At what velocity are the box's dimensions and effective mass determined?
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USPS GOAT. Fuck privatización.
Milten Friedman is the reason we are where we are today.
But sometimes I have mildly inconveniencing experiences with the postal service in my extremely rural town that require me to navigate my extremely rural town's nearly non-existent public services so we should absolutely surrender complete control to Amazon
You see, this one service does all things right but one of them irks me. Meanwhile this other one does everything wrong but has one thing I agree with. I'll switch to it.
Private companies love the heartland and will work out of patriotism even if rural routes are less profitable! 🤡
We recently moved in a very rural area. The rural carrier for our new route gave us a form to fill out, and by the end of the week we were receiving mail. UPS and FedEX on the other hand, wouldn't deliver to us for a month. USPS will carry our packages up our driveway to our steps; UPS and FedEX throw them in the ditch by the mailbox.
Also, did you know you can buy stamps, cards, and envelopes directly from the rural carrier? Here's a fun quote from the rural customer registration form:
Rural carriers maintain a supply of stamps, cards, and envelopes for sale. Additionally, your carrier will accept Certified Mail™, Registered Mail™, insure packages, and prepare money orders. Generally, rural carriers can extend practically all services available at a Post Office. Please purchase a sufficient supply of stamps and affix proper postage on all outgoing mail.
Imagine how bleak things would be if Amazon was running the show. USPS is truly the best
Imagine how bleak things would be if Amazon was running the show. USPS is truly the best
I'm sorry you are only subscribed to Amazon letter prime, in order to get your packages you must collect them from your nearest whole foods or upgrade to prime plus.
We're sorry prime plus is not available in your service area.
I would expect better from UPS, and as usual the USPS surprises me with their quality.
I would think Americans of every political stripe would say the post office is the best government institution we have. That tells you that attempts to undermine them aren't in our best interest.
8 5/8" x 5 3/8" x 1 5/8"
Don't write yourself off yet, learn metric.
For most of the rest of the world, that's about 219 mm × 137 mm × 41,3 mm
For those of us that don’t use arbitrary made up units at all, that’s 1.35515609E+34 Planck Length x 8.477460474E+33 Planck Length x 2.555613997E+33 Plank Length.
Use real measurements. A meter is how far light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second? Statements made by the utterly deranged.
Finally a truly universally usable measurement for everyday use
I'm sorry but... Length and Units? Actually disgusting. There is only ONE thing that exists, and it is inversely proportional the base rate of growth in half of a circular degree about a complex orthogonal dimension.
moving from Europe to America the amount of times I'm like "it's 12 3/8ths" to try to, yknow, join in, and everyone's like "call it 12 or 13"
motherfucker that's a huge gap!
It's only in your head you feel left out or looked down on...
just try your best, try everything you can
And don't you worry what they tell themselves when you're away
Apparently neither of you are aware of how dense I am. ;)
But do you fit into that box? 🤔
Nothing one of those fancy new blenders couldn't handle.
I have mixed feelings about this.
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He said "physically" which is wrong because Neutronium. What he possibly meant was "practically" in which Osmium would be the only element you can practically fit in the box since it isn't possible to synthesize neutronium at that amount or handle that much safely.
I guarantee that it is physically impossible to fill a cardboard box with pure neutronium. Is it physically possible to get over 70 lbs of the stuff in there in a stable, shippable manner? I don't know, and neither do you. It's certainly far, FAR beyond the capability of any technology on Earth, but I guess it might maybe possibly not break the laws of physics. I can't prove that though, and neither can you, so neither of us can actually prove the statement wrong.
If mailing 70 lbs of unstable particles that can't exist outside of a lab is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
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No you mean theoretical. As neutronium is a theoretical substance. To our knowledge there's no way to find it outside of neuron stars. It is therefore physically impossible, within our current state of knowledge.
It's highly unlikely, bordering on theoretically impossible to assume that mankind will be able to synthesize enough to fill a cardboard box with. Then the practical side says even if that was possible, there would probably no way a cardboard box could contain that (and a plethora of other practical impossibilities).
Well, you wouldn't actually need to fill the box, just exceed the weight limit. And since neuronium weighing just 70 Pounds would have negligible volume, the problem becomes on of making a containment chamber that would fit inside the box.
That and the neutrons would rapidly undergo beta decay producing a LOT of free energy and other particles.
Yeah there physical and practical reasons intermixed!
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Imagine shipping this tiny little box and it weighs 60 pounds. Poor mailman.
Last package of the da... Yo wtf?!?
It's the 32 KG mop all over again
Note: Above video is marketing for an exercise plan, but it's also funny to watch occasionally when he has new episodes. As far as I know, the weights are real, but they're always loaded funny in the videos. Max plates visually for the weight the dudes are lifting
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Neutronium... I am having early 2000s trivia website flashbacks! Wasn't a teaspoon of that stuff several tons or something?
On the order of a billion tons.
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Wait until I fill that box with quark-gluon plasma.
I'll go one better.
A (non-spinning uncharged) black hole with diameter 1+5/8th inches (so it fits in the box) has a mass of about 2.3 earths.
(Near as I can tell QGP filling the whole box is around a ten billionth of that.)
Of course the box would Very quickly no longer be outside the black hole. QGP would also cause the box to no longer be a container in short order. To put it mildly.
It would also reach its destination very quickly. Or rather the other way around. Free delivery.
Wouldn't the box forever be outside the black hole... as in just on the surface as it would need to exceed the speed of light in order to actually enter the event horizon?...or is that our of date knowledge?
You need to supercede the speed of light to exit the singularity, not enter it. Now we would see an image of the box entering the black hole on its "surface" until that faded, but the box itself would still very much enter the event horizon and be destroyed.
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It’s because all the packages have the same domestic weight limit.
Seems silly, but makes sense in the context.
This is the case for most "Dumb laws": there's an outlier that becomes kinda silly, but it's not really worth the effort to change.
I saw one "It's illegal to hunt Blue Whales in Idaho". Because it's illegal to hunt endangered species in Idaho, and Blue Whales are endangered, not because legislators were super concerned about saving Idaho's whale population.
I find that there's usually a good reason for seemingly stupid shit in this world.
Was shooting the shit with a customer who was bitching about grass seed bags being full of inert materials. Had no idea! Another customer chimed in that the extra crap is to help if feed properly in a spreader.
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at a typical temperature and pressure, sure.
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