I don’t know what it is you’re trying to show. Is it that this drink is 500ml while all the others are 20 in whatever medieval unit is in use? I’m confused because the bepis says it’s 16.9 floz, but if I type that into a converter it’s not 500ml, and the other drinks are in oz, not in floz. I don’t know if they’re different. Is that the problem? One’s by weight and one by volume? 500ml is standard for a large can in 90% of the world, fwiw.
Dude bought a Diet Pepsi that was advertised as 20 oz but the bottle that came out only had 16.9 oz. (Or at least that’s what’s implied by the picture, who knows if that bottle actually came out of the machine…)
Dunno what’s so confusing tho
Yeah, what’s FL OZ? A parrot walked on the keyboard?
Don’t know if you’re joking or not, but to anyone actually curious “fluid ounce” its the volume of 1 ounce of water (or wine, not all fluid ounces are the same since because not all ounces are the same).
Its like when you buy a 1tb drive and the real capacity shows up as like 920Gb lol
There are (mainly) 3 reasons for that:
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TB vs TiB: Computers don’t count drive space in metric units, they count it in powers of 2. This means that, for you, 1 TB is 1000 GB, while for a computer, 1 TiB is 1024 GiB. Drive manufactirers take advantage of this, and only count space in metric (TB). So when you plug the drive into your computer, and it converts to GiB, you end up with 1 TB = 931.3 GiB. Windows hasn’t helped this confusion, I remember it doing something weird like counting in GiB and displaying it as GB.
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Reserved space: Many OSes reserve some space on their drives for special stuff. This is especially the case with Linux and ext4, where it by default reserves a percentage of the drive to root. This is to optimize distribution of files around the disk, which limits fragmentation. The system slowly frees more of this space as you fill up the disk, and at the end it should leave you with 100% of the space.
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Formatting: Empty drive space isn’t the same as usable drive space. In order to use a drive you need to format it, which doesn’t just blank it. Formatting a drive adds a filesystem to it, which is what allows you to write files and folders to it. This filesystem takes up some space, and reserves more space for inodes and, in some cases, a filesystem journal. Some filesystems have even more features that also take up some space.
GB to measure binary gigabytes came first. GiB was invented because advertisers and drive manufacturers are evil.
Edit: and judges are technologically illiterate.
GiB weren’t invented by drive manufacturers (although they definitely benefit from it, and are incredibly scummy about it). It was invented by the SI people. GiB make sense, because the prefix “Giga” means 10⁶, while in binary it meant 2²⁰. It was a mess before, and GiB just standardized it in a way that is easy to understand and consistent with other units.
I do think we should force drive manufacturers to express their drive capacity in binary format, tho.
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TIL that an American pint (500ml) is smaller than a British pint (568ml).
The American pint is actually only 473ml! That’s a half litre bottle.
476 mL, or 16 oz
Yeah it comes up in Canada where restaurants will say “Pint*” to short change us.
Except you can report that and they’ll get punished
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/measurement-canada/en/file-complaint
Pints of draft beer Consider the following:
A pint contains 20 fluid ounces (568 millilitres) in Canada.
- The limit of error for 20 fluid ounces is 0.5 fluid ounces (15 millilitres).
- The foam (head) is not included in the measurement.
What you need before you start
In order to process your complaint, we will require:
- your name and contact information
- the name and address of the establishment
- information on how you have attempted to resolve the matter
- a photo of the menu or advertisement showing the quantity claimed to have been dispensed, if possible
- the sales receipt, if you have it
TIL Brits have bigger pints, not just small baby sized shots! Does it balance out?
How could this possibly even happen?
Has to be corporate greed.
1/3 of all money has been printed since covid? Nice
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That’s called “mislabeling”… or ‘bait and switch’.
Yeah but the machine is in ounces, where the can is in Florida ounces. Once you convert it’s perfectly fine.
Reminds me of the deodorant I just bought that’s literally only halfway filled.
Ran out of bottles using freedom units, had to use rest-of-the-world units instead. Thanks, Trump.
Soda is sold in 600ml bottles all over the world.
Not where i live.
American suddenly realizing that not the entire world is america.
America might not be the entire world but it’s everywhere that matters in the world.
Wait wait, I first read this as satire but something’s not right. You’re not being serious are you?
It’s gotten increasingly difficult to tell with Maggie lately, but in this case I’m 99.9% certain that they’re satirizing stereotypical Americans rather than expressing a sincere opinion.
Never heard of that.
68ml short of a Pint in my book. Dunno where they got the idea that 500ml is 1.05 pints
A pint in the united states is 16 fluid ounces (473.18 ml)
What a small volume… Should have stuck to English measures when you escaped back along 🤣
If only there was an unambiguous unit to measure fluids…
olympic swimming pools for sure, football fields is for area, and elegants for weight
Look - we women get stressed sometimes.
This is the indignant response of someone who paid for a below IQ drink and expected the average IQ size.
Did you mean to put those words in that order?
Yeah. I stand by it. If you are supporting the corporations destroying our world, your either evil or you haven’t evolved an intelligence high enough to perceive that our corporate overlords are predators.
And people were supposed to know that’s what you’re saying when you call a drink low IQ?
Did no one notice I bought 20 oz not 16.9 oz bottle I got ripped off
Naw mate, I just noticed you clicked on that shit when you could have been enjoying a Dr. Pepper. Wtf?
I saw that immediately, that’s so illegal. You should record it and report it to the appropriate 3-letter agency (no idea which one). Doubt you’ll get the money back, but making the assholes that run that machine deal with the government would be worth it to me.
still waiting on any company, agency, government to give a shit about the grocery stores selling eg 200g of meat but only giving 165g. not the prepackaged ceap, actual cuts of meat. numbers are examples but it happens way too much where the actual is always less then the advertised weight.
buy a scale, weight meat. get enraged
