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[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago
[-] Hupf@feddit.de 34 points 10 months ago

It's the calendar date of the day you were born, repeated each year. But that's not important right now.

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago
[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago

The third person neuter pronoun in English, but that's not important right now.

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

No, what is Jesus's birthday?

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 7 points 10 months ago

Supposedly in the summer due to something about the stars. Xmas was supposed to be cultural approtiates of the winter solstice or something. I'm sure someone will add to this.

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

On a serious note, yes Christmas was placed where it was in order to coincide with Saturnalia, the Roman winter solstice festival. This was an attempt by Constantine, the emperor who legalized Christianity in Rome, to transition the Romans to Christianity more easily.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks! I thought it happened waaay later.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I've never seen one before. No one has. But I'm guessing it's a white hole.

[-] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago
[-] BloodSlut@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

#πŸ‡±πŸ‡·πŸ‡±πŸ‡·πŸ‡±πŸ‡·πŸ¦…πŸ˜Œβ€οΈπŸ‡±πŸ‡·πŸ‡±πŸ‡·πŸ‡±πŸ‡·

[-] Xylight@lemdro.id 18 points 10 months ago

The Liberia flags add to this

[-] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

It's not even like there aren't two US flag options, too: πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡²

If anyone figures out the difference, let me know, because these look pretty much the same.

[-] Zorg@lemmings.world 3 points 10 months ago

Taking a screenshot and zooming in, the grainy extrapolated pixels appear to be in exactly the same pattern. Very odd indeed.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 10 months ago

My messenger blows up emojis when I send them with no other text, and I used these side by side and the one on the right has a smaller blue square than the left one.

[-] Xylight@lemdro.id 2 points 10 months ago

Apparently because of how flag codes work, the USA and US Minor Outlying Islands technically have different flags in unicode, even though they're the same flag. There are countless people who have used the USA minor Outlying Islands flag instead of the regular USA flag.

this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2023
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