Cool beans, and the current president has dementia!
poka1123 on
Too much mental masturbation
odd42Thomas on
I was born closer to Lincoln inauguration than my own as well
jambalaya420berlin on
Who are you to determine how I and everyone else perceive history? Maybe we would’ve known this?
bigtimeNS on
nuttyhardshite on
The house I grew up in England is older than all that.
stupidber on
Damn Sleepy Joe old as fuk
MIRV888 on
We elected a convicted state felon to the presidency. Since he’s in charge of the Department of Justice he effectively dismissed his own federal prosecution. Which is a shame. Because if the case had gone forward to conviction, he could have issued a pardon to himself and been absolved for his own crime.
Jo ain’t got sh1t on that.
Sonikku_a on
The Xbox 360 was released closer in time in the US to the NES than it was to today.
ASouthernDandy on
The dates check out, but this is a maths quirk, not a deep insight about history
peblostark on
Maybe it’s not history from our time, but for me one of the facts that blew my mind the most was when one day, by pure chance, I discovered that the T-rex was closer to witnessing the launch of the first iPhone than to coexisting in the same period as the Stegosaurus. I feel like I haven’t been the same since that day.
TheMooseIsBlue on
What should we take away from this? What does “how wrongly we perceive history” mean?
DJteejay04 on
How is simple math an example of how wrongly we perceive history?
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landing than the building of the great pyramid.
kennny_CO2 on
Whats the significance of this? And why is it an example of “how wrongly we perceive history”?
QuarterlyTurtle on
I have never seen anyone claim that Joe Biden was born closer to his own first inauguration than Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration though… so how exactly is this an example of how wrongly we perceive history? This isn’t exactly some widely discussed debate fact, there is no “we” here.
BangBangBananas on
And what possible bearing does this have on anything at all, other than being a weird little fact?
throwawayayaycaramba on
How long till someone mentions Cleopatra and the pyramids, or t-rex and stegosaurus?
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Cool beans, and the current president has dementia!
Too much mental masturbation
I was born closer to Lincoln inauguration than my own as well
Who are you to determine how I and everyone else perceive history? Maybe we would’ve known this?
The house I grew up in England is older than all that.
Damn Sleepy Joe old as fuk
We elected a convicted state felon to the presidency. Since he’s in charge of the Department of Justice he effectively dismissed his own federal prosecution. Which is a shame. Because if the case had gone forward to conviction, he could have issued a pardon to himself and been absolved for his own crime.
Jo ain’t got sh1t on that.
The Xbox 360 was released closer in time in the US to the NES than it was to today.
The dates check out, but this is a maths quirk, not a deep insight about history
Maybe it’s not history from our time, but for me one of the facts that blew my mind the most was when one day, by pure chance, I discovered that the T-rex was closer to witnessing the launch of the first iPhone than to coexisting in the same period as the Stegosaurus. I feel like I haven’t been the same since that day.
What should we take away from this? What does “how wrongly we perceive history” mean?
How is simple math an example of how wrongly we perceive history?
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landing than the building of the great pyramid.
Whats the significance of this? And why is it an example of “how wrongly we perceive history”?
I have never seen anyone claim that Joe Biden was born closer to his own first inauguration than Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration though… so how exactly is this an example of how wrongly we perceive history? This isn’t exactly some widely discussed debate fact, there is no “we” here.
And what possible bearing does this have on anything at all, other than being a weird little fact?
How long till someone mentions Cleopatra and the pyramids, or t-rex and stegosaurus?
America is only three or four generations old
https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/all-of-american-history-fits-in-the-life-span-of-o
https://preview.redd.it/nq3ohhoyqq9g1.jpeg?width=1320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ddbf5e9ffdc85a7a7e696626d1a9b538725a000
Do you perceive two lifetimes as not a long time?
Want to feel old?
Live-Aid (1985) was closer in time to WWII than to the present day.
(Sigh)
What’s the point?
I mean, I’ll eventually be closer to point B as well.
Trump lost this record by 7 years
Trump was closer to Epstein than anyone else
tl:dr: old guy was born close to lincoln’s inauguration.