• ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
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      6 hours ago

      It was a really dumb one, though, all based on a misunderstanding of what that calendar represented. We basically reached the end of an era in the Mayan system. Like, we don’t usually think rolling over from 1999 to 2000 would cause the world to actually end (as long as our computer systems aren’t all l abbreviating dates).

      Like, they ran out of rock, so they stopped their calendar there instead of continuing.