Comment on 50 T of "game consoles" imported by Valve in the past week

LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You mean it’s not 50 trillion consoles? Enough for everyone on the planet to have 6,000? Damn.

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• lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Other than… importing. Are you for real?

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The headline can add 3 characters instead of making everyone guess what the letter T means

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    • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I am kind of mind blown that people are having problems figuring out T means tons…

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      • Imhotep@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Maybe it’s because it’s so unusual to measure game consoles in tonnes that we look for another explanation.

        And I knew a tonne (1000kg) to be “t”, this capital T is new to me. I just checked wikipedia apparently there’s a fuckton of different tons.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Or you can use your brain, and use context clues to deduce the correct interpretation.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For game consoles?

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• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ton, or tonne? There’s a difference

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ton because it’s the U.S.

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    • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The article says “50 Tonnes” tho, so now what…

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      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        This article says tonnes, but if you go to the original Verge arrival it’s tons.

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• rotopenguin@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Heck, maybe it’s really “TEU” but whoever is reporting has no idea what the EU part means so they tossed it.

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