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Cake day: August 14th, 2023
  • stabby_cicada@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyz•Sea LevelEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Only if you measured agriculture by the calendar instead of other signs.

    For example: Hesiod’s Works and Days, a Greek poem about farming and right living from about 800 BC, includes a poetic agricultural calendar that has nothing to do with months - plough your fields when the cranes are migrating and the Pleiades are no longer visible over the horizon, harvest when the Pleiades appear again; cut wood for tools when Sirius is high in the sky; prune grape vines sixty days after the solstice; etc.

    So the calendar could say whatever it wanted. Farmers - who were generally illiterate anyway - knew when to plant and harvest without it.

    Fun fact: the earliest Roman calendars had only ten months, 305 days, from March to December. The days between December and March didn’t belong to any month and could be as many as the Romans wanted to make March start appropriately in spring.

  • stabby_cicada@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoFediverse@lemmy.world•Slrpnk.net outage (resolved)English
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    7 months ago

    And on the punk side of things, anybody familiar with volunteer community action, cooperative events, whatever, knows that sometimes a person doing shit for the community fails to do the shit they were supposed to do because some other shit happened in their life. It happens. We just move on to the backup shit-doer-person or find a workaround for the lack of shit.

    And this is the cool thing about a distributed network like Lemmy. If a giant centralized database like FB goes down, its users can’t do anything. If our favorite Lemmy node goes down, we can log into other nodes until our home base is back up.