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I don’t like arbitrary celebrations such as New Year’s Eve. As far as I can make out, New Year’s Eve is a celebrations of the Gregorian calendar - a cycle of roughly 365 days. Which doesn’t make a great deal of sense. Every day is New Year’s Eve if you count from 364 days ago. Aside from that, the Gregorian calendar, it’s history, is fucked. The ultimate celebration of roughly 365 days is your birthday. I think we should ditch New Year’s Eve and have better birthdays. I think it would save money. In about 300 years time, after another Enlightenment, there’s going to be a metric time system/calendar based on subdivisions of a solar year. As such squares would fuck up metric time because of all their watches and shit picture calendars.
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