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[–] [email protected] 161 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Imagine shipping this tiny little box and it weighs 60 pounds. Poor mailman.

[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Last package of the da... Yo wtf?!?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's the 32 KG mop all over again

Note: Above video is marketing for an exercise plan, but it's also funny to watch occasionally when he has new episodes. As far as I know, the weights are real, but they're always loaded funny in the videos. Max plates visually for the weight the dudes are lifting

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

"I have to clean here!" - lifts fat barbell, that some steroid man just lifted with both hands, with one hand and moves it elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Not to be a killjoy but your basic mailman has a pretty low weight limit on the parcels they take.

[–] [email protected] 146 points 1 week ago (2 children)

USPS GOAT. Fuck privatización.

[–] TaiCrunch 89 points 1 week ago (3 children)

But sometimes I have mildly inconveniencing experiences with the postal service in my extremely rural town that require me to navigate my extremely rural town's nearly non-existent public services so we should absolutely surrender complete control to Amazon

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago

Private companies love the heartland and will work out of patriotism even if rural routes are less profitable! 🤡

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We recently moved in a very rural area. The rural carrier for our new route gave us a form to fill out, and by the end of the week we were receiving mail. UPS and FedEX on the other hand, wouldn't deliver to us for a month. USPS will carry our packages up our driveway to our steps; UPS and FedEX throw them in the ditch by the mailbox.

Also, did you know you can buy stamps, cards, and envelopes directly from the rural carrier? Here's a fun quote from the rural customer registration form:

Rural carriers maintain a supply of stamps, cards, and envelopes for sale. Additionally, your carrier will accept Certified Mail™, Registered Mail™, insure packages, and prepare money orders. Generally, rural carriers can extend practically all services available at a Post Office. Please purchase a sufficient supply of stamps and affix proper postage on all outgoing mail.

Imagine how bleak things would be if Amazon was running the show. USPS is truly the best

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Apparently neither of you are aware of how dense I am. ;)

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But do you fit into that box? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

first, ya cut a hole in that box...

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wait until I fill that box with quark-gluon plasma.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'll go one better.
A (non-spinning uncharged) black hole with diameter 1+5/8th inches (so it fits in the box) has a mass of about 2.3 earths.

(Near as I can tell QGP filling the whole box is around a ten billionth of that.)

Of course the box would Very quickly no longer be outside the black hole. QGP would also cause the box to no longer be a container in short order. To put it mildly.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

It would also reach its destination very quickly. Or rather the other way around. Free delivery.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 week ago (3 children)

8 5/8" x 5 3/8" x 1 5/8"

Don't write yourself off yet, learn metric.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For most of the rest of the world, that's about 219 mm × 137 mm × 41,3 mm

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For those of us that don’t use arbitrary made up units at all, that’s 1.35515609E+34 Planck Length x 8.477460474E+33 Planck Length x 2.555613997E+33 Plank Length.

Use real measurements. A meter is how far light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second? Statements made by the utterly deranged.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Finally a truly universally usable measurement for everyday use

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's only in your head you feel left out or looked down on...

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

just try your best, try everything you can

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[–] funkless_eck 11 points 1 week ago

moving from Europe to America the amount of times I'm like "it's 12 3/8ths" to try to, yknow, join in, and everyone's like "call it 12 or 13"

motherfucker that's a huge gap!

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago

at a typical temperature and pressure, sure.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It’s because all the packages have the same domestic weight limit.

Seems silly, but makes sense in the context.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is the case for most "Dumb laws": there's an outlier that becomes kinda silly, but it's not really worth the effort to change.

I saw one "It's illegal to hunt Blue Whales in Idaho". Because it's illegal to hunt endangered species in Idaho, and Blue Whales are endangered, not because legislators were super concerned about saving Idaho's whale population.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

He said "physically" which is wrong because Neutronium. What he possibly meant was "practically" in which Osmium would be the only element you can practically fit in the box since it isn't possible to synthesize neutronium at that amount or handle that much safely.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If mailing 70 lbs of unstable particles that can't exist outside of a lab is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No you mean theoretical. As neutronium is a theoretical substance. To our knowledge there's no way to find it outside of neuron stars. It is therefore physically impossible, within our current state of knowledge.

It's highly unlikely, bordering on theoretically impossible to assume that mankind will be able to synthesize enough to fill a cardboard box with. Then the practical side says even if that was possible, there would probably no way a cardboard box could contain that (and a plethora of other practical impossibilities).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That and the neutrons would rapidly undergo beta decay producing a LOT of free energy and other particles.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Could you create a device that would compress some substance to the extent it would reach this weight or is that impossible?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Such devices exist, namely stars. Neutron stars are theorized to have neutronium at their core, essentially a soup of neutrons so densely packed that nothing else fits between them - in order words, the densest theoretical material (osmium is the densest material found on Earth).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I guess I forgot to say it needs to fit in the package lol. I know it’s possible in extreme environments but can you create such an environment in this package is the question.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just toss a few teaspoons of black hole in there.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I believe that would be some form of fusion

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Good news, it's 20-30 years away!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What about a piece of neutron star in those dimensions? Would it still be lighter than 70 lbs?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Good news, after obtaining a piece of neutron star in those dimensions, you wouldn't need to worry about it anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The common popsci factoid tells us that a teaspoon of a neutron star weights as much as Mount Everest, so maybe.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

you can balloon the box out a ways to get more volume

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The surface area of the box is about 135 inches. If this surface area were spread over a sphere, it would have a diameter of about 6.5 inches and a volume of nearly 150 cubic inches (nearly twice the volume of the uninflated box!). 150 cubic inches of osmium weighs about 120lbs.

So, indeed you could exceed the weight limit of the box by ballooning it out and filling it with something that's at least 7/12ths as dense as osmium (or a little more dense than lead).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The demon core's theme just started playing for some reason

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Neutronium... I am having early 2000s trivia website flashbacks! Wasn't a teaspoon of that stuff several tons or something?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

At what velocity are the box's dimensions and effective mass determined?

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