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  • Dagrothus@reddthat.comtoScience Memes@mander.xyzPublic trust
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    4 months ago

    I blame the obesity epidemic on the weak ass FDA and nutrition labeling. A ‘serving’ is whatever the hell they feel like making it - I’ve seen 1/3 of a cookie, a single tick tack (rounded down to 0g sugar), and every other arbitrary amount so actually comparing products takes so much time that most dont bother. Combine this with the fact that 90% of restaurants dont even bother giving you any information at all so you have to cook or go to specific big chains to actually track calories. Also it’s a safe assumption that everything at a restaurant is packed full of carbs, cheese, and oils for max calorie density.




  • The article literally says they sell your data to advertising partners. You’re paying a monthly subscription to give away your personal data for something as basic as a fucking printer. If HP doesn’t die my hope in humanity will be gone.

    Imagine your thermostat sold your data so companies could solicit you with coats to buy, or your fridge sold the data of what food you have so shitty brands can beg you to buy their low quality trash because they spent half their budget on advertising.

    I’m preaching to the choir but god I hate the ever growing data broker/aggressive targeted advertising trend.




  • Dagrothus@reddthat.comto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    The confusion stems from the fact that laymen use force and mass interchangeably as they are always on earth and changes in altitude aren’t significant enough to worry about. Standing on a European scale and seeing a measurement in kg isn’t entirely accurate- it’s actually measuring Newtons and implying your mass in kg from that. Standing on an American scale, however, is literally measuring your weight in lbf. However, there is also a confusing unit called lbm or pounds mass which measures the mass of a 1lbf weight object on earth. The average person will never use lbm realistically, but this is technically the unit that converts directly to kg.


  • Dagrothus@reddthat.comto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    No, pounds in the traditional usage refer to lbf, or weight. If you stand on a scale, it measures the force you’re exerting on the scale, which is absolutely distinct from mass because the exact same scale would show a different value on Mt Everest despite you not losing any mass. Every practical use will be measuring lbf. Ie PSI, or pounds per square inch, is clearly referring to force over an area, not mass.

    1 lbm weighs 1 lbf on earth, which implies that accelerating a 1lbm object at a rate of 32.2ft/s2 requires 1lbf.

    Engineers are the few types of people that actually use lbm and slugs. Sensible ones will prefer to just use metric.