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(DIR) Post #AiJmiHaKDzRL1QAn9U by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-27T13:40:25Z
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Without looking it up what is closest to 8oz?(Curious how well the relation between oz and metric is generally known.)
(DIR) Post #AiJmuux5gTtYalqWqO by DrSuzanne@ohai.social
2024-05-27T13:42:26Z
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@futurebird no idea.
(DIR) Post #AiJmyFVFjTchCNPigy by chris_hayes@fosstodon.org
2024-05-27T13:42:52Z
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@futurebird I'm guessing C. because the answer is always C.
(DIR) Post #AiJn02l25hCSFSeOCO by jonpainterphoto@lawfedi.blue
2024-05-27T13:42:55Z
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@futurebird Is this Price is Right scoring?
(DIR) Post #AiJn6uoe15D7e1cHyK by virtulis@loud.computer
2024-05-27T13:44:04Z
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@futurebird guessed right mostly because that did seem to be the number i see on those cans that tend to have that number
(DIR) Post #AiJnAcFUzPl9DcwT7g by thecorodon@wandering.shop
2024-05-27T13:44:06Z
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@futurebird Can't answer because there's no option for "geez, iunno".
(DIR) Post #AiJnCsqCGwIfFzBklE by FeralRobots@mastodon.social
2024-05-27T13:44:39Z
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@futurebird I only know this because I happen to have measured a lot of food by weight in the last several years.
(DIR) Post #AiJnOG8K0ohGgM5gOG by NormanDunbar@mastodon.scot
2024-05-27T13:45:46Z
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@futurebird I voted 250 for both US and Imperial fluid ounces. 😉I have no idea if I'm right but it's possible that maybe, I am!
(DIR) Post #AiJnVUe2SOGFiSNL1c by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-27T13:46:48Z
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I thought it was 300mL since I'm a little familiar with teapot sizes and a 300mL pot holds about one small glass of water... and 8oz is a "serving" of a liquid drink. This is not the best answer. 8oz is 237mL so the best answer is 250mL.I think I might be fun to have contests to pour exact amounts of liquid to see who has the best measurement sense. It could be a party game and you have to drink the difference in booze.
(DIR) Post #AiJnawKuvZnd321q9A by aintist@mstdn.social
2024-05-27T13:47:23Z
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@futurebird Helpful that I remembered ml for a 12 oz soda
(DIR) Post #AiJnfgXV5WYRVCB2Zs by Bruce_Toews@mastodon.stickbear.me
2024-05-27T13:47:30Z
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@Pawpower @futurebird I think 8 ounces is more or lessequivalent to 360 ML.
(DIR) Post #AiJnoJkRC9n5QFLQWG by Bruce_Toews@mastodon.stickbear.me
2024-05-27T13:49:20Z
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@Pawpower @futurebird Okay, I wasn't particularly close on that one. But in my defense, I don't need to be.
(DIR) Post #AiJnxKAyyMZtMA3VMe by BillySmith@social.coop
2024-05-27T13:52:40Z
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@futurebird Fluid ounces or weight ounces?USA ounces or UK ounces?
(DIR) Post #AiJnzuja1PK1JnTOVM by hazelnot@sunbeam.city
2024-05-27T13:52:55Z
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@futurebird I literally have no idea, imperial measurements are a complete mystery to me, I just approximately know how much a foot is cause I know 10 ft is about 3 meters and I know my height in feet and inches cause I lived in the UK for a few years haha
(DIR) Post #AiJo5V3kOP2bQXZNya by stveje@mstdn.social
2024-05-27T13:55:03Z
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@futurebird I had the wrong idea yet guessed right. I thought 8oz was close to a small can of soda (330ml), so I would've guessed 350 if I'd gone with my first instinct, but then I started doubting and went with a gut feeling instead.
(DIR) Post #AiJoEijIw6YqQmP8We by 5ciFiGirl@starbase80.wtf
2024-05-27T13:56:41Z
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@futurebird My brain went:A liter is close to a quart -> 8 oz is 1/4 of a quart -> a liter is 1000 mL -> 250 mL is a quarter of a literOtherwise, direct ounces to mL, I have no idea without looking it up! 😜
(DIR) Post #AiJoYcehEK61NpjsfI by pthane@toot.wales
2024-05-27T13:58:52Z
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@futurebird Makes no sense. Ounces are a measure for weight, Litres (or milllitres for volume.
(DIR) Post #AiJoYeycbDDsaD4p04 by pthane@toot.wales
2024-05-27T14:00:49Z
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@futurebird But assuming you are measuring water then 200mL weighs about 200g and 8oz is about 224g, so that.
(DIR) Post #AiJofkP2p6ClRHocdM by jacquiharper@mastodon.world
2024-05-27T13:59:33Z
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@futurebird My high school chemistry teacher wrote on the board —“JALMTAQ”because a liter is“Just A Little More Than A Quart”and this has served me well for the last 45 years
(DIR) Post #AiJoolRALb39Fk6i36 by ersatzmaus@mastodon.social
2024-05-27T14:02:26Z
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@futurebird Isn't the ounce a unit of weight, not a unit of volume? Or is imperial even weirder than I thought?
(DIR) Post #AiJpM8MQ8hcLuAndOy by funkula@goblin.camp
2024-05-27T14:03:56Z
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@futurebird I knew the answer because water bottles are often 16.9 fl oz/500 mL
(DIR) Post #AiJpqMU0CJBEOMl9Oa by TimWardCam@c.im
2024-05-27T14:15:19Z
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@futurebird Wildly different answers depending on whether it's an ounce of mercury or an ounce of hydrogen.
(DIR) Post #AiJpuZefANn0P0kqkS by RogerBW@emacs.ch
2024-05-27T14:15:20Z
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@futurebird only because I learned American beer measures for when I used to travel there.
(DIR) Post #AiJpz78qbZtpQ02QJE by justafrog@mstdn.social
2024-05-27T14:16:32Z
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@futurebird I got lengths and weights down, but I can't deal with florida ounces.All I'm sure about is gallons.Maybe one day I'll remember that those are 128 florida ounces, without looking it up.
(DIR) Post #AiJqFhBCNubFoz2ohE by DrHyde@fosstodon.org
2024-05-27T14:19:09Z
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@futurebird none of the above because ounces are mass and ml are volume (I know what you mean really, and I have no clue off the top of my head, does doing sums in my head count as looking it up?)
(DIR) Post #AiJqHnPCCz2Xi2apYu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-27T14:19:42Z
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@DrHyde Only if you roll your eyes in an upward direction.
(DIR) Post #AiJqhqKlwU6eJzwbNw by davidsinger@sfba.social
2024-05-27T14:23:28Z
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@futurebird Many years of studying soda and beer cans have taught me that 12 fluid ounces is close enough to 350 ml for government work. And I know a liter is just over a quart.
(DIR) Post #AiJrEcQMgBxUjmBlDM by DrHyde@fosstodon.org
2024-05-27T14:29:12Z
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@futurebird the sum i would do is that there are 20 fl oz in a pint, and 1.76 pints (or 35 fl oz) in a litre, so 1 fl oz is a bit under 30 ml, so 8 fl oz is a bit under 240 ml, so the answer is 250.
(DIR) Post #AiJsEA6S4pQkr4DjyC by apples_and_pears@mastodon.world
2024-05-27T14:42:06Z
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@futurebird I depends. You're comparing a dry measure to a liquid measure.
(DIR) Post #AiJt16KWtRRPLK8p8a by carstenfranke@mastodon.social
2024-05-27T14:50:41Z
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@futurebird the fun thing is that there are 3 different fluid ounces....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_ounce
(DIR) Post #AiJt8dxKGuxResstwe by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-27T14:51:17Z
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@carstenfranke We need to just go metric and never look back. This is disgusting.
(DIR) Post #AiJtMY6goadJZXtYDQ by vgarzareyna@mstdn.mx
2024-05-27T14:54:49Z
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@futurebird I responded randomly and apparently got it right
(DIR) Post #AiJtVcGMjSIt4IkDK4 by dave_andersen@hachyderm.io
2024-05-27T14:54:58Z
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@futurebird So, you see, back in the previous millennium, the Americans and the British were so confused by the units that they used that they had to invent devices called computers to help them figure them out, and that's why we have ceiling cat.
(DIR) Post #AiJupnf0AON0A8SKaO by sb@fed.sbcloud.cc
2024-05-27T15:11:25Z
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@futurebird I feel like most Canucks have an advantage here - we've been using both measuring systems since the 60's. While we're officially metric, the majority of people measure certain things in imperial:- Body weight (in lbs instead of kilos)- Body height (in feet/inches)- Drugs (this is weirdly interchangable. We'll sell by the gram up to 28, then it's an ounce)- Cooking (again, just a potpourri of sae/metric)
(DIR) Post #AiJvDoihsV4UOodoaO by carstenfranke@mastodon.social
2024-05-27T15:15:45Z
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@futurebird oh yes, had to deal with that all my work life... Built a factory for plastic film based on a machine from Germany, the machine was all metric (imperial would have added $5 million in cost). We converted the length of spools from meter to yard, then to pounds of plastic. Sold it to Korea, where they converted pounds to Kg, then to meter again. And then wondered why there always were errors in bookkeeping
(DIR) Post #AiJvictjskmii8UaxM by jmccyoung@mstdn.social
2024-05-27T15:21:17Z
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@futurebird We have two 2-cup Pyrex measuring cups with cup fractions marked on one side and milliliters on the other, so the conversion is reinforced frequently.
(DIR) Post #AiK0Zlji9TkFHqOj0i by mina@berlin.social
2024-05-27T16:15:35Z
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@futurebird British (Imperial) fluid ounces or US customary measures?Actually, here the answer remains the same. With pints and gallons the numbers would vary wildly.
(DIR) Post #AiK27xlM2mlQO12FaC by kellogh@hachyderm.io
2024-05-27T16:32:52Z
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@futurebird my rule of thumb is that a liter is about the same as a quart. a nalgene bottle has quart and liter markings at the top, almost the same. so 8oz is ~1/4 of a liter
(DIR) Post #AiK7fLZR31NJYHCLnU by skydog@sfba.social
2024-05-27T17:35:11Z
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@futurebird Next, we will move on to the airspeed velocity of the unladen swallow.A liter and a quart are roughly equal. A quart is equal to 4 cups, so a cup (8 oz) is roughly equal to a quarter of a liter, .25 liter, or 250 ml.
(DIR) Post #AiK7j33poAl9IsBMTQ by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-05-27T17:35:43Z
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@futurebird unhelpfully, the us customary fluid ounce and the british imperial fluid ounce are not quite the same; the imperial is about 1 ml smaller .
(DIR) Post #AiKAXAE1e46xuWyQa0 by TheDutchChief@mstdn.social
2024-05-27T18:06:58Z
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@futurebird In The Netherlands there is no oz, so also no relation 😂
(DIR) Post #AiKB7r1G10fB3jUr1k by furicle@mastodon.social
2024-05-27T18:13:57Z
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@futurebird 250g?
(DIR) Post #AiKC3BR0mezMsmsbaa by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2024-05-27T18:23:47Z
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@futurebird But it's close!
(DIR) Post #AiKCBuBSI8zvzClJx2 by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2024-05-27T18:25:54Z
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@futurebird Isn't it 227? The number I have stored in my head is 454, which is g to the pound. Since a pint's a pound and a mL of water weighs a gram, I assumed 8 fl. oz. (half a pint) would weigh half of 454 g and contain 227 mL.
(DIR) Post #AiKDeb32cIM6zR4V0K by bk1e@mastodon.social
2024-05-27T18:41:48Z
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@futurebird My thought process: 12 oz. cans are labeled 330 mL in Japan, so 8 oz. is 220 mL. What I got wrong: 12 oz. cans are 355 mL, and apparently they are slightly taller than Japanese 330 mL cans.
(DIR) Post #AiQ179sYZojyfWDSVM by stevendbrewer@wandering.shop
2024-05-30T13:49:09Z
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@futurebird I knew because I measure everything in Coke bottles. Back in the day, they used to be pints (16 fluid ounces) and then they switched to 500ml.I'm not kidding about Coke bottles. It turns out that Coke bottles are also a great way to measure inflation.
(DIR) Post #AiQ1hbKK0ICyDna1uS by rob@skol.social
2024-05-30T13:56:36Z
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@futurebird Also guessed 300mL.
(DIR) Post #AiQ2HQDMnPKABOPKvA by FeralRobots@mastodon.social
2024-05-30T14:00:48Z
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@futurebird I thought 8oz would be 232 ml. (28 g per weight ounce should translate to 28 ml per fluid ounce.)
(DIR) Post #AiQ3GezUTNKrfu7Mwq by cali@chaosfem.tw
2024-05-30T14:13:39Z
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@futurebird It was “back of the napkin math” but I got real close! I’m surprised.
(DIR) Post #AiQUxbPKMujJmAu6BU by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2024-05-30T19:24:30Z
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@futurebird It was interesting. I guessed 200ml on the basis of a chain of rough mental estimations, based on the relation between fluid and weight ounces, pounds and kilograms, and kilograms and liters of water. The rounding errors got me. But the correct result is close to the boundary.
(DIR) Post #AiQXOCp25IApFjjy3E by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-30T19:51:44Z
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@Infrapink @mattmcirvin Did geologists do this too??
(DIR) Post #AiQYxNbC6m3OlYbUSe by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2024-05-30T20:09:16Z
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@futurebird @Infrapink I think it's just precious metals/jewelry stuff. I don't know what geologists did before they adopted SI.
(DIR) Post #AiQZV4mmYrZQGR5k36 by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2024-05-30T20:15:23Z
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@futurebird @Infrapink ...this page has a table converting 6 different kinds of pound and 3 kinds of ounce, which gives me a headachehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_weight(one of them is the hilarious "metric pound" which is just half a kilogram--I guess if we call a megagram a "metric ton" that makes sense)
(DIR) Post #AiQdVTVb2fpOl0UyxM by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
2024-05-30T20:56:33Z
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@mattmcirvin @futurebird @Infrapink My personal favorite is the long ton (2,240 pounds) as opposed to either the short ton or the metric ton