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Why don't the whole planet just use UTC+00:00 / Universal Time without time zones?

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    You don't understand what the word "arbitrary" means, lol.

    Well, if you said it, it must be true.

    With your imagined system of "if everyone had always lived with random ass times they would feel as normal as they do now".

    So wait, is this a pivot, or are you still trying to claim that I'm advocating for this? I have completely lost track of what you're framing your abusive posts on now.

    Anyway, your imagined system of "somehow the fact that the time when people wake up is called 0600 is inherent to our biology or orbital dynamics or whatever" is absolutely not more logical than the system that the OP has asked about. It's just as arbitrary (hey, yeah, look, I still know what that means!).

    You don't understand the basic history of timekeeping

    Once again proving that you haven't read the previous posts I've made. Come on, dude. Simple reading. That's all I'm asking for.

    and you have an utterly childish point, which is also wrong.

    You have yet to actually prove this. Made lots of assertions, but you're just screaming "nuh-uh! YOU are!" over and over at this point and then spiking the conversational football as if it does anything.

    You're just backing up on everything you've said after I rub your face in how stupid it's been, then you pretend you don't have a face full of poo.

    Finally discovering what I was actually saying because you actually decided to go back and read it this time doesn't count as "backing up." I've been saying the same thing this whole time.

    I speak 2 languages on a native level, one or two more fluently and a half a dozen in a "I could order in a restaurant" level. I'm pretty sure I know more expressions about time in more languages than you. How many languages do you speak?

    ...congratulations? I'm not sure how that's relevant in any way to anything. If it's really important to you: you're very smart and special. I bet you make your parents proud.

    It doesn't matter if you don't know the local language or "what time local noon is" or even if they're using the same alphabet, you'll still recognise a number like 14:00 - 03:00 and then look up at the sky and it's not yet noon and you'll know you'll have to wait several hours at least.

    Maybe. Or you'll walk up to the door of a veterinarian and wait around for five hours before you realize that people are bringing animals into the place, not walking out with food. There's also the problem of not knowing whether it's before noon or after noon (so a sign that says they're open for lunch from 1000-1800 would be useless if the sun is in a position where it could easily be 0700 or 1900). Or not being able to see the sun due to clouds or night or being inside. What I'm saying is that there are bigger problems involved in the situation you brought up, which is why I doubt anyone would care to solve the time problem. In this fictional, made-up world where the history of timekeeping went a little bit differently. Which you've somehow decided merits insulting me, despite you not actually having an argument that makes any logical sense. (Or at least not one you're willing to share with the class)

    But you'll not admit that laughable. Which in itself amuses me.

    I admit it's absolutely laughable! You know what else is absolutely laughable? The idea that the current system makes any more sense! If you're trying to coordinate an event with someone just a few miles away but across a time zone boundary in our current system, you have to go to great pains to sort everything out and make sure nobody arrives an hour early or an hour late. Or, even worse, two hours early (which happened once to a friend of mine when he did the time zone math backwards). Despite being just miles apart, and not being able to see any appreciable visible difference between the sun. That's laughable, too.

    "Oh, but we have tools to deal with it" or "oh, but we can figure it out" or "oh, git gud, noob"--and yeah, we're used to it because we grew up with it and our parents grew up with it and our teachers grew up with it for generations and generations. If it had gone the other way, we would've developed different tools to deal with it, different ways of figuring it out, and we would've gotten good at other ways of keeping time. That's literally my entire point.

    All of this is laughable. It's all arbitrary (yep, still got it) and hilarious because we made it all up. All models are wrong (including timekeeping). Some are useful.

    You're pretending like "noon" means nine because of its etymology, as in you're pretending as if you understand linguistics, when you don't understand that ignoring it's actual descriptive meaning of "mid-day" (which is why it's "high noon, because that's describing the position of the sun) is something even a first year linguist would never do.

    Your refusal to read in favor of just assuming what I mean is showing again.

    But you're not about learning, you're about pretending you know things.

    Aw, buddy. You think you're teaching me anything? If you had anything to teach me, that would be a welcome change. I love learning things. But you seem to be in "dunk mode" and absolutely furious that I keep refusing to let you dunk on me.

    And I'm saying you are wrong in that. Because you are. You are wrong in saying that. Do you understand? You are incorrect. It is not arbitrary. Even the number 12 isn't arbitrary, neither is 24 or 100. That's not what the word means, sweetums. โค

    You seriously think that assigning 12 to "noon" is inherent, babycakes? You literally believe that there's no other way that we could've matched up numbers to the time of day, pumpkin? Like there's not other ways of keeping time that used different numbers or even words instead of the digits you're familiar with on the clocks you own, honeybunch?

