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minus-squareEpheralinkfedilink2•1 month agoYeah, it’s particularly weird, because surely people from the US have a good sense how much a pound weighs, and a pound weighs more than a burger, so you need to imagine a less big number of them.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 month agoAnd people are much closer in size - isn’t “the weight of your uncle Eddie” more meaningful?
Yeah, it’s particularly weird, because surely people from the US have a good sense how much a pound weighs, and a pound weighs more than a burger, so you need to imagine a less big number of them.
And people are much closer in size - isn’t “the weight of your uncle Eddie” more meaningful?