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from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 04 Sep 2024 11:25
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Aarrodri@lemmy.ml on 04 Sep 2024 11:53 next collapse

🤣🤣🤣🤣

propter_hog@hexbear.net on 04 Sep 2024 12:01 next collapse

*BCE

GarbageShoot@hexbear.net on 04 Sep 2024 12:26 collapse

It’s a silly way to secular-wash a Christian system. If you want a secular calendar, you should have it not oriented around the birth of Christ. Very underrated decision by the dprk to have their calendar based on the founding of the country.

JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee on 04 Sep 2024 13:34 next collapse

Yeah, let’s just count seconds from 1 Jan 1970 instead, totally sane

propter_hog@hexbear.net on 04 Sep 2024 13:57 next collapse

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era

GarbageShoot@hexbear.net on 04 Sep 2024 14:25 collapse

I’m aware of what it is. It’s still literally just the Christian calendar with different terminology.

BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works on 04 Sep 2024 15:00 next collapse

Yes. And? I understand the need to distance ourselves from that insane sect and its crazed followers.

propter_hog@hexbear.net on 04 Sep 2024 15:22 collapse

Please just read the link. I’m not doubting you are aware of what it is. But there are really good explanations for the impetus for its usage and discourse about objections such as your own on the Wikipedia entry.

GarbageShoot@hexbear.net on 04 Sep 2024 17:24 collapse

I should clarify that my position is that I use AD/BC in everyday speech, but if I had to actually publish something public facing, I certainly would use the CE/BCE system for the obvious reasons. My objection to you was not that using the system is bad, but that it’s a trivial thing and therefore (by my attempted implication) an annoying and pointless thing to try to “correct” someone on.

So I did actually read the link, and I didn’t know all of the history, but I did have pretty good familiarity with modern Discourse about it as the article outlines. I would say the only compelling addition is this:

Roman Catholic priest and writer on interfaith issues Raimon Panikkar argued that the BCE/CE usage is the less inclusive option since they are still using the Christian calendar numbers and forcing it on other nations. In 1993, the English-language expert Kenneth G. Wilson speculated a slippery slope scenario in his style guide that, “if we do end by casting aside the AD/BC convention, almost certainly some will argue that we ought to cast aside as well the conventional numbering system [that is, the method of numbering years] itself, given its Christian basis.”

I’d really like for the numbering system to change, so I suppose that’s an argument in favor of being annoying.

propter_hog@hexbear.net on 04 Sep 2024 17:40 collapse

I agree with your point, and that was my initial hangup as well. If we keep the numbering the same, changing the name is just a contingency prize. Pick an actual start of the common era, say some point in the agricultural revolution when societies began to form. The problem then, though, is actually getting people to switch.

Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net on 04 Sep 2024 14:12 next collapse

Interestingly, on Taiwan they have the Republic of China calendar (in addition to the Western calendar) which begins from the establishment of the RoC (1912 on the Western calendar).

Comment105@lemm.ee on 04 Sep 2024 16:33 collapse

Do you believe the Church owns the calendar? Or perhaps Christendom/Christians more broadly?

Any larger change would be symbolic and completely impractical, with waves of inconvenience rippling through civilization. But many non-Christians use the calendar now. We don’t want to call this the year of our lord because it isn’t our lord.

RyanLiu@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 2024 12:04 next collapse

弟兄們,今天星期三

AlyxMS@hexbear.net on 04 Sep 2024 13:14 next collapse

Frog? I would have guessed logitech mouse.

Comment105@lemm.ee on 04 Sep 2024 16:23 collapse

This frog will inspire peripheral companies to think very tall mice are the new best feature.

radix@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 2024 13:27 next collapse

Man I just don’t get modern art.

problematicPanther@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 2024 13:29 next collapse

Til cubism has been around for 3000 years

10_0@lemmy.ml on 04 Sep 2024 13:37 next collapse

Frodge

RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de on 04 Sep 2024 14:18 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://www.renderhub.com/dazinbane/star-wars-jawa-sandcrawler/star-wars-jawa-sandcrawler-01.jpg">

Utini!

brbposting@sh.itjust.works on 04 Sep 2024 15:33 collapse
wondrous_strange@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 2024 15:34 next collapse

Cyberfrog

samus12345@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 2024 16:41 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://i.redd.it/tmkri8vr1vk61.jpg">

squigglycunt@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 2024 20:16 collapse

pretty shit frog tbh

looks nothing like real frogs

Neon@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 2024 06:42 collapse

I like it tbh