    We agreed on 1200 as noon. That's why it works, and that's the only reason it works. If we had decided that noon would be 0000 or 1800 or "the sixth hour" or whatever, you'd be screaming your pretty little head off that I'm ridiculous for suggesting that 1200 makes as much sense as anything else. The decision has historical precedent, but it's scientifically arbitrary (boom, still know that word). The planet doesn't care whether we call it 1200 or d3:12:1h::23 or Xylophone, it'll still rotate to put us under the sun at that time.

    Yes, I'm perfectly aware. Watching you prance around pretending to be smart is like watching toddlers bake mud cakes. It's cute how they think they're doing a credible job and you just have to act along so they can enjoy themselves. ๐Ÿ™‚

    Having been a parent of a toddler, I can tell you it's definitely nothing like that. For one thing, toddlers baking mud cakes is adorable, and I definitely am not adorable.

    Oh I'm not going anywhere, hunny. You're better entertainment than this show I'm watching.

    I'm so happy to be of service, sweetie-pie. You have a great day now, 'k?

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    It's true, because it's true. You saying something is "arbitrary" because you don't understand the reason is very stupid indeed. Really American, I might say.

    You talk about non-sequiturs (again like a teenager horny to pretend to be a philosopher who actually doesn't know jack shit), while arguing about age. It's hilarious.

    You still don't know what "arbitrary" means. 12, 24, 30, even 100 hour systems are in no way arbitrary.

    You don't understand what "implication" means either.

    Damn, I could be having this conversation in several other languages, but I presume this is your "best" and all you manage is to whinge about how your mudcakes are actual food and stomp your food and cry on the ground until I pretend to eat one to make you happy.

    No you haven't "read a book about timekeeping", you're just a kiddo American feeling mighty stupid that someone is mocking them.

    Like I told you, I'll eventually tell you the answers, even though they're pretty damn obvious for people who have actually read books about timekeeping. I mean roflmao why the fuck would you think of such a childish lie? This is why America is ridiculed. Your president being what it is has given you a false sense of how much regulate people can get away with asinine bullshitting.

    You brought up language skills, and now try to make it seem like you didn't think it important anyway. Seriously, I can't think of a more childish way of going about that.

    Remember how you didn't notice anything about the divisibility of hours? Why are there no systems based on a prime number of hours, huh?

    Oh I've read your posts. I'm just gonna keep you publicly shaming yourself so the bots have time to archive your stupidity for the rest of the world before you delete in all in an attack of shame when I finally do educate you

    Or not being able to see the sun due to clouds or night or being inside

    Surely you're not this fucking stupid. You just can't be.

    "Hey is it day or night out?"

    "Uh, I can't tell, it's so cloudy"

    "Oh no, I'm inside, I have no way of knowing where the sun is, because all our buildings are shipping crates with no windows"

    "Oh no, it's night, and all the markers in the sky are clearly visible, what to do now?"

    You "read a book about timekeeping" recently.....?

    I am not and have not argued you at any point. You are my entertainment. Just like I wouldn't fight a kid, I won't argue you.

    You're still grossly misusing "arbitrary". I understand you're linguistically challenged so here:

    Dictionary
    Definitions from Oxford Languages ยท Learn more
    adjective 1.
    based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.

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      You literally don't know anything about the history of timekeeping. That's the point. You keep pretending to, because you've read a Wikipedia article. And you don't see why you're being ridiculed?

      The systems which humanity have used have not been arbitrary and every single "argument" you've made showcases your stupidity and ignorance.

      How many languages was it you spoke again?

      Give me your address and I'll order a "grammar for kids" book and a dictionary for you. In English, as I presume it's the only language you sort of understand.

      It's not about the length of your replies, it's about who they're formatted like a teenager with Alzheimer's.

      What do you mean "no support for your claims about timekeeping systems not being arbitrary"? You can't be serious. You just can't. You still don't understand what the word arbitrary even means?

      :DDdddddd

      This is the best wake up comment I could've read. Put a laugh in my day right away hahaha thank you. Also I don't believe a person like you has read a single book in your entire life.

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      You literally don't know anything about the history of timekeeping. That's the point.

      Assertion isn't evidence. You have yet to actually say a single thing about why you think I'm wrong, just that you do. This is not how argumentation and debate work.

      And you don't see why you're being ridiculed?

      This isn't ridicule, it's just baseless name-calling. This is elementary school-level insults. If it were ridicule, it would have any evidence behind it at all. The longer you go without providing any basis for your claims, the more clear it becomes that you have none.

      The systems which humanity have used have not been arbitrary

      Every system humanity uses is arbitrary. We decide and agree that something arbitrary is useful, and then we decide to imbue that arbitrary thing with meaning.

      Words didn't mean anything until we assigned meaning to them, and you can tell they're arbitrary because the same combination of syllables can mean something completely different in another language. For someone who claims to know multiple languages, you should be aware of that. Meters aren't meters because they have to be; we decided that the distance light travels in 0.000000003335641s is a useful amount of distance. We could've easily defined it as the distance light travels in 0.000000003335642s and it wouldn't be any more or less logical.

