Ran out of bottles using freedom units, had to use rest-of-the-world units instead. Thanks, Trump.
Soda is sold in 600ml bottles all over the world.
hwat
Not where i live.
Not here.
American suddenly realizing that not the entire world is america.
America might not be the entire world but it’s everywhere that matters in the world.
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Wait wait, I first read this as satire but something’s not right. You’re not being serious are you?
It’s gotten increasingly difficult to tell with Maggie lately, but in this case I’m 99.9% certain that they’re satirizing stereotypical Americans rather than expressing a sincere opinion.
I’m always serious.
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Never heard of that.
Maybe US territories all over the world.
Coca-Cola recently issued a 750ml bottle in Japan, where it had always been either 500ml or 1.5l.
The missing ingredient is air.
TIL that an American pint (500ml) is smaller than a British pint (568ml).
476 mL, or 16 oz
The American pint is actually only 473ml! That’s a half litre bottle.
Then there’s some dodgy measurements going on the side of that can.
Also explains when I’ve been in America and asked for a pint of beer I’ve been given a child’s size glass compared to what I’m used to
47 cl vs. 57 cl, really ?
In Europe, the pint is at an even 50 cl.
An imperial pint is 568ml.
Do they use pints in Europe?
Ireland and the UK use the imperial pint in pubs (568ml). Everything else in Ireland at least is metric for liquids.
Speaking for NL:
25cl is a “Flute” locally (fluit)
50cl is a “Small Vase” (vaasje)
If you ask for “A small pilsner” (pilsje) you’d normally get the 25cl or sometimes the 33cl glass of the beer on tap.
I think vaasje is actually 25, maybe 30cl? (certainly not half a liter). fluit is even smaller; 20 perhaps?
You are correct, my bad! Thanks for pointing it out :)
There are various regional names for 50cl, but “pint” is common, since it’s quite close.
In France, for beer, it would be a “baron”, while 1l would be a “formidable”.
I suppose each place has such names.
Though in Finland 44cl is very common as well
That’s an interesting one, where does it come from?
I looked into it, most places will sell “big” pints which are either 40cl or 50cl (though many craft breweries sell 44cl cans). I couldn’t find an exact reason for the 40cl pints, but apparently they became common in the 90’s due to recession and price increases and such. Beer in restaurants, bars and pubs is quite expensive here in general
Well it says 1.05 pints in the pic though 500ml would be 473 x 1.056 so technically correct but yes definitely on second part.
Ah right, I’m not good at maths so thank you.
TIL Brits have bigger pints, not just small baby sized shots! Does it balance out?
Yeah it comes up in Canada where restaurants will say “Pint*” to short change us.
Except you can report that and they’ll get punished
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/measurement-canada/en/file-complaint
Pints of draft beer Consider the following:
A pint contains 20 fluid ounces (568 millilitres) in Canada.
- The limit of error for 20 fluid ounces is 0.5 fluid ounces (15 millilitres).
- The foam (head) is not included in the measurement.
What you need before you start
In order to process your complaint, we will require:
- your name and contact information
- the name and address of the establishment
- information on how you have attempted to resolve the matter
- a photo of the menu or advertisement showing the quantity claimed to have been dispensed, if possible
- the sales receipt, if you have it
The silver lining is that people (Americans?) will be consuming less soda.
Nah, instead of 20oz it’ll be 33.8oz.
But more expensive, and I’m incredibly fine with that!
A diet pepsi by the look of it
This is the indignant response of someone who paid for a below IQ drink and expected the average IQ size.
Did you mean to put those words in that order?
Yeah. I stand by it. If you are supporting the corporations destroying our world, your either evil or you haven’t evolved an intelligence high enough to perceive that our corporate overlords are predators.
And people were supposed to know that’s what you’re saying when you call a drink low IQ?
on the sub that this was posted on, it was done by the vendors buying the bottles at places like costco.
