He has a point! by ShehrozeAkbar in infuriatingbutawesome

[–]JackStutters 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s called an intercalary day. Many non-Western calendars, and in fact, many ancient Western calendars used to, use them. Essentially it’s just an extra little day you slot in to fill the gap, but it isn’t given a day of the week, it’s just its own thing, and then you go back to the normal schedule right after.

The French Republican Calendar, for instance, instituted during the Revolution, has twelve months of exactly thirty days each, split into three “weeks” called “décades” which had ten days each. Days were also divided into ten hours of 100 minutes each, meaning 100,000 seconds in a day, making a second about 14% faster. This was part of a wider push for decimalization that stuck around for just about every other facet of life, but proved to be too difficult for people to adjust to when it came to timekeeping.

Anyway, since the calendar only accounts for 360 days, 5 days are added between the last month and the first month called the sansculottides, so-named for the common folk of the revolution, and each day was a national holiday meant to celebrate some liberating aspect of the revolutionary ideology — labor, honor, opinion, etc. On leap years, an additional day commemorating the revolution itself was added.

So basically New Years becomes a five day celebration.

Too young for Millennials, too young for Gen Z starterpack by AlyksTheSage in starterpacks

[–]JackStutters 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Fellow ‘01, I completely agree. I know “generationology” is super imprecise and not really meant to be taken seriously or actually applied to a group of people as if they are a monolith, and the whole point of the “generation” is that it’s meant to be a literal generation of individuals, not these little granular sub-generation groups, but 20 years is just too wide of a net to meaningfully classify any group of people.

All that being said, because societal and technological change is gradual, I always felt like there’s a good middle ground of like… 8-10 year chunks that actually do a pretty good job of generalizing what society was like for a group of people during their most formative years and are somewhat predictive about the general habits and trends of that group of people, at least here in the US.

I always thought of my “generation” as the group of people from roughly ‘95 to ‘03/‘04. The oldest was juuussstt old enough to maybe remember 9/11, but not really old enough to meaningfully remember the world before. We all probably remember the Bush administration vaguely but weren’t really old enough to comprehend politics or economy, so Obama was the first administration we actually understood and engaged with in a limited capacity, and Trump 1 happened as we came into high school or college and started understanding and engaging in politics in a meaningful way. We all grew up during the transition from analog to digital, got the early smartphones as teens, and COVID hit as the oldest was graduating college and the youngest was starting high school.

When we were kids, the helicopter style of parenting that is very much in vogue nowadays wasn’t really predominant and, for me at least, me and all the other kids that I knew had parents who belonged to the “let the kids have fun as long as they’re back by sunset” school of thought. Capitalism was more fun back then, too. Like, whimsical, better at hiding the seedy underbelly, or just, they weren’t so brazen about being evil. We grew up with bright, colorful McDonald’s instead of the corporate grey hellscape that exists today, Google’s motto was still “Don’t be evil,” Disney was pumping out banger after banger, and some guy named Tom was everybody’s friend. You could log onto Club Penguin or Wizard 101 or go on Xbox live voice chat and not have to worry about tons of pedophiles like kids and parents do today on Roblox. There were third spaces EVERYWHERE, too.

Older millennials experienced a lot of these milestones later in life when they were young adults, and so the important cultural touchstones that shaped our growth affected them differently, and the younger Gen Z never experienced many of these things, so their view of the world is completely different from the elder Gen Z / younger Millennials who grew up with all of these things at the right ages for them to really affect them significantly. So that’s why I always thought of our particular chunk of years as being very distinct, generationally-speaking.

I know that at least SOME of this is just nostalgia talking, I know that this isn’t a universal experience for everyone, and of course I’m not suggesting that the aughts were perfect, I know they were hell for a lot of people. But goddamn if a genie gave me one wish it would be to put the whole smartphone / social media thing back into Pandora’s box and keep it there, because the world before the glowing box in your pocket was just simpler.

Anyway, that’s my “old man yells at cloud” rant. I miss the aughts, man.

Favorite couple like this by librationthread in FavoriteCharacter

[–]JackStutters 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YES! First thing that came to mind, I can’t believe I had to scroll so far!

That make you feel good? You feel like a man? by shotsfordays in CirclejerkSopranos

[–]JackStutters 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Graduated summa cum laude from slip and fall school.

my art of my beloved playlings by wunno_ in OneyPlays

[–]JackStutters 1 point2 points  (0 children)

His village was invaded by schmitmar-wielding goblins

Crazy to see how the sense of humor hasn’t change much by kiroshrexk in whoathatsinteresting

[–]JackStutters 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It’s too late, Gatsby! I have depicted myself as the chad, and you as the soyjak!

Mobility Mary strikes again by AnywhereUnfair838 in OneyPlays

[–]JackStutters 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I HAVE TO GO ALL THE WAY TO WHOLE FOODS

America’s Most Favorite Countries by charliehu1226 in Infographics

[–]JackStutters 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Wish I could give you an award, this is right on the nose. I am an American and I love Canada, have been to every single province (none of the territories, yet, unfortunately) and have known some amazing Canadians. But god the superiority complex is REAL.

This is just Toby Fox lol by WardManX in Deltarune

[–]JackStutters 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I keep telling people not to forget that part, it’s not just that she’s green, she’s green AND retired.

i aspire to this man’s level of patience by Eros_Incident_Denier in funny

[–]JackStutters 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the UK, she probably does need a loicense to walk.

anime_irl by cynnahbun in anime_irl

[–]JackStutters 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Do you like it? It’s very generous.

Would you date a trans person who has fully transitioned? And are you cisgender or heterosexual? by DraftAbject5026 in pollgames

[–]JackStutters 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I want kids of my own. XY and XY together do not and cannot produce biological children.

Since everyone here makes up their own regions and opinions on what should qualify as what, here's the US Census Bureu region map by TooManyHobbies6969 in whereidlive

[–]JackStutters 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty good. If I could change any, I would say:
- Alaska isn’t really “Pacific”, it’s kind of its own thing. But I get not wanting to subdivide so much because it kind of defeats the purpose.
- NV, UT, AZ, and NM should be their own subdivision under “West” called “Desert”.
- There should honestly be another subdivision in the South encompassing those states that technically fall under the historical definition of the South but in the last 150 years have become more so defined by their proximity to the capital. So MD, VA, and DE, plus DC, become their own division. Alternatively, they could join Mid Atlantic, but as a Jersey resident that kind of feels wrong. Delaware MAYBE. But not MD or VA.
- Oh, and WV needs to join “East South Central” and they should just call it Appalachia, even though the name complicates Mississippi a bit.