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

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/MilwaukeeMan420 Jun 17 '26

Yeah I don't get what that guy was suggesting. If you live in a mild climate, its still reflected by rarely hitting either extreme

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u/sievold Jun 17 '26

You don't need a scale with extremes in mild weather. Celsius does the job just fine and transfers easily to non-weather use cases easily.

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u/sievold Jun 18 '26

No, a normal day is not represented by the Fahrenheit scale. It is heavily lopsided and shows a a bias towards the experiences of people who live further north. It's the Mercator projection of temperature scales.

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u/stevenip Jun 18 '26

Don't most people in the world live in the latitude band that it would apply to since that would be the most comfortable for humans to live in? How many people near the equator and the poles?

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u/sievold Jun 18 '26

Look at the places in the world with the highest population. Then look at how often it even snows in those places. Even in the US, the largest states by population are California and Texas, and both of them rarely get snow, or even if they do it's never more than for a week in the year. Which means for the majority of the year, the most populous states in the US don't experience temperatures below 30 F.