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[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 103 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

20hp

737lb-ft torque

Sweet Jesus Christ.

That's more torque than a lot of modern muscle cars have. I know electric motors can shit out a lot of torque, but holy fuck.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

It's like a farm tractor.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

Top speed of around 100kph. Not that high, but it will get to that speed right the fuck now.

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[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 103 points 1 year ago

Soon you will be able to brag about "fitting the whole gang in your bussy" !

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 101 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lb-Ft

FFS, just adopt the metric system already. And "lb" is not a force unit. Also don't capitalize unit abbreviations unless named after scientists.

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

"pound foot" is the most intuitive name for a unit of force imaginable!

How much force? One pound of the foot. Easy!

[-] mdurell@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Red Foreman agrees... "one pound of my foot in your ass"

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[-] nooneescapesthelaw@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Actually pounds are a unit of force

Pounds~newtons

Slugs~ kilograms

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pounds are a unit of money. lbf (poundforce) is a misnomer, it’s actually the pressure required to stamp the King’s portrait into a £1 coin. Slightly changes with each monarch – or by a lot whenever they switch to cheaper materials because of devaluation. The frequent redefining of poundforce is now a major consequence of Brexit. /s

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[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

As someone who's all about science and all the things that use metric as it's standard, I understand why us Americans argue for imperial measurements.

We know them.

I can general look at something and relatively tell how big it is based on my experience with the imperial system.

I'm not saying metric isn't better but there's also different languages with some of them being able to express certain emotions or features better than others. Yet you don't see people demanding we all adapt a singular language.

[-] SamirCasino@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

People who grow up almost anywhere else on earth can also tell how big something is based on their experience with metric. That's not something inherently based on the imperial system. The same way you go "oh that's about 3 feet", we go "oh that's about 2 meters".

And of course, switching systems overnight is insane, people are used to imperial, you're right. But at the very least do what Britain did, and have both systems in parallel at the same time, everywhere. And in time, people would get used to metric too.

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[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

We know them.

And you can't learn new things?

[-] alienzx@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago

They already said they're American lol

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[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You should start by adopting metric in anything remotely scientific. Like

  • voltage ✔️
  • current ✔️
  • power ❗ - horses are no longer really relevant, not to mention this - at least appliances use watts
  • pressure ❌ - we got lucky that 10⁵ pascals is around 1 atmosphere so use Pa or bar, not mmHg or PSI
    • BTW, PSI is a dumpster fire of an abbreviation, the correct one is lbf/in²
  • force ❌ - the lb/lbf confusion is not worth it when we have newtons
  • energy ❗ - joules and watt-hours are both fine, calories, electronvolts and TNT-tons less so, but don't use BTU which nobody can really comprehend, or gasoline-gallon-equivalents that nobody knows how to translate to anything else
  • gun caliber ✔️
  • engine volume ☑ (it's cm³ or ml, not cc FFS)
    • strange that motorcycle and gun enthusiasts are the few users of metric length & volume measurement in the US - too bad that these two measurements are never really used in calculations or conversion
  • torque ❌ - this post says Lb-Ft which is wrong on so many levels
  • data ✔️ - OK but data rates should be abbreviated MB/s or kb/s, not kbps, Kb/s, kbit/s or Mbit
  • wire diameter ❌❌ - holy shit, AWG is such a mess - larger wire is smaller number and the formula is so insane that people use lookup tables, also you're afraid of decimal or negative numbers so large wires are 00, 000 etc.

Can you imagine having different units across the world for voltage or data? Like a 2¾-lemon battery or a 2 million floppy hard drive. That would be absolutely insane.

There is an awful lot of inconsistency in the imperial system too, like pound being abbreviated lb, P (in PSI) or even £, or miles being mi or M in MPH

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[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"we know them"

quick, how many barleycorns in a gunthers chain?

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[-] agoseris@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's confusing, since "pound" is used for both force and mass.

1 lbm is roughly 0.45 kg

1 lbf is the force required to accelerate a 1 slug (32.2 lbm) mass 1 ft/s^2.

[-] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know slugs are just snails without shells, but they don't need to go faster

[-] Spedwell@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I don't know what the imperial system standards committee was up to, but I've never met a slug that was 32.2 lbm

You wouldn't know her, she goes to a different school.

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[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee 72 points 1 year ago
[-] getynge@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

You can't just commit war crimes because you're on the Internet

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[-] Synnr@sopuli.xyz 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, they know exactly what they're doing.

The entire karma train could ride in the eBussy's marketing department.

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[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

Doesn't need to go fast, but it will fucking go HARD.

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 39 points 1 year ago
[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Those cheeks were made for clappin'

[-] Synnr@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

And that's just what they'll do

These cheeks were made for clappin.....

[-] BROMETHIUS@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

One of these days these cheeks are gonna... Clap all over dudes.

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[-] mateomaui@reddthat.com 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If someone suggests “the eBussy is bussin” as a sales pitch, they should probably be let go immediately.

edit: no, no promotions for that low hanging fruit, whomever came up with eBussy should be tried at the Hague.

[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Or promoted.

[-] Synnr@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

As the other commenter said, you mean promoted.

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I heard of being horny on main, but this is ridiculous.

Alternative joke workshopping: being horny on mains (electricity)

[-] cynetri@midwest.social 19 points 1 year ago

VRChat femboys be like

[-] wabafee@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

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[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 19 points 1 year ago

How can you be in development/marketing and not google the term you are going to name a product beforehand?

[-] Jimbo@yiffit.net 17 points 1 year ago

Something something dragonsfuckingcars content

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[-] Zoidberg@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

The eBussy would be Debussy's favorite vehicle. And speaking of Debussy...

https://youtu.be/kJUotvfMI7Q?si=-NbHgWZqzR36sG_r

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[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

Looks like one of those Soviet loaf vans

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[-] torpak@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago

If you don't know what this is about, don't google the Name of the vehicle at work.

[-] Kornblumenratte@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

Actually, neither duckduckgo nor google nor bing nor startpage nor searx yields anything besides XBus formerly known as eBussy for me. So, if this name is somehow funny somewhere in the world, google & co are not helpful.

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

You might want to Workshop that name a little bit

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[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What I like the most about what they're doing is the modular body. I hope that concept catches on and is standardized so I can buy a a Mustang body today and a classic VW van body tomorrow.

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[-] Cockmaster6000@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Ayyy bussy lmao

[-] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I hear you can fit 5 in the back 🤛

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