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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think the joke is that 110.000 years is very precise, but that precision isn't very useful when you only identify where that measurement zeroes as vaguely as "sometime this week".

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I get and appreciate that joke. I actually meant the last phrase of the quote (the unintended irony of my question's vagueness now noted!), "which can always be made more precise."