I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•At what point do you stop calling the years "two thousand and X" and start calling them "twenty X"?
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8 days agoThe noughties, the teenies, and the twenties.
The noughties, the teenies, and the twenties.
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Text from my direct report at 7am Saturday morning: “Please call me as soon as possible!!!”
I call immediately. Him: “I can’t talk right now, when is a good time to call you back?” Me:
“Just call me when you can, omg.”
Him: Calls me three hours later to take 20 minutes explaining why he needs an afternoon off two months from now.
Me: “This could have been a text, Pablo.”
Just FYI, while the concentration camps in the US were absolutely inexcusable, destroyed communities, forced people to sell their homes and businesses and took people away from the lives they had built and everything the knew and loved, they were not extermination camps.
Of the 120,000 people unjustly incarcerated, 1,862 people died in the camp hospitals in the four years the camps operated. The current US mortality rate is about 0.8% (about 800 deaths per 100,000 people per year). So for 120,000 people (using today’s standard, I can’t find the rate for the 1940s), we would expect about 960 deaths per year, or 3840 in all four years.
Again, not condoning the US concentration camps in any way. But they were not death camps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db492.htm