Florida ounces

Smartest person in Florida.

They self-actualized upon leaving the state. I'm telling you, that place is contaminated.
- One big SCP containment zone. But it’s leaking too much and fucking up the whole country.
Tbf, they (1) asked a question to learn something new and (2) where open about the result. That's highly respectable

reading this on voyager was a trip

Dawg I was like how tf did a Lemmy post get 48k votes.
Is that iOS? It looks different here on Android and I can't tell how much of it is because I customized it. I don't quite remember how I customized it but I remember that I did.
My buttons are colored orange instead of blue, that's definitely something I would do. The share button looks different, as does the top bar with the back button.
- Holy shit you made me realize there's a Apple Android option on Voyager. I'm on an Android phone but I was using the Apple layout:
  Here's Android comparison:
  NGL, I think I like the Apple one more...
  Also voyager voting buttons are Blue/Red no matter what theme you use unless you specifically pick the reddit Blue/Orange theme.
i miss apollo every day

Still a nonsense measurement. The metric system is vastly superior.

Ridiculous. The metric system is all the same. How many millimommies in a decamommy? I dunno, but it's 10 or 100 or 1000 or something like that. Everything is a factor of ten, and the unit conversions are even a factor of 10! You can look that up in a table, and a 6-year-old can properly measure things. Booooring!
Now look at the Imperial/English/Standard/US/Florida system: how many hogshead in a cubic furlong? Nobody knows offhand, so you have to get creative. Is it a US standard colonial, also called a tobacco hogshead? Or is it the British hogshead? It may depend on the contents, like whether it's brandy or sugar or fish (the species matters!). You can convert to firkins if you wish, but that's optional. As for furlongs, it used to depend on the horse, but sadly they standardized it to 40 rods, because German feet were longer than English feet, probably due to the toes. Fortunately, some states in the US still disagree on definitions, so the length may depend on the state. Once you figure that out, you can easily calculate that using a English wine hogshead and an international furlong leads to about 34,136,818.7 hogshead in a cubic furlong. Explain to me how that's not better than your silly metric system!
- As always, we catalog the creativity at !anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de.
- My toilet blew up after I returned from Europe and forgot to convert from kilos to ass-loads
- I'm gonna need that in fractions or multiples of a Rhode Island.

As always, just a great unit of measure.

Is called "fluid weight", but is actually a unit of volume. All liquids have the same density right?
An "imperial fl.oz." is ~28.41mL
A "US customary fl.oz." is ~29.57mL
A "US food labeling fl.oz." is 30mL

Also found out that you have "liquid pints" and "dry pints" as well, for some reason.

This is the true reason metric is better. A lot of people think it's inherently better for various reasons: it's decimal and it's based on the constants of nature. While nice, that doesn't make it a better system.
The reason it's a better system is that there has only ever been one metre, there has only ever been one litre, there has only ever been one kilogram. If you use any metric unit there is no ambiguity, there has never been ambiguity and there never will be ambiguity. There's just one system.
For the imperial system and all of its branches and predecessors, that's just not the case. The foot has had different measures, the mile has had different measures, the fl oz still has different measures as you noted. You can speak to someone and say some measure, they hear your exact words and interpret it as some different measures.
That's the real problem with imperial, and that's why metric was invented.
- only ever been one kilogram
  Nobody tell them
- Metric has its advantages but imperial does as well, primarily that the units of measure that humans generally interact with have more whole number factors than in metric, making it very easy to "work with."
  A foot is 12 inches, which has whole number factors of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12. A yard is three feet.
  So, it's really easy to divide things into half, quarters, thirds, etc. Great for construction math, great for a lot of stuff.
  I'm not saying that you can't achieve the same end with metric. I've lived in many countries and I'm very familiar with both, and I know 333mm is pretty dang accurate if you want to divide a meter in thirds, but it's not an exact measurement.
  For most use I don't think it really matters. Metric is a much "cleaner" system but imperial does have its advantages.
  They both work. Nobody quibbles about which version of an oz you're using in daily life. I bet most people don't even know there's different versions because it doesn't make a difference in 99.9% of situations, and in situations where it does people know the differences.
- metric updates reference values sometimes as well

Every time I see "NSFW" my brain goes "New South Fucking Wales". Help.

That could be an ad campaign for NSW, genius
National Science Foundation, Wow

Maybe there are stupid questions. :P

No; stupid questions!
- Oh! They got this all screwed up.

Standard unit of methurement down south.

The Florida Oblast should be proud of their high school graduates and education system.

Are you saying they aren't?

I'll explain it to you, just give me a New York minute.

The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.
Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches, #4)

Americans will go so far that one day they will come back to the metric system

I mean I'm pretty sure the American system is defined using SI units so it's mostly because of American exceptionalism and a fetish for unit conversion.
- Only 3 countries use the shit Imperial/SAE measuremnts. USA, Liberia and Myanmar. WTF!?!?
- Ain't called the "imperial" system for nothing.
  Brits gave it to us and then we changed the spellings and decided it made us special I guess.
  So, partial credit where partial credit is due. It's just way the fuck older.

Damn, I'm old enough to remember this post the first time it happened on Reddit. I laughed about this poor fool all day. Good times.

You can't convert them. Fluid ounces are volume. Regular ounces are weight (which isn't quite the same as mass, though they're used interchangeably on earth).

1 fl oz = 1 oz when the substance is water (at slightly above freezing). Any other substance would involve a specific mass factor.

...my first thought was cocaine, but I guess that's Florida kilos

Also everytime I see "lbs" I will always read it as "L B S" separately by default. I forget how did libera become pound.

It's how you measure your Kentucky Jelly.

What is this front-end?

Looks like Apollo for Reddit (screenshot is likely a few years old)
It is 1:1 with Voyager (just with reddit)

It's not Florida Australia?

Acthually, all Florida ounces have an extra two grams in them as ordered by Desantis. It is called the "dealer's ounce" and they throw a little extra in to show you they care.