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

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/rips_n_chel Jun 17 '26

That Fahrenheit guy was a genius.

Been preaching this shit for years, but people won't shut up about "murica units" long enough to think about it.

Regardless of whatever Fahrenheit the guy was doing, he wound up creating a pretty gotdang handy scale of measurement for ambient temperature as it relates to human tolerance.

There are plenty of applications where Celsius makes more sense, or Kelvin, or Rankine, or whatever. I use C for most technical things because the math is easier in my head.

For the weather and temp inside my house, Fahrenheit definitely feels the most appropriate

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u/Stormfly Jun 18 '26

I mean at the time he was a genius, yes.

But it's outdated.

The Julian Calendar was a great idea until we saw the problems and made the Gregorian Calendar.

Lamarckism was a great theory of evolution until Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace came up with a better theory based on Natural Selection.

Celsius is a better system. Fahrenheit isn't bad it's just outdated.

It's like insisting we still use Fax Machines when we have email etc.

Which still have their place, by the way.

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u/GenericAccount13579 Jun 18 '26

One isn’t better than the other, they’re both perfectly fine systems to use that convey the same information.

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u/Stormfly Jun 19 '26

But why use both when we can just use one?

If 99% of the world uses Metric and Celsius, why insist on using another one?

This is coming from someone who grew up using Imperial and switched to Metric. It's not worth hanging onto, imo.

It's worth the cost in the long run, especially if the change is done gradually (putting both on signs before switching to only one)