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I introduced the concept of consistent morning schedules, and I briefly argued that we should make our evening schedules consistent, rather than our morning schedules. This would require not eliminating the time change, but reversing it.

I challenge you to find any other proposal for reversing DST: Fall Forward, Spring Back.

Nope. Primary elections are held simultaneously, and you are only allowed one ballot or the other. But it is a common practice to "sabotage" the other party rather than vote for your own.

Only registered Democrats can vote in a Democratic primary election, where the Democratic party selects its candidates for a general election.

Only registered Republicans can vote in a Republican primary election, where the Republican party selects its candidates for a general election.

Party registration plays no role in a General election: you can vote for anyone, even if they are not a member of your own party.

Voter registration (as opposed to party registration) is simply a declaration of your residency and thus eligibility to vote in elections at the state, county, city, congressional district, school district, ward, and possibly even lower level elections. (Three homeowners on my small, dead-end dirt road are the only ones eligible to "vote" on whether a special tax should be assessed against our properties to pave our road. )

They have. In the seven states that have put abortion issues on the ballot since 2022, every single one has supported abortion, including red states: Montana, Kentucky, Kansas, and Ohio.

10 states have abortion issues in their ballots this year. Abortion access is being picked up faster than "Constitutional Carry" did.

In summer, we have about 15 hours of daylight and 9 hours of night. In winter, we have about 9 hours of daylight, and 15 hours of night. In summer, on standard time,, we get about 3 more hours of daylight in the morning, and 3 more hours of daylight in the evening than we do in winter.

Suppose you use a constant schedule year round, and set your alarm clock to wake you 30 minutes before sunrise in the middle of winter. If you kept that same alarm into summer, you would be sleeping through the first 2.5 hours of daylight.

DST "saves" one of those morning hours, by shifting the clock forward. Relative to standard (winter) time, you add 2 hours of daylight in the morning, and 4 in the evening, instead of 3 and 3. Switching to DST (theoretically) minimizes disruption to our morning schedule.

I think we should focus on the evening instead of the morning. The evenings are where the overwhelming majority of us are free of work, school, and other obligations. Our mornings belong to bosses and teachers; The evenings are our time for home and family, rest and recreation.

If we are going to change times, we should reverse the time change. Instead of "falling back", we should skip forward in November, minimizing disruption to our evenings instead of their mornings. Imagine winter sunsets at 6:30 PM instead of 4:30PM. Imagine the kids being able to play outdoors for two more hours after school than they currently get.

Alternatively, (and preferably) we should just stay on "Summer" time year round.

Plot twist: RIAA and MPAA own all the major VPN providers, and/or the data centers they rent from.

/ConapiracyTheory

Maybe in Britland, but not in any country with civil rights and respectable free speech laws.

The Anarchist Cookbook isn't isn't illegal. Hell, the US government publishes TM 31-210, a field manual on improvised munitions that goes a lot further than the Cookbook ever did.

possession and sharing of its instruction manual is being charged as a terrorist offense.

Oi! You got a loisence for that PDF?!?

The US has a felon, fascist, wannabe dictator as one option and he has an honest chance of winning. Then in Germany they are having essentially a resurgence of the Nazi party in AfD and it's been gaining traction, particularly in eastern states from what I've read.

I would argue that both cases are products of echo chambers rather than insufficient moderation.

I mean, those bigots don't silence themselves when you ban them. They are still talking, just in forums that will ban you for daring to rebut them.

Because censorship creates the echo chambers that allow bigotry to thrive, censorship is a much greater problem than bigotry.

Your objective should not be to convince the bigot. Your objective should be to convince the curious bystander.

Debate is not about convincing your opponent that they are wrong. Debate is for convincing your audience (and theirs) that you are right.

You absolutely can debate someone who is not arguing in good faith, by demonstrating that fact to everyone else reading along.

Go ahead then. Have a nice life.

Edit: I mean, how are you going to argue against echo chambers, then turn around and hide inside one? Come on, buddy.