Look - we women get stressed sometimes.
oh I get it they didn’t change out the stickers on the button. the vendor still probably as a hole
Hole in the head?
Lol a-hole* too lazy to use a hyphen
This is the indignant response of someone who paid for a below IQ drink and expected the average IQ size.
Did you mean to put those words in that order?
Yeah. I stand by it. If you are supporting the corporations destroying our world, your either evil or you haven’t evolved an intelligence high enough to perceive that our corporate overlords are predators.
And people were supposed to know that’s what you’re saying when you call a drink low IQ?
A diet pepsi by the look of it
Misleading aside, I’m happy that the US is adopting metric.
We’re not. Except in inner cities where it’s thriving
we’re miles behind in rural areas
I think you mean kilometers behind.
“Streets behind”, even.
We measure sodas bigger than this in Liters.
Not other liquids… just Soda. Milk you buy a gallon of. Soda? 2 Liters. Saying you’re gonna buy a gallon of Soda sounds very strange to an American. There’s also 1 Liter bottles.
It’s the one of the most stupid Americanisms.
Weird. Chugging cola from gallon jugs sounds like the most American thing one could think of, strange it’s not a thing yet. Also never understood why Americans buy milk in jugs. Isn’t this like the one thing you actually want to be in the smallest container possible? Do people drink that much milk, or are they commonly tossed unfinished when it inevitably spoils?
We cook with and drink probably too much milk. Strong dairy lobby.
In my two person household we just do half gallons
I’ve found oat milk keeps far longer and has enough fat content to substitute well into most recipes.
I’m happy that the US is adopting metric.
I don’t know if you’re just not from the US, but this dual labeling of groceries has been ongoing for decades. The US began transitioning to metric during the 1970s and has had plenty of dual uses ever since; it got cut short due to a mix of public apathy and active public disapproval, and when it was on its last legs, Reagan axed the metrification board early in his first term (not a defense, but it was seriously barely doing anything by that time because of public unwillingness to change). Rulers have inches and centimeters; there are imperial and metric tools; kids do learn metric in schools; etc.
“Is adopting” said in 2026 in response to soda labels is a steep misunderstanding of metrification in the US.
68ml short of a Pint in my book. Dunno where they got the idea that 500ml is 1.05 pints
A pint in the united states is 16 fluid ounces (473.18 ml)
What a small volume… Should have stuck to English measures when you escaped back along 🤣
It’s no called “Imperial Measurement System” because it’s communist, that’s for sure.
It’s because of beer. British beer tastes better so you can have a bit more.
If only there was an unambiguous unit to measure fluids…
olympic swimming pools for sure, football fields is for area, and elegants for weight
Elegant elephants
You mean the Oregonian gluten free bakery?
Damn, that is why I can’t get my hand into the pringles tube. It is smaller in diameter.
I thought the same, but they still make the 20 Oz bottles. Looks like the vending machine company is either cheating people or forgot to update the placards - https://www.target.com/p/pepsi-cola-soda-20-fl-oz-bottle/-/A-12979694
It has always been like this in my country. We have multiples of 330ml or 500ml
EDIT: I just noticed now and yeah this is false advertising
Did no one notice I bought 20 oz not 16.9 oz bottle I got ripped off
I saw that immediately, that’s so illegal. You should record it and report it to the appropriate 3-letter agency (no idea which one). Doubt you’ll get the money back, but making the assholes that run that machine deal with the government would be worth it to me.
Bro thinks CIA gonna be bustin’ down Pepsis door
The three letter agencies are the spooks the MIB’s the guy’s who disappeared Epstein.
You are looking for something more boring like the Health department or department of agriculture.
So the DOA? :D
I’d be more surprised if the government didn’t fine they guy reporting or require a lawyer to go through layers of bureaucratic nonsense designed to make it so hard to do anything the average person won’t bother.
USDA
United States Department of Agriculture.
Probably ESA as it’s 500ml in metrics and all.
Soda bottles in the us shows both ounces and milititers.
Large bottles are sold as “2 liter soda”…that’s it.
Smaller bottles are in ounces (with the metric label just a requirement I guess - no one I know here talks about buying a 500ml soda)
Everything else is ounces or gallons, I’m sure someone will ‘umm actually’ me…but generally nothing else is metric; like milk and juice.
Large bottles are sold as “2 liter soda”…that’s it.
I’m from Finland. It never stops being weird when Americans talk about 2 liter sodas. First, it being in liters, and second, 2 liter sodas are huuuuge. (Large bottles are usually 1.5 liters here.)
Then again, I never saw a 6 pack of large bottles of coke until I came to Norway, where every grocery store seems to sell 6 packs of the 1.5 liter bottles, so Europeans are not exactly without their own Coca Cola habits to support.
America: fuck metric, unless you’re talking soda or bullets
…science and drugs
I know it’s a funny joke, but we actually use metric quite a bit, especially for volume
still waiting on any company, agency, government to give a shit about the grocery stores selling eg 200g of meat but only giving 165g. not the prepackaged ceap, actual cuts of meat. numbers are examples but it happens way too much where the actual is always less then the advertised weight.
buy a scale, weight meat. get enraged
In the US, your state’s department of weights and measures might care. They’re the ones who verify grocery store scales, taxi cab fare meters, gas pumps… they exist to make sure you’re not getting ripped off. If you’re in a blue state they care, in a red state ymmv.
