Eventually the 20th Century History class at Starfleet Academy stops being a fringey elective and becomes a required course, and all the cadets are like “this is so irrelevant, why do we have to learn this” and anyone who’s been around for a while is like “there is an 812% chance that you will time travel to the 20th century during your Starfleet career”
“but the temporal prime directive”
“At the very least you will get trapped a holodeck program based on the 20th century, and you will need to know all these weird idioms”
“But why is it only the 20th – ”
“We don’t know why it’s only the 20th century we have a whole corps of scientists trying to figure out what’s happening with that it seriously makes no sense but in the meantime, knowing how to work a combustion engine is pretty much guaranteed to save your life so get the hell on that.”
I’ll admit I was only ever a fan of them back when they were Three Dimensions because they seemed so well-rounded. Even when they were only Two Dimensions they got a little flat at times. But I just can’t stand by them now that we’re down to One Dimension. I don’t see the point.
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I just saw a capital “C” and thought “what is a centaur doing in the title of my document” and I HAVEN’T EVEN BEEN PLAYING NETHACK LATELY.
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May: Has anyone seen Coulson? I can’t find him anywhere.
Skye: Hang on.
Skye: *clears throat*
Skye: CAPTAIN AMERICA IS THE WORST MOST BORING AVENGER
*pounding feet*
*door explodes open*
Coulson: WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST SAY
Skye: Found him
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You know, the Meta was a human being? He had to get food? Where do you think he got it? You think he ransacked Freelancer’s salad bar before he went on his rampage or what? what about after that? Did he buy it? Where’d he get the money? Did he do some mercenary work before he started hunting down freelancers?
Where did he sleep?
You work at a grocery store on some random outer-colony planet. There is a seven foot tall bald person who has been scarred to shit standing in front of you. His eyes are red and ringed with darkness. He has possibly never slept in his life. There are several carts behind him. He is purchasing an entire aisle of beef jerky. You say ‘have a good day’. He responds with a grunt that sounds like gravel being put through a woodchipper. You don’t know what he is going to do with all that beef jerky. You don’t want to know.
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why does america write the date wrong and why don’t they feel bad about it.
I suspect animate-mush knows the real reason, she knows everything, really. But personally, I think it’s because of the way we say the date. We say “April twentieth, two-thousand fifteen“ not “twentieth April…”. Which isn’t to say that we never say it that way. But it’s rare. So, we write it 4/20/15. Because that’s how we say it.
I actually don’t know why, but if I had to speculate I’d say it either just happened to be codified differently in two different places and times with no particular communication between them OR it was a deliberate choice by Noah Webster et al. to distinguish us from Britain enacted at the same time as all the other spelling reforms.
The botanist I worked for actually didn’t let us write number/number/number for dates because you could never be sure which convention the collector was using. I will use the American convention when I do number/number/number, but if I write out the month I will typically put the date first, because having letters separate the two groups of numbers is more aesthetically pleasing to me, and also then I don’t have to write the little superscripts. But then, I also cross my sevens and my <z> s, and I used to cross my zeroes as well, so I do have a number of European conventions in my handwriting anyway, picked up from my mother, who picked them up from her mother, who was Italian and came by them naturally. But it was really sloppy physics writing that made me cross my zs so as to distinguish them from 2s.
So the short answer after all of that anecdotal rambling is I really have no idea, but I would expect that any appeal to either order being more “natural” or “logical” is just plain wrong.
When I sign things or name folders of photos or otherwise can choose, I say 2015 Apr 20 (spacing/abbreviations vary). Otherwise MLA.
I like “Written on this the twentieth day of April in the Year of Our Lord MMXV.“ Preferably attached to something as inconsequential as possible, like a cat photo.
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