• Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    “Not every decade” is maybe a poor choice of words given your supplied evidence. Though technically it does look like 2 decades were skipped… but a handful of decades had more than 5 to make up for those skipped decades.

    “Not every year” would at least be a much more defensible statement given your provided context.

    • Adramis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 months ago

      Yeah, that’s fair. FWIW it’s still uncommon enough that “Eh it happens” isn’t reasonable.