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nozzlegear on March 25, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Freedom Clock

The monkey’s paw curls, and Americans adopt this time format as well just to spite the rest of the world for complaining about their preferred date format.

viro on March 25, 2023 [–]

I can see us doing it out of spite... " Oh ? you thought that was odd? hold my beer"

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