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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Deodorant will get it off.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

How retarded do you have to be to have the fractions written out on the entire measure

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 minutes ago

I still don't get how they can live with such a retarded measurement system.

Then I see who they elected as a President and I understand everything.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

Retarded enough to not use the metric system.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

Found Elon's Lemmy account...

[–] [email protected] 52 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

You can remove sharpie by writing over it with a dry-erase marker and then removinging by rubbing it.

You call usually also use isopropyl alcohol, but you may remove more than you intended.

So dry-erase first and then go nuclear with iso if the marker didn't work.

[–] Peppycito 2 points 9 hours ago

Drawing over it again with the same sharpie works too if you wipe it quick.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Tried the iso and now my dick is removed...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe don't buy your packer off of Temu?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, have them buy another and see if it happens again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The results would double the sample size and better support the conclusion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

While this is true, I really just wanna see how many times he’ll do it again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Having repeatable results is important to establish.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Found this out in school when someone wrote some less than acceptable words on the board in permanent marker. The teacher scribbled over it with drywipes, waited a few seconds and wiped it away.

They said it was because essentially drywipe marker is a permanent marker with solvents.

[–] JohnDClay 1 points 17 hours ago

In the same vein as isopropyl alcohol, hand sanitizer works too. And more people are carrying that now since covid.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 19 hours ago (7 children)

Coming from a non-American, an inches-only tape measure is incredibly cursed

[–] xionzui 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

As an American, I was a bit flabbergasted when I looked through all the tape measures at the store, and none of them had a metric side

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I found one when I looked but it was a bit spendy cause it was fancy in other ways. Still went for it cause I want both units.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 minutes ago

The rest of the world thanks you <3

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago

As a Canadian I hate it too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Those fractions are barely readable and I'm not even dyslexic

[–] Peppycito 1 points 9 minutes ago

That's a tape for the new guy on the crew so he doesn't look like a dum-dum. Until the crew sees his tape anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

As an American engineer I agree

[–] pelespirit 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That's how I feel about Celsius being for everyone.

[–] TriflingToad 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

even though I know it's literally the best option, my pea sized brain goes "wait? 30° is hot??"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

30°F is beautiful when you have had a few -10°F days. The difference between 70°F & 30°F is the same as 30°F & -10°F.

110°F - If I don't get A/C soon, I literally might die.

70°F - It's so nice, I'm going to open the windows.

30°F - It's so cold there's ice outside. Look, snow!

-10°F - The snot in my nose is frozen. I can't feel my fingers and they hurt at the same time.

-50°F - I didn't expect seals to make that noise.

[–] Ajen 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You don't have to use the same unit in all situations. Just ask the British.

[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 8 hours ago

My favorite mixed unit is the standard adiabatic lapse rate, which is given as 2 degrees C per 1,000 feet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Even more cursed if those same markings where on a CM calibrated scale.

[–] Peppycito 1 points 9 minutes ago

Fractional metric for the win

[–] [email protected] -3 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Well yeah, if you were raised learning imperial measurements, you’d probably find a metric-only tape to be an criminal abomination just as easily.

[–] captain_aggravated 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

37 year old American here. I was raised learning both and I can and have built things in both systems. Hell I've even mixed them on occasion. I own a metric tape measure and a metric/inch tape measure, and several inch tape measures.

Specifically for woodworking, I vastly prefer working in fractional inches, for a whole stack of reasons but mainly in the wood shop, you find yourself dividing by 2 or 3 way more often than 5 or 10. Working in a dozenal system in powers of 2 makes more sense for that than working in a decimal system in powers of ten. It's just easier to buy rough lumber at 1 inch thick, use 1/4" of it to mill it flat and parallel so you have 3/4", and now if you need to do a half-lap joint it'll be 3/8" or a tenon will be 1/4".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Really interesting reply, and thank you for it. I’ve spent time in metric countries, and can, to a limited degree, equate either measurement to the other. Hell, I measure my vodka shots by the ml.

Before I enlisted, I had worked as a laborer putting siding on houses, and had to make cuts in both systems. I naturally default to imperial/avoirdupois, but given that most packaging has metric on it, I can still reference a can of soda as 355 ml. When I vaped, all of my e-juice was sold in mls, too.

Like being a polyglot, learning more than one language has its benefits, but if one has only ever learned one language, the likelihood is high that any other language encountered will seem strange.

[–] Peppycito 1 points 12 minutes ago

Like being a polyglot, learning more than one language has its benefits,

That's what irks me about the "anything other than metric is stupid" crowd. Who needs less tools?

[–] Peppycito 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

No, they're fine. It's the bilingual tapes that are a pain in the ass. You have to guess at half the measurements no matter your preferred scale.

[–] captain_aggravated 2 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

I carry my "bilingual" tape in my away mission bag, because that way I can get away with having one tape measure. My metric tape lives on my desk and I've got inch tapes dripping out of the walls. I wake up in the morning and cough up a few.

[–] Peppycito 1 points 19 minutes ago* (last edited 18 minutes ago) (1 children)

I accidentally bought an engineers ruler that's in 10ths of a foot on one side. That's a real pain in the ass. Or that side of the square that's in 12ths. But I'd really like a fractional metric ruler. 7/16ths cm.

[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 11 minutes ago

My sawyer has a tape that measures in tenths of a foot as well. Kind of reminds me of how aircraft measure time aloft; both tach time and hobbs time is measured in tenths of an hour.

Something that's gonna tilt your head: 1 1/2" is 1/8th of a foot. And 3/4" is 1/16th of a foot. Common inch woodworking sizes like that aren't weird fractions of an inch, they're some power of two fraction of a foot.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 16 hours ago

Yes, if you were also a illogical moron.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

Show off...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 17 hours ago

Toss it in the metal heap at your local recycling centre. With the archaic units, it's unusable anyway.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It's not like erasing it'll make your dick bigger 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago

Actually nipples

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

This was on Reddit 2 weeks ago and I answered magic eraser.

People are desperate for upvotes here too.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago

Just cut the tape that the 4 inch mark and then add 4 to all the inches on the tape. Fixed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Magic eraser (melamine foam).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago