours is so easily proven wrong.
I think the issue is half of a regular truck or a ‘Murica’ truck. I got loaned one of the latter last I had some work done on my regular vehicle, it wouldn’t fit in the garage and I had to actually use the steps/handles to get in. As a 6 foot plus person that’s kinda abnormal.
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.
A Honda Civic today is like half the “size” of an F150
SUVs are technically more “volume” then a lot of trucks though. Since they don’t lose all the volume having a flat bed. But “volume” is kinda silly. Anyway. None of this is meant to be specific because, I mean, it’s literally just about a title to give a person an idea of the scale of an object they know nothing about.
What the fuck is “half a pickup truck” for a measure
And are we talking a reasonable work truck, or one of those American abominations referred to as ‘pickup trucks.’
About 0.000000281 Saarländer
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.
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 recipe serves 2-3 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.
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.
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.
But the reference objects keep getting bigger!
It’s like a cubit, it changes depending on who’s in charge.
Ditto
This is a Canadian publication.
EDIT:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narwhal
Somebody about to realise no one can tell the difference between these two countries…
okay point for canadians being american in that american covers the continents sometimes, not just stupid ol’ statesia
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
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.
Which US state is Ca.?
but it’s 0.5 Pickup Trucke.
is that an old fashioned pickup truck or an electric pickup truck
Americans will use literally anything except the metric system 😔
Must’ve been writing at the same time - I checked to see if anyone had said the same thing first too.
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 🤷♂️
Two of them is roughly the size of a pickup truck…
Like, it’s volume, they could say X gallons, but it would be hard for people to visualize. So people use an example most readers would be familiar with.
Have you honestly never wondered why journalists use random things? Or has no one taken the time to answer before?
It’s been common literally for centuries before either of us were born, but most likely all of human existence. Just with animals like buffalo instead of pickup trucks.
It’s funny because every single person who uses the metric system can visualise what 1-4m³ looks like, which many of these “random object” measurements often fit into. So much easier as there’s no definition of what size a “pickup truck” is.
You know what is roughly half the size of an American pickup truck and very common? A sedan. Like a regular sized car.
The annoying thing isn’t using a common object to show scale. It’s that they are cutting it in half. Like, you have other whole objects to choose from. It kind of ruins the point.
That’s what frustrates me about the title at least.
That half giraffe really killed me.
Oh ok…
Seems like you have two problems:
You have no idea how big an American pickup truck is
Instead of asking questions, you make assumptions and hope someone teaches you
One is a much bigger problem than the other, I wish you best of luck with both tho.
God I hate stupid fucking pretentious responses like this. Especially when you can just use something as simple as a Google Image search.
I live in America mate. I know how large an f150 is. Here. Choose a truck and sedan at your leisure. Heres the top selling truck next to the top selling sedan.
https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/toyota-camry-2024-sedan-vs-ford-f150-2017-4-door-pickup-supercrew-5.5-raptor/
Not quite double the “size” if by that we mean volume. But definitely close. Quick napkin math of about 1.8x the size.
Or you could just pick a smaller car literally everyone knows. Like a Honda Civic and use that to explain the size.
https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/honda-civic-2016-sedan-vs-ford-f150-2017-4-door-pickup-supercrew-5.5-raptor/
You seem to be the one that doesn’t know how big an American pickup is. Though it is always enjoyable when a pretentious reply like yours is so easily proven wrong.
What year f150 are we talking about, and which model? It changes a lot.
Do you know what doesn’t change? 1m³
Mods want to explain why linking carsized.com and telling a commenter they are being pretentious gets a comment removed by mods?
Edit: Maybe it’s my mobile app? When someone blocks you maybe it’s confusing the comment thread? Idk.
I think the issue is half of a regular truck or a ‘Murica’ truck. I got loaned one of the latter last I had some work done on my regular vehicle, it wouldn’t fit in the garage and I had to actually use the steps/handles to get in. As a 6 foot plus person that’s kinda abnormal.
And which 'Murica pickup truck?
The problem is he’s Unfortunately, short, so he has a hard time on visualizing things like the size of pick up, which are quite large
A normal car.
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.
Are we talking like a 2005 Ford ranger or a 2024? F350? Because there is no standard size for a pickup truck.
Carsized.com
Cars have gotten bigger but trucks have too.
A Honda Civic today is like half the “size” of an F150
SUVs are technically more “volume” then a lot of trucks though. Since they don’t lose all the volume having a flat bed. But “volume” is kinda silly. Anyway. None of this is meant to be specific because, I mean, it’s literally just about a title to give a person an idea of the scale of an object they know nothing about.
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?
Half of the standard passenger vehicle around here.
what rural Murica understands.
What does rural canada understand?
Hockey rinks!
Oops
sorry, eh?
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
but how many hamburgers is it?!
Probably 1.25x the size of a washing machine