Dan Hon

all these "years" and "months" and "dates" are just time systems for old people, I now declare that all human events be categorized in terms of series/season/episode

but I'm stuck bc you could have

s1: holocene era
s2: ancient era
s3: postclassical
s4: modern

or even then you've got

Humans: Modern Era
s1: renaissance
s2: late modern
s3: contemporary

alternatively:

humans s2021e01: Bean Dad

i mean we're talking about badly plotted episodes + seasons + arcs we may as well go all-in

Jul 7, 2023 at 7:47pmWeb
Show threadDan HonJul 7, 2023

anyway someone should wiki this, it makes much more sense than wikipedia having a page for “march 2022”, and each episode can last an arbitrary period of time, just need to make sure all the episodes are in order, plus you get to title them

e.g.

s2021e01: Bean Dad
s2021e02: January 6th
etc etc etc

Show threadDan HonJul 7, 2023
this is how you get full-on Tamarian, before you know it you've got descriptive phrases acting as dates and no absolute coordiantes for time (einstein woudl like a word), no time just vibes and approximate episode dates + titles
Show threadDan HonJul 7, 2023

this way old people can all be like:

do you remember where you were when s2001e15 9/11 dropped, or

remember when the teacher wheeled in that tv into the classroom and we watched s1986e01 Challenger Disaster

Show threadDan HonJul 7, 2023

also if we treat all of human history + culture into the metaphor of premium streaming tv series, seasons + episodes then we don't need wikipedia anymore, we just need tvtropes and a fandom

oh no this is horrible

also it's not like anyone even remembers actual times and dates for things now anyway

who needs "news" when you can just have episode recaps

"twop, but make it news”

Show threadDan HonJul 7, 2023
like honestly you can't go all-in on main characters but not have a structural framework for putting those characters and context into _humans: the show_
Show threadDan HonJul 7, 2023
also also conspiracy theorists and mystery boxes now have a much better framework to work on and can be all omg do you remember what was in the background on whatever episode do you see how it's also in this episode just here wtf
Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®Jul 7, 2023

@danhon
That’s how the culture of the Roman Republic tracked their timeline: the background of the daily life episode was whichever consuls were in power at the time.

“Back in the times of Fabius and Quintus…” who only overlapped for one specific two-year timeline

Show threadDan HonJul 7, 2023
@paninid see this is what I get for having been turned off history when I was younger
Show threadAhmet Alphan SabancıJul 7, 2023
@danhon how do you think we’ll manage one to work globally? We can make country specific ones easily but we need to find a way to agree on which event will describe the time period globally. UN or UNESCO working group maybe?
Show threadTorbjörn BjörkmanJul 7, 2023
@danhon As a physicist, my professional opinion (at ~0.7 per mille of a late Fiday night) is, you're OK with Einstein, since time travels so fast these days it's bound to leave space a bit messed up.
Show threadHans GerwitzJul 7, 2023
@danhon my partner and I were imagining exactly this just a few days ago. Certainly someone has a good history of main characters and other episodes?
Show threadBret MogilefskyJul 7, 2023
@danhon Anthropocene series finale coming up quick!
Show threadDym SohinJul 7, 2023
@danhon
episode per event? prob close to https://www.omnibusproject.com
(podcast with mr. bean dad himself)
Omnibus

An encyclopedic reference of strange-but-true stories compiled as a time capsule for future generations.

Omnibus