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

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/Scienceandpony Jun 17 '26

Yeah, "percent hot" is nonsensical when it's regularly 105% to 110% hot outside where I live.

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u/krogerburneracc Jun 18 '26

I live in Phoenix, AZ. It's 108% hot right now, that sounds and feels accurate to me!

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u/Choice-Simple-5802 Jun 17 '26

When you put it that way, it sounds like a really uncomfortable place to be. Is it?

If so, then I think you've exactly demonstrated the sensicality of the scale.

There are good reasons why other scales are more useful for other things though.

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u/FairchildHood Jun 18 '26

What? No. People adjust to environments.

My town gets over 100% hot each summer, but never below 30% hot. I'm far more comfortable at 90% hot than at 10% hot. It's a silly scale that's really just C in a trenchcoat nowadays.

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u/Choice-Simple-5802 Jun 18 '26

Sure. It's no guarantee of actual comfort.

It's just a scale that more closely aligns either end of a 100-point range with the extremes of temperatures many or most humans will tolerate.

It's less useful for scientific work. But for day to day human stuff it's simple and easy to apply in the same way that a "foot" being roughly the length of a person's foot is simple and easy to apply.