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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • the idea that the year 2000 is the start of the 21st century is hurting my head.

    That may be because it is not. The first century was years 1 to 100. The second was 101 to 200. The 21st is therefore 2001 to 2100.

    What you’re probably referring to is the “cultural century” which was considered to have started when the lead digit changed from 1 to 2. The same thing happened quite recently when some people argued 2020 was the start of a new decade (again, it wasn’t)



  • When you think about it, it does make sense from the business point of view. Banks don’t make money on individual customers, so the ones that use physical locations. They make money off corporate customers, who are terribly unlikely to ever need to talk to a clerk in person. And with individual customers moving to online banking, it’s even less justifiable to run a physical location.