The book Empire of the Summer Moon tells this story (and much more) about the Comanches and their decline.
I never knew that they were the reason Spain stopped advancing North into North America

Someone was reading r/tumblr this morning.

> jan 1st each year is an uncounted bonus day

This is the problem. There will be drift across years.

Ignore months for a bit. The length of a day is not a perfect multiple of a year.. of course, they're independent phenomena. The fact that a year is approximately 365.24 days means we can roughly correlate them with 3 365 day years and 1 366 day year, with the next exception happening in 2100.

But, even ignoring religious significance, so much regarding employment, planning, and pop culture relies on every 7th day resetting the cycle. There's no reason to construct a "new" calendar that messes up that pattern. If there was to be an alternate calendar, it should just tick upwards independently of the concept of weeks or months. Something like today is "Day 8431" of the 3rd millenium. And use kilodays, hectodays, and decadays. Weird, but so is every other alternate calendar concept. At least this one would make time keeping off-Earth simple.

If you have never seen the redwoods it really is something to experience, they are so massive and pretty, there was one so big you could drive right through it at one point but I don't know if that's still a thing. I used to travel around the USA a lot until one of my bfs loads came to life, and they are one of the things I remember the fondest. Old faithful, the thing, where Kennedy was shot, ect most tourist spots are boring as hell, but driving though those woods 🪵 with someone I loved At the time listening to happy cheesy music is still one of my favorite memories.

Doesn't that just enable shitty people to keep being shitty?

Methanol fuel, I believe.

Is it? Keep in mind...... this was around 1850's and the country was only 70 years old, more or less. There were only 30 states. They were still trying to find their way between Federal and State powers.

There were members in Congress who felt that the Southern states should just be allowed to go their own way. (Mostly this was to avoid a civil war.)

So a young country, not fully formed and with strong differences between the states.

If, say, Texas wanted to secede from today's United States and you said..."I think that's a good idea!" - would that be treasonous?

Some say that they hung banners on the coliseum like, "We ain't lion, we have the best rates" and "Gladiator? Be gladtolivehere!"

"This has been a great date.. do you want to take things back to my sloth and see where it goes?"

>Hold me closer, Tony Danza

-Elton John

That's actually pretty wild, TIL.

Wouldn’t 4 weeks per month contain 20 week days and 8 week end days?

my mom says I can only reply to one reddit comment a day an I'm not about to waste it on you.

Damned Copperheads! Just as bad as the Rebs! Should be ridden out of town on a rail!

The Tulkun ain't taking it no more.

Only if you view it from the lens of today, not what it is in the past. Hell, up north we have to Deal with Quebec wanting to succeed from Canada every couple decades, and now Alberta. I won't view them as treacherous, just moronic, since they don't have the capacity to support themselves as a sovereign nation.

Having fewer people around you is a really nice feeling. Canadian here. We moved from a small city (1+ mil) to a town under 15k. Best decision we have ever made.

Writing and common sense are also two separate skills, evidently.

It’s a bit pedantic to correct others over such trivial matters. We all understand what that means, they both mean exactly the same. Also, stating it’s very important, is not really correct. It might be to you, so go forth and be a good example in the world, but you can’t force anyone else to treat things you deem to be important as also important. It comes across a bit condescending

Imagine the arguments! "My family has lived here for 400 years!!!!" But it was just some Interim phase for the building..... Amazing, and makes those flag waving Trump Nazis look like a bunch of whiney little snitches, oh wait, they are....

Grope them by the cunt

I really dislike that idea because it ignores the point of weekdays. The goal is 7 days that are on loop, forever. You can go back 7n days for any integer and know that that day was a Monday, just like today is. Really any modified calendar should be independent of the concept of weekdays, and adding an arbitrary non Mon-Sun day defeats the purpose.

But it isn't white anymore. They have been coloring margarine yellow for many years now.

Huh? Why is this being downvoted without any comments? Is margarine still white in some places? If I'm wrong, tell me, don't simply downvote and leave.

Ya I guess so. But can you imagine the uproar from teachers and govt employees having to take a holiday on a Wednesday and not get a three day weekend with every holiday.

I think they mean the natural white color is why we still call it margarine. Your facts are correct though. My wife did this as a kid in Iowa, where dairy ruled over all.