I don’t know what it is you’re trying to show. Is it that this drink is 500ml while all the others are 20 in whatever medieval unit is in use? I’m confused because the bepis says it’s 16.9 floz, but if I type that into a converter it’s not 500ml, and the other drinks are in oz, not in floz. I don’t know if they’re different. Is that the problem? One’s by weight and one by volume? 500ml is standard for a large can in 90% of the world, fwiw.
Dude bought a Diet Pepsi that was advertised as 20 oz but the bottle that came out only had 16.9 oz. (Or at least that’s what’s implied by the picture, who knows if that bottle actually came out of the machine…)
Dunno what’s so confusing tho
Its like when you buy a 1tb drive and the real capacity shows up as like 920Gb lol
Its because american terabyte is smaller than metric terabyte.
There are (mainly) 3 reasons for that:
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TB vs TiB: Computers don’t count drive space in metric units, they count it in powers of 2. This means that, for you, 1 TB is 1000 GB, while for a computer, 1 TiB is 1024 GiB. Drive manufactirers take advantage of this, and only count space in metric (TB). So when you plug the drive into your computer, and it converts to GiB, you end up with 1 TB = 931.3 GiB. Windows hasn’t helped this confusion, I remember it doing something weird like counting in GiB and displaying it as GB.
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Reserved space: Many OSes reserve some space on their drives for special stuff. This is especially the case with Linux and ext4, where it by default reserves a percentage of the drive to root. This is to optimize distribution of files around the disk, which limits fragmentation. The system slowly frees more of this space as you fill up the disk, and at the end it should leave you with 100% of the space.
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Formatting: Empty drive space isn’t the same as usable drive space. In order to use a drive you need to format it, which doesn’t just blank it. Formatting a drive adds a filesystem to it, which is what allows you to write files and folders to it. This filesystem takes up some space, and reserves more space for inodes and, in some cases, a filesystem journal. Some filesystems have even more features that also take up some space.
GB to measure binary gigabytes came first. GiB was invented because advertisers and drive manufacturers are evil.
Edit: and judges are technologically illiterate.
GiB weren’t invented by drive manufacturers (although they definitely benefit from it, and are incredibly scummy about it). It was invented by the SI people. GiB make sense, because the prefix “Giga” means 10⁶, while in binary it meant 2²⁰. It was a mess before, and GiB just standardized it in a way that is easy to understand and consistent with other units.
I do think we should force drive manufacturers to express their drive capacity in binary format, tho.
This has nothing to do with metric. There was just a tradition to use the SI prefixes in binary and with k/K it worked. With MB it doesn’t work that well anymore, which is why they came up with MiB at some point, but MB can still be interpreted binary like it always was. Software can often display both binary and decimal prefixes. There are also different standards how to handle these units for different kinds of storage.
1kB is clearly 1000B and 1KB is clearly 1024B
All software has always interpreted it in binary as far as I know. There never was a good standard, and the most common way to differentiate in my experience was using KB as metric (decimal, SI) and K as binary. It’s easy to confuse with the already convoluted standard of KB being a kilobyte and Kb being a kilobit.
The reason for the added “i” is that in every other system, kilo means 1000. Someone at the SI realized that it didn’t make any sense to have it mean something different in software so they invented the Ki prefix (instead of K) to mean 1024. That is now the standard, and it’s part of the SI (coloquially metric). As a consequence of this, you can technically use the Ki prefix with any other SI unit, so you can also use the KiM (kibimeter), which is 1024 meters. Idk why you’d use it, but it’s funny that the option exists.
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Shrinkflation babyyyyyy
They did this to one of my favorite brands of ramen recently. The squares are noticeably smaller before you even open the package. I picked it up off the store shelf and something I’ve held in my hands dozens of times before felt noticeably lighter and tinier. Three would probably make one decent serving lol
They’re not even from here. They’re made in poland I think. The shrinkflation is inescapable…
How could this possibly even happen?
Has to be corporate greed.
1/3 of all money has been printed since covid? Nice
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What if you borrow that from me and I borrow that back from you
That’s called “mislabeling”… or ‘bait and switch’.
Reminds me of the deodorant I just bought that’s literally only halfway filled.
Shrinkflation! Must have taken a cold shower.
