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Gung Hay Fat Tuesday.

I ran the numbers on every year from 1924 to 2200 — 276 years — to find when Fat Tuesday, Lunar New Year, the start of Ramadan, AND the Winter Olympics all overlap. Fat Tuesday and Lunar New Year land on the same day 27 times in that window. That's roughly once a decade, but the gaps are uneven - there was a 24-year drought from 2002 to 2026, then it happens again just 3 years later in 2029. Of those 27, only 8 fall in a Winter Olympics year: 1958, 1978, 2002, 2026, 2046, 2070, 2154, and 2198. Of those 8, how many also have Ramadan starting that same day? One. Just 2026. And even that's technically off by a calendar day (Ramadan begins at sunset on the 17th, with the 18th as the first full day). The next-closest Winter Olympics match is 2154, where Ramadan is still 32 days away. If you drop the Olympics requirement entirely, the three-way overlap (Fat Tuesday + Lunar New Year + Ramadan) only happens 4 times in 276 years: 1931, 2029, 2124, and 2127. None of those are Olympics years. Today is a once-in-centuries alignment. There is nothing else like it in the entire 1924-2200 window.

i call this phenomenon "god hates me"

I gotta be real, I thought we were critical of disney adults for aggressive loyalty to a really gross mega-corporation, or refusal to engage with media that isn't for kids, not because people... have hobbies?

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