      That's how humans work. We give arbitrary things meaning. You insisting that the shapes in the clouds are definitely sharks doesn't make them sharks. The shapes are arbitrary.

      and every single "argument" you've made showcases your stupidity and ignorance.

      Contrasted with the complete lack of argument you've made.

      Give me your address and I'll order a "grammar for kids" book and a dictionary for you.

      Aw, buddy, you already tried that insult once. And it wasn't funny the first time.

      It's not about the length of your replies, it's about who they're formatted like a teenager with Alzheimer's.

      Now that one's funny! Good job. I knew you could do it.

      What do you mean "no support for your claims about timekeeping systems not being arbitrary"?

      I mean, support your claims that there's something inherent about timekeeping systems. Something in our brains, or in the rotation of the Earth, or in the physical properties of light, or something that means that high noon has to be represented on the clock as 1200.

      That's what "support" means. That's what evidence is. That's what any reasonable, good-faith argument has to include.

      You still don't understand what the word arbitrary even means?

      I am starting to think that you believe "arbitrary" means "random." But that isn't what it means. It means "randomly chosen," or perhaps "selected without impetus." The Egyptians didn't have to choose twelve constellations; nobody was forcing them to, and there wasn't anything inherent about them that required them to base a system of timekeeping around it.

      This is the best wake up comment I could've read. Put a laugh in my day right away hahaha thank you.

      You're welcome! I love knowing that I'm helping put some joy into the world.

      Also I don't believe a person like you has read a single book in your entire life.

      Oh, thanks for the reminder, I forgot to log the book I finished yesterday.

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        It's true, because it's true. You saying something is "arbitrary" because you don't understand the reason is very stupid indeed. Really American, I might say.

        You talk about non-sequiturs (again like a teenager horny to pretend to be a philosopher who actually doesn't know jack shit), while arguing about age. It's hilarious.

        You still don't know what "arbitrary" means. 12, 24, 30, even 100 hour systems are in no way arbitrary.

        You don't understand what "implication" means either.

        Damn, I could be having this conversation in several other languages, but I presume this is your "best" and all you manage is to whinge about how your mudcakes are actual food and stomp your food and cry on the ground until I pretend to eat one to make you happy.

        No you haven't "read a book about timekeeping", you're just a kiddo American feeling mighty stupid that someone is mocking them.

        Like I told you, I'll eventually tell you the answers, even though they're pretty damn obvious for people who have actually read books about timekeeping. I mean roflmao why the fuck would you think of such a childish lie? This is why America is ridiculed. Your president being what it is has given you a false sense of how much regulate people can get away with asinine bullshitting.

        You brought up language skills, and now try to make it seem like you didn't think it important anyway. Seriously, I can't think of a more childish way of going about that.

        Remember how you didn't notice anything about the divisibility of hours? Why are there no systems based on a prime number of hours, huh?

        Oh I've read your posts. I'm just gonna keep you publicly shaming yourself so the bots have time to archive your stupidity for the rest of the world before you delete in all in an attack of shame when I finally do educate you

        Or not being able to see the sun due to clouds or night or being inside

        Surely you're not this fucking stupid. You just can't be.

        "Hey is it day or night out?"

        "Uh, I can't tell, it's so cloudy"

        "Oh no, I'm inside, I have no way of knowing where the sun is, because all our buildings are shipping crates with no windows"

        "Oh no, it's night, and all the markers in the sky are clearly visible, what to do now?"

        You "read a book about timekeeping" recently.....?

        I am not and have not argued you at any point. You are my entertainment. Just like I wouldn't fight a kid, I won't argue you.

        You're still grossly misusing "arbitrary". I understand you're linguistically challenged so here:

        Dictionary
        Definitions from Oxford Languages ยท Learn more
        adjective 1.
        based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.

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        It's true, because it's true.

        A tautology isn't a reason, it's a logical fallacy. Maybe even a religion. This would be a really weird religion to have a holy war over.

        saying something is "arbitrary" because you don't understand the reason

        As opposed to just insisting that something isn't because you don't know the reason, like you seem to be doing? Prove me wrong. Provide any evidence. Or honestly even just a claim, a claim would at least be something worth discussing.

        Really American, I might say.

        Well, you're not wrong there.

        You still don't know what "arbitrary" means. 12, 24, 30, even 100 hour systems are in no way arbitrary.

        So they came from the universe factory with those meanings already imbued in them?

        You don't understand what "implication" means either.

        Come on, man. Make a claim. Even make a bogus claim. But don't just attack me for the fact that you don't understand my language.

        all you manage is to whinge about how your mudcakes are actual food and stomp your food and cry on the ground until I pretend to eat one to make you happy.

        Do I? You're the one that's been slinging insults since the moment you showed up, and "pretending to eat one" would mean telling me what you think is right instead of trying to verbally abuse me until I admit that you were right, even though you haven't actually said anything that could be right or wrong yet.

