Birthyear Memes

The mathematical precision of aging is beautifully demonstrated in this graph! It plots Pope Francis's age (Y) against time (X) with the equation Y = X + 1936, where 1936 is his birth year. The perfect linear relationship with slope = 1 is the most predictable model in science—we all age exactly one year per year. Unless you're traveling near light speed, of course, then relativistic time dilation would create a fascinating deviation from this otherwise immutable function. The graph is essentially saying "congratulations on continuing to exist at the standard rate!" which is both trivially obvious and profoundly existential.

The mathematical superiority of being born at the turn of the millennium! While most people have to perform actual arithmetic to calculate their age, those lucky 2000/2001 babies just need to look at the current year. "What's 2023 minus 1987? Hang on..." Meanwhile, millennium babies are smugly thinking "It's 2023, so I'm 23 or 22." That's not just efficiency—that's evolutionary advantage through numerical convenience. Future archaeologists will classify this as the first documented case of "chronological privilege."