Board 8 > How can there be a Game of the Decade when the decade isn't over yet?

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There was no year 0... The decade isn't over until December 31, 2020

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That's not how decades work. We don't call this the "210nd decade;" it's the "2010s."

Go away

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I mean the whole system of calendar is human created anyway, so who da fuq cares.

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We should rerun the first GotD with this new information.

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What are you on about? Decade ended like, five seconds ago. And just now. And just a second ago. And a minute ago. Oh, there went another one.

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Mecha Sonic posted...

There was no year 0... The decade isn't over until December 31, 2020

Congrats on being the guy no one likes

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the decade that started 10 years ago has indeed ended

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the first* decade is henceforth defined as January 1, 1BC - December 31, 9AD

problem solved


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pjbasis posted...

We should rerun the first GotD with this new information.

I posted this topic then too

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go away

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Mecha Sonic posted...

I posted this topic then too

Yes we know

It was stupid then too

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Your account is over 20 years old and you have nearly 9000 karma and yet this is the first time I've ever noticed you. Congrats.

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Underleveled posted...

Your account is over 20 years old and you have nearly 9000 karma and yet this is the first time I've ever noticed you. Congrats.

Christ this is a scathing indictment.

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What's your favorite year of the 90s? Mine's 2000.

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IDK why this is so controversial

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I mean there was no year 0, and the first year after Christ is 1, so unless you want to assume the first decade of the calendar only had 9 years, the decade should start at 2011, not 2010.

2010-2019

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ZeldaTPLink posted...

I mean there was no year 0, and the first year after Christ is 1, so unless you want to assume the first decade of the calendar only had 9 years, the decade should start at 2011, not 2010.

That's what I'm saying

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Mecha Sonic posted...

IDK why this is so controversial

Because its trying to sound smart while actually being wrong (see the very first reply in this topic), having no practical value even if it was right (the tens place changing making an intuitive separation point matters way more than nitpicky pointless precision), and everyones heard it all before.

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It's not wrong though. Look at post #17.

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Post 17s argument was already universally understood and anticipated before it was even stated but was incorrect and the error preemptively pointed out.

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It is wrong. There's no such thing as "the" decade. A decade is just a period of ten years. One ends and begins every moment.

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Panthera posted...

It is wrong. There's no such thing as "the" decade. A decade is just a period of ten years. One ends and begins every moment.

This is also stupid because the same could be said for a year and yet if I were to refer to something that happened on March 10, 2019 as "this year" literally nobody would say I was right.

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Underleveled posted...

This is also stupid because the same could be said for a year and yet if I were to refer to something that happened on March 10, 2019 as "this year" literally nobody would say I was right.

It's almost like people talk about specific periods of time based on social convention of what feels right. People would say you were wrong because you were randomly ignoring that for the sake of being deliberately misleading.

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Underleveled posted...

This is also stupid because the same could be said for a year and yet if I were to refer to something that happened on March 10, 2019 as "this year" literally nobody would say I was right.

the same could not be said of a year, the year 2020 is a thing... 2020

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The 202nd full decade since the time we accept as the birth of Christ may not be over...but the 2010's definitely are.

In other news, point-nine-repeating equals one.

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azuarc posted...

In other news, point-nine-repeating equals one.

That's true, 0.999~ = 1... But you can't make an argument to logic like that without also admitting that the current decade began on January 1, 2011 and will end on December 31, 2020.

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https://www.dictionary.com/browse/decade

2 a period of ten years beginning with a year whose last digit is zero: the decade of the 1980s.

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Grimlyn posted...

2 a period of ten years beginning with a year whose last digit is zero: the decade of the 1980s.

By your own definition, you're defeated. The first decade A.D. HAS to be a period of 10 years... so it began January 1, 1 AD and ended December 31st, 11 AD. Carry that on and you wind up with 2011-2020 being the 2010s.

