Did no one notice I bought 20 oz not 16.9 oz bottle I got ripped off
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2026
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I saw that immediately, that's so illegal. You should record it and report it to the appropriate 3-letter agency (no idea which one). Doubt you'll get the money back, but making the assholes that run that machine deal with the government would be worth it to me.
still waiting on any company, agency, government to give a shit about the grocery stores selling eg 200g of meat but only giving 165g. not the prepackaged ceap, actual cuts of meat. numbers are examples but it happens way too much where the actual is always less then the advertised weight.
buy a scale, weight meat. get enraged
In the US, your state's department of weights and measures might care. They're the ones who verify grocery store scales, taxi cab fare meters, gas pumps... they exist to make sure you're not getting ripped off. If you're in a blue state they care, in a red state ymmv.
I live in Texas and the State Dept of Agriculture takes this kind of stuff very seriously. You have to report it though, which might be the other commenter's issue
Probably ESA as it's 500ml in metrics and all.
Soda bottles in the us shows both ounces and milititers.
Large bottles are sold as "2 liter soda"...that's it.
Smaller bottles are in ounces (with the metric label just a requirement I guess - no one I know here talks about buying a 500ml soda)
Everything else is ounces or gallons, I'm sure someone will 'umm actually' me...but generally nothing else is metric; like milk and juice.
America: fuck metric, unless you're talking soda or bullets
...science and drugs
I know it's a funny joke, but we actually use metric quite a bit, especially for volume
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Naw mate, I just noticed you clicked on that shit when you could have been enjoying a Dr. Pepper. Wtf?
noticed the same with 1.25L bottles replacing 1.5L and 1.7L replacing 2L
Yeah but the machine is in ounces, where the can is in Florida ounces. Once you convert it's perfectly fine.
TIL that an American pint (500ml) is smaller than a British pint (568ml).
The American pint is actually only 473ml! That's a half litre bottle.
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476 mL, or 16 oz
TIL Brits have bigger pints, not just small baby sized shots! Does it balance out?
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"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY FUCKING CALORIES?!"
oh I get it they didn't change out the stickers on the button. the vendor still probably an a hole
Ran out of bottles using freedom units, had to use rest-of-the-world units instead. Thanks, Trump.
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Its like when you buy a 1tb drive and the real capacity shows up as like 920Gb lol
There are (mainly) 3 reasons for that:
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TB vs TiB: Computers don't count drive space in metric units, they count it in powers of 2. This means that, for you, 1 TB is 1000 GB, while for a computer, 1 TiB is 1024 GiB. Drive manufactirers take advantage of this, and only count space in metric (TB). So when you plug the drive into your computer, and it converts to GiB, you end up with 1 TB = 931.3 GiB. Windows hasn't helped this confusion, I remember it doing something weird like counting in GiB and displaying it as GB.
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Reserved space: Many OSes reserve some space on their drives for special stuff. This is especially the case with Linux and ext4, where it by default reserves a percentage of the drive to root. This is to optimize distribution of files around the disk, which limits fragmentation. The system slowly frees more of this space as you fill up the disk, and at the end it should leave you with 100% of the space.
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Formatting: Empty drive space isn't the same as usable drive space. In order to use a drive you need to format it, which doesn't just blank it. Formatting a drive adds a filesystem to it, which is what allows you to write files and folders to it. This filesystem takes up some space, and reserves more space for inodes and, in some cases, a filesystem journal. Some filesystems have even more features that also take up some space.
GB to measure binary gigabytes came first. GiB was invented because advertisers and drive manufacturers are evil.
Edit: and judges are technologically illiterate.
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68ml short of a Pint in my book. Dunno where they got the idea that 500ml is 1.05 pints
A pint in the united states is 16 fluid ounces (473.18 ml)
If only there was an unambiguous unit to measure fluids...
olympic swimming pools for sure, football fields is for area, and elegants for weight
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The silver lining is that people (Americans?) will be consuming less soda.
How could this possibly even happen?
Has to be corporate greed.
The six-packs of bottles sold in grocery stores have been 500mL for years. Probably somebody filled the machine with them. (The label should say, "Not Labelled for Individual Sale" near the barcode, if so.)
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A diet pepsi by the look of it
That's called "mislabeling"... or 'bait and switch'.
Reminds me of the deodorant I just bought that's literally only halfway filled.
From Wikipedia:
The imperial pint (≈ 568 mL) is used in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and other Commonwealth countries. In the United States, two kinds of pint are used: a liquid pint (≈ 473 mL) and a less common dry pint (≈ 551 mL).
Yes, but 20 ounces doesn't equal 16 ounces, even for great values of 16.
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