logically, if you can convert pounds to dollars, and you can convert pounds to kilograms, you should be able to convert kilograms to dollars.
and yet, no. unit analysis is bullshit
@foone ah but you see, you convert it to Great British Pounds, so you'd need to divide by Great Britain to get just pounds. Unfortunately, sociology has yet to figure out how to divide by Great Britain, so until then the conversion is just out of reach.
@endrift @foone idk, the EU has some experience in that
@cinebox @foone no see that's divide from, not divide by. There's plenty of historical consensus on how to do the former.

@endrift @foone ah good point

What about Ireland? They got divided by Great Britain pretty good

@cinebox @foone ahhh true. Well maybe we can ask some Ulsters for tips.
@foone Counterpoint: Flour sales.
@foone The problem is that you can only convert it to kilograms sterling
@foone Thanks a lot, Bretton Woods.
@foone You can convert kilograms to dollars with cocaine. I've heard a bunch of songs about it.
@foone i wonder what goods at what moments are a pound a pound
@aloe @foone Aluminum (spot price $1.19/lb) with a little bit of Zinc ($1.34/lb) - specifically, the i, gives Aluminium, which a brit would buy for $1.24 (£1). Aluminum without the i is of course, worthless.
@foone
Depends on what it's a kilogram of, I imagine.
@foone the current conversion rates according to DuckDuckGo set this at $1 being about 0.36 kg
@foone #Funfact: Deutschmarks were originally a weight unit of ½£ !
@foone ChatGPT has no issue with this (I did stop for a bit to think tho)

@foone if in doubt, wolfram alph-

oh.

@foone

You have to convert them back to barley via the megalithic yard then you can compare them to each other and a pint as well! 🍺

@foone

Somewhat related:
https://xkcd.com/3038/

Uncanceled Units

xkcd
@foone this is like when people get foot pounds mixed up with pound feet
@foone Common mixup: you can easily convert them using the intermediary unit, the candygram. Divides up into candy and grams for easy usage, too.
@foone and time is money, thus frequency must be inverse money
@foone i propose we remove imperialism from the equation to solve this issue
@foone how dare you besmirch the tactic I used to justify an answer in a graduate statistical mechanics exam.
@foone I think this is called "currency trading"