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> It's also precisely set to follow seasons. For example, the first day of Fall is actually the first day of "Mehr" (the 7th month). For some reason, the Gregorian calendar has it on Sep. 22. This doesn't really work; the first day of Fall differs from place to place according to the specifics of the local climate.
Bruh. You can't really define seasons with day-precision based on weather or climate.
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Yes, and for some theirs is the main one. It's now year 2565 BE in Thailand, you won't really see "2022" that much outside of strictly tourist-oriented references. Use a Thai VPN when googling and that's the date you will see in search result listings. I believe the next version of ISO 8601 is expected to support different calendar & time systems.
> you won't really see "2022" that much outside of strictly tourist-oriented references Both are used. While government orgs are likely to favor the Buddhist calendar, many businesses will use Gregorian. It's definitely not an artifact of tourism. To wit: When are the most fireworks set off? Your choices are 'global' new year, Thai new year and Chinese new year. I would guess 100% of Thai people (at least those livin…
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September through December being months 7 to 10 are because Julius Caesar (July) and Augustus Caesar (August) added months named after themselves after they were named.
No, that never happened. They renamed the existing months "5" and "6".
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Why not? We know of one occurrence of intelligent life. It would be pretty weird if it happened exactly once and no more
Observer selection bias makes our own existence entirely irrelevant to the question of whether there are other intelligences out there.
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Observer selection bias makes our own existence entirely irrelevant to the question of whether there are other intelligences out there.
Selection bias notwithstanding, we exist, which means life evolved at least once. If the universe can give rise to life it would be extremely odd that it did so exactly once.
Regardless of how rare we are, we'd always observe ourselves. Therefore nothing can be deduced from our own existence.
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Most scholars, even the non-Christian ones, believe that Jesus was an actual person. Whether he really performanced miracles is of course a very different matter.
The problem with that statement is that if you take away all the supernatural claims and give some room for creative embelishments and naming inaccuracies you end up with not just one but several "actual persons" but their existence becomes entirely irrelevant to the existence of a historical "Jesus". It's a lot like the "god of the gaps": if you are willing to compromise on a definition of god that gives up on all s…
1. Proclaim a new era and set up a new calendar.
2. Replace alien language.
3. Destroy or neutralise alien gods.
4. Destroy alien machinery of government and Control.
5. Take land and wealth from individual aliens. Time to forget a dead empire and build a living republic.
It was even the first rule to destroy the calendar. He was a genius!
They forgot summer- and wintertime, and leap seconds. Oh and afaik only some english speaking countries use AM/PM, the rest of the world uses the 24h based system doesn't it?
Its not some countries. Every country British had ruled uses 12h for day to day life; & 24 for military speak & railway time tables display board. & British ruled a lot of countries.
This is absolutely hilarious, and despite being long form, fits Twitter format very well, with each chunk funnier than the last :) A few notes: - Per my knowledge US is the only country which stubbornly (and illogically) considers Sunday to be the first day of the week; - US (and maybe one or two English-speaking countries) are the only ones using 12h time, the rest of the world uses 24hrs, however 12h _sometimes_ is…
