This is a piece of mine from 17 years ago. If you didn’t see this coming, I really don’t know what to say. Blame ErsatzCoalButter for me going through the archives.
It’s one of those things that aged really well.
This is a piece of mine from 17 years ago. If you didn’t see this coming, I really don’t know what to say. Blame ErsatzCoalButter for me going through the archives.
It’s one of those things that aged really well.
2025 - 2007 = 18, actually.
It’s kind of crazy remembering 1) horrible Bush was, 2) how much better Bush was than the current administration in retrospect.
The point about the conspiricists now toeing the Republican party line was prescient.
Good article, thanks for sharing.
Ah, but it was November, so you can’t round up.
Oh! I missed that! For some reason I thought it was Feb 11 not Nov 2
I use ISO 8601 format on my devices (truncating the century) to avoid ambiguity. Today is 25.02.21.
Fair, if you really are curious what was going on in my brain it was first I looked at it and assumed mm.dd.yy, because context clues led me to assume you are American, but then I noticed the year was 2007, so I swapped the year and the month mentally without revisiting the entire thing. Idiot in a hurry syndrome, no one uses yy.dd.mm.
It is kinda funny the shortcuts our brains can take. I started using that system because of an issue with using 12-hour time … I was outside Seattle and it was the dead of winter. I woke up at 6:45, panicked about being hours late for work, showered, then realized it was 06.45, not 18.45. From there, starting with the most significant figure and decrementing was a logical rabbit hole.
No one wants to shower because of ambiguity.