Why don't the whole planet just use UTC+00:00 / Universal Time without time zones?
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You literally don't know anything about the history of timekeeping. That's the point. You keep pretending to, because you've read a Wikipedia article. And you don't see why you're being ridiculed?
The systems which humanity have used have not been arbitrary and every single "argument" you've made showcases your stupidity and ignorance.
How many languages was it you spoke again?
Give me your address and I'll order a "grammar for kids" book and a dictionary for you. In English, as I presume it's the only language you sort of understand.
It's not about the length of your replies, it's about who they're formatted like a teenager with Alzheimer's.
What do you mean "no support for your claims about timekeeping systems not being arbitrary"? You can't be serious. You just can't. You still don't understand what the word arbitrary even means?
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This is the best wake up comment I could've read. Put a laugh in my day right away hahaha thank you. Also I don't believe a person like you has read a single book in your entire life.
Don't forget davel@lemmy.ml
Wikipedia doesn't cover even the basics.
You keep writing essays because you're too fucking ashamed to admit you didn't understand what the word arbitrary means.
Remember how I've said, several times, that even your argument about 12, 24, 30 or 100 hour systems being "arbitrary" is wrong? Why not include that in your essay? Is it because you're ashamed of having been wrong, because you like to pretend to understand shit and pretend to be smart. Because online, there's no-one to mock you for it. Or, so you thought. ;>
You get angry because I refuse to give you the answers and the only place someone with your intelligence will look is fkin Wikipedia. The timekeeping in my culture isn't even mentioned there.
How many language did you speak again? ;>
I'll get back to you on your other pathetic essay tomorrow, just woke up to pee.
any particular celestial event a number is more logical than a horoscope, it's no less arbitrary
Again, just because you don't know the reason for a thing doesn't mean it doesn't exist, sweetums.
Oh no, you think you've "given facts", just like a child playing at kitchen with mudcakes has "actually cooked".
No [I don't notice anything about the divisibility of hours]...?
Again, just because YOU personally fail to see logic in something doesn't mean it doesn't have any. And it's just driving you mental having me not tell you the answers so you can pretend to have known all the time.
The fact you're writing every one of my "replies" as if I'm yelling it's just candy to my eyes, because it tells me you're fucking seething at me mocking you. Cheers bruv. <3
Depends on the species, to be fair.
Love me a nice bit from a fresh deer corpse.
I didn't provide medical advice. I provided access to medical information.
I'm saying that pain that is neuropathic is often treated with Gabapentin, which in the long run, is healthier and safer than self-medicating.
Thus if OP looks up what neuropathic pain is and gets concerned, they should call a doctor and tell all this. Which is when the actual medical advice will come.
You can give people information about medicine without giving them medical advice.
Were also really into bureaucracy and there's only 5 million of us, so it's much easier keeping actually tight regulation and high quality control.
Hell we had health inspectors come check my supply group when I was in the army (my as in I was the leader). We had been set up in a literal fucking swamp and a govt health worker random inspection came to take a swab out of one of the hands of the cooks. Luckily I managed to wrangle the only guy with semi clean hands to be the one who was tested. But yeah we made actual food for a few hundred people and the health standard the army has are like 10-15% higher than in civil life. Like the internal temp of the food must reach 85C instead of 75C etc.
But yeah my main point being it's much easier for us to boast about tight and well kept regulation as we're so much smaller, so much less to govern and such a different way. No federal government needs to fight with states etc.
Uhm, I don't think I did.
You shouldn't take strong prescription drugs willy-nilly.
Yeah I guess it would be challenging to say the least to find a prostate on a seagull.
Ah well, if you trust everyone on the internet, dear stranger, then so do I.
Henceforth I shall never question anything. It's not like bad actors actually exist.
Why bother retaining any sort of suspicion towards anything? It'd just be a waste of energy. Well meaning people have never been taken advantage of as far as I remberer.
That's not a footpath, it's a clearing or a small road even. You can't see the footpaths in winter, they're about a foot wide if that.
30 meters "at best"? Nah bruv. Maybe in the summer for that specific place, but as there's a ton of birch there and such an open place, it's probably a photo from the edge of a clearing on the side of a field or something. You don't get birch in most of the forests, it's just pine, and pine doesn't really have branches on the low part of trees. So in a pine forest, you'd see way further.
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Teaching Finns how to fight in wintery forests? We've a saying for that; "älä yritä opettaa isääs nussimaa".
