Some users are angry that some events have been removed.

  • Cheradenine
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    Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world.

    It’s pretty hard to add a recurring event that takes place at the same time every fucking year in a calendar, cut them some slack.

    Unrelated, Kissinger is commemorated on 29 November.

  • snekerpimp@lemmy.world
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    “The holiday database was just OUT OF CONTROL! We had to just start ripping holidays out of there left and right.”

    Sounds like google needs a few lessons on database management?

    • marius@feddit.org
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      Their hardware just isn’t powerful enough to process the amount of data that all those holidays produce

      • frunch@lemmy.world
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        Yeah, i usually just shut my computer down between xmas and new years–the calendar just can’t take it

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    “Not sustainable” is really just Google not wanting to get a antitrust lawsuit from the Trump administration