With Daylight Savings once again coming up, it never fails for it to spark discussions about its purpose in modern times. People hate it widely while few seem to be okay with it and depending where you live, others don’t even know what the deal is.
Politicians have actually put it on the docket to be voted on, but seems to have lost traction. Quite frankly, this is an issue that should be done and over with. Just end it, but please end it when we have the clocks dialed back than forward, because I wouldn’t like time going faster than it already is.
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On the topic of daylight savings, I used to prefer that we stay on the daylight savings side of the time. But honestly at this point I am fine with staying on standard time if that means no more switching.
Otherwise one thing lately that I wish was done and over with by now is physical junk mail. Literal paper showing up in my mailbox that I now have to dispose of. Something I don’t ask for and will never look at. And I can’t help but think that happens to millions in my country every single day all for an irrelevant number of people to even look at. I can’t imagine how many trees are lost each year for something that has zero usefulness.
Oof, where do I begin?
- Fossil fuel companies
- cruises
- diesel cars
- low-cost fast fashion retail companies
- modern slavery
- racism
- misinformation
- political scapegoats
- two-party systems
- billionaires
- polyester
- Artificial food colouring
- non-medical drugs and smoking
- alcohol
- low-cost greasy fast-food chains
- kids on social media
I’m tired! 😩 We’ve normalised unhealthy, unsustainable, and elitist lifestyles way too much! There are ways to be successful, happy, stylish, and joyful without these things. Many countries are already committing themselves to such efforts, so I know I’m not asking for much. I understand freedom of choice, and I’m usually quite libertarian, but some things just bring temporary fun and no benefits at all. In fact, some harm those around us too.
Renewable energy, electric cars, second-hand retail, artisanship, fair