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Just A Light Dessert Rule (pawb.social)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Correct. In America, "Calories" and "Kilo-Calories" are synonymous. In fact, rarely is the formal form of that used over here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I suspected as much. Still hate it.

Don't suppose we could get everyone to switch to using Watt-hours? We could start listing exercise intensity in watts and you could easily calculate how much calories are burned during exercise.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Or we just use joules like civilized folk