finally someone said it

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• Klinotaxis

  2016-12-28 00:27:19

  kill living beings
  

  i'm a big fan of arbitrarily defined constructs
  
• Odradek

  2016-12-28 00:27:50

  My dreams exceed my real life

  No actually

  
  

  The exact point at which we decide to mark the new one is arbitary, but a "year" is a measure of the time it takes for the earth to do one full rotation around the sun, rounded down except for leapyears when we round up.
• Salix Babylonika

  2016-12-28 00:28:27

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  he's kidding so I'm not sure that matters
• Tatterhood

  2016-12-28 00:28:50

  Odradek said:

  No actually

  
  

  The exact point at which we decide to mark the new one is arbitary, but a "year" is a measure of the time it takes for the earth to do one full rotation around the sun, rounded down except for leapyears when we round up.

  imp lying the earth and sun exist
• Klinotaxis

  2016-12-28 00:31:18

  kill living beings
  

  me, i'm still weirded out that by 2042 the year is going to be two whole seconds longer than it was in 1970 or whenever it was we standardized the length
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2016-12-28 01:09:18 edited 2016-12-28 01:09:54

  approximately 365.25 days, rounded to five sigfigs, as of A.D. 2000 on the western gregorian calendar
  
• Imipolex G

  2016-12-28 02:38:07

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  time is just an illusion
  
  YOU HEAR THAT, BITCH