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[+] -7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I'm an atheist, but BCE instead of BC is kinda cringe, ngl.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    BCE is the standard for all scholarly material. It would be great to have a completely neutral term, at best we have to settle for a de-Christianized one.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    Let's just all use the Holocene calendar.

    I learned about it in This episode of The Rest is Science with Hannah Fry and Michael Stevens from Vsauce, if you wanna learn cool stuff about our calendars...

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    Still fundamentally linked to the estimate of Christ's birth by Dionysius Exiguus, just with an added +10000. To fully unlink that you'd have to find a date that far back or father to link year 0 to that you're sure about and the farther back you go the harder that is.

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