• Leonixster@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 hours ago

    Reminds me of the time I saw people arguing on Reddit about the phrase “time is a social construct” where some people were completely incapable of understanding what that means and conflating the concept of time with the fundamental physics thingymcgee (idk how to call it and entity feels wrong).

    People were trying so hard to explain that minutes, months, seasons, etc. are all arbitrary things made up only for them to retort with “but a year is a full rotation of the sun” or “seasons exist because that’s how the planet changes its climate”.

    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      the fundamental physics thingymcgee (idk how to call it and entity feels wrong)

      Your not wrong, “thingymcgee” is the technical term but it’s still a social construct just like gravity.