        No you haven't "read a book about timekeeping",

        Honestly now I'm wondering if it was a video series. I don't see it in my reading log anywhere. But it was a long time ago, so maybe it was before I started logging books.

        you're just a kiddo American feeling mighty stupid that someone is mocking them.

        You're not "mocking" me. You're shouting random nonsense from the opposing sidewalk and hoping that some of it makes sense.

        Like I told you, I'll eventually tell you the answers,

        Press X to doubt.

        even though they're pretty damn obvious for people who have actually read books about timekeeping.

        Then it should be pretty easy to point me toward one of these books, shouldn't it?

        This is why America is ridiculed.

        There are a lot of reasons why America is ridiculed, and most of them are justified.

        You brought up language skills, and now try to make it seem like you didn't think it important anyway.

        Pretty sure I never said anything about the number of languages one speaks being important.

        Oh I've read your posts.

        Citation needed.

        I'm just gonna keep you publicly shaming yourself so the bots have time to archive your stupidity for the rest of the world before you delete in all in an attack of shame when I finally do educate you

        Wow, you really don't know me.

        "Hey is it day or night out?"

        "Uh, I can't tell, it's so cloudy"

        "Hey, when does this restaurant open?"

        "The sign says 11:00, but I don't know what time it is. Or what day it is; it opens at 16:00 on Saturdays and not at all on Tuesdays."

        "Well, I see by the sun that it's either a couple of hours before or after noon, or we're at an extreme edge of the time zone and it's exactly noon. So I guess rather than trying to find someone to ask or a restaurant that's clearly open, we should just wait in front of this door for an indeterminate amount of time."

        You "read a book about timekeeping" recently.....?

        If I said "recently," I misspoke. It was a long time ago.

        I am not and have not argued you at any point.

        This is literally what you're doing now. The first definition of "argument" is "an exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one." I have a diverging view from you, apparently (even though you won't actually tell me what it is), and you're super heated about it for some reason.

        You're still grossly misusing "arbitrary".

        Based on the definition that you provided, I'm using it perfectly:

        1. based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.

        The choice to divide the day into twelve hours was based on the personal whim of the ancient Egyptians. They found a particular set of twelve constellations to be important, but by random choice they might well have found a different set of, say, eight constellations to be important. Or sixteen. Or ten.

        The choice to begin the day (and thus the numbering of the day) twelve hours before noon was based on the personal whim of the Romans. Maybe they liked some aspects of the choice better than starting the day six hours before noon like Jewish rabbis did, or at noon itself. They may have justified it with a good reason, but the people who chose otherwise would have justified their choice with a good reason as well; so for humanity as a whole, it is arbitrary.

        The choice to mark out time zones within which all hours are indexed to the local noon was also made on the personal whim of...some railroad guy (I can't remember his name) in the 19th century. He knew that the then-current system of every railway having their own time and every city along the railroad having a different local time was a bad idea (it was), but he could just as easily have chosen a UTC and suggested that the trains run on a truly universal UTC. Would it have caught on? Who knows? But we're presuming for the sake of this discussion a world in which it did.

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          You literally don't know anything about the history of timekeeping. That's the point.

          Assertion isn't evidence. You have yet to actually say a single thing about why you think I'm wrong, just that you do. This is not how argumentation and debate work.

          And you don't see why you're being ridiculed?

          This isn't ridicule, it's just baseless name-calling. This is elementary school-level insults. If it were ridicule, it would have any evidence behind it at all. The longer you go without providing any basis for your claims, the more clear it becomes that you have none.

          The systems which humanity have used have not been arbitrary

          Every system humanity uses is arbitrary. We decide and agree that something arbitrary is useful, and then we decide to imbue that arbitrary thing with meaning.

          Words didn't mean anything until we assigned meaning to them, and you can tell they're arbitrary because the same combination of syllables can mean something completely different in another language. For someone who claims to know multiple languages, you should be aware of that. Meters aren't meters because they have to be; we decided that the distance light travels in 0.000000003335641s is a useful amount of distance. We could've easily defined it as the distance light travels in 0.000000003335642s and it wouldn't be any more or less logical.

          That's how humans work. We give arbitrary things meaning. You insisting that the shapes in the clouds are definitely sharks doesn't make them sharks. The shapes are arbitrary.

          and every single "argument" you've made showcases your stupidity and ignorance.

          Contrasted with the complete lack of argument you've made.

          Give me your address and I'll order a "grammar for kids" book and a dictionary for you.

          Aw, buddy, you already tried that insult once. And it wasn't funny the first time.

          It's not about the length of your replies, it's about who they're formatted like a teenager with Alzheimer's.

          Now that one's funny! Good job. I knew you could do it.

          What do you mean "no support for your claims about timekeeping systems not being arbitrary"?

          I mean, support your claims that there's something inherent about timekeeping systems. Something in our brains, or in the rotation of the Earth, or in the physical properties of light, or something that means that high noon has to be represented on the clock as 1200.

