@haydesigner That would be a totally dope golf bag with that blue EL piping!

@jandrese Keep in mind that marketeers like to bloviate.

@jandrese beat me to it
I kind of wonder if they did it deliberately to drive engagement in the comments

@jandrese I first read it as km-ah, which sounds confusingly energy dense.

@jandrese @phendrick 20,000 of something tiny “that nobody understands anyway” looks so much more impressive than 20 of something that a good many of us know damn well is a useful amount.

@jandrese @werehatrack Maybe they should convert to units involving calories, so evrryone would think, Yeah, I know those.

@jandrese @phendrick @werehatrack except if I remember right from school, what we call “calories” are actually kilocalories…. So, there.

@jandrese @pmarin @werehatrack
A calorie is a kilomillicalorie.
But yeah, there are big calories and small calories. Part of the overarching plan to frustrate and further confuse students.

@jandrese @phendrick @pmarin @werehatrack Which one (1 lor 1000) depends on the case of the “c”, which most people are too lazy to notice.

@jandrese @pafloogled @pmarin @werehatrack I strive for the Big C, if it’s food we’re talking about.

@jandrese @phendrick @pmarin @werehatrack

But yeah, there are big calories and small calories. Part of the overarching plan to frustrate and further confuse students.

Ok so this is a good reason or excuse to just not look at calories on food items and just enjoy eating one’s chocolate and ice cream instead.

@jandrese @Kidsandliz @pmarin @werehatrack Exactly the plan I’ve been following!

@phendrick So it’s an integral part?

@ergomeh
That comment is both derivative and anti-derivative.

@ergomeh And could carry it to your dark bathroom as you pull the shower curtain back…

@craigthom At least they didn’t do the Asian Marketing Approved Adjustment and pump it up to 20,000,000 instead. (The commonly-seen Amazon, ebay, Temu and AliExpress claims about flashlight output are truly ridiculous; one tester found that most of them fail to meet even 2% of their specified lumens.)

@craigthom @werehatrack I saw a description of the Chinese xanxia style of literature that explained that all the numbers are multiplied by a factor of a thousand to a million; instead of walking 20 or 200 miles, they walk 20,000 or 200,000,000 miles. I’m pretty sure the Chinese advertisers went to the same school.

@jsfs @werehatrack That explains the hemp gummies on Amazon with “15,000,000mg”, or 33 lbs per bottle.

@craigthom 20km is almost a half-marathon, right? That would make it less confusing.

@SnDMommy Oh, to be back in “old school” again, when life was simpler.

@SnDMommy And 39 of those watts were for the heat.

@rpstrong Good thing its USB port is type C instead of micro or it would be hard pass for me.

@werehatrack On the other hand, it’s a good thing five power banks aren’t enough for me or I wouldn’t have bought this one.
/showme fussy-marred-toast

@tnarg42 Has anyone figured out how to remove the stickiness when that happens?

@ItalianScallion @tnarg42 rubbing alcohol has usually worked pretty well for me.

Thanks @werehatrack!

@ItalianScallion @werehatrack Hasn’t worked for me.

@ItalianScallion @Kyeh @werehatrack Walmart 91% isopropyl alcohol and tough paper towels has worked well for me. It does take more than just a quick wipe though. Be generous in wetting the paper towel and you need to use some elbow grease. The first couple of passes will start to soften the rubber and start turning into sludge that can be pushed around. Then successive wipes will transfer more and more off the surface until you work though the entire layer. I had to clean the top panel and bottom feet of my old laptop that came with that texture as a “feature”. It is now slippery smooth and doesn’t leave black sticky rubber spots everywhere it was sitting.

KuoH

@ItalianScallion @werehatrack
@kuoh I’ll try the extra-strength alcohol, thanks.