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  • YSK about the French Republican Calendar

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  • 6/4 sounds great. I think 3/2/3/2 is also an option, or if there's one more work day, maybe 3/1/4/2. If only five days of work, we could try the most radical 1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1 (work every other day). 5/5 is actually pretty reasonable and maybe my favorite. It's actually pretty workable for employers too because if you need someone working every day, it's simple to just hire two people. Makes it easier for everybody, and doesn't it sound great to have three 5 day breaks every month?

    I think the biggest advantage to a 10 day week is really just that it accommodates more variation in schedule, and not every person or every industry has to have the same work week. It certainly helps being an even number, so scheduling anything for every other day is easier.

    I'm actually so down for calendar reform but it seems like it's probably an impossible task.

  • YSK about the French Republican Calendar

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  • Yeah unless it comes with 5-day weekends 😢

  • YSK about the French Republican Calendar

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  • I really like the idea of 10 days because of where weeks come from. In many languages, the names of days trace back to major celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, and the five planets). This is very obvious in English with Sunday (Sun), Monday (Moon), and Saturday (Saturn) but less obvious with other days because the names were converted into Germanic gods (Thursday = Thor's day, though the planet should be Jupiter).

    Well now that we know there's two more planets: Uranus and Neptune, and the Earth is also a planet... it would kinda make sense to add 3 more days to the week for Uranus, Neptune, and Earth.

    The actual French republican calendar just uses numbered days ie primidi, duodi, tridi similar to Chinese and Portuguese but imo that's so boring.

  • YSK about the French Republican Calendar

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  • They did not have a 31st day and neither did they have a January. Rather, the day that we call January 31 was the 12th day of Pluviôse and also had its own name "Broccoli"

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    YSK about the French Republican Calendar

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_Republican_calendar

  • If you don't know where a movie/show/book/game takes place, where do you assume it takes place?

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  • Good question. Really depends on what it is, I think. I just watched the movie Melancholia which is pretty ambiguous about its setting. I was wavering between US and UK based on the accents, but I think in the back of my head I kinda assumed vaguely East Coast -ish.

  • Chipotle stock craters as company says young people without jobs can't afford their food anymore

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  • Chipotle stock craters as company says young people without jobs can't afford their food anymore

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  • I love Chipotle. Maybe it's just the locations near me, but the quality is good and prices are not as high as some others in the thread say; certainly not $20. Maybe $11 or $12, and for a really big meal.

    Unfortunately I stopped eating there when I stopped shopping at Target, when they got rid of their DEI policies in clear capitulation to MAGA. Plenty of places with comparable quality & price that at least try not to do hiring discrimination

  • Why can't we (states) ignore clock changes without the federal government? The federal government doesn't seem to care about standing laws.

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  • being the only one not to switch is also painful, possibly more than just switching.

    As an Arizonan, I disagree with this point. I don't really experience any downsides with not switching and I think very few people would.

  • Devastating songs

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  • Alone Again, Naturally by Gilbert O'Sullivan.A small twist, but a very devastating song

  • What's a song in a language you don't speak that still gets you dancing and yelling along hyped?

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  • La Fuente or really anything else by Adiós Amores

  • If you had to choose a new lingua franca, what language would you pick?

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  • China has an extremely high literacy rate, so the difficulty in learning the system is, at least, provably surmountable.

    The strength of being able to unite communication historically across East Asia and potentially around the world is a pretty big plus. Offering such a strength impossible in other systems, ideograms are hardly equivalent to imperial units.

  • If you had to choose a new lingua franca, what language would you pick?

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  • Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese are totally unrelated languages. Chinese languages are sino-tibetan, Vietnamese is austro-asiatic, Japanese is japonic, and Korean is alone in its own family. Totally unrelated to each other as far as we can trace.

    Despite that, they all used to use the same writing system and, shockingly, they were mutually intelligible when written down. In Japanese this method of reading Chinese (without actually knowing Chinese) was called kundoku but I think that the other languages also had ways to read & write Chinese writing with very light translation. Even today, Chinese writing unites the different dialects/languages of China.

    My proposed lingua franca is the Chinese writing system. Everybody should keep their own writing systems, but they should also learn to transcribe into Chinese, the only extant written language in which this is really possible.

  • If you had to choose a new lingua franca, what language would you pick?

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  • I stopped believing in toki pona when I heard somebody say that "watermelon" would be "kili telo" (fruit [of] water). It goes without saying that "kili telo" would not be understood as "watermelon" unless they had heard it in English before, or heard someone use the English-derived "kili telo".If you're going to use English-language ideas to form words, then English is a prerequisite language for speaking toki pona, and toki pona becomes useless.

    I think if toki pona is developed as you describe, it could be much more useful than it is today.

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    What's something you do when no one's looking or is around?

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  • Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions!

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  • P3P uses the same combat system as Persona 4 and 5, while the original P3 and P3FES system was quite different.

    The actual changes are pretty subtle, but it makes the whole system feel totally different. The "1 More" mechanic did not activate on partial knockdowns with multi target moves, and being knocked down would result in skipped turn. Being hit while knocked down would also undo the knockdown.Basically, multi target moves were much more situational, type weaknesses were much more dangerous (for both player characters and enemies), and there was a lot of potential strategy in getting enemies to skip turns.I think it was a lot more interesting this way and P4/P3P/P5 simplified it to the point that P5 added a "play the game for me" button that autoselects the best move.

    I agree with the other commenter that both P3Re or P3FES would be mostly the same as what you've already experienced, but I think it's worth it for the epilogue, especially if you liked the characters in the base game.Between the two, I would personally recommend FES but I think most people would recommend Reload.

  • Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions!

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  • Surprised I didn't see anyone mention Persona 3 FES.

    The definitive version of Persona 3, before they simplified the combat system for 4, 5, and remakes of 3.

    The epilogue of the game, The Answer, has the best story in the series.

    Persona series is [almost] totally standalone; no need to play 1 or 2 first.

  • Excuse me, but what the f#@£?

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  • Settings>Homepage>Sponsored shortcuts

    I turned it off a long time ago, I don't think this is new.

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    Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?

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  • YouTube killed mine recently ;-; what do you use?

  • What's the most ridiculous reason why someone sent you death threats?

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  • What was the math? Doesn't salt increase the boiling point?

  • Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't

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  • The Gregorian calendar is by far the most commonly used calendar in the world, certainly in the English speaking world, and while I don't particularly care to defend or attack your comment or the original comment, my point stands that the most obvious interpretation of what they said is in the context of the Gregorian calendar and to pretend they meant it outside of that context is silly.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What are your most recently visited Wikipedia pages?

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Please generate an image with NO dogs

  • Anime @ani.social
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    A list of every anime to depict the Twin Towers

    myanimelist.net /stacks/46166
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    on wikipedia

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    rule

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4/4 rule