          That's what "support" means. That's what evidence is. That's what any reasonable, good-faith argument has to include.

          You still don't understand what the word arbitrary even means?

          I am starting to think that you believe "arbitrary" means "random." But that isn't what it means. It means "randomly chosen," or perhaps "selected without impetus." The Egyptians didn't have to choose twelve constellations; nobody was forcing them to, and there wasn't anything inherent about them that required them to base a system of timekeeping around it.

          This is the best wake up comment I could've read. Put a laugh in my day right away hahaha thank you.

          You're welcome! I love knowing that I'm helping put some joy into the world.

          Also I don't believe a person like you has read a single book in your entire life.

          Oh, thanks for the reminder, I forgot to log the book I finished yesterday.

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          You still can't even answer without making it like homework for yourself, singling out things as if this is some official debate. It isn't. It's just you equivocating.

          "Wyaaa everything is actually arbitrary, EVERYTHING! So I was never wrong about it!"

          The word "arbitrary" has a non-arbitrary meaning.

          You can keep equivocating. It won't change anything. You're still wrong.

          Yeah, I now I haven't explained to you in detail why you're wrong, but I assumed you can't be so stupid as to keep arguing that all time keeping systems are arbitrary when I point out the divisibility of hours.

          Keep on lying about having read a book, surely saying you're not a moron makes it so that you magically aren't. You're ignorant of just how ignorant you are.

          You definitely voted Trump with an IQ like that.

          Do I need to paste the meaning of "arbitrary" here again?

          Like I said, you don't even speak ONE language fluently while I speak almost a dozen on some level.

          "EVERYTHING is arbitrary words don't mean anything I'm never wrong and I'm not lying or pretending"

          When will you realise I've never taken you seriously, clown? You're my ENTERTAINMENT.

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            It's true, because it's true.

            A tautology isn't a reason, it's a logical fallacy. Maybe even a religion. This would be a really weird religion to have a holy war over.

            saying something is "arbitrary" because you don't understand the reason

            As opposed to just insisting that something isn't because you don't know the reason, like you seem to be doing? Prove me wrong. Provide any evidence. Or honestly even just a claim, a claim would at least be something worth discussing.

            Really American, I might say.

            Well, you're not wrong there.

            You still don't know what "arbitrary" means. 12, 24, 30, even 100 hour systems are in no way arbitrary.

            So they came from the universe factory with those meanings already imbued in them?

            You don't understand what "implication" means either.

            Come on, man. Make a claim. Even make a bogus claim. But don't just attack me for the fact that you don't understand my language.

            all you manage is to whinge about how your mudcakes are actual food and stomp your food and cry on the ground until I pretend to eat one to make you happy.

            Do I? You're the one that's been slinging insults since the moment you showed up, and "pretending to eat one" would mean telling me what you think is right instead of trying to verbally abuse me until I admit that you were right, even though you haven't actually said anything that could be right or wrong yet.

            No you haven't "read a book about timekeeping",

            Honestly now I'm wondering if it was a video series. I don't see it in my reading log anywhere. But it was a long time ago, so maybe it was before I started logging books.

            you're just a kiddo American feeling mighty stupid that someone is mocking them.

            You're not "mocking" me. You're shouting random nonsense from the opposing sidewalk and hoping that some of it makes sense.

            Like I told you, I'll eventually tell you the answers,

            Press X to doubt.

            even though they're pretty damn obvious for people who have actually read books about timekeeping.

            Then it should be pretty easy to point me toward one of these books, shouldn't it?

            This is why America is ridiculed.

            There are a lot of reasons why America is ridiculed, and most of them are justified.

            You brought up language skills, and now try to make it seem like you didn't think it important anyway.

            Pretty sure I never said anything about the number of languages one speaks being important.

            Oh I've read your posts.

            Citation needed.

            I'm just gonna keep you publicly shaming yourself so the bots have time to archive your stupidity for the rest of the world before you delete in all in an attack of shame when I finally do educate you

            Wow, you really don't know me.

            "Hey is it day or night out?"

            "Uh, I can't tell, it's so cloudy"

            "Hey, when does this restaurant open?"

            "The sign says 11:00, but I don't know what time it is. Or what day it is; it opens at 16:00 on Saturdays and not at all on Tuesdays."

            "Well, I see by the sun that it's either a couple of hours before or after noon, or we're at an extreme edge of the time zone and it's exactly noon. So I guess rather than trying to find someone to ask or a restaurant that's clearly open, we should just wait in front of this door for an indeterminate amount of time."

            You "read a book about timekeeping" recently.....?

            If I said "recently," I misspoke. It was a long time ago.

            I am not and have not argued you at any point.

            This is literally what you're doing now. The first definition of "argument" is "an exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one." I have a diverging view from you, apparently (even though you won't actually tell me what it is), and you're super heated about it for some reason.