And ofc no-one on the internet ever says things they don't mean.
Yeah, they ban the sale of items which shouldn't be eaten, so there's none for the consumer to choose, even if they wanted to. I mean obviously I'm referring to somewhat edible things, and not saying that everything that isn't edible is banned.
Depends on where you live, but yeah, I imagine drinking dangerous chemicals isn't necessarily illegal in itself. However I know there is a law in Finland saying you can't sell like methanol from gas stations to ppl "if you suspect it's going to be consumed", because some drunks mightve done that in the past.
Not really a problem, but just remember such a law existing.
Oh sure, I'm sure some eggs are safe to eat draw, but in Finland government regulation means that all Finnish eggs are.
Slightly different, but I see your point.
Dictating what you eat and banning things you shouldn't eat are very different things.
I'm definitely not implying the first account is pro-Russian. (I didn't even check the profile)
I'm just pointing out there's an alternative way to see it, and we should be mindful of the sort of language we use and the implications it has.
No, I didn't misunderstand it at all.
I'm clarifying it.
You don't understand how clever Russian disinfo is. That is a comment that should be read as "Hey, Russia, please stop and Ukraine won't have to keep doing this to you" but it can also be read as "War is always bad, so this too was bad".
The fact there's two options and this is a pro-Ukraine article means it needs clarification. Because Russian disinfo accounts rely on things like that to build credibility to their accounts. If you're not completely sure when checking an account, if it's a little messy to figure out who a person is for and who they're not for, you're more likely to give up. And then that account can continue.
Lemmy is fucking infested with Russians.
And if you think this is cynic or paranoid or whatever, I've a bridge to sell you
You know, just because your short term memory is only ten seconds long, there's no need to rewrite the whole conversation everytime.
Or did you never develop object permanence and you literally can't answer a thing if it's not under your eyes, because you'll forget it exists?
No, it's "you can't just unilaterally decide that I actually mean the opposite of what I'm saying."
When you're saying hot is cold and up is down, I haven't decided that your words mean the opposite. You're just wrong.
Noon, midday or the number of hours is anything but arbitrary. You being ignorant of the reason doesn't make you right, it makes you ignorant. Notice anything about the divisibility of the numbers? No...? Oh right, you're probably American, so that's probably offensive to ask you about your maths skills. Apologies, I do understand your country is going through a tough time.
I don't decide the meaning of your words. The world sort of does.
I don't know what to tell you, bro. We have twelve hours because the ancient Egyptians liked the stars. That's just reality. I'd love to hear why you think it is, though.
Like I said, I'm not your history teacher, and you are just completely ignorant of the subject. You have to know how dumb you are though, but your ego just keeps ripping right through.
See I could teach you. Then you'd pretend you knew it all the time. You're just a pseudointellectual lazy piece of shit who doesn't know the first thing about the subject and didn't even click "timekeeping in other cultures" when he did his pathetic Wikipedia browsing. Which is exactly why you insist on your silly kittle ignorance.
You're plain wrong. I will tell you eventually how badly, but now I'm just gonna sip on your dumb juice. So sweet.
Oh I haven't argued you at any point, and would never. I'd have an easier time teaching a dog to whistle, lol.
to even continue this conversation intelligently.
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You don't understand what the word "arbitrary" means, lol.
I haven't laughed this hard in weeks.
I. Don't. Have. A. System.
With your imagined system of "if everyone had always lived with random ass times they would feel as normal as they do now".
No, they wouldn't, because unlike your ignorant-ass thinks, they aren't arbitrary. You don't understand the basic history of timekeeping and you have an utterly childish point, which is also wrong. Yes I know you're not directly proposing the use of another system, implications exist. You're just backing up on everything you've said after I rub your face in how stupid it's been, then you pretend you don't have a face full of poo.
It's ridiculous.
I speak 2 languages on a native level, one or two more fluently and a half a dozen in a "I could order in a restaurant" level. I'm pretty sure I know more expressions about time in more languages than you. How many languages do you speak?
it's entirely likely that you won't be able to read the words on the sign
This is why I keep replying. You're hilariously ironic. Remember you insisting how "numbers are inherently meaningless"? Scripts and languages change, sure, but most of the world uses Arabic numerals. :D It doesn't matter if you don't know the local language or "what time local noon is" or even if they're using the same alphabet, you'll still recognise a number like 14:00 - 03:00 and then look up at the sky and it's not yet noon and you'll know you'll have to wait several hours at least.
