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RajT88today at 4:55 PM7 repliesview on HN

> 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar

Ah, but how many one pound bags of concrete could it hold??

Why bags of anything? This is a poor way of communicating weight. Just say "a modern passenger car".


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functionmousetoday at 6:10 PM

because as a reader, bags of sugar are more engaging to me than bags of concrete.

boogieknitetoday at 5:24 PM

whenever i see things like this i think its a tongue-in-cheek joke

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loloquwowndueotoday at 4:57 PM

Sorry I only understand football field based units of measurement

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CGMthrowawaytoday at 5:46 PM

How about

> 10x stronger than the jaw of a dog

> 20x stronger than a human jaw

> as strong as the jaws of a great white shark

?

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RobRiveratoday at 5:12 PM

How many hogs to the bushel?

tonymilliontoday at 5:23 PM

> Thats’s comparable to a single strand of spaghetti holding up about 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar

Is that cooked or raw spaghetti?

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nathanfriestoday at 4:58 PM

I noticed that too. I feel like this might be a new way of laundering AI written text, just provide the quote verbatim as if the they believe it was actually written by the author.

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