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[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 year ago (5 children)

A broken clock is right twice a day, but a running clock is probably never right.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

At this point you get into a philosophical discussion about what "right" really means

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Two wrong don’t make a right, but three left turns do.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or if the "present" actually exists

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Man, that song hits me right in the feels. Every time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm really picky when it comes to clocks. They need to be Β±1 minute. If they aren't it really starts to bother me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

A broken clock may occasionally be right but it's regularly useless

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

time dilation ftw!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If you're lucky, a clock that's slightly too fast or too slow will be right once

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My grandfather clock is correct* about once a week when I wind and correct it

*It must be correct as it's very slightly fast (less so than can be fixed with a quarter turn off the pendulum screw) and I set it slightly in the past