The Arbitrary Cosmic Joke Of Human Timekeeping

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The Arbitrary Cosmic Joke Of Human Timekeeping

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Look at that perfect February 2026 calendar—starting on Sunday, ending on Saturday, all 28 days in perfect symmetrical glory. It's the calendar equivalent of finding a perfectly symmetrical crystal in nature.

The joke here is deliciously meta: our entire time-keeping system is just a human construct we collectively agreed upon. The Gregorian calendar? Just some 16th-century pope's pet project that stuck around. We could absolutely redesign months to all have 28 days (13 months plus one extra day) if we wanted logical consistency instead of this hodgepodge of 30 and 31-day months with February as the weird outlier.

But no, we'd rather keep Julius and Augustus Caesar's vanity month-lengthening and deal with "30 days hath September..." rhymes for eternity. The enlightened figure in the meme has seen through the cosmic joke of human timekeeping.

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