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.

yeah, we have fucking idiots who have no idea what a kilogram is.

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...

1. Preheat oven to 1 pickup truck
2. Bake for 1 pickup truck

But the reference objects keep getting bigger!

Centipickuptruck

Are we talking OG Ford ranger or new Ford ranger?

Ditto

is that an old fashioned pickup truck or an electric pickup truck

I think it's Californada?

That half giraffe really killed me.

Why can't we just go back to reporting volumes in bushels, like God intended?

You know what is roughly half the size of an American pickup truck and very common? A sedan. Like a regular sized car.

Oh ok...

Seems like you have two problems:

1. You have no idea how big an American pickup truck is

2. 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.

And which 'Murica pickup truck?

I’m unbothered by that - It’s lemmy, them’s the breaks sometimes 🤷‍♂️

Seems like they’re ‘Murican enough based on this article.

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 Enough^tm^ and fit for purpose.

I live in Boston; I am familiar with the Smoot unit lol

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.

I don't know why that's more frightening

Edit: I realized it's childhood trauma.

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