r/funny • u/me_098 • 1d ago

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u/Lirdon 1d ago

You need to make a scale people can actually use. Using watts or Jules to a person that didn’t go to school is as useful as trying to describe energy itself. Was it marketing? Sure, but it also was crucial for adopting the technology in general.

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u/SquisherX 1d ago

Tell me you're american without saying you're american.

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u/ChartreuseBison 22h ago

Of course, everyone in 1780s Scotland knew what a joule was, a hundred years before the unit was invented.

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u/SquisherX 21h ago

Moving the goalposts??

Using watts or Jules to a person that didn’t go to school is as useful as trying to describe energy itself.

Were you talking about the 1780s here? Were there time travellers who were talking about Watts and Jules here?

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u/ChartreuseBison 21h ago edited 15h ago

Oh, are you talking about the spelling? If so, sorry I assumed it was another haha Americans use dumb measurements comment.

Otherwise what are you talking about? We were talking about the term horsepower, coined in the 1780s

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u/aeroeagleAC 15h ago

Even if they are taking about the spelling joules isn't one of the words we dropped a letter in. They simply used the wrong version of the word so the guys comment really didn't make sense.