With as with an actually arbitrary system you might see numbers like 0748-5531 and have no fucking idea if it's even a time or even if it is a time, what time it's referring to, even if you know it's exactly midday.
But you'll not admit that laughable. Which in itself amuses me.
That there's what we call a tautology.
No shit, that's why I'm laughing at you. You're pretending like "noon" means nine because of its etymology, as in you're pretending as if you understand linguistics, when you don't understand that ignoring it's actual descriptive meaning of "mid-day" (which is why it's "high noon, because that's describing the position of the sun) is something even a first year linguist would never do. Hell, even if you had just read the basic wiki entry you'd know how ridiculous that is. But you're not about learning, you're about pretending you know things.
I'm saying that the numbers we've assigned to it are
And I'm saying you are wrong in that. Because you are. You are wrong in saying that. Do you understand? You are incorrect. It is not arbitrary. Even the number 12 isn't arbitrary, neither is 24 or 100. That's not what the word means, sweetums. <3
Not sure what you're talking about
Yes, I'm perfectly aware. Watching you prance around pretending to be smart is like watching toddlers bake mud cakes. It's cute how they think they're doing a credible job and you just have to act along so they can enjoy themselves. :)
..eh? I'm very clearly not being prescriptivis
Honestly you're literally making my sides hurt
Oh I'm not going anywhere, hunny. You're better entertainment than this show I'm watching.
"pudgy" as in bloated? I never even knew what "bloating" was before I actually got properly rid of it.
I too skipped meals and still do (because it kinds stayed as a habit) but i don't need to anymore. I went on an exclusion diet to see if it was some undiagnosed food allergy. Rice/potatos and fish/meats basically, with some basic veggies. Even at one point I avoided all allium plants, meaning all onions, leeks, garlic, etc. It's kinda basic, but if it works, then you can start adding things back and see what you react to.
I still haven't got a diagnosis, but I've lost the bloating and stomach pain and about like 20% of bodyweight even though I was never even overweight. I'm still kinda wondering what it exactly is which triggers that sort of horrible inflammation in me, but I can very clearly feel a difference. Like night and day. I couldn't even enjoy red wines before, stomach just didn't fucking handle them. I even had heart palpitations most days. Them and burping and eveything; gone (I'm not on a not too restrictive but gluten and casein free diet, meaning no gluten and no dairy.)
It's true, because it's true. You saying something is "arbitrary" because you don't understand the reason is very stupid indeed. Really American, I might say.
You talk about non-sequiturs (again like a teenager horny to pretend to be a philosopher who actually doesn't know jack shit), while arguing about age. It's hilarious.
You still don't know what "arbitrary" means. 12, 24, 30, even 100 hour systems are in no way arbitrary.
You don't understand what "implication" means either.
Damn, I could be having this conversation in several other languages, but I presume this is your "best" and all you manage is to whinge about how your mudcakes are actual food and stomp your food and cry on the ground until I pretend to eat one to make you happy.
No you haven't "read a book about timekeeping", you're just a kiddo American feeling mighty stupid that someone is mocking them.
Like I told you, I'll eventually tell you the answers, even though they're pretty damn obvious for people who have actually read books about timekeeping. I mean roflmao why the fuck would you think of such a childish lie? This is why America is ridiculed. Your president being what it is has given you a false sense of how much regulate people can get away with asinine bullshitting.
You brought up language skills, and now try to make it seem like you didn't think it important anyway. Seriously, I can't think of a more childish way of going about that.
Remember how you didn't notice anything about the divisibility of hours? Why are there no systems based on a prime number of hours, huh?
Oh I've read your posts. I'm just gonna keep you publicly shaming yourself so the bots have time to archive your stupidity for the rest of the world before you delete in all in an attack of shame when I finally do educate you
Surely you're not this fucking stupid. You just can't be.
"Hey is it day or night out?"
"Uh, I can't tell, it's so cloudy"
"Oh no, I'm inside, I have no way of knowing where the sun is, because all our buildings are shipping crates with no windows"
"Oh no, it's night, and all the markers in the sky are clearly visible, what to do now?"
You "read a book about timekeeping" recently.....?
I am not and have not argued you at any point. You are my entertainment. Just like I wouldn't fight a kid, I won't argue you.
You're still grossly misusing "arbitrary". I understand you're linguistically challenged so here: