this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2023
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Mildly Interesting

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This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

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I originally posted this on the other site back when I took the picture, and it resulted in a lot of confused comments, especially from Americans, eventually getting removed by overzealous mods. Either way, I promise you that this date does not exist, and has never existed.

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[–] DABDA 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are you trolling or just incapable of acknowledging that you can speak a date differently than its written representation? The entire reason for any standard is just to ensure you're working within a known/consistent framework. You can measure in imperial or metric but you can't label an imperial or metric unit as the opposite just because you prefer it that way.

If I hand you glass of milk with a skull and crossbones sticker on it why would you assume it's harmful when in my region it's used to signify its high calcium content? I can say "poison" or I can say "milk", but a skull should never be interchangeably used.

In the same way, a date written in a global standard format should always be immediately recognized as signifying ONE particular date, and you're then free to localize it however you please.

[–] ericisshort -5 points 9 months ago

Not trolling. I just think all three formats are correct and I can’t understand why everyone must demand their way is the only correct way.