Because COBOL does not have a date type, some implementations rely instead on a system whereby all dates are coded to a reference point. The most commonly used is May 20, 1875, as this was the date of an international standards-setting conference held in Paris, known as the “Convention du Mètre.”

These systems default to the reference point when a birth date is missing or incomplete, meaning all of those entries in 2025 would show an age of 150.

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    5 days ago

    Wrong answer

    The correct answer is: “Don’t fucking touch social security asshole!”

    The entire time they’ve weighed people down with fact checking they’ve already moved on to the 10th lie in order to persuade hapless saps to go along with whatever horrific scheme they’ve concocted to take more from the poor and give the richest even more money

    Stop playing their game

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      When I looked up the link to Big Balls from AC/DC on Youtube, I could not believe how many idiots in the comments I saw cheering fElon’s dogebags on.

      These people are either very, very, very wealthy or still just have no idea how fucked they are going to be.

      You have to be a very special kind of idiot to cheer on leopards eating your own face, but here we are…

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        I often wonder how many of them are real, I can see basic laymen getting caught up in the flood of pro-Elon bots

        Basic NPC types only have one philosophy: go with the flow