I hope everyone who wants to be on permanent DST experiences an eternity of the first day of spring forward, never rested again

  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    I honestly don’t care if we choose permanent standard time or DST. Either one would be better than having to switch twice a year. I’ll even propose a compromise: we can try one for a year, try the other for the next year, and see which one works better.

    Not doing either because we can’t agree on which one should be permanent seems like the worst option.

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      3 months ago

      We really should just move to permanent standard time, and judging by some of the opinions to the contrary that I’m seeing in this thread, everyone who hates that should either be given a dispensation to move their work shift and bed time back an hour or be placed on a psychiatric hold.

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    Oh my state passed a law abolishing it but the federal government stopped it. You want to know why? You want to know the stupid reason why the federal government won’t abolish daylight savings? Because polling indicates that half of the people want it gone forever and everybody else wants it there forever.

    They literally can’t decide whether to always have the clock one way or the other, so we get to split the difference. I don’t fucking care. Just pick one and stick with it. Everybody has electric lights anyway, it’s the 21st century, we need to move on from this 1700s bullshit.

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      3 months ago

      Counterpoint: the people who want it there forever should just be told that’s what we’re doing, they’ll be back to licking windows before they realize the difference.

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    It’s pretty obvious the American government doesn’t care about its citizens health. Sick citizens = more shareholder profits for their scam corporations

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      3 months ago

      It screws corporations as well, anyone that has a database or deals with time in any way. I’d call it a huge hazard technilogically to willy nilly change the time for no reason.

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        We have been changing the time for 70+ years. Nothing about it is Willy nilly. There is a reason. The reason may invalid at this point.

        This same bullshit could be said about jetlag simply moving to a different time zone has worse effects than a single hour shift, yet many people do it 10s if not hundreds of times a year.

        It’s so stupid to argue about this whole thing from a health perspective and using that as if its some kind of disease.

        So stupid

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          If there were two days a year that 300 million people took a flight that gave them all jetlag simultaneously, you’d probably tell them to stop though, right?

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    3 months ago

    I love daylight savings. I count the minutes until it returns. I think it should be permanent, for health reasons.

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      3 months ago

      People who know about that than you do say you’re wrong, and what’s more important, I say your opinion isn’t valid, so that’s pretty much putting it to bed there.

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    3 months ago

    Great, with scientific evidence backing this we are fucked for ever getting this changed. What we really need is a rising passively racist influencer to get behind the idea to get any support in 2026.

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      3 months ago

      “The Hyperborean Medical Association recommends an end to DST as Vril and testosterone are both depressed if noon isn’t at 12:00 on the equinox”