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[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

The term of a US president in the early 1980s.

[–] Rez@sh.itjust.works 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. Appearantly time is measured by a single countries presidents now :/

[–] superbirra@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

should we use world presidents instead?

[–] hansl@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How about using years? “This OS runs on 80s hardware” is still impressive, understandable, and wrong.

[–] superbirra@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

nah, let's use average lobster life since epoch. That would date ~0.5 lobster lives which is easy to read and understandable by everyone

[–] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] superbirra@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago
[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

But that’s not important right now.