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Yowza really makes it
2lbs seems… like a lot for those small things.
Clearly some science is in order.
It’s hyperbole in an attempt to weaponize methheads. But yeah, go grab a few and test it, maybe we weaponize meme skeptics too.
“Flock cameras contain over 300USD of precious metals, prove me wrong”
I love it.
We’re gonna need a large sample size, so better test at least a dozen cameras, just to be sure.
Maybe its all a heatsink or something
Why would you use grams for gold (as you should) but then switch to pounds for copper. Are you a lunatic?
Are you a lunatic?
Yes I am American.
907.184 grams of copper, happy now? Lol not quite a kilo going from metric to imperial sounds about on par for USA and I think england does that too
The US usually consistently uses imperial, which sucks but it’s consistent. England switches between the two constantly. They’re crazy people, and they use measures like “stone” for weight sometimes too. Metric is obviously the better system, but consistency is better than randomly deciding which to use when.
Our smallest unit of weight is the ounce, which is 28g, and as much as Americans hate metric, we hate fractions more.
Unless it’s drugs.
All my favorite drugs come in fractions. Specifically 1/8ths and 1/4ths.
Under an eighth you switch to grams. But in my experience the professionalization of cannabis seems to be metricating it.
The US is slowly, item by item, learning metric. We know how much a liter is from soda. We’re learning how much a gram is from drugs, and before too long something will teach us what a meter is.
In the ultimate American way of learning metric, from a young age I could estimate 9 milimeters from holding ammunition, and estimate 10-50 meters from learning to shoot. God Bless the USA 🫡
Your pop is in metric?? That’s cool, I had no idea.
Specifically we have 2L jugs of it and individual bottles are marketed as 16.9oz (they’re 500mL). Cans are still in US customary at 12 oz (355mL). But yeah, basically every American knows how much 2L is.
In fact, I strongly suspect you could market most liquids in metric volume here (not fuel) as long as people can see them. We’re so used to 500mL and 2L. Hell just changing the standard can and the tall boy (16oz) to metric (make them 375mL and 500mL) would go a long way.
That all said, full metrication will screw with recipes, but it’ll internationalize them.
A meter is about the length of a yardstick.
Yeah, but that’s a really bad comparison. It’s useful for rough estimates when needed, but it’s not something we interact with often enough for it to be practical. It’s when everyday products are being sold in metric length that it will start to click. Stuff like 20cm diameter pizzas, wooden boards by the meter, a 1.8m TV, and square meterage of an apartment.
3.5, 7, easy
11/16 of an inch
Some Canadian stoners in the mid 2000s still hadn’t managed to work out fractions smaller than 1/4, apparently. “I’m picking up a half quarter,” they’d say, to announce their procurement of an eighth ounce of cannabis.
True, metric is far superior. Really weird how inconsistent they are
Consistently. Like the 500mL bottle of water I’m currently drinking in coastal Alabama?
Like the 2 and 3L sodas sold in stores all across the USA as far back as I can remember? I’m about a month and a half away from 50 years old btw.
Or maybe like how all our drugs medicines, over the counter, and yes, even the illegal ones, are all in milligrams or grams?
Or our military using kilometers to measure distance across land, although calling it a klick because it’s faster to say than kilometer?
Or how most of our weapons are measured in millimeters?
That sort of consistency?
Some of those are because international standards (the military and ammo, although the US military uses yards more than kilometers, but they do use both, probably because of international influence). Some are because science is run on metric (pharmacists).
Litres though, yeah, idk. I’m assuming it’s because it’s easier to make a bottle in Litres and sell it around the world? Litres predate metric too, so it could be because of that? I never see poured liquids measured in Litres though, only bottles. Usually it’s pints or fluid ounces.
I do have to congratulate illegal drugs for teaching metric to Americans probably better than our schools though. It’s an interesting dynamic.
The war on drugs is over, the drugs won
Could also be a hold over from WW1 or WW2 that caused the weird drunk litres thing, would not put it past some dude in logistics getting bitched at by the French and that situation spiraling into litre measurements being standardized for drinks.
The fact that you call kilometers “klicks” does my head in since the rest of the English speaking world shortens it to “kays”
Canada here, we use klicks all the time.
