IrishFaithful vs Knuschelbär

[musketjr]

so to the real question of why this dumb clown was allowed to participate in the first place.

any justifications, mod-squad?

[musketjr]

the thing about zoi is he is actually pretty smart. what follows is a greater appreciation for the meaning specific words convey. for the unaware, English has over a million words, so there's a lot to choose from, and a lot of good, contextually appropriate (rare) words. I come across them all the time in fact. although I agree as a question of style it's preferable to keep things simple. I like to keep the Einstein maxim in mind, that you should be able to explain what you know to a 5 year old.

[edeholland]

5/7 thread, not enough scheduling. For the discussion about Zoom and his language, I want to refer to this thread: viewtopic.php?f=181&t=8353

Going to delete all off-topics posts after this post.

[_H2O]

Irish if you win we can discuss a double header in the next week. (RO8 + Semi) You can catch up then.

For now this thread is settled and 19 GMT Saturday it is.

[edeholland]

ESO down :( We are going to wait a few minutes, might go back up pretty soon again.

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Equally sized areas of Earth's surface between any two of twenty-four evenly distributed meridians (lines running along the planet's surface from pole to pole), Time-zones are the standardized geographical manifestation of the average Earth day

Nice map. I trust you're aware that the asymmetries are entirely political.

Of course, but I'm sure you're aware that timezones are defined by this map, not by perfectly even meridians

Actually, that map defines the time-zones adapted by the respective sovereign territories. The time-zones themselves are defined in the manner I described. I absolutely see what I think you mean though; that map shows the political time-zones, which is the sense in which the word is commonly used. Given the context, I should have focused more on it.

No, because time zones are an inherently human construct. To say that they're segmented into 24 even slices is just as ignorant as was suggested. 24 is an arbitrary number selected by humans. It could just as easily be 48, or 12. So you're trying to remove the human political choice from the definition of time zones to make your statement true, but the very nature of establishing time zones is a political and human intervention.

Yes, because time-zones are a geographically defined inherently human construct. The number of zones is more arbitrary; the proportions less so. Considering my concerted effort to in fact distinguish and emphasize the political aspect as juxtaposed with the geographical it's comparably ironic and unfortunate that you understood the opposite. I'm admittedly terrible at communicating.

[DaRkNiTe1698]

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Equally sized areas of Earth's surface between any two of twenty-four evenly distributed meridians (lines running along the planet's surface from pole to pole), Time-zones are the standardized geographical manifestation of the average Earth day

Nice map. I trust you're aware that the asymmetries are entirely political.

Of course, but I'm sure you're aware that timezones are defined by this map, not by perfectly even meridians

Actually, that map defines the time-zones adapted by the respective sovereign territories. The time-zones themselves are defined in the manner I described. I absolutely see what I think you mean though; that map shows the political time-zones, which is the sense in which the word is commonly used. Given the context, I should have focused more on it.

No, because time zones are an inherently human construct. To say that they're segmented into 24 even slices is just as ignorant as was suggested. 24 is an arbitrary number selected by humans. It could just as easily be 48, or 12. So you're trying to remove the human political choice from the definition of time zones to make your statement true, but the very nature of establishing time zones is a political and human intervention.

Yes, because time-zones are a geographically defined inherently human construct. The number of zones is more arbitrary; the proportions less so. Considering my concerted effort to in fact distinguish and emphasize the political aspect as juxtaposed with the geographical it's comparably ironic and unfortunate that you understood the opposite. I'm admittedly terrible at communicating.

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