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you'd refer to something happening "within a year ago" as being within a period of 364 days before the statement. you'd refer to something happening "this year" as being within the current calendar year.
the difference is that the latter case is based upon a rigid, understood convention

you'd refer to something happening "within a decade ago" as being within a period of ~10 years before the statement.
you'd refer to something happening "this decade" as being within the same tens place of the calendar year
the difference is that the latter case is based upon a rigid, understood convention

we defined "each decade" to mean 2000-2009.9999... or 2010-2019.9999...
that's what it means
you're not even technically correct. you're arbitrarily deciding that "year 0" even figures into this. who fucking cares when we started this convention if nobody refers to periods two thousand years ago as being in a given decade. akshually we're all wrong because the start of history was 3142.123123125 BC so each decade akshually begins in february when the first order of magnitude has a 2.

trdl you're stupid and need to go away

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Mecha Sonic posted...

By your own definition, you're defeated. The first decade A.D. HAS to be a period of 10 years... so it began January 1, 1 AD and ended December 31st, 11 AD. Carry that on and you wind up with 2011-2020 being the 2010s.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/exception

something excepted; an instance or case not conforming to the general rule.

or I bet you spell 'neither' with the 'i' before 'e'

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Exceptions aren't generally a thing in logic and science... Did they make an exception for Pluto when they redefined what a planet was? Then you can't make an exception for AD 1 - AD 9 when you're trying to redefine what a decade is.

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Mecha Sonic posted...

Exceptions aren't generally a thing in logic and science

How can I tell you don't do much logic or science?

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People calling 2000 "the first year of the new millennium" or "the start of the 21st century" are objectively wrong. I'll agree with that.

However the way we talk about decades is flexible. Decades as we know them aren't in relation to the year 1 CE. We talk about "the 2010's", not "the 202nd decade"

I used to be a contrarian like you. But then I wised up

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A decade is just a period of 10 years. You can start a decade in 1995 and end it in 2005 and it would still be a decade.

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NFUN posted...

How can I tell you don't do much logic or science?

I have a PhD in science irl

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Mecha Sonic posted...

I have a PhD in science irl

you should probably return it lmao

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Grimlyn posted...

you should probably return it lmao

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I veto this topic

Grimlyn posted...

you should probably return it lmao

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your barbs and jibes aside, nobody's yet offered a plausible justification for why the decade doesn't end on December 31st, 2020

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Mecha Sonic posted...

your barbs and jibes aside, nobody's yet offered a plausible justification for why the decade doesn't end on December 31st, 2020

because as a culture we've collectively decided to end them on years ending in 9. That way the tens digit of every year in the decade is the same

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Mecha Sonic posted...

your barbs and jibes aside, nobody's yet offered a plausible justification for why the decade doesn't end on December 31st, 2020

NFUN posted...

you'd refer to something happening "within a year ago" as being within a period of 364 days before the statement. you'd refer to something happening "this year" as being within the current calendar year.
the difference is that the latter case is based upon a rigid, understood convention

you'd refer to something happening "within a decade ago" as being within a period of ~10 years before the statement.
you'd refer to something happening "this decade" as being within the same tens place of the calendar year
the difference is that the latter case is based upon a rigid, understood convention

we defined "each decade" to mean 2000-2009.9999... or 2010-2019.9999...
that's what it means
you're not even technically correct. you're arbitrarily deciding that "year 0" even figures into this. who fucking cares when we started this convention if nobody refers to periods two thousand years ago as being in a given decade. akshually we're all wrong because the start of history was 3142.123123125 BC so each decade akshually begins in february when the first order of magnitude has a 2.

trdl you're stupid and need to go away

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Mecha Sonic posted...

your barbs and jibes aside, nobody's yet offered a plausible justification for why the decade doesn't end on December 31st, 2020

No one has offered anything you will accept, you mean

And you never will because otherwise this wouldn't be a troll topic

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I love being a contrarian more than anybody, and even I took an L on this issue

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Lol contest

Game of a Decade

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Topic should've ended with post #2.

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Underleveled posted...

This is also stupid because the same could be said for a year and yet if I were to refer to something that happened on March 10, 2019 as "this year" literally nobody would say I was right.

Where I work the year we talk about is July 1st to June 30th.

On July 1 2020 we will be in Fiscal Year 2021.

Sometimes people and places use other periods than the calendar standard. Such as when we say 90s and mean 1990-1999.

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