Also the gold likely needs some pretty expensive chemicals to extract.
It’s funny that Europeans complain about Americans being dumb but also can’t comprehend converting units of measurement.
We could, but why should we? I can easily switch between grams, kilograms and tonnes. Hell I can tell you that 1 litre of water weighs 1 kilogram. I am not going to deal with gallons per square inch of pounds
square inch of pounds
Pound force or Pound mass?
Pounding your mom’s mass with incredible force/s
And Americans know a pint’s a pound.
Sterling? Not since the 90s
Well you know, the full saying is “a pint’s a pound the world around, except the UK where it’s several quid, and really mostly in the US, Liberia, and Myanmar”
Depends on the flesh you’re rending - the original conversion was from whales but the popularised version is with bacon rended over camp fires; it’s been this way since 2006AD so it’s a pretty well established system. Semper fi, Imperialism.
the original conversion was from whales but the popularised version is with bacon rended
Reply to wrong post? Pint is 1/8th of gallon and gallon came from old Norman French with latin roots.
Nah, just making fun of imperial.
Car widths being the result of roads built by the Romans is historically charming, but that kind of thing is not the basis for a measurement system you should expect people to take seriously. It’s just a series of band-aids on band-aids.
Europeans
This is the the real way I know you’re American lol.
It’s the WHOLE WORLD other than you (and perhaps special mention to the UK and Canada being weirdos using multiple systems)
Weird how colonialism affects things, right? Our industrial revolution happened while we still used British units, so I suppose you can thank them.
The metric system reached us too late. Nobody wants to spend the money to convert entire industries. It’s easier and cheaper to just do the conversion.
Nobody wants to spend the money to convert entire industries
There are multiple industries who prove this isn’t a blanket rule.
There’s a reason you buy soft drinks in 2 L bottles and not by quarts or whatever unit you use for that kind of size. Because of alcohol sizes, people also intuitively know 500 mL (which I believe has pretty much replaced 16 flozus bottles) as well as 700 mL bottles for wine, etc.
There are a bunch of other examples where metric is seeping in.
I feel very sorry for US based engineers though, since many industries don’t really have the same push to convert, RIP.
I also LOVE seeing that many American social media creators have started using “grams of protein” (they still say per “serve”, instead of per 100g, which is silly, but in time they might notice that grams per 100g is a percentage and see how much more useful that is for comparison purposes).
There’s even this guy who weighs food to see which is more “justified” for the price. Eventually his viewers will know how much things weigh.
We’ll get ya, in time. In time you will be assimilated, resistance is futile ;)
We can comprehend it. We just don’t see why we should be the ones doing it instead of the few idiots who still measure things with their feet like a bunch of fetishist cavemen
Contains like $100 in batteries which have no theft registry and are easily rewrapped at a vape shop. Also often an rpi or other general purpose SBC so $300 isn’t far off. Some even have nice separate camera
Do they have GPS locators? They’re going to need to be
disabledliberated first.
My concern is once it comes off the pole. You will no doubt have to take it home to extract. Does it not have a way of being tracked?
IFixit teardown when?
Just wrap it in tin foil. It’ll be fine
I’m not ruining a perfectly good hat for some gimmick
Smash it and pull out the battery
If they want to tackle this problem they could add a separate low power tracker embedded in the body somewhere. Prolly not doing it yet but if they do you’d have to know where it is to cut it out.
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I’ve heard rumors there’s an unsecured unmonitored usbC port on almost all of them. Completely unrelated: Did you know you can buy USBC power devices that overload any port they’re plugged into and fry whatever device they’re connected to? It’s true they sell them on Amazon! What a fun rabbit hole to get lost in, sorry I’m rambling with my completely unconnected train of thoughts!
Personally if I was gonna rip one of these apart I’d just drive into the mountains and rend it down in the back of my truck.
Booster bag.
2 lbs copper in a doorbell?
Edit: Ah, not a doorbell. Traffic cams. *Gets sawzall
2lbs of copper in suped-up traffic cameras.
No
That’s not the Floki I remember :)
What’s all this copper in? That’s a large motor-worth of copper.
That’s a shit ton of gold too. Gold in electronics is used to coat connectors and is only present in trace amounts.
Ssshhh.
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