• cosecantphi [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Okay, but consider this:

    Metric time. Base unit is seconds since the big bang. The current date and time is 436117076.6010019846210048721 gigaseconds.

    And the best part is that like all methods of time keeping, it too is ultimately arbitrary since wishy washy concepts like "seconds since the big bang" or "meters across the observable universe" are highly dependent on the gravity well you're sitting in and how fast you're moving from the perspective of an outside observer.

    • Autisticky [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Well, to get closer to the heart of it, time is a human-constructed concept to serve social ends and whatever is the best system is whatever is socially dominant

    • Dolores [love/loves]
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      2 years ago

      the base unit is a year and it started in the french revolution

      what are they teaching you gen z revolutionaries these days smdh :I-was-saying: