Hey that guy is having fun! Get him!
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Sure, let's shame everyone for grasping at a somewhat political neutral occasion to spark a little joy in their lives!
New Year's is literally the only holiday I have never disliked
Round numbers and fireworks? Countdown me in!
C'mon man. Thanksgiving has pie! And Turkey! And a celebration of a meal between two warring peoples.......who we eventually genocided.........hey look! Cranberry Sauce!
Explain what you mean by “round numbers”…
Well, it has an actual meaning. The date is arbitrary but the event isn't.
The same way that our life's depend on the cycle of day and night, they also revolve around the stations. Cycles of abundance and scarcity, of heat and cold.
Years are points of reference for historical reasons.
To be clear, we are mostly idiots but some non-idiots calculated the days in a cycle.
The date is arbitrary but the event isn’t.
It's a bit off the mark of the Winter Solstice, which is the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.
So I wouldn't even call it arbitrary. It's highly relevant to a person on Earth, waiting for the day when nights start growing shorter and we can look forward to a spring harvest season.
I might argue that the problem with the New Year is that we don't also celebrate the Summer Solstice (longest day of the year) and the two Equinoxes.
I celebrate all the solar holidays. What's stopping you?
If it was the winter solstice it wouldn't be arbitrary.
The comic doesn't say the event doesn't have meaning its saying the start and finish ppint doesn't have meaning. Which is exactly what you're saying.
Then why don't we light a sparkler everyday at midnight?
Woosh.
Problem with inviting Mercury is they don't create any atmosphere
Uranus always steals the show, anyways.
Total gasbag if you ask me
I watch videos about the planets with my kids and they say it YOUR-uh-nus, which to me goes against the conventions of the English (Americanized) language, although it's chaos to begin with. But why now are we walking back the name of this planet? It's been your anus for ages.
This is actually, factually incorrect. We used to celebrate winter solstice and this is directly caused by and deterministically occuring on a certain (albeit slightly blurry) point of our orbit.
This should be higher. The days have become longer which means the humans will not die in a dark cold forever winter. The warmth will return, the crops will have another season and the lengthening of daylight hours is the harbinger of future good tidings.
The creator of the meme is in fact the idiot who doesn't realize his entire physical sustenance is dependent on this cycle.
Edit: I'm an idiot who didn't realize I'm using some weird sorting algo and apparently winter solstice was already highly upvoted.
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Ngl, it might be fun to watch all time zones' fireworks. Not cool enough to develop a new kind of space telescope though.
Thanks, Neil Degrasse Tyson.
Thanks, Neil Degrasse Tyson.
Why did he capitalize "astronomical"?
Subscribe me to Neil Degrasse Tyson facts.
Here’s like 20% of them
He gets a lot of shit for this and I do think he's a pretty annoying guy, but I just now developed a head canon for this where he does it on purpose whenever someone he personally knows is being a narcissist. And so it's like a super petty passive aggressive way to piss them off. I could get behind that tbh. Can you imagine? Every time your annoying brother calls and asks to borrow more money, you post some quote about greed to your huge social media following. Lol.
Love it. Thanks!
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people just want to have a reason to celebrate
We are the part of the universe with consciousness so if we decide it isn't arbitrary then it isn't.
Besides I like new years eve, it's a good time for reflection, resetting my motivation and optimism and an excuse to party all night
You see Mercury, this is why no one invites you to anything.
Of all arbitrary things we celebrate, this is probably the least idiotic.
Humans just need a reason to party now and then. And that's completely fine.
Yeah, all this unnecessary pessimism gets really tiring...
I'm slowly coming around to the theory that people on Lemmy are less happy than much of the rest of the internet because a disproportionate number have been aggrieved by mod actions on reddit subreddits. Many of them probably have a point, but I wonder how many of them were actually banned for being wet blankets nobody wanted around anymore.
The point isn't arbitrary. It's the winter solstice. It just drifted a bit due to history and stuff.
It's Xmas that highjacked the winter solstice. New year used to be the start of spring (March) then the Romans decided to acknowledge the first 2 months, and then changed the start of the year to January so they could elect some officials to govern Spain instead of waiting an extra 2 months. It's about as arbitrary as it can get.
https://youtu.be/RrGHtl5qJfk About 24 minutes in to skip to ^
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Life must be miserable for this person.
do we really need a justification to get together and have fun?; or to have a day off and do fuck all? for those that rather do that instead?; or anything in between?
Anyone who celebrates anything that isn't relevant to me personally is an idiot.
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