Mickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 9 days agoAttempt to motivate people to take the stairslemmy.worldimagemessage-square98fedilinkarrow-up1390arrow-down17
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minus-squareLittle_mouse@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up7·9 days agoThey try to make a distinction when referring to kilocalories as Calories, it’s literally just that Calorie (kcal) is capitalized and calorie (cal) is not. It’s a dumb system.
minus-squareNielsBohron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·edit-29 days agoIt’s all just because Americans edit: the majority of Americans have a pathological aversion to metric prefixes
They try to make a distinction when referring to kilocalories as Calories, it’s literally just that Calorie (kcal) is capitalized and calorie (cal) is not.
It’s a dumb system.
It’s all just because
Americansedit: the majority of Americans have a pathological aversion to metric prefixes