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by nine_k 344 days ago
(BTW why do you write years with a leafing zero? Do you expect these post to still matter past year 9999?)
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dcminter 344 days ago
...and if he does, why does he then consider the year 99999 to be out of reach? As I understand it the idea is to promote "long term thinking" but I really don't see how this affectation is actually supposed to achieve anything beyond mildly irritating/confusing the reader.

At least the Long Now Foundation stuff comes with that context built-in.

https://longnow.org/

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ndiddy 344 days ago
Good point, I will start the Longer Now foundation and start adding two zeroes to the front of all my years.
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hypercube33 344 days ago
This whole line of conversation and use of the leading zero reminds me of The Church of MOO from the old internet.
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dcminter 344 days ago
Huh, I know about Bob Dobson et al, but MOO-ism somehow escaped my notice back in the day.

http://textfiles.com/occult/MOOISM/

I have some retro-reading to do.

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