            You're still grossly misusing "arbitrary".

            Based on the definition that you provided, I'm using it perfectly:

            1. based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.

            The choice to divide the day into twelve hours was based on the personal whim of the ancient Egyptians. They found a particular set of twelve constellations to be important, but by random choice they might well have found a different set of, say, eight constellations to be important. Or sixteen. Or ten.

            The choice to begin the day (and thus the numbering of the day) twelve hours before noon was based on the personal whim of the Romans. Maybe they liked some aspects of the choice better than starting the day six hours before noon like Jewish rabbis did, or at noon itself. They may have justified it with a good reason, but the people who chose otherwise would have justified their choice with a good reason as well; so for humanity as a whole, it is arbitrary.

            The choice to mark out time zones within which all hours are indexed to the local noon was also made on the personal whim of...some railroad guy (I can't remember his name) in the 19th century. He knew that the then-current system of every railway having their own time and every city along the railroad having a different local time was a bad idea (it was), but he could just as easily have chosen a UTC and suggested that the trains run on a truly universal UTC. Would it have caught on? Who knows? But we're presuming for the sake of this discussion a world in which it did.

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            A tautology isn't a reason. A reason is a reason. Just like how arbitrary things are arbitrary and how numbers have inherent value.

            You've made several claims. Then when I point out the moronic bullshit you've said you equivocate, despite having a room-temp IQ and everyone seeing how wrong you are. It's hilarious.

            Yes, you're "now wondering if it was a video series". Sure you are. As if you didn't know that you don't read books. You're not only stupid as fuck, you're also the worst liar I've seen in years.

            One of the reasons Americans are mocked is because they try claiming things which everyone can see are incorrect.

            Like I said, it's like watching an excited toddler playing kitchen.

            No, you didn't "misspeak", you're just a very shitty liar.

            rather than any reason or system.

            Having a hard time understanding this sentence?

            I speak a dozen languages, but you don't even speak one, so the communication issue isn't due to a lack of MY ability. ;>

            You're wrong and a moron. Several times over. Run and cry I don't care, it won't change the facts.

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              You still can't even answer without making it like homework for yourself, singling out things as if this is some official debate. It isn't. It's just you equivocating.

              "Wyaaa everything is actually arbitrary, EVERYTHING! So I was never wrong about it!"

              The word "arbitrary" has a non-arbitrary meaning.

              You can keep equivocating. It won't change anything. You're still wrong.

              Yeah, I now I haven't explained to you in detail why you're wrong, but I assumed you can't be so stupid as to keep arguing that all time keeping systems are arbitrary when I point out the divisibility of hours.

              Keep on lying about having read a book, surely saying you're not a moron makes it so that you magically aren't. You're ignorant of just how ignorant you are.

              You definitely voted Trump with an IQ like that.

              Do I need to paste the meaning of "arbitrary" here again?

              Like I said, you don't even speak ONE language fluently while I speak almost a dozen on some level.

              "EVERYTHING is arbitrary words don't mean anything I'm never wrong and I'm not lying or pretending"

              When will you realise I've never taken you seriously, clown? You're my ENTERTAINMENT.

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              You still can't even answer without making it like homework for yourself, singling out things as if this is some official debate.

              Homework? Nah bro. This is just what I do while I wait for my code to compile or my lunch to heat up.

              "Wyaaa everything is actually arbitrary, EVERYTHING! So I was never wrong about it!"

              Pretty sure that's not what I said, but go off I guess.

              You're still wrong.

              Citation needed.

              Yeah, I now I haven't explained to you in detail why you're wrong, but I assumed you can't be so stupid as to keep arguing that all time keeping systems are arbitrary when I point out the divisibility of hours.

              Ah yes, the one actual fact you've managed to dredge up, and it also just happens to be absolutely coincidental.

              Keep on lying about having read a book,

              I don't have any need for you to believe me. You may feel free to not. I know what I've done and who I am.

              You're ignorant of just how ignorant you are.

              I'm 100% absolutely certain this is true! But not in this case.

              You definitely voted Trump with an IQ like that.

              Definitely not. Even if I was dumb enough, I'm not cruel enough.

              Do I need to paste the meaning of "arbitrary" here again?

              I put it into my previous response, so I think we've got it covered for now.

              Like I said, you don't even speak ONE language fluently while I speak almost a dozen on some level.

              I'm so proud of you. I mean, it's not relevant to the conversation, but still. Good job.

              words don't mean anything

              lol, I actually have "WORDS MEAN THINGS" written on the back of a notebook somewhere. That's pretty funny that you'd say that specifically.

              I'm never wrong

              I've specifically said multiple times in this conversation that I know I can be wrong and I love being proven wrong. You have yet to do anything of that sort, though.

              When will you realise I've never taken you seriously, clown? You're my ENTERTAINMENT.

              Probably if you put it in all caps I'll believe you.

