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image descriptionTwitter post by @DirtyTesLa: Thankful to have Cybertruck to help me with the real work and big loads 🙏 (image of Cybertruck with several bags of soil in the trunk)

Reply by @KralikLj: Hell boy that would fit in a bicycle. Way more carbon free than that wankpanzer. (image of cargo bicycle with several bags of soil strapped to the front)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The most similar bed for regular trucks is about 14 cu ft more than in the CT (about 70cu ft vs about 56 cu ft) but technically yes you could load a Cybertruck like that, although I wouldn't want to see the sloped sides after a loader dumped a couple of yards in it...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Yards? What the hell? You measure volume in yards now?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago

Yes and it's as annoying and stupid as it sounds

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

The cubic yard is common among contractors in the US. You buy concrete in yards

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

A cubic yard is about 30% less than a cubic meter. And a ton is like 10% less than a metric ton.

Water volumes in reservoirs are measured in acre*feet. By comparison a cubic yard is pretty sensible. And for comparison if you know of any big lakes near you, a million acre feet is about 20% smaller than a cubic kilometer.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

You got some special edition yards or something?

A cubic meter is 30% more than a cubic yard, meters are longer than yards.

A tonne (metric) is 1000kg, about 2200 pounds. A ton, often called a short ton, is 2000 pounds. A long ton is 2240 pounds. A long ton is 1.6% more than a metric ton.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Considering the insane mathematical conversions you people have to constantly do, I wonder why the USA isn't full of mathematical geniuses?
Ah right, because scientists use metric.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah I was backwards, but either way if you’re estimating in units of “truck beds”, they’re close enough to be interchangeable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Nah we just add another dimension to cubes in us customary. So it’s 1yd^4