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Magicalus@discuss.tchncs.deM to Anything But Metric@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish · 10 days ago

Energy Drink Cans

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Energy Drink Cans

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Magicalus@discuss.tchncs.deM to Anything But Metric@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish · 10 days ago
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cross-posted from: https://possumpat.io/post/4683031

New unit of measurement

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    I don’t understand what this is or is saying, what are we measuring?

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      Hail (the size of (energy drink cans)) pelts Texas

      Does that help?

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      Yeah, it’s a bit of a garden path sentence. The headline is using energy drink cans as a size measurement for hail, which is falling over Texas. Then it goes into a tangent about a tornado for some reason.

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        i thought energy drink pelts is something that energy Drinks produce when sitting too long or smth…

        this makes a lot more sense.

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