• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Two of them is roughly the size of a pickup truck…

    Like, it’s volume, they could say X gallons, but it would be hard for people to visualize. So people use an example most readers would be familiar with.

    Have you honestly never wondered why journalists use random things? Or has no one taken the time to answer before?

    It’s been common literally for centuries before either of us were born, but most likely all of human existence. Just with animals like buffalo instead of pickup trucks.

    • andrewta@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The problem is he’s Unfortunately, short, so he has a hard time on visualizing things like the size of pick up, which are quite large