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minus-squareCloutAtlas [he/him]linkfedilinkEnglish19•2 years agoFDA: the safe amount of caffeine an adult can have per day is 400mg Panera: this lemonade has 390mg of caffeine in it Average American: I don’t speak metric, 3 lemonades pls ??? Why are soft drinks measured in metric in Yankistan?
minus-squareSelf_Hating_Moid [he/him]linkfedilinkEnglish8•2 years agoBecause everything here should be metric but amerikkka decided to be a special sjowflake to say fuck you to the civilized world
minus-squareCloutAtlas [he/him]linkfedilinkEnglish5•2 years agoRight but soft drinks (and apparently the CDC) measures caffeine in mg which goes against the usual imperial measurements, giving the average person even less frame of reference to how much they’re ingesting
minus-squareusernamesaredifficul [he/him]linkfedilinkEnglish5•2 years agosafety warnings being in a system of measurement the people being warned don’t know is the issue. Yes it’s dumb America doesn’t use metric but far more importantly it’s dumb that it doesn’t say on the drink that you can’t safely drink 3 of them
FDA: the safe amount of caffeine an adult can have per day is 400mg
Panera: this lemonade has 390mg of caffeine in it
Average American: I don’t speak metric, 3 lemonades pls
???
Why are soft drinks measured in metric in Yankistan?
Because everything here should be metric but amerikkka decided to be a special sjowflake to say fuck you to the civilized world
Right but soft drinks (and apparently the CDC) measures caffeine in mg which goes against the usual imperial measurements, giving the average person even less frame of reference to how much they’re ingesting
safety warnings being in a system of measurement the people being warned don’t know is the issue.
Yes it’s dumb America doesn’t use metric but far more importantly it’s dumb that it doesn’t say on the drink that you can’t safely drink 3 of them