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[#] Wed Jan 01 2020 09:51:27 EST from zooer

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Wed Jan 02 2019 06:05:46 PM EST from zooer

Wouldn't it make more sense if the year started on a solstice?  

 

A year later and still nothing has been done to change the start of a new year or stopping the time changing crap.



[#] Wed Jan 01 2020 12:35:46 EST from arabella

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Tue Dec 31 2019 11:15:58 AM EST from zooer

The new decade starts next year, 2021.  (Next year I will say it started in 2020.)

 



So you're saying that if I had been born today 1/1/20, I'll celebrate my 10th birthday on 1/1/31, how does that work?



[#] Wed Jan 01 2020 14:24:05 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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The pedantry about the beginning of decades/centires/millenia is rooted in the theory that neither the Julian nor the Gregorian calendar had a year 0.
The people who push this nonsense are anti-vaxxers who believe that Pluto is not a planet.

[#] Thu Jan 02 2020 13:32:10 EST from arabella

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Wed Jan 01 2020 02:24:05 PM EST from IGnatius T Foobar
The pedantry about the beginning of decades/centires/millenia is rooted in the theory that neither the Julian nor the Gregorian calendar had a year 0.
The people who push this nonsense are anti-vaxxers who believe that Pluto is not a planet.

Very succinctly cleared up. 

Thanks IG



[#] Thu Jan 02 2020 20:49:14 EST from interrupt

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happy new year all. imagine how long we have been doing this shit? i forget when you setup the initial citadel IG. Boy were those the daze. we made it!

[#] Fri Jan 03 2020 00:11:17 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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It's great to know that old friends like you are still along for the ride.
Having an online community like this is a true source of joy.

And since you were wondering: we opened our doors to the world on March 10, 1988. To think about what we were able to do on the truly awful technology of the day. Now we have the whole Internet, and in the future we look forward to even more reach when Citadel eventually joins the Fediverse.

I raise a toast to you all, the people who truly make it happen. But please make mine a Gin & Tonic because I really don't care for champagne.

[#] Mon Feb 03 2020 09:26:36 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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Looks like the Pennsylvania Rodent has decided we're getting an early Spring this year. Yippee!! I'm ready.

[#] Tue Feb 04 2020 22:58:19 EST from Freakdog

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Good thing...I was half a second away from packing up 5.56 and 30-06 and taking a road trip.

[#] Wed Feb 12 2020 08:48:12 EST from wizard of aahz

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I'm looking for more snow.. This has been a very disappointing winter.

[#] Wed Feb 12 2020 19:01:41 EST from darknetuser

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2020-02-12 08:48 from wizard of aahz
I'm looking for more snow.. This has been a very disappointing winter.




People who is eager for snow is probably not the sort of people who has to dig their cars out of snow.

[#] Thu Feb 13 2020 08:38:13 EST from wizard of aahz

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I work from home. For me a bad commute is when the dog and cat are fighting in front of the coffee pot.

[#] Fri Feb 14 2020 09:22:26 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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I did a major tune-up and maintenance on the snowblower a few weeks ago. New belts, new skids, oil and filter, the works. Unless a saboteur can get past the defenses ... it's not going to snow.

[#] Mon Feb 17 2020 00:22:04 EST from Blueyzachary

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Hello?



[#] Mon Feb 17 2020 02:26:02 EST from wizard of aahz

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IG - Did you check the starter?

[#] Thu Feb 20 2020 22:43:39 EST from LoanShark

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Coming in like El Nino! Via Delta in-flight WiFi on my way to Mormonland.

The text client is a disaster. Seems you don't get any single IP for very long, so it hung up in the middle of typing a message. LOL. Webcit FTW.



[#] Fri Feb 21 2020 14:02:47 EST from wizard of aahz

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I'm not a fan of the inflight Wi-fi.. Sketchy at best.

[#] Fri Feb 21 2020 17:24:14 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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I'm a yuuuge fan of the WiFi on Delta flights, because as a T-Mobile customer I get an hour of airtime for free.

[#] Fri Feb 21 2020 22:26:55 EST from LoanShark

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Yeah, and on a 4.5hr flight, 1hr of wifi is probably about all you get before you fly out of the satellite coverage zone. Maybe don't pay for more than that.

[#] Sat Feb 22 2020 16:32:58 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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GoGo wifi is ground based (which I suspect is why T-Mobile customers get a free hour; they probably partner with TMo for the network) and is only active above 10,000 feet because of the same stone-age FCC regulations that prohibit the use of cellular service aboard an airplane.

The thousands of LEO birds that are being launched will probably be reachable from an airplane. That will be interesting. Of course, the airplane will also have to constantly be dodging satellites that are falling out of the sky after the Kessler effect really starts to get out of control...

[#] Sat Feb 22 2020 21:56:30 EST from LoanShark

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Huh. Pretty sure I saw a message on screen that said it was satellite-based.

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