100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.

@Natasha_Jay and then we will be able to celebrate Pi Day on 31 April

@glasspusher Lol! I’m actually in the better, sunnier, hipper part of the SFBA, the East Bay. The San Francisco paintings of Wayne Theibaud (famed mostly for his wonderful depiction of cakes) will give you a sense of just how vertiginous it is over there!
@amiserabilist @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux

@wendinoakland @glasspusher

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/East_Bay

interesting geography

https://www.nps.gov/prsf/learn/nature/geologicformations.htm

@amiserabilist @wendinoakland yes I know Wendy is in the west part of the east bay, the cool part. I was there until fall of 2024

@wendinoakland @glasspusher

@amiserabilist @glasspusher The streets are flat. This is NOT Europe!

@wendinoakland

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@glasspusher

@ArchaeoIain @Natasha_Jay 22/7 is the one true date surely

@amiserabilist @wendinoakland man, I was in montclair. a lot of the streets weren't flat

@zed I can assure you we all learnt to do that like muscle memory by the time we turned nine.

@DrHyde @Natasha_Jay

@NickGates Vallejo is pretty much North Bay. It's across the Napa River from Mare Island, and south of Sonoma & Napa. Actually, Vallej the same latitude as Point Reyes Seashore, just inland a bit. @glasspusher @amiserabilist

So many new delicious issues though!

I propose we rename the months so that they sort alphabetically in calendar order.

In all languages. @gkrnours @Natasha_Jay

@Natasha_Jay I would wage an actual war on the MM/DD/YY format, but it would be confused about when the war even began.

@amiserabilist @wendinoakland @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux what’re you on about? England uses metric measurements, we (all of the UK not just England) is a hard-metric nation. The only English people using imperial measurements are long dead many generations ago, before decimalisation and the common market.

Britain went decimal in the middle of the reign of Queen Euston, I mean Victoria, with the long-fought for introduction of the Florin, which was our first decimal coin. It kept getting vetoed over and over, since the first proposals some centuries prior to that.

@NickGates @glasspusher @amiserabilist Was mine semi-reasonable?

@NickGates

sometimes you don't find out if Vallejo is East Bay, North Bay, or not Bay at all, you just move on.

@wendinoakland @glasspusher

is Vallejo East Bay, North Bay, or not Bay at all?

@wendinoakland @NickGates @glasspusher

is it in no mans land?

@NickGates @glasspusher @amiserabilist Ok, I asked husband and he said No, Vallejo *isn’t* North Bay, despite being north of the SFBay. It’s also east, which might be dominant. Fck if I know?

@amiserabilist @NickGates @glasspusher It’s SOMEPLACE.