AnthropyAug 19, 2025

I propose replacing calories with watt-hours.

- Almost same value (1 kilocalorie / Calorie is ~1.1 watt-hours)
- more intuitive for people who use electricity
- never the confusion between calories (science), Calories (food, which is technically kilocalories), kilocalories, and 'kilo Calories' (which is technically megacalories)
- you get to feel more like a robot with your 2.5kwh power consumption a day which may feel like validation to some creatures on this fediverse
- become powered by cake

Show threadAnthropyAug 19, 2025

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 ⚡⚡

Show threadsynAug 19, 2025
@anthropy tried pushing a big mac into my computer once an hour but it pretty quickly stopped working and the doordash guy started giving me weird looks after the 3rd order
Show threadRadieschen
@syn you should've taken the drive out of the big Mac and just pushed that into the other computer
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Aug 19, 2025 at 7:50pmWeb
Show threadGeorg Arne SpendenAug 20, 2025
@anthropy @syn @radieschen the diskette looked molten