Marketing people are so dumb about measurement units.

What about selling power banks in amp-hours instead of kilo-milli-amp-hours? Would that be too easy?

Dumb fucks.

@alda Oh, my pet peeve is that because they recycled ‘watt’ as a measurement of light bulb brightness (based on the brightness of tungsten filament light bulbs), the actual power usage of light bulbs is now being shown in ‘watt-hours per hour’

@alda I wish they would sell them in watt-hours or at least specify the voltage if using amp-hours

@dpk it's the Americans, right?

@noisytoot it is difficult when USB is no longer just 5 V.

@alda I think usually when selling power banks in mAh they use the voltage of the battery (3.7V) rather than the output voltage

@noisytoot Batteries usually come in amperes.

@alda I mean the nominal voltage of most lithium ion batteries

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Big Numbers are more impressive than small ones.

"Only 5.0 Ah? I'll take the 2,500 mAh one, because 2,500 is bigger, and I don't know what those letters mean."

@alda @noisytoot
Lunchables is a highly-processed food product that combines a carbohydrate (usually crackers) with a protein/fat (cheese or processed meat) and sugar (cookies), sealed in a shelf-stable package.

They have a current TV ad, where two kids are in a school lunchroom, and negotiating trading lunches:

"I'll give you one fifth of my cookies for one third of your pizza.
Don't mobile me, Harold. Two tenths."

@RealGene @noisytoot I need to roll a d20 for "Knowledge: Americana"