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The start of the calendar has to be arbitrary, there's no way around that as it's not feasible to measure the time since the beginning of the universe with good enough accuracy.

As others commented, the Julian Day is a time measure that is actually used in astronomy, and Unix time is a time stamp standard (not really a calendar, although it could be if we got used to it) that is mostly a way to store time points, not really to consume them before converting to a more readable form.

But as a scientist who is wholly irreligious, I'm not overly bothered by using the Gregorian calendar, even though it has Christian (and a lot of pre-Christian) elements. Its annoyances (different numbers of days in each month, weeks not aligning with years, leap years etc.) are due to the fact that we decided to measure time in these arbitrary units. At least it's universal in the modern era (often in conjunction with another calendar), and everywhere you go people understand what "August 5, 2024" means (although August might have to be translated to the target language, since the names of the months are not universal).

That's more than you can say about non-time units of measurement (I'm looking at you, imperial and US customary units!!)

Digital only. Who even has room for physical books.

He got at least partially Canadianized mid post switching from miles to kilometres.

Have autoplay disabled

Really doubt any of the information is true. I bet the ad was created by men with seriusly messed up assumptions.

It's a way for the vehicle owner to broadcast to the world that they have a small dick.

I was a bit confused at first by car ride from the barbershop. I lived in 4 countries yet never more than 5 minutes walk from where I got my haircut.

Yes, I have a 14h reminder to drink 1L of water, which is my entire daily intake. I have this reminder because without it I may well drink nothing at all and not even realize.

This is a sign on the road to Budapesht near the border between Ukraine and Hungary. There's the weird insistence in Ukraine to do a one-to-one transliteration of Cyrillic to Latin without much thought, so Ш just becomes SH... Google Maps link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/YyzH7xx7gWNJCcqA6

You can't successfully use a home email server.

Mostly true (server can be home but using the ISP network directly probably won't work)

You can't successfully use an email server on a (cloud) VPS.

Bullshit

You can't successfully use an email server on a bare metal machine in your own datacenter.

Bullshit

As such, it is my distinct displeasure to declare the death of SMTP. The protocol is no longer usable. And as we can see, this devolution occurred organically.

Bullshit

There's an argument to be made that "no binario" is the more correct. Latin has a neutral grammatical gender ("bīnārium") that has been mostly assimilated into the masculine gender in Spanish.

Wife should have Googled it, she's the buttface.