Comment on The year is 50424

• DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Such a stupid system. AD and BC are the same amount of letters. CE and BCE don’t line up when written. Drives me crazy!

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And they could’ve just said “BC” stands for “before the common era.” Fuck it, why not? And make up some other meaning for AD, so we can just hand-wave a non-problem.

    This is the date system we use. We’re not switching. It’s rooted in a religiously-venerated dead guy. Get over it. It’s not even accurate to that specific guy. They already fudged it all over the place a thousand years ago.

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  • JCreazy@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I believe it’s used in the scientific community to avoid the religion. I’m not sure in what way it needs to line up when written.

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why would crabs use the same as us

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  • JCreazy@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I just assumed since the crab was speaking English

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      oh that’s funny because i assumed it was speaking crab language

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