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Arigato_MrRoboto t1_ixqirsy wrote

Aw man, do they have the cool cyberpunk shit?

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GarbageGobble t1_ixsc1ji wrote

Yeah. Two years ago they had it. Now it’s back to normal.

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prinkpan t1_ixqqh7v wrote

Today you learnt, Gregorian is not the only calendar

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ItsaCommonThingNow t1_ixqm342 wrote

Well I mean, time still passes at the same rate no matter where you are on earth so I guess it's not really that big of a deal

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pete1901 t1_ixqmgy8 wrote

Given how mountainous Nepal is and the effects of gravitational time dilation, time actually passes slightly faster in Nepal than in lower lying countries.

I'll show myself out...

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ItsaCommonThingNow t1_ixqmjvz wrote

No no, you have a point. But what's the time difference?

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pete1901 t1_ixqmsau wrote

Absolutely negligible. We're talking fractions of a nano second per year.

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Taken450 t1_ixre2f3 wrote

Reddit discovers calendars are arbitrary

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alienwebmaster t1_ixrvts0 wrote

Other countries have different calendar systems. In China, for example, it’s somewhere in the 4000s. Different cultures have different lengths of history recorded. That may have something to do with it.

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warpus t1_ixtnqpu wrote

Plus it makes sense that not every culture would adopt Jesus’ birthday as year 0. There’s other religions out there, etc

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warpus t1_ixtnl4y wrote

Hmm when I landed in Kathmandu in 2017 this is what I saw at the airport

https://imgur.com/a/QzlpDRm

Loved the country! The people are amazing

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nanriat t1_ixs4lzz wrote

Why didn't they warn us about 9/11?

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kl0 t1_ixsbplo wrote

Well you see, the Mauists started gaining power in the Nepali government in the late 90s (our late 90s). They took to murdering Sherpas in a style similar to Pol Pot and so many of them began fleeing the country. And as it happens, many of them setup shop in Queens.

9/11 had a pretty massive effect on the NY economy in general and so housing prices fell right when the fleeing Nepali Sherpa started arriving.

So you see, it all connects. It was in their interest to stay silent.

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alienwebmaster t1_ixtfa3u wrote

Another one is the Jewish calendar. Their calendar dates back many years Before the Current Era (“BCE”).

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mmrrbbee t1_ixti8zi wrote

12,022 if we start at the start of civilization

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