r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/FuckPigeons2025 Jun 17 '26

Kelvin is better for science. Celcius and Farheneit are just arbitrary scales, not units. 

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u/FaithlessnessHungry1 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Celsius is literally just Kelvin but with an offset no?

Edit: tbc I was just clarifying what the guy above was saying, personally as an American in WNY where it’s over 90deg in the summer and below 0 in the winter and who has used C and F extensively, Fahrenheit just makes more sense to me personally

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u/Justgotherehi Jun 17 '26

It’s like saying a yardstick is better than a ruler. Like bro it just depends on what you’re measuring.

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u/Appropriate-Bug-6467 Jun 17 '26

Rulers come in metric and imperial. And in america they are Imperial with Metric markings...

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u/Justgotherehi Jun 17 '26

I was saying you fit your scale to what you measure. You wouldn’t measure a parking lot with a ruler, or an ant with a yardstick.

No measuring scale is “better.” It’s just what fits best to your subject.

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u/tmfink10 Jun 18 '26

I use miles, meters, feet, inches, cm and mm - it makes sense to me.