• Salamander@mander.xyz
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    1 day ago

    The split between “Today” and “Tomorrow” is at midnight, not when one sleeps/wakes up.

    This comes up often after midnight when my girlfriend asks me about “tomorrow”. Why discuss breakfast for tomorrow when we still haven’t had breakfast today??

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      9 hours ago

      I guess my hill is to fight you on this.

      They current day isnt over until you wake up, or the sun comes up

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      11 hours ago

      If someone says “last night” when talking at 12:01AM, do you consider them to be talking about 1 minute ago?

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        9 hours ago

        I will know what they mean, but if I notice it is 12:01 I will absolutely take the opportunity to respond as if they meant 1 minute ago

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      22 hours ago

      Must disagree. If today ended at midnight, then my streak of watching at least one episode of a TV show every single day would have been broken years ago. No, today ends when I go to sleep, even if it’s at noon on what is your tomorrow

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      1 day ago

      Some computer nerd friends and I came up with a solution for this:

      Computer architectures typically provide separate instructions for “logical” and “arithmetic” bit-shifts. The details as to why aren’t important, but we can borrow the nomenclature.

      When referring to “tomorrow” in the sense of “when I wake up from my next sleep cycle”, use “logical tomorrow”. When referring to “tomorrow” in the sense of “after midnight tonight”, use “arithmetic tomorrow” (or “chronological tomorrow”, if you really want to be pedantic).

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      1 day ago

      You may want to ask a member of the cult of the subgenius the difference between “real” midnight and “conspiracy” midnight.

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        9 hours ago

        Our relationship is built on tiny hills to die on. Of course, it is always playful 😜

        She will use a common grammatical construction in Spanish (“a por”) that became technically correct in Spain (where she is from) long after the conquest. I am from Mexico, where that construction is not used (we don’t insert the “a” before “por”). So, when she uses “a por” I act like I don’t understand and argue that it is not in the spanish her ancestors taught mine.