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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)
Yards? What the hell? You measure volume in yards now?
Yes and it’s as annoying and stupid as it sounds
The cubic yard is common among contractors in the US. You buy concrete in yards
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.
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.
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.
Nah we just add another dimension to cubes in us customary. So it’s 1yd^4
Yeah I was backwards, but either way if you’re estimating in units of “truck beds”, they’re close enough to be interchangeable.