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An implementation in ink of https://xkcd.com/1930/
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| Did you know that {something()} {happens()} {becauseOf()}? {apparently()}. | |
| == function something == | |
| {~ | |
| - the {~fall|spring} equinox | |
| - the {~winter|summer} {~solstice|olympics} | |
| - the {~earliest|latest} {~sunrise|sunset} | |
| - daylight {~saving|savings} time | |
| - leap {~days|years} | |
| - easter | |
| - the {~harvest|super|blood} moon | |
| - Toyota truck month | |
| - shark week | |
| } | |
| == function happens == | |
| {~ | |
| - happens {~earlier|later|at the wrong time} every year | |
| - drifts out of sync with the {calendar()} | |
| - might {~not happen|happen twice} this year | |
| } | |
| == function calendar == | |
| {~ | |
| - sun | |
| - moon | |
| - zodiac | |
| - gregorian calendar | |
| - mayan calendar | |
| - lunar calendar | |
| - iPhone calendar | |
| - atomic clock in Colorado | |
| } | |
| == function becauseOf == | |
| because of {~ | |
| - the zone legislation in {~Indiana|Arizona|Russia} | |
| - a decree by the Pope in the 1500s | |
| - {~precession|libration|nutation|libation|eccentricity|obuquity} of the {~moon|sun|earth's axis|equator|prime meridian|international date line|Mason-Dixon line} | |
| - magnetic field reversal | |
| - an arbitrary decision by {~Benjamin Franklin|Isaac Newton|FDR} | |
| } | |
| == function apparently == | |
| Apparently <> | |
| {~ | |
| - it causes a predictable increase in car accidents | |
| - that's why we have leap seconds | |
| - scientists are really worried | |
| - it was even more extreme during the {~Bronze Age|Ice Age|Creteous|1990s} | |
| - there's a proposal to fix it, but it {~ | |
| - will never happen | |
| - actually makes things worse | |
| - is stalled in congress | |
| - might be unconstitutional | |
| } | |
| - it's getting worse and no one knows why | |
| } |
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