Metric rule

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SurfinBird@lemmy.ca · 75 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Another example of how America’s war on drugs was won by drugs.

TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 1y

I'm always joining the war on ______ on the side of ______

Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Meanwhile, in weed land, our heroes embark on a quest for the great 1/8 in many countries.

It’s hard to walk up to a counter and ask for 3 point 5 of weed.

Edit: just an observation, I’m on team metric. Call weed whatever you want as long as around here we keep calling it legal.

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y (1 reply)

the first metric conversion I learned: 3.5 grams to an eighth.

TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y

the virgin 1/8=3.5g vs the Chad 1/4=7g

verdigris@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 1y

In slang sure, but every dispensary website I've seen lists them as 3.5g, 7g etc

FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y

you’ll just say 4 gs or 3 gs.

megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 1y (4 replies)

9mm? Clearly you mean .35 or .38 .

Placebonickname@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Grams? I measure the most important part of that in grains.

LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Can't say I've ever met anyone who measured weed in grains

Placebonickname@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Don’t care about the weed. The projectile bullet is probably 115 or 124 “grains” of lead in a copper jacket.

ricecake@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y

Pretty sure bullets are copper jacketed weed nuggets. Grain is a measurement of how seedy the weed is, and hence how much damage it does. 115 grain means it's a weed nugget with the weight of 115 seeds being fired.

WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Fire meme from a fire op

isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 1y

Don't fire OP, I like em 🥺

MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website · 12 pts · 1y

Once you learn that 1/8 == 3.5g it's a slippery slope to:

  • 1 oz == 28.3 grams
  • 1 kg == 2.2 pounds

Slangin sacks without the metric system? Not even once.

merc@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y

Americans should use the Metric system the way Canadians do:

Temperature: Celsius. Unless it's for cooking, or you're talking about the temperature of a pool.

Length: Metric. Unless it's talking about a person's height. Or, you're talking about lumber.

Mass / Weight: Pounds. Unless you're talking small weights, then you use grams. If you're shopping, it's 50/50. If it's really big weights it's "tons" which might be metric or might not.

Volume: Metric. Except if you're cooking. But, then when you're cooking you have to figure out what a fl. oz. is because Canadian cans are in mL but the recipe is flozzameters.

Beacon@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y

2 liter in the fridge