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  • It’s put into a semi truck trailer where other, many times heavier packages are most certainly placed on top of it. Those packages along with the beating it’ll take from the road that desperately need to never be paved with concrete as it goes cross country, it will take some dings. The only way to be sure it’s to make sure your package has adequate packing material.

    Otherwise your cardboard box will turn into a cardboard sack.



  • sorghum@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzTransformations
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    1 month ago

    If your package looks like that after shipping, you didn’t use enough packing material.

    10: pack your box
    20: close box then shake
         If contents of box rattle around
              add more packing material and repeat step 2
         else go to 30
    30: tape box on seams and apply shipping label on box but not on box seams
    40: give box to courier
    











  • sorghum@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyztemperature
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    4 months ago

    This came up a week ago. I made a chart:

    Temps easily relatable conditions
    <0 throw boiling water up in the air to make it snow
    0-10 dangerous freezing cold
    10-20 bitter freezing cold
    20-30 freezing cold
    30-40 coat cold
    50-60 jacket cool
    60-70 cool
    70-80 pleasant
    80-90 warm
    90-100 hot
    100-110 too damn hot for my fat ass/fry an egg outside

    One of the conclusions on why I like Fahrenheit over Celsius for weather is it’s ironically the most base 10 like for a non-SI scale. A phrase like “it’s going to be in the 70s today” has so much information in it. Usually with no weather changes like a front coming in, you’ll know that during the day it’ll be pleasant. At night the temperature range will drop by around 10 degrees and you’ll know you’ll likely need a light jacket or at least long sleeves to stay comfortable.

    If metric wanted to adopt a scale with more graduations that could be easily grouped to 10s, that’d be great. I don’t know why 0-100 was arbitrarily chosen to be the scale for water instead of 0-1000.

    For temp measurements outside of weather I really do prefer Celsius though.




  • Generally no, image quality on color lasers isn’t great but you can print them, just not great. I usually want glossy prints for frames but not often enough for me to print them at home on a consumer quality ink jet printer. I usually go to a print shop or somewhere that has a professional printer.

    Hell, even CVS Walgreens and Walmart have better photo printers than any consumer off the shelf model.