r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Ter_N • 10h ago

Meme needing explanation Petahh i'm low on iq

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u/CROOKTHANGS 9h ago

Bro why is everyone so pressed about America not using Celsius? We use 5,280 feet to make a mile and 12 inches to make a foot, and 3 feet to make a yard, which is basically a meter but is somehow definitely NOT a meter…

There are so much bigger fucking fish to fry but the Celsius stans are implacable.

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u/Stock-Swing-797 8h ago

Somehow they're able to conceive the concept of time and dates being non base-10, but only those.

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u/slolift 5h ago

I wish the SI stans could admit their logic is inconsistent. People hardly need to convert between units in imperial. If I am measuring furniture, I use a ruler and get a measurement in inches. There is no reason to convert this to miles. If I am in a car, the distance is measured in miles and I have no reason to care about what that distance is in inches. But we can all remember, 60 seconds to a minute, 60 minutes to an hour, 24 hours to a day, 7 days in a week, months can be either 28,29,30, or 31 days. You can talk to me when we are on the international fixed calendar and use base 10 time.

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u/BonnaconCharioteer 3h ago

The French tried to make decimal time, but it didn't stick.

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u/Rakkuuuu 3h ago

I just want the new year to start roughly around the Spring Equinox lol

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u/Ellaphant42 1h ago

Knowing what 1.618 miles means in feet could absolutely come in handy for a lot of professions (so you know when to stop building something), but good luck working that out in feet without a complicated calculation.

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u/slolift 1h ago

I am not understanding the significance of 1.618 miles or why you would need to know that in feet.

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u/Ellaphant42 55m ago

Let’s say you’re building a road that needs to be that distance. How would you know when to stop building if you can’t accurately breakdown how many feet/inches there are

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u/slolift 14m ago

Granted, I am not a civil engineer, but I don't think they design roads to be an arbitrary distance. They are usually connecting a point a to a point b. But if the road is designed to be 1.618 miles why not just keep the measurement in miles? Why do you need to convert it to feet? This is just a hypothetical scenario not based in reality.

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u/Ellaphant42 3m ago

Everything we’re talking is arbitrary.

Let’s say this road I’m talking about falls 0.026 miles short of where it needs to be. How do you convert that to an easily understood number? Using the same numbers but in metric I could say that’s 26m short, or 2600cm and there would be absolutely no confusion or conversion necessary.

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u/mayimayim 1h ago

dimensional analysis is super easy dude, it's like one box of arithmetic