• @[email protected]
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    Why make it a card then? If it’s meant to be stored as a document then it should be the size of an envelope, or a standard A4 sheet.

    I keep mine attached to the envelope sized paper it came on. But it shouldn’t be a card shape, that encourages people to carry it. My grandpa always carried his.

    • @[email protected]
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      549 months ago

      Don’t mention A4 paper, it scares the Americans. If any of them could read, they would be very afraid right now.

      • @[email protected]
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        459 months ago

        Using entirely reasonable standards that most of the rest of the world has adopted is too hard for us for some reason.

        • @Gabu
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          159 months ago

          To be fair, simply not having to live in the US already gives that rush.

      • @yuriy
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        189 months ago

        This week on “Things Non-Americans Think Americans Don’t Know About!”

        • @[email protected]
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          39 months ago

          Right?

          Like just because we export all our media to you (because it’s better) and make fun of our stereotypes in that media, doesn’t mean that most of us are like that. Believe it or not we actually have cool stuff that’s uniquely American.

          And the reason you see Kraft singles is because we don’t want to share our BBQ with you.

          • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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            export all our media to you (because it’s better)

            Lmao. Get back to me when you’ve got something like Taskmaster, Would I Lie To You, or QI.

            • @Alexstarfire
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              We can’t do everything for you guys. We’re holding down the imperial system almost single handedly. Help a brother out.

            • @[email protected]
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              America has the Squid Games reality show and Mr Beast. They’re kind of like Taskmaster if the point of Taskmaster was dangling life changing money in front of poor people.

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              You’re proving my point though? Those all look like C rate game shows that show up in the worst time slots here in the states.

              If you said Doctor who, like 15 years ago, then I’d give you a solid maybe.

              • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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                look like

                Yeah that’s an American problem. Preferring a glossy looking garbage over something non-glamorous but substantial.

                FYI I’m neither American nor European.

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                  Tell me what country you’re from, then, so I can look up how to roast it in the book of Places No One Gives a Shit About.

              • @yuriy
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                American here, you’re straight up wrong. We have no equivalent to their panel shows. Comparing them to game shows is like comparing open heart surgery to being stabbed.

      • @NocturnalMorning
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        Hey now, I can read…but, what’s this A4 paper you speak of?

            • @problematicPanther
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              Actually a size. More commonly referred to as “letter” sized. It’s 8x11.5 inches, which is pretty close to A4, but it’ll confuse printers if you mix the 2 up.

              • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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                69 months ago

                but it’ll confuse printers if you mix the 2 up.

                So far all printers I’ve seen can switch between both. The real problem is your Writer/Word document, because after the slight reformatting it’s now all over the place.

              • gordon
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                39 months ago

                It’s actually 8.5x11 not 8x11.5

          • Ebby
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            sips tea and extends pinky

            Am I doing metric right?

            • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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              Actually no, the Brits shit on us for it but by most approaches they’re actually even worse than we are

              The bruvs be usin’ STONE out here and acting like they get to crack wise

          • gordon
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            You mean 8.5x11

        • @[email protected]
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          It’s a size of paper with an aspect ratio of 1:√2, and the short edge that is 21cm long. The long edge will then be 21√2 = 29.7cm. The aspect ratio has the interesting property that it can be halved and doubled while remaining constant.

          This has been your ISO fact of the day.

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              ISO 7304-2:2008 defines a standard for cooking spaghetti. Subsection 3.9 “Completeness” closely resembles “al denté” but isn’t true al denté; as 3.9 states “no white core visible” when a noodle is inspected crosswise with a razor blade. Al denté phase is sensed via the teeth for texture differential of the inner and outer part of a spaghetti. No agreement has been reached by international consortium of Italian food preparers and dentists as to which tooth is to be used. Thus, the standard must be reviewed every 5 years by sensory analysis.

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      Idk. Maybe because there’s only a few pieces of info on it. Someone would say “why do you need to use a whole sheet of paper for just this?”