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Joule is the best unit you can literally apply it to everything because it's essentially a raw unit of energy.
Joules is unfortunately a vector because it's over a distance in a direction. Temperature is a scalar. Sometimes scalars are better than vectors.
Edit:Ok for those who don't actually understand joules in its units J=KG•M^2/s^2 or N•D, it's force which is a vector over a distance, this requires a magnitude and direction. This is because force is a vector and Joules is using force. All of you are starting to be confidently incorrect... Joules is a vector you can search it up.
If you set one of the axis to 1 than it's effectively a scalar that's why I love it so much.
Please, someone fix the meme. Joule x a vector (represented by angles measured in radians).