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Twitter post by @DirtyTesLa: Thankful to have Cybertruck to help me with the real work and big loads 🙏 (image of Cybertruck with several bags of soil in the trunk)

Reply by @KralikLj: Hell boy that would fit in a bicycle. Way more carbon free than that wankpanzer. (image of cargo bicycle with several bags of soil strapped to the front)

  • antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    A cubic yard is about 30% less than a cubic meter. And a ton is like 10% less than a metric ton.

    Water volumes in reservoirs are measured in acre*feet. By comparison a cubic yard is pretty sensible. And for comparison if you know of any big lakes near you, a million acre feet is about 20% smaller than a cubic kilometer.

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      7 months ago

      You got some special edition yards or something?

      A cubic meter is 30% more than a cubic yard, meters are longer than yards.

      A tonne (metric) is 1000kg, about 2200 pounds. A ton, often called a short ton, is 2000 pounds. A long ton is 2240 pounds. A long ton is 1.6% more than a metric ton.

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        7 months ago

        Considering the insane mathematical conversions you people have to constantly do, I wonder why the USA isn’t full of mathematical geniuses?
        Ah right, because scientists use metric.

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        7 months ago

        Yeah I was backwards, but either way if you’re estimating in units of “truck beds”, they’re close enough to be interchangeable.