I live in Texas and the State Dept of Agriculture takes this kind of stuff very seriously. You have to report it though, which might be the other commenter’s issue
noticed the same with 1.25L bottles replacing 1.5L and 1.7L replacing 2L
Naw mate, I just noticed you clicked on that shit when you could have been enjoying a Dr. Pepper. Wtf?
That’s called “mislabeling”… or ‘bait and switch’.
Ran out of bottles using freedom units, had to use rest-of-the-world units instead. Thanks, Trump.
Soda is sold in 600ml bottles all over the world.
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Maybe US territories all over the world.
Coca-Cola recently issued a 750ml bottle in Japan, where it had always been either 500ml or 1.5l.
Not here.
Not where i live.
American suddenly realizing that not the entire world is america.
America might not be the entire world but it’s everywhere that matters in the world.
Wait wait, I first read this as satire but something’s not right. You’re not being serious are you?
It’s gotten increasingly difficult to tell with Maggie lately, but in this case I’m 99.9% certain that they’re satirizing stereotypical Americans rather than expressing a sincere opinion.
I’m always serious.
Username checks out
Adequate username
Never heard of that.
“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY FUCKING CALORIES?!”
From Wikipedia:
The imperial pint (≈ 568 mL) is used in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and other Commonwealth countries. In the United States, two kinds of pint are used: a liquid pint (≈ 473 mL) and a less common dry pint (≈ 551 mL).
A dry pint would be hard to enjoy
Yes, but 20 ounces doesn’t equal 16 ounces, even for great values of 16.
The six-packs of bottles sold in grocery stores have been 500mL for years. Probably somebody filled the machine with them. (The label should say, “Not Labelled for Individual Sale” near the barcode, if so.)
Precisely. Everyone is bitching about shrinkflation, and it’s probably just a vending machine owner cheaping out and buying multipacks at the grocery store instead of 20oz at a much higher wholesale price.
Its like when you buy a 1tb drive and the real capacity shows up as like 920Gb lol
Its because american terabyte is smaller than metric terabyte.
There are (mainly) 3 reasons for that:
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TB vs TiB: Computers don’t count drive space in metric units, they count it in powers of 2. This means that, for you, 1 TB is 1000 GB, while for a computer, 1 TiB is 1024 GiB. Drive manufactirers take advantage of this, and only count space in metric (TB). So when you plug the drive into your computer, and it converts to GiB, you end up with 1 TB = 931.3 GiB. Windows hasn’t helped this confusion, I remember it doing something weird like counting in GiB and displaying it as GB.
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Reserved space: Many OSes reserve some space on their drives for special stuff. This is especially the case with Linux and ext4, where it by default reserves a percentage of the drive to root. This is to optimize distribution of files around the disk, which limits fragmentation. The system slowly frees more of this space as you fill up the disk, and at the end it should leave you with 100% of the space.
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Formatting: Empty drive space isn’t the same as usable drive space. In order to use a drive you need to format it, which doesn’t just blank it. Formatting a drive adds a filesystem to it, which is what allows you to write files and folders to it. This filesystem takes up some space, and reserves more space for inodes and, in some cases, a filesystem journal. Some filesystems have even more features that also take up some space.
This has nothing to do with metric. There was just a tradition to use the SI prefixes in binary and with k/K it worked. With MB it doesn’t work that well anymore, which is why they came up with MiB at some point, but MB can still be interpreted binary like it always was. Software can often display both binary and decimal prefixes. There are also different standards how to handle these units for different kinds of storage.
1kB is clearly 1000B and 1KB is clearly 1024B
All software has always interpreted it in binary as far as I know. There never was a good standard, and the most common way to differentiate in my experience was using KB as metric (decimal, SI) and K as binary. It’s easy to confuse with the already convoluted standard of KB being a kilobyte and Kb being a kilobit.
The reason for the added “i” is that in every other system, kilo means 1000. Someone at the SI realized that it didn’t make any sense to have it mean something different in software so they invented the Ki prefix (instead of K) to mean 1024. That is now the standard, and it’s part of the SI (coloquially metric). As a consequence of this, you can technically use the Ki prefix with any other SI unit, so you can also use the KiM (kibimeter), which is 1024 meters. Idk why you’d use it, but it’s funny that the option exists.
GB to measure binary gigabytes came first. GiB was invented because advertisers and drive manufacturers are evil.
Edit: and judges are technologically illiterate.
GiB weren’t invented by drive manufacturers (although they definitely benefit from it, and are incredibly scummy about it). It was invented by the SI people. GiB make sense, because the prefix “Giga” means 10⁶, while in binary it meant 2²⁰. It was a mess before, and GiB just standardized it in a way that is easy to understand and consistent with other units.
I do think we should force drive manufacturers to express their drive capacity in binary format, tho.
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The missing ingredient is air.
