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xkcd #2897: Light Leap Years(imgs.xkcd.com)

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When Pope Gregory XIII briefly shortened the light-year in 1582, it led to navigational chaos and the loss of several Papal starships.

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Opafi@feddit.de
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do people actually find xkcd funny?

Yes. And I should know, I’m a people.

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metaStatic@kbin.social
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get out, I’m people too. we should start a club.

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Opafi@feddit.de
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Peoplebros! Who’d have thought I’d meet another people here??

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towerful@programming.dev
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Bro, me too! I bet there are almost a dozen of us!

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jballs@sh.itjust.works
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I’m a people.

Citation needed

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noughtnaut@lemmy.world
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I don’t have an exact reference for you, but it sounds like a quote from Hawkeye (Alan Alda) from MASH.

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jballs@sh.itjust.works
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Haha I wasn’t looking for a quote, I was just making the “citation needed” joke that XKCD throws into a lot of stuff.

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