• Juvyn00b@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    On the sign to her left someone should draw up a horse near the gas pump nozzle. “Helps your horse run like new”

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Imagine Marlboro man doing this… Then riding into the sunset just before he feels the need for a cigarette 🚬 and then boom! Horse parts everywhere mixed with guy parts. Meanwhile a car driving through the near street gets rained on with pieces of the good stuff… anus, balls, penis, and skin with bloody hair on it as well as eyeballs, fingers and other parts easily recognizable to the layman. That’s why you never top off your horse!

  • cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    I remember reading somewhere that a single horse can actually output 12-14 horsepower. And an average human’s maximum output can be over 1 horsepower.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
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      2 months ago

      It’s a stupid unit because it averages long-term output including resting periods, and was inveted for steam engine marketing. At least it reflects the quantity it measures, reducing confusion some people have with kW and kWh.

          • MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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            2 months ago

            It’s the same like with thousands separators and dates. We learned unit ÷ h in math.

            Though i have no excuses for lowercase/uppercase mistakes. edit: “it’s internet” is my excuse.

            • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
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              2 months ago

              Well, the capitalization is not as bad as the fact that it’s kWh (kilowatthours/Kilowattstunden), not kWh⁻¹ or kW/h (kilowatts per hour/Kilowatts pro Stunde). It’s a measure of energy so it goes up as power is consumed over time, not the other way around!

              The capitalization is not as important here but sometimes, it absolutely is - mΩ is 10⁻³ Ω while MΩ is 10⁶ Ω - a billion (Milliarde) times more, or data units like Mb (megabit) and MB (megabyte) where one is 8x larger than the other. Sometimes, the people inventing units made really stupid decision, like 1 Cal = 1 kcal = 1000 cal, with both “Cal” and “cal” being called “calorie”. It’s almost as bad as a billion (American, recently also British English) = 10⁹ vs. ein Billion (German) = 10¹².

  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I learned a things:

    While it is true that the maximum output of a horse is around 15 horsepower, when you average the output of a horse over the course of a work day it ends up being around a horsepower. Watt defined this amount as “the amount of work required from a horse to pull 150 pounds out of a hole that was 220 feet deep”.