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@lorentz had literally no issues with youtube
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@antigermgerm jeebus is not your mom to tell you what to do
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@tosensei not really. wars span for some time, so they are not a point in time from the standpoint of a year
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being a coward, i guess?
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My job is okay, but I am not happy with anything in general. Does that count?
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You could have ditched chrome a long time ago and still can do that now
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@donkulator why would one feel guilty for that?
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@tosensei if the event spans the whole or a major part of the year - sure.
Otherwise the event is a mathematical point in time, which has no length in time to have a whole year assigned to it. It's a dot between two lines -
@tosensei what do you mean?
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that's fine. sometimes i eat spicy food to "feel alive"
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what do you even mean?
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money?
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@CoreFusionX i'm just joking
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the best thing about humans is just how infinitely retarded they are
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@Lensflare those are not cardinal numbers and I am already tired of talking to a wall about that.
There is astronomical year numbering, which is sort of what you wanted, but implemented in a sane manner, which does not break current time scale. -
@CoreFusionX light is a vibe :D
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@Lensflare if it's "first" then why the number is 0? It is supposed to be an ordinal number, which start from 1.
Your approach just ignores the fact that ordinal numbers and cardinal numbers are different sets of numbers and there are no negative numbers in ordinals and no zero in ordinals. The year number does not indicate a span of time, it indicates an ordinal number of the year. Breaking the whole ordinal number system and pushing everything by one for the only fucking sake of not thinking about one specific edge case is probably one of the stupidest ideas i've ever heard. If you do that now you have to mind the WHOLE FUCKING RANGE because it's shifted by one. Very fucking convenient, Einstein. -
@retoor what do you mean?
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If you cannot understand the concept of ordinals, I can't really do much.
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@Lensflare "0 AD" is not "first". It's clearly "zeroeth". Your approach creates even more weird arithmetic
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@Lensflare fiddling and faking numbers just because "you will have weird arithmetic" is not a correct approach
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@Lensflare and you are mixing cardinal and ordinal numbers. a baby is 0 years old, but it is in its first year of life
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@Lensflare no. the day after his birth would be the first day of the first year since his birth. the event is atomic, it does not span the whole year for it to be "the year of his birth"
there cannot be a year zero. it's not "1 year after" it's "the first year since"
technically only one single day does not belong to both 1AD and 1BC -
@tosensei why should there be a year zero? There is a first year since the event and first year before the event. There's physically no zeroeth year before or after an event.
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@TerriToniAX did ya mean Murica? Yeah, having your data in Murica is definitely a liability
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@atheist how are you still having a donator badge? Weren't those obsolete because donations are broken?
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light is a tiny non-physical unicorn which goes places woosh-woosh
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@Lensflare except there's no evidence ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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@Lensflare too bad. that would be a good shawarma
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@Lensflare well, technically you can, but then a mob will lynch you