Absolutely soaking wet
My god if I were being asked that question it would take all of my self-restraint not to answer the judge’s question with a question.
This could be my autism shining through at full force but my first question would be to ask what the weight of an average newspaper is (people outside of the industry aren’t going to have a fucking clue). If the judge brushed it aside or gave a perfunctory answer I’d ask about font size in mm.
Nobody weighs a newspaper, nobody has any clue how much they weigh, and nobody knows what a measurement like 3 tons of newspaper actually represents. These sorts of comparisons are generally only useful for a scale which is so large or so small that they are purely abstract to humans (think the scale used for microscopic sizes or for astronomical measurements) or where it’s useful to understand things in a relative sense (e.g. talking about a person who is walking across the US and comparing that number of steps to how many years it would take the average person to accure that amount of steps.)
I’d just want to create an opportunity for the judge to humiliate themselves by talking themselves into a hole. If you don’t know how much an average newspaper weighs, what the fuck use is a scale of measurement based on that going to be?
It sounds like he never really figured out the television, either.
“Let’s say Television were film. How many reels of celluloid would it be?”
Let’s say the Internet was a series of tubes. What color would the tubes be?
Vsauce music
I remember him saying internet weighs as much as a strawberry.
The weight of of 1s and 0s matter for reason
8.6 trillion standard size newspapers however much those weigh. Do people still bother printing newspapers? how tf would anyone know how much they weigh.
Some random homeless person who smokes meth and is addicted to seroquel (i.e. me) would make a better Supreme Court justice.
I get that like, generational infighting is bullshit, and class solidarity is vastly more important; but gerontocracy definitely sucks.
What weighs more: a kilo of newspapers or a kilo of YouTubes?
Only a spoonful
If all phone calls were letters sent through the post, how big would the mailbag need to be?