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                A tautology isn't a reason. A reason is a reason. Just like how arbitrary things are arbitrary and how numbers have inherent value.

                You've made several claims. Then when I point out the moronic bullshit you've said you equivocate, despite having a room-temp IQ and everyone seeing how wrong you are. It's hilarious.

                Yes, you're "now wondering if it was a video series". Sure you are. As if you didn't know that you don't read books. You're not only stupid as fuck, you're also the worst liar I've seen in years.

                One of the reasons Americans are mocked is because they try claiming things which everyone can see are incorrect.

                Like I said, it's like watching an excited toddler playing kitchen.

                No, you didn't "misspeak", you're just a very shitty liar.

                rather than any reason or system.

                Having a hard time understanding this sentence?

                I speak a dozen languages, but you don't even speak one, so the communication issue isn't due to a lack of MY ability. ;>

                You're wrong and a moron. Several times over. Run and cry I don't care, it won't change the facts.

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                A tautology isn't a reason. A reason is a reason.

                Ooh! You did actually read my point, yes! Very good! That's exactly what I was saying.

                You've made several claims. Then when I point out

                Point out, yes. Not prove. You aren't actually making any claims or providing any proof, you're just...saying stuff.

                Feel free to actually say anything that isn't an insult at any time. This bad-faith tactic is frankly getting boring.

                a room-temp IQ

                Of course you believe in that nonsense.

                you're also the worst liar I've seen in years.

                Pretty easy when I'm not lying.

                One of the reasons Americans are mocked is because they try claiming things which everyone can see are incorrect.

                Actually, you're really starting to sound like Trump himself with statements like that. "<patently untrue assertion>, many people are saying. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it." Might want to check your skin for any hint of orange spray-tan, that stuff's insidious.

                Like I said, it's like watching an excited toddler playing kitchen.

                You really only have the one joke? Come on, dude, this was so much fun at the beginning. You peaked too early if this is all you're coming at me with.

                I speak a dozen languages,

                It's always evidence of the smartest people when they have to insist on how smart they are.

                You're wrong

                Citation needed.

                and a moron.

                Could be!

                Run and cry I don't care, it won't change the facts.

                Why would I cry? Because of the facts? You haven't presented any yet.

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                  You still can't even answer without making it like homework for yourself, singling out things as if this is some official debate.

                  Homework? Nah bro. This is just what I do while I wait for my code to compile or my lunch to heat up.

                  "Wyaaa everything is actually arbitrary, EVERYTHING! So I was never wrong about it!"

                  Pretty sure that's not what I said, but go off I guess.

                  You're still wrong.

                  Citation needed.

                  Yeah, I now I haven't explained to you in detail why you're wrong, but I assumed you can't be so stupid as to keep arguing that all time keeping systems are arbitrary when I point out the divisibility of hours.

                  Ah yes, the one actual fact you've managed to dredge up, and it also just happens to be absolutely coincidental.

                  Keep on lying about having read a book,

                  I don't have any need for you to believe me. You may feel free to not. I know what I've done and who I am.

                  You're ignorant of just how ignorant you are.

                  I'm 100% absolutely certain this is true! But not in this case.

                  You definitely voted Trump with an IQ like that.

                  Definitely not. Even if I was dumb enough, I'm not cruel enough.

                  Do I need to paste the meaning of "arbitrary" here again?

                  I put it into my previous response, so I think we've got it covered for now.

                  Like I said, you don't even speak ONE language fluently while I speak almost a dozen on some level.

                  I'm so proud of you. I mean, it's not relevant to the conversation, but still. Good job.

                  words don't mean anything

                  lol, I actually have "WORDS MEAN THINGS" written on the back of a notebook somewhere. That's pretty funny that you'd say that specifically.

                  I'm never wrong

                  I've specifically said multiple times in this conversation that I know I can be wrong and I love being proven wrong. You have yet to do anything of that sort, though.

                  When will you realise I've never taken you seriously, clown? You're my ENTERTAINMENT.

                  Probably if you put it in all caps I'll believe you.

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                  You can't even write a short comment without pasting the bits you're commenting?

                  It looks like you have a genuine memory issue, or this is your first time on forums.

                  I don't aim to prove anything to you. It is beyond hilarious that you note the divisibility of hours (while not even understanding what the word means, lol) while calling it arbitrary.

                  "I know what I have done and who I am"

                  Yup, a pathetic liar. ๐Ÿ˜„

                  "Oh I'm wondering whether it was a video-series", bitch pls, you saw a random YouTube short or something.

                  Everything from your behaviour and word's show what an ignorant moron you are and every time you return, you're digging yourself deeper.

                  How many languages did you speak again? Why's there no time systems with a prime number of hours? If the amount of hours was actually arbitrary, it could. But none are. Why is that? For an arbitrary thing? Or is it that you're still not accepting the word's definition?

                  It's hilarious how often I end up teaching Americans English.

