• bluewing@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    Well, it’s still a far plan than the time the French tried to force time into base 10…

    Which might have been the first documented demonstration of the saying “The French follow no one. And no one follows the French.”

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      5 days ago

      They also tried to implement a metric calendar, ya know I think I know why they started using the guillotine on the revolutionary leaders.