I played the shit outta Kirby Air Ride as a kid, and honestly Air Riders looks sick. Still not gonna buy a Switch 2 for it, but it's clear the developers looked at what would have been early Mario Kart World development and said what we all said as soon as we saw the trailers: "Yeahhhh no that sucks, we're not doing that."
Sakurai also doing a good job at presenting the new game. Gotta respect anyone who can calmly and thoroughly explain game mechanics as they're happening, while playing the (honestly frantic) game itself. He's also throwing so much low-key shade at Mario Kart World throughout and I'm kinda here for it.
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Anthropy
in reply to Anthropy • • •A Snickers is about 570Wh, which is like eating a very sizable ebike battery's entire charge in one go.
A Big Mac slightly tops that with about 650Wh. A slice of pizza is about half that with 340Wh.
Meanwhile, fruits like apples/bananas are in the ~100-130 watt-hour oversized twice laptop battery ballpark, and a cup of greek yogurt is about the same, so a big cup of fruit-filled yogurt is still less calories than a big mac or snickers!
A full english breakfast can be over 1kWh! Quickcharge ⚡⚡
Anthropy
in reply to Anthropy • • •to the people posting "but joules!": mastodon.derg.nz/@anthropy/115…
As much as you're right, it's also less intuitive in daily life. Knowing an egg or slice of bread is about 80-90Wh means I can go 'omg a big laptop battery worth power', 324kJoules is very arbitrary there if you don't use it much.
This is also a half-joking post, like, I'm not going to argue to replace anything currently used in science because as far as I can tell most sane scientists use the correct SI units for research papers
Anthropy (@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz)
Mastodonsyn
in reply to Anthropy • • •Riku Voipio
in reply to Anthropy • • •Or go the other way around, make snickers bars the unit of energy the way "library of Congress" is used as unit of data /s
"My car quite energy efficient, it goes 3km on one Snickers bar worth of energy"
GinevraCat
in reply to Anthropy • • •evan
in reply to Anthropy • • •Counter proposal, how about the power utilities start using snickers-bar-equivalents (SBE) when they send me the monthly efficiency reports. Or maybe let me choose my snack of choice?
(Not that I believe little actions to reduce energy usage on my part are going to save the glaciers or whatever, but it would be hilarious.)
Ferdi F. Zebua (backup)
in reply to Anthropy • • •But there's still the question though of calorie-to-electricity conversion efficiency... (disclaimer I am *not* a bioengineer nor a physics researcher or anything like that who would possibly know anything about anything like that.) (But still as a layman I do wonder.)
Counter-counter-point: What if we start measuring food-energy levels using Horsepower...
"My Snickers bar has 0.76 Horsepower!" *Munch-munch!*
Klastrowy Bebok
in reply to Anthropy • • •bigmac eaten in 5 minutes gives you ≈ European 1-phase socket power (rated at 32A)
And today I ate Snickers in less than a minute, which is the whole three phases
NOW IT MAKES SENSE
grouchox
in reply to Anthropy • • •Bruno Philipe
in reply to Anthropy • • •it also makes you appreciate:
* how efficient our technology is, relative to…
* how expensive our bodies are to run!
Frank
in reply to Anthropy • • •Andrew
in reply to Anthropy • • •Mx Autumn
in reply to Anthropy • • •Vick Forcella ™🌈🌳❄️☑️:verifi
in reply to Anthropy • • •artemist
in reply to Anthropy • • •ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
in reply to Anthropy • • •How many Cheeseburger would I need to eat for 36kWh? I want to know if I can beat my #EV at quick charging (½h).
Or I could convert the EV efficiency to Cheeseburger/100km or miles/Cheeseburger (which doesn't feel more wierd then the other imperial units).
Garrett LeSage
in reply to Anthropy • • •Nazo
in reply to Anthropy • • •I can find no flaw in your argument.
This should be made into law immediately.
Otte Homan - remember Geordie
in reply to Anthropy • • •chell (friend of eggbug)
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in reply to Anthropy • • •november
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in reply to Anthropy • • •AT
in reply to Anthropy • • •• unambiguous: the ‘ton’ in ‘microton’ refers to metric tons by definition;
• 1 μt = 1 kcal, so only the units need to be changed on packaging;
• familiar: kt’s and Mt’s of TNT equivalent are familiar quantities for people au fait w/ global affairs (they haunt their dreams);
• consistent: mankind is put on a level footing w/ other massively destructive forces
Leeloo
in reply to Anthropy • • •When I grew up (in Europe), we used Joule.
1 Wh = 3600 Joule (1 joule = 1 watt-second).
Though for some reason ingredients lists on food I buy seem do have gone back to using kcal, which I've never learned to convert.
The cat who walks thru walls
in reply to Anthropy • • •Moz
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in reply to Anthropy • • •GutterPoetry
in reply to Anthropy • • •GavG
in reply to Anthropy • • •the problem is, most peoples' bomb calorimeters measure in Celsius which is a doddle to convert to calories 🤷 so we'd either have to do more maths or couple some kind of Seebeck generator and a multimeter 🤔
I'd rather redefine the Celcius scale TBH, the phase changes of water at atmospheric pressure have always seemed too arbitrary for my liking anyway.
Darkoneko
in reply to Anthropy • • •by cake you say ?
he's going the distance
he's going for speed 🧑🎤 🎵
I_give_u_worms
in reply to Anthropy • • •Anselm "Two Sheds" Schüler
in reply to Anthropy • • •Leonard Ritter
in reply to Anthropy • • •Benjamin Schmidt
in reply to Anthropy • • •Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥
in reply to Anthropy • • •twifkak
in reply to Anthropy • • •Licho
in reply to Anthropy • • •i really pushed for that around 12 years ago. I used joules as the unit of choice. IIRC we use close to 10MJ per day. That almost the number you got.
I had my foods converted
Schiffskatze
in reply to Anthropy • • •Bitch-tier bpd bitch
in reply to Anthropy • • •Lena
in reply to Anthropy • • •We should do the same with kWh instead of liters for selling fuel, because ultimately this is what we're after when burning it.
- comparable what goes into the car and gets consumed for heating
- comparable between electric and nonelectric cars
- comparable *to yourself* when combined with your proposal
Of course, we should also stop needing fossil fuels, but this is another story. Which, I think, could be accelerated if it would become clear what we're doing.
Pavel Machek
in reply to Anthropy • • •Neil Gall
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in reply to Anthropy • • •Vash
in reply to Anthropy • • •At least in Germany beside the calories the energy is printed on food packages in Joule but it is easily converted to wattseconds: 1J = 1Ws
So at least here your suggestion is sort of reality already. 😉
zilti
in reply to Anthropy • • •Z̈oé ⛵
in reply to Anthropy • • •rakoo
in reply to Anthropy • • •𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚊𝚗
in reply to Anthropy • • •Peter
in reply to Anthropy • • •No! That is what Joules are for.
No calories, no Watt hours, no British Thermal Units, no horsepower hours.
Just Joules