                  What's the word "arbitrary" mean again, and why did you claim "every system we use is arbitrary"? You surely weren't using the word wrong, because that'd be a mistake and you looooove admitting to mistakes you make, right? ;>

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                    A tautology isn't a reason. A reason is a reason.

                    Ooh! You did actually read my point, yes! Very good! That's exactly what I was saying.

                    You've made several claims. Then when I point out

                    Point out, yes. Not prove. You aren't actually making any claims or providing any proof, you're just...saying stuff.

                    Feel free to actually say anything that isn't an insult at any time. This bad-faith tactic is frankly getting boring.

                    a room-temp IQ

                    Of course you believe in that nonsense.

                    you're also the worst liar I've seen in years.

                    Pretty easy when I'm not lying.

                    One of the reasons Americans are mocked is because they try claiming things which everyone can see are incorrect.

                    Actually, you're really starting to sound like Trump himself with statements like that. "<patently untrue assertion>, many people are saying. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it." Might want to check your skin for any hint of orange spray-tan, that stuff's insidious.

                    Like I said, it's like watching an excited toddler playing kitchen.

                    You really only have the one joke? Come on, dude, this was so much fun at the beginning. You peaked too early if this is all you're coming at me with.

                    I speak a dozen languages,

                    It's always evidence of the smartest people when they have to insist on how smart they are.

                    You're wrong

                    Citation needed.

                    and a moron.

                    Could be!

                    Run and cry I don't care, it won't change the facts.

                    Why would I cry? Because of the facts? You haven't presented any yet.

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                    The dictionary definition of arbitrary is proof when you're having a tantrum saying it means whatever you came up with and that "all systems are arbitrary".

                    Equivocate all you want, you're just a very low intelligence American trying desperately to back out of having said a stupid thing. You'd be looked as way less stupid if you just admit you misused "arbitrary". Among other things.

                    Because you "love" admitting to mistakes you make to learn new things, don't you?

                    You claim time-keeping systems are arbitrary with the amount of hours they have. That is WRONG.

                    You'll just keep ignoring all your mistakes, because your immature ego makes you pretend you're infallible. Every projection you make is just an admittance of what you do. A bad faith tactic indeed, you can't answer anything I ask and skip all the mistakes you make.

                    And you think it isn't painfully obvious. Like I said, like watching a kid play kitchen.

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                      You can't even write a short comment without pasting the bits you're commenting?

                      It looks like you have a genuine memory issue, or this is your first time on forums.

                      I don't aim to prove anything to you. It is beyond hilarious that you note the divisibility of hours (while not even understanding what the word means, lol) while calling it arbitrary.

                      "I know what I have done and who I am"

                      Yup, a pathetic liar. ๐Ÿ˜„

                      "Oh I'm wondering whether it was a video-series", bitch pls, you saw a random YouTube short or something.

                      Everything from your behaviour and word's show what an ignorant moron you are and every time you return, you're digging yourself deeper.

                      How many languages did you speak again? Why's there no time systems with a prime number of hours? If the amount of hours was actually arbitrary, it could. But none are. Why is that? For an arbitrary thing? Or is it that you're still not accepting the word's definition?

                      It's hilarious how often I end up teaching Americans English.

                      What's the word "arbitrary" mean again, and why did you claim "every system we use is arbitrary"? You surely weren't using the word wrong, because that'd be a mistake and you looooove admitting to mistakes you make, right? ;>

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                      I honestly had to check and see if this was a copy/paste of your previous comment. All right. This is no longer fun for me. Peace.

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                        The dictionary definition of arbitrary is proof when you're having a tantrum saying it means whatever you came up with and that "all systems are arbitrary".

                        Equivocate all you want, you're just a very low intelligence American trying desperately to back out of having said a stupid thing. You'd be looked as way less stupid if you just admit you misused "arbitrary". Among other things.

                        Because you "love" admitting to mistakes you make to learn new things, don't you?

                        You claim time-keeping systems are arbitrary with the amount of hours they have. That is WRONG.

                        You'll just keep ignoring all your mistakes, because your immature ego makes you pretend you're infallible. Every projection you make is just an admittance of what you do. A bad faith tactic indeed, you can't answer anything I ask and skip all the mistakes you make.

                        And you think it isn't painfully obvious. Like I said, like watching a kid play kitchen.

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                        K. ๐Ÿ‘

                        Bored now. See ya.

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                          I honestly had to check and see if this was a copy/paste of your previous comment. All right. This is no longer fun for me. Peace.

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                          It's no longer fun pretending you didn't misuse a word you clearly misused?

                          Wow, I'm shocked.

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                            K. ๐Ÿ‘

                            Bored now. See ya.

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                            You crawl back into a thread a week later to say "k bye" without being able to address anything you've said, to tell me you're bored?

                            Lol.

                            You should've left it well alone. Now you just seem extra mad for being called out on a mistake(s) you're now ignoring

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