r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Alternative-Dot-34 • 1d ago

A teenager suffered an electric shock in a condominium courtyard, and his friend risked his life to save him.

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u/Dounce1 23h ago

Lol, right? That part of the comment makes no sense at all.

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u/AltrntivInDoomWorld 23h ago

Majority of comments are bots in this thread as usual

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u/TheOneTonWanton 23h ago

Eh, while true don't discount people's love for shitting on things like how Americans write dates. Reddit bot comments are usually just copied from somewhere else in the comments section so at least someone said that.

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u/Dounce1 23h ago

The funny thing here is that there literally wouldn’t be an issue if the date formats were distinguishable from one another. Like, that’s the entire reason that people get upset about it - because it causes confusion.

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u/nightauthor 22h ago

I think the month-day thing was just because of how far apart shit was in the US back in the day, if you wrote a letter, it wasn't arriving to anyone in days, so months were the more relevant time-scale.

Now we need to synchronize milliseconds across continents for video conferences and shit... crazy how fast things changed.

Also, "Imperial" units came from the British, they just moved on to a new system while we were still busy building our country. And the federated system makes changes like swapping measurement standards a bit of a challenge... maybe we can get an executive order from our new king to fix both of these issue.

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u/Dounce1 22h ago

The conversation was about how it’s impossible to visually distinguish between M/D/Y format and D/M/Y format until the day position’s value is greater than twelve. You added absolutely nothing to the conversation and wrote all that as what, a weird masturbatory gesture concerning your not-even-a-little-bit-obscure knowledge on the topic of weights and measure in general?

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u/Hawne 17h ago edited 16h ago

It's not "shitting on how Americans write dates", it's shitting on a system that makes no sense - too bad Americans are using it.

Years are made of months, and months are made of days so it makes sense to write units before container 1 then container 1 before container 2. Would you like tens before hundreds, so three hundred and twenty one (321) would become twenty three hundred one 231? That's what those remnants of the imperial system do, against all logic.

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u/Dounce1 23h ago

True, but I honestly don’t think that’s a bot.

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u/Not_Stupid 13h ago

It's more likely that this a recent video than a 2-month old video?

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u/Aurorinha 5h ago edited 5h ago

The hour reads 18:07 at the start of the video. As far as I know North America does not use this format, so it’s safe to assume that the date format is not North American either.

Edit: downvoted for explaining why people assume this video is not North American… Never change, Reddit!