stackyFACTSOur internal calendar is operated by a completely incompetent archivist. The telescoping effect causes people to perceive recent events as being far older than they actually are, while simultaneously thinking distant events happened yesterday. Basically, nobody has any functional concept of when anything actually occurred.
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