Originally posted by @karlykingsley.bsky.social and updated with alt text:
Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.
@AnotherJen @karlykingsley.bsky.social
here is another datapoint on #cobol
#information #funfacts #resist
#democracy is more than voting!
It is helping people, all people, to understand how the real world works.
@AnotherJen He doesn't care about being accurate, he just wanted an excuse to say the current system doesn't work and break it