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    17 hours ago

    Depends, mine starts on Monday. I also live in SI and ISO. My wife’s starts on Sunday, she goes to church. Although I still don’t get that as the seventh day was a rest day.

    It does sometimes make talking about Sunday next week confusing.

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      Because sabbath was the seventh day, the rest day. It predates Christianity. It’s like the very first book of the Old Testament…

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          Was my understanding as well. Last day of the week is for rest, which Christians do on a Sunday. Funny that a lot of Christian countries still use Sabbath as last day of the week.

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              Man it really feels like some USA circle jerk going on here. I’m gonna be the bigger man here and leave you all to it 😉

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                Ok big man. No ‘muricans here, only people who have no idea what SI and ISO is and blatantly insults everybody for exposing yourself. Biiiig man energy

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        Practically everyone should know SI, or have at least heard of it before. It’s the standard system of measurement used in most of the world. It includes base units for time (seconds), distance (meters), mass (kilograms), electric current (amps), temperature (Kelvin), amount of a substance (mole) and intensity of light (candela), plus a bunch of units derived from these.

        It’s practically only the USA that doesn’t use some of three units (for example, preferring feet over meters)

        ISO is a standards body. They define a bunch of standards. One of the more well-known ones is ISO 8601, which defines standards for dates and times. It specifies that weeks start on Monday.

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          I’d thought I’d see less people of the USA on Lemmy but it seems I cannot escape them

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            7 hours ago

            There are a lot of us! Especially on English-speaking forums. The US population is close to half of the entire population of Europe.

            But there is a trick to almost completely avoid Americans: frequent a forum in any language other than English.

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              For now, fortunately, it is manageable with the keyword filters to filter out most of US politics, but we’ll see how long that lasts 😃

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                All the different server instances are independently owned and maintained. Lemmy.world for example I believe is located in Germany or Netherlands, which I think is also where a lot of the admin staff are located? Lemmy.zip I think is hosted in the US. Check join-lemmy.org, I think it tells you where all the various instances are located. Or there’s a similar Lemmy stats site that shows it, I don’t recall exactly, which is why I keep saying “I think” as I would need to double check all that info to be sure. But it’s probably pretty close to accurate.

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                  .world is nevertheless plastered with US politics, even the neutrally-named ‘politics’ and ‘news’ communities are in fact about the US. I wouldn’t be surprised if the admins are in the US, just hosting the site in Europe.

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                    The “communities” don’t necessarily reflect the instances on which they are hosted. There might be a politics or news community on some other instance which you prefer.

                    Pretty sure at least some of the admins there are in Europe.

                    I mainly switched off of .world because it was so heavily over-represented in the fediverse both in terms of communities and users. I was hoping to help distribute things more evenly which I think is more I. the spirit and intention of the fediverse.

                    And not sure why that other user deleted their comment, I was just trying to answer their question.