• Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    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.

  • Worx@lemmynsfw.com
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    14 days ago

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

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      13 days ago

      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

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        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.

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        13 days ago

        Yeah, a good chunk of the ones available here only have inches, too. It was hard to find one with both when I bought my last tape measure.

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            It was a home hardware and most of the longer ones with nice features were inches only. There were a bunch of metric only ones, too, but it’s nice to have both when some furniture descriptions have only one or the other because the tape then handles the conversion without having to remember if that 2.2 factor is inches to cm or kg to lbs or both.

            Though it could be that whoever decides what products to stock at home Depot is just better at their job than whoever does it at home hardware, or maybe I’m in the minority locally of wanting both and preferring metric if I have to choose one.

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          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.

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        13 days 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.

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      13 days ago

      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.

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      13 days 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.

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

        We can’t.

        Scientists do everything in metric, but that’s where it stops.

        Food industry tries to label everything both ways, so we all get some minimal exposure; but this is like expecting to learn French in Canada just by hanging around. Machinists cope by using thousandths (of an inch), but still have to translate to work with standard screw dimensions. Bakers do everything at multiples of cups or pounds, so fractions don’t really come up. Housing framers use, maybe, down to the half or quarter inch and have easier to read tape measures for this; story-boards and tick-sticks are used to avoid measuring entirely.

        If it wasn’t for raw materials (across the board) being sold in nominal empirical sizes, I would sooner just use the metric system.

        Meanwhile, the home kitchen is at war. Recipe books have everyone else dicking around with all the crazy fractional volume and weight measures. Either you’re a virtuoso with these, or you’re terrible at it and burn every meal - there is no middle ground. This might explain our relationship with restaurant food.