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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] 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