olsonexi
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- Comment on If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...? 1 year ago:
I don’t see why not. 5 digits isn’t too bad, and it wouldn’t be an issue for another 90,000 years after that. Besides, we’ll probably extinct ourselves through climate change, nuclear war, and/or AI long before then anyways.
- Comment on If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...? 1 year ago:
AD - After Christ (but in Latin)
eh… not quite
it actually stands for “Anno Domini”, which is latin, but means “in the year of the lord”
- Comment on Is there an alternative to saying "so-called" which doesn't suggest potential falsehood? 1 year ago:
I would use “what’s known as”, e.g. “Western countries belong to what’s known as the Paris club”
- Comment on Is there an alternative to saying "so-called" which doesn't suggest potential falsehood? 1 year ago:
That’s often also used in the other way though, e.g.
she could trust him more than any of her “friends”