Rivalarrival

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[–] Rivalarrival 0 points 4 days ago

Outdoor trades tend to start work around 7am, when noise ordinances are lifted, and knock off a couple hours after midday, to avoid the heat of summer. With midday at 11:30, summer sunrise was three hours before they could even start their work. All those cool morning hours, perfect for hard work, completely wasted, while workers suffer heat exhaustion in the afternoon.

Fortunately, we have only rarely used legacy time in summer in the past hundred years. We've built our legal and industrial infrastructure on the premise that solar noon will occur sometime between 12:30 and 13:30 local time for 8-9 months of the year.

Maintaining that historical expectation with permanent summer time will greatly reduce the transition to a "locked clock".

[–] Rivalarrival 4 points 4 days ago

The "brain trust" thinks Europe is a bunch of freeloaders, reliant on the US for their security, but disgusted at how the US provides it. The Greenland/Canada thing is intended to force Europe to build up its militaries.

It is also serving as a distraction to the shooting war they are trying to start in Central and South America.

[–] Rivalarrival 2 points 4 days ago

Need to take it a step further. IIRC, they usually use a tracking link with your address encoded into it, so they know who clicked the link. Need to crack whatever encoding they use, and start "clicking" links for senior leadership.

[–] Rivalarrival 4 points 4 days ago

I said the same thing, but it turns out there is a weasely way around it. The 22nd amendment doesn't actually say you can only be president for two terms. The text actually says:

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,

[–] Rivalarrival 3 points 4 days ago

Vance doesn't have the support of the personality cult.

[–] Rivalarrival 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Depends what you mean by "abnormal".

It is not "normal" for solar noon to occur ante meridiem in some places, and post meridiem in others. Yet, legacy standard time requires this: the west end of the time zone experiences solar noon at 11:30 in the morning, or even earlier in some cases.

Improved time has the entire time zone experience midday in the PM.

We use improved time for 3/4 of the year; its hard to say that the more common time system is the "abnormal" one. The legacy time system might once have been considered a "standard", but so were 8-track tapes at one point. (But that's the wrong metaphor here... "Standard time" went out of fashion before reel-to-reel, before electrically-driven record players. The last time "standard time" was in common use was shortly before broadcast radio was developed. State-of-the-art audio playback was replacing hand-cranked record players with spring-loaded clockwork players. Suffice it to say, "Standard" time hasn't been "standard" in more than a hundred years. )

We have evolved a superior alternative that has become the de facto standard in everything but name.

Legacy time was developed by the robber barons in the late 19th century, to support industry. Improved time is an adjustment to that standard to favor the needs of the worker for rest and recreation. We cannot allow modern oligarchs to keep us on this outdated legacy system.

[–] Rivalarrival -2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

You're telling them to "change" their own working hours in a way that would eliminate the effects of the time change. You're telling them to set their hours as if the time change didn't occur.

You could just stop automatically changing their hours twice a year.

The clocks are fine for 9 months out of the year. All of the problems occur in the remaining three months, and only occur because we arbitrarily change everyone's working hours with no good reason. Stop pushing everyone to a bullshit "winter" schedule for three months, when the normal summer schedule works just fine.

[–] Rivalarrival 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Who sees what is happening in the white house and wants to crack jokes?

For the next four years, the Correspondent's Dinner should be a wake, and not an Irish one.

[–] Rivalarrival 1 points 4 days ago

Is there anything I can do to make your day better?

[–] Rivalarrival -1 points 4 days ago

The top-tier tax bracket motivated businesses to increase their spending. When the IRS is going to take 91% of any additional profits you are going to make, it is better for you to spend that money on tax-deductible "business expenses" than to keep those excess profits.

Those "business expenses" are someone else's paycheck, so even if they were bullshit, they were a benefit to society.

Now, they just take those profits, invest them, and expect the economy to return more money to them than they put in. They converted that money from someone's paycheck into a debt owed back to them.

[–] Rivalarrival 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So, you're saying that there might actually be some daylight left to do something after the work day / school day is over?

[–] Rivalarrival 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Noon should be as close to midday as possible but never before midday.

On standard time, on the west end of the time zones, midday occurs at or before 11:30 AM. That is ridiculous.

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