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@milobyte@sunny.garden

2026-04-18 06:51 UTC

i never thought about it this way but a kilocalorie is the same as a watt hour more or less... a 15a wall socket maxes out at around 3 cheeseburgers per hour. eating an apple is like eating 40 AA batteries. walking a mile burns through the equivalent of a fully charged gaming laptop battery

Replies (9)

  • @two@critter.cafe 2026-04-18 07:18

    @milobyte@sunny.garden living somewhere where food energy is typically measured in kilojoules instead of kilocalories makes the equivalence really clear, so i love thinking about this stuff. 8,700 kJ per day means the average human power draw is 100 watts. which is probably pretty close to what the main desktop computer i use averages too.

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  • @Unixbigot@aus.social 2026-04-18 07:47

    @milobyte@sunny.garden @jpm@aus.social “cheeseburgers per hour” gets a one time exception to the “haha americans will do anything except use the metric system” pointing-and-laughing

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  • @tecHunt@mastodon.social 2026-04-18 09:39

    @milobyte@sunny.garden If you want to bulk up, just add some uranium to your diet. With 20 billion calories per gram you'll see results in no time.

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  • @Qbitzerre@unbound.social 2026-04-18 13:42

    @milobyte@sunny.garden a D cell a day keeps the doctor away.

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  • @sara@hachyderm.io 2026-04-19 15:00

    @milobyte@sunny.garden ok fine I'll read The Windup Girl again

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  • @TheTenuousOrder@meow.social 2026-04-21 00:30

    @milobyte@sunny.garden with this laptop level energy use I manage complex math, plotting out writing, context awareness, inference and reasoning, remembering things over time, and piloting a mass around Romys

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  • @Nine@chitter.xyz 2026-04-21 20:13

    @milobyte@sunny.garden damn at least the gaming laptop is more fun

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  • @burnitdown@beige.party 2026-04-21 20:29

    @milobyte@sunny.garden *holding an apple and 40 AA batteries* *forgets* *eats the batteries* oh no

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  • @moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org 2026-04-30 14:46

    @milobyte@sunny.garden and people used to mock me for using food analogies...

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