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[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 days ago

She's right there. This is literally a power play to force her kid to do a pointless task.

[-] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago
[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Of course, mother!

[-] allywilson@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 days ago

Wait a sec, I was told American's don't use the metric system...

[-] austinfloyd@ttrpg.network 19 points 3 days ago

The imperial system doesn't have any electromagnetism units that I'm aware of, so they borrow from SI.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

We can use horsepower hours if you’d like. Or BTU

[-] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago

I'm all for paying my electric bill in horsepower/hours. That feels very American. How many V8s is my house?

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago

I'd be horsepower * hour, since horsepower is a unit, of, well, power, and [Energy] = [Power]*[Time]

But might as well go for an obscure time unit as well at that point. Horsepower Sennights, baby

[-] reinei@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Hmm but couldn't we then also go even further and assume an idealized muscle car with an effective transmission to its wheels of 1:1 running at its optimal torque vs speed point and thus with a given speed of its wheels rotation for a given time?

Aka convert energy into miles (traveled) or something (with the choice of motor and wheel diameter and everything else standardized ofc.)?

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[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

The Watt predates the SI itself. SI borrows the Watt much as it dues with other units.

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 3 points 2 days ago

We also don't use apostrophes for plural words.

[-] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Speak for yourselv’es

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[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

You were lied to. We use a mix of both, just like the UK.

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[-] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 140 points 4 days ago

Never forget the future that was taken from us.

[-] StellarExtract@lemm.ee 51 points 4 days ago
[-] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 46 points 3 days ago

Thank you Junior. Don't forget to wear you shoes when you go play in the asbestos pit at school. I put two cigarettes in your lunchbox you can have one at lunch if your teacher says its okay and one on the way to home after your shift at the radium watch painting factory.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago

It’ll come back eventually unless fusion takes over. The power density promises are simply too attractive.

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 18 points 3 days ago

Never mind that pesky burning taste, imagine the power savings!

[-] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

It always smells like bloody sinus in our house after changing the wafer.

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[-] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 74 points 3 days ago

“Mother, why do all my teeth feel itchy?”

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 50 points 3 days ago

"It's because you haven't been smoking enough. Here, smoke these two before dinner."

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 12 points 3 days ago
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[-] tamal3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I'm so out of my depth in this thread. Is this a real side effect of radiation?

[-] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

I can’t find it now, but I’d swear to having read an anecdote from someone working with radiation who reported tingling teeth during exposure.

It definitely does a lot of nasty things to the body.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 103 points 4 days ago

Feeling snackish for an

A T O M I C

W A F E R !

[-] Comment105@lemm.ee 12 points 3 days ago

All wafers, cookies, chips, biscuits, crispbread and hardtack I've ever seen have been atomic.

I struggle to imagine one that wouldn't be.

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[-] dumbass@leminal.space 38 points 3 days ago

Look at his face, he's 100% gonna eat that.

[-] Anivia@feddit.org 18 points 3 days ago

Uranium has so many calories, he will never have to eat again

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[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

There's a timeliness where tiktok kids are eating atomic wafers as a challenge.

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[-] Asetru@feddit.org 27 points 3 days ago

This post was brought to you by Isaac Asimov's Foundation gang.

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[-] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 55 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"Timmy you left the aluminum foil on the atomic wafer!!"

"By golly Tim you shattered space time and opened a black hole!"

"My apologies mother and father, I have been absent of clear cognition."

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 50 points 4 days ago

Too 👏 cheap 👏 to 👏 meter

[-] Zink@programming.dev 8 points 3 days ago

Given the up-front cost of any kind of reactor, I don’t think the concept of a usage-based electric bill goes away as long as it’s corporations competing for customers. Maybe eventually it would be like ISPs where it’s a flat fee depending on the size of your connection. I guess it could be totally unmetered then.

Like so many things, it gets a lot simpler if it’s the government supplying the service.

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[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 days ago
[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago
[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Putting it in my underwear later...

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago

Well, if you're a Stalker, it may put hair on your kids бляать.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Gotta power the family brain scorcher, for home defensse

[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 15 points 3 days ago

Do you want to be Malons? This is how you become Malons. /s

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[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

About the hairy chest (don't worry, it's harmless).

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