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[–] 111 points 2 months ago (17 children)

To be fair, that marketing language is likely pointed at the main competitor of Monster drinks in US - Red Bull. Which is a European brand and is packaged in smaller cans.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago* (9 children)

    I didn't know they were European, good times

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  • [–] 74 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    It’s a Thai and Austrian company.

    This is the original Red Bull

    An Austrian dude found this drink in Thailand and then negotiated a deal with the family that owns Krating Deng (Red Bull) so he could sell a fizzy version in Europe and later the rest of the world.

    Thanks to that Austrian guy that Thai family is now the richest family in Thailand.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    It's an Austrian company even though 51% of it is still owned by the Yoovidhya family. They co-founded the company in Austria with Mateschitz and hold the current patent. But it's still an Austrian company, not a Thai one. At least I could find nothing that clearly states it's legally Thai in any capacity.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I don't know about the US, but in Canada Red Bull comes in 250ml, 355ml, and 500ml sizes.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    I worked at McDs during the 1/3 Angus burger and... yes. It happened, more times than I'd like. I tried convincing a couple people, then after that who cared. I was getting $8/hr. Fuck it it's a worse deal and you get a smaller burger but you do you genius.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    I used to work in a deli. Our scales gave weights in decimals, people always ordered in fractions. One day someone asked for an eighth of a pound. My coworker asks me "Is that .8?" I politely told her "it's .125, so it needs to say about .13." I guess part of it was panic, maybe if she had thought about it for a second she would have gotten it, but to think it's more than a half pound was crazy. People ask for a half pound all the time.

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  • [+] 17 points 2 months ago* (2 children)
  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    How old were they? That is forth grade math.

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  • [–] 62 points 2 months ago (54 children)

    What’s more ‘Murican than not understanding the metric system?

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (38 children)

    They don't understand imperial either though.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    No it's simple see 16oz is 1.2 flasks which is easy to remember because it's based on King Ralph's favourite cup and Ralph famously died tripping over a cocksnake (unfortunate name but I won't censor history) and what do you trip with? That's right, your feet. And how many feet do you have? Exactly, 2. Hence 1.2 flasks to 1 16oz can.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    That's a ridiculous mischaracterization. The word "Ounce" derives from a word meaning "one twelfth", so just like the inch to the foot, an ounce is either one sixteenth of a queen Anne pound of wine (which is itself based on the Queen Anne gallon of wine, or 231 cubic inches of wine), or one twentieth of an imperial pint, which is an eighth of an imperial gallon, which is ten water pounds.

    Flasks are a unit of mercury weight, obviously.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    This must be from AI since it is so confidently wrong.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Genuine curiosity, other than the Queen Anne pound of wine (a joke I meant to contrast the imperial gallon's definition) and saying "Queen Anne gallon of wine" instead of the "wine gallon" defined by Queen Anne in 1707 (now referred to as the "Queen Anne wine gallon"), which parts are incorrect?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (30 children)

    Tbf does anybody? It's a pretty stupid system.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Tonnes of engineering white papers showing how much imperial measure errors cost US industry.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Don’t you mean kilograms of white papers? :P

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (23 children)

    I mean, one would hope that a nation would know at least one system. If they tell me one more time "it just makes more sense" about stupid fahrenheit it will be too much.

    The freezing and boiling points of MALT does not a good system make!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    THAT’S WHAT IT’S BASED ON?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    One of my pet peeves is people thinking units of the past or people in the past were stupid, as opposed to just prioritizing different things.

    The low end was based on the stabilizing temperature of a solution of water, ice and salt in a proportion lost to time. The benefit was that a water/ice/salt solution will stabilize it's temperature naturally until the ice melts, making it useful for calibrating something like a thermometer: "ice" can be below the freezing point, but you can use the solution to set a steady baseline: the liquid will be 0°F.
    The next steady baseline was body temperature, available to anyone measuring.
    The scale was then set so that the freezing and boiling points of water were 180° apart. This was useful because it put them on opposite sides of a dial.
    It was before we decided that ten was the ultimate number that couldn't be beat, so people still played with circular symmetry, thirds and so one.

    This meant you could calibrate your thermometer by setting 0 to bring, 100 to your body, and then pushing steam through it and adjusting the offset so that the intervals were right and you correct body temperature variance. Some specific numbers have changed over the years as we adjust the scale to be based on metric.

    Not stupid or arbitrary, just prioritizing things we don't care about so much any more.

    Celsius and the other are both based on absolute zero and a very specific change in energy levels in the medium, so it's ultimately moot. Neither is technically based on what they originally were.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_revision_of_the_SI

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    It's a better system for weather, but that's about it. 0 is very cold, and 100 is very hot. No decimals needed.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    ... Please stop. Its not only not true it is also very silly. No its not good for weather, 78 is not a temp for a room.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (12 children)

    I've always explained °Fwith:

    0° = Cold AF

    100° = Hot AF

    50° = Chilly, but manageable

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    For Celsius

    0º - water becomes solid - it's cold

    25º - water is refreshing - ideal temperature

    50º - water is scalding - dangerous

    100º - water is boiling - guaranteed serious injure territory from this point forward

    And, since nobody seems to reach an agreement...

    For Kelvin

    0º - matter has ceased to move; collapse of matter and reality as we understand it - it's cold

    273.15º - water is remains solid - still cold

    298.15º - water is a fluid, drinkable, safe to enter - ideal temperature

    323.15º - water is capable of delivering serious injuries upon contact - dangerous

    373.15º - water is passing into vapour form at high rythm - avoid proximity and all contact from this point forward

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    FYI: Kelvin doesn't use the degree symbol. It's not degrees Kelvin, just Kelvin.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    25º - water is refreshing

    Get the fuck out of here with your miserable warm water, water is refreshing between 3° and 10°C.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    You want to take a swim in water at that temperature? Be my guest. And drinking water that cold? I don't my teeth enamel redone.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    As funny as it is, someone could just as accurately say to you "What's more Lemmy than commenting without understanding?"

    This is a marketing statement against the smaller cans of other energy drinks on American shelves next to it. They are well under 500ml, usually closer to 250ml.

    Nobody should buy this garbage anyway, but that's just my opinion.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Nooo they can't mean the most famous energy drink in the world with its uniquely small can that shares a shelf with it! They MUST mean the European Monster cans that exist on the other side of the planet!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (8 children)

    It's not even about the units - a fraction is unitless. 1/3 of something is more than 1/4 of the same something.

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  • [+] -4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)
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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    That one is an even dumber mischaracterization. If you offer a bigger, but shittier burger than McDonald's, and people don't buy it, you can't just conclude that they didn't understand your burger was bigger.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The entire "AmErICANs dOnT kNoW 1/3>1/4!!" thing rests on AW'S declining sales not reversing from an ad campaign.

    If tomorrow, Arby's starts offering 2 extra slices of meat with their sandwiches, and then you didn't buy them, would it make sense for me to run around saying "Haha Carl@sh.itjustworks doesn't know how addition works! He doesn't know when you add 2 to something you have more of it!"

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (1 child)

    I am not from the United States of Murica. There are 2 different A&W's. A&W Canada also only sells grass fed, and grass finished beef. Which are higher quality than regular beef.

    It is over 1 hour drive to the nearest Arby's. I don't know anything about Arby's. That is like me saying you are missing out on $3 summer deal at Harvey's.

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