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[–] 46 points 4 months ago (15 children)

As an american, I am 100% onboard on switching entirely to measuring things in terms of pickup trucks.

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  • [–] 57 points 4 months ago (8 children)
    1. Preheat oven to 1 pickup truck
    2. Bake for 1 pickup truck
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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Since most automobiles are water-cooled, the pickup truck temp is probably about 110 f / 43 c, so you'd want to preheat to 3 1/2 pickup trucks.

    Similarly, since the mean life of trucks is probably 20 years, we'd measure casual time in a subdivisions of 175,320 hours / 10,519,200 minutes. One picotruck would be 1/10th of a minute, so you want to bake for 300 pico-trucks

    We will of course maintain this system once trucks become 50-year lived semi-autonomous drones that never get over 35 c, because the one constant in defining units is that rejiggijng definitions is preferred to technical precison.

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