oh shit

Gollum@feddit.org to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 520 points –
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it takes dedication to print full color these days. on 11x17 no less

To Europeans who use German industry norm paper: that’s DIN A2 A3 (Tank you, dumb cousin of napoleon)

Some people will use some letter salad just to avoid the imperial system /s

In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities. (John Bazell)

Unfortunately converting 1 calorie to joules ruins everything 4.2J per calorie. Makes it annoying to calculate how quickly you can boil water for instance.

Iirc the Joule is favoured over the Calorie in the SI system.

‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’

Is that something people wonder about? I doubt it.

A BTU (British thermal unit) is the energy required to raise 1lb of water 1 degree Fahrenheit...which may actually be even dumber, since it's temperature sensitive to begin with. Dumbest of all, the Brits don't use that unit very often. The US, and, I assume, Liberia use it all the time.

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Don't imperial have like 3 different letter sizes depending on the country?

From what I have found, the US has 216mm × 279mm while Canada has 215mm × 280mm which is close enough.

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She probably let him sit there and lie to her for an hour before trotting out the evidence, too.

That’s a picture of a dead man.

Right??? It looks like they're on dessert, so this maps.

He should just leave.

He She should just leave.

They should both leave.

And let him have that cake? No way- she should have her cake and eat it too.

That's not how people work in these situations. Neither party is going to act reasonably here, I can pretty much guarantee that from personal experience on both sides of that scenario.

"It wasn't me"

Legitimately a good argument here, the chain of custody has to be validated in court, having pictures of text messages is often dismissed due to how easy they are to be forged and how often people use other people’s phones, unless the police have your phone unlocked and can prove you were the one who sent the message or go directly to your phone provider who usually deletes data after the minimum time mandated so they don’t have to fulfill costly subpoenas.

Authentication is such a fucking low bar and, even if it wasn't, most attorneys seem too tech retarded to even make the argument.

Of course every judge I've met hasn't been much better, so stupid arguments sometimes prevail ("tech scary" does the work).

Am I the only one worried about all that black ink?

oh no, and it is gonna be super wet when it first comes out

Not if you use a cheap secondhand B&W Brother laser printer with 3rd party toner that comes out to approx $0.004 a sheet

We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all stood up, and Obie stood up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures, and the judge walked in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he sat down, we sat down. Obie looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog. And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry, 'cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American blind justice, and there wasn't nothing he could do about it, and the judge wasn't going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us.

Thank you for reigniting my memory of this.