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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

Iso Memes

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When Your Gains Are Based On Alternative Facts

Engineering Physics Materials
23 days ago 14.4K views 0 shares
When Your Gains Are Based On Alternative Facts
Someone's getting fired at the weight plate factory! This "10kg" plate weighs a measly 9.5kg according to that digital scale. The ISO 10012 standard at the bottom is the chef's kiss of irony - it's literally a measurement management system standard for ensuring measurement accuracy. Whoever QA'd this must have been skipping calibration day along with leg day. The EU investigation mentioned in the title? Totally warranted - DG GROW oversees industrial standards in the EU. Imagine building your entire workout routine on a lie. Those gains were never real!

The Great Paper Divide

Engineering Materials Academia
4 months ago 10.5K views 0 shares
The Great Paper Divide
The paper size showdown that nobody asked for but everyone needed! While Americans are busy measuring documents in "letter," "legal," and whatever random dimensions their printers accept, the rest of the world enjoys the elegant simplicity of the ISO 216 standard. Just fold an A0 in half? Boom—A1. Fold again? A2. It's almost like they designed it with—gasp— mathematical logic . Meanwhile, Americans are over here with paper sizes that make about as much sense as measuring distance in "football fields" or weight in "washing machines." The metric system sends its condolences.

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