the problem with discouraging pedantry is you end up being wrong about things
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i don't think humans can fully decouple caring about getting unimportant things right from caring about getting important things right
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
I think there is a distinction between "they have the right idea expressed in technically wrong form" and "they have a slightly wrong idea"
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Replying to @admittedlyhuman @VesselOfSpirit
like, people keep trying to schedule things with me in EST. currently we are in EDT, but it really isn't worth it to press the point
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Replying to @admittedlyhuman @VesselOfSpirit
everybody really knows what time it is, and what time the scheduled thing is, they just use the technically incorrect name for the time zone
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Replying to @admittedlyhuman @VesselOfSpirit
there isn't a sense in which anyone is wrong about anything, it's more like they're speaking a slightly different dialect of english
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until they google "what time is it in EST" and the answer is an hour off from what they meant to ask and the plane crashes or whatever
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit @admittedlyhuman
Well actually!! Google returns the same result for "what time is it in EST" and "what time is it in EDT" (and the info box labels both answers as "Eastern Time (ET)").
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maybe they chose EST on some sort of time website that doesn't have that feature
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