• @[email protected]
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    386 days ago

    Because saying “A square 14m x 14m” is too confusing somehow… I hate when they do it for huge surfaces though, like for forest fires as people don’t comprehend big numbers like “100 000 football fields”, but they sure can understand that 100km is a long distance so a 100km x 100km square is fucking huge.

    • @robocall
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      136 days ago

      Did you see that astroid that was hundreds of lions wide?

      • @jaybone
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        125 days ago

        It weighed the same as the amount of jello ppwder required to make five Olympic swimming pools full of jello.

      • Optional
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        146 days ago

        India where you at?

    • manucode
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      176 days ago

      Same in Germany, and, for much larger areas, Saarlands are used as a comparison

        • @[email protected]
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          25 days ago

          Hell yeah. In Anomaly after I’ve been some brain destroying psi fields and having mutants fuck with my mind I like to wind down with some premium quality Exclusion Zone kush.

  • @[email protected]
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    5 days ago

    standard North-American sized

    Can we please standardize handling of dashes in multi-word adverb-adjective phrases?

    Option 1: North American-sized (most common)
    Option 2: North-American sized (as seen in the article)
    Option 3: North-American-sized (makes most sense to me)
    Option 4: North American sized (Edit: added based on @[email protected]’s comment)

    • @Mango
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      15 days ago

      Could you ever?

  • @[email protected]
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    116 days ago

    Makes sense. I’ll never know how big ‘a football field’ is as I’ve never seen one. I assume it’s just under half a hectare (which is 1 hectometer on a side).

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      76 days ago

      Including end zones, an American football field is precisely 360 feet long and 160 feet wide, or approximately 110m x 50m. The area is 1.32 acres.

      It’s precisely defined so I’m okay with it being used as an area of length or area, especially since virtually all Americans have personal experience with football fields, having at the very least been required to run four laps of the quarter-mile track you usually find wrapped around one.

  • Franklin
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    I can’t dunk too hard on a country with federally legal weed.

  • @[email protected]
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    35 days ago

    What a terrible measurement. They have to put in the title and margins the size of the rink just so people can understand it