• SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip
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          2 months ago

          A headline created by an Israeli media outlet, aimed culturally at Britons, and run on various European sites? Much American.

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            2 months ago

            No you see, everyone else in the world exclusively describes the world in accurate SI units, only Americans are dumbfuck enough to measure things in bullets per cheeseburger. Nobody else in the entire world will casually say “it’s the size of a medium dog” because America bad.

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              after immigrating here, I’ve lived in America for 12 years and I still cannot get used to the whole thing with ounces, pints, gallons, and all the other weird af measurement units we use, like for my manufacturing job, instead of using cm, mm, or um, we have to juggle between using decimal numbers or fractions of an inch

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    2 months ago

    Had to check that it’s actually plausible.

    Assuming a corgi is 0.4m long, 0.3m tall and 0.2m wide and that a baby elephant weighs 120kg that gives the meteor a density of 20000kg/m³.

    There are only a few elements denser than that, but it’s possible.