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The Crash No One Sees Coming: Food System Failure (www.forbes.com)
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[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Americans use calorie for the SI kcal. Allergic to metric prefixes.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Americans use Calorie for kcal.

It's capitalized.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, legally. But not colloquially. This is a colloquial publication (Forbes). They used calorie knowing Americans would know it as a Calorie or kcal

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Assholes never seem to miss an opportunity to shoehorn their pet project into every fuckdamn conversation...

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Hey asshole, people live within the context of their own lives, not yours. I have no fucking pet project, I'm an American, this is an American publication, someone in the comments got the math wrong because they were using SI calorie for the colloquial American term for kilocalorie (or at least, that would explain a three digit shift easily).

Don't insult me just because you didn't understand. Get clarification, you fuck.