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[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

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

[–] Corngood@lemmy.ml 57 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)
  1. Preheat oven to 1 pickup truck
  2. Bake for 1 pickup truck
[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 24 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 weeks ago

Your oven will preheat in about 5 minutes, which means it's heading at 3pickup trucks per 50 picotrucks, or, once you reduce the units, 60 billion.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 4 weeks ago

F-350°F for F-150 minutes.

I think this could be an untapped cookbook market. Make it look like a shop manual and I’m in.

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 weeks ago

This is what it's like for Europeans to follow American recipes!

1 cup of any liquid... no problem, that's 240ml.

1 cup of raisins... who fucking knows.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

This pickup truck can accelerate to thirty thousand pickup trucks per hour, and fuel efficiency is one quarter quarter quarter toy pickup truck per pickup truck.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Things got confusing when my electric meter started reporting pickup truck pickup truck pickup trucks.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

This recipe serves 2-3 pickup trucks

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

The test results are back, you are HIV pickup truck.

[–] gnate@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

But the reference objects keep getting bigger!

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 weeks ago

It's like a cubit, it changes depending on who's in charge.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Are we talking OG Ford ranger or new Ford ranger?

[–] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

A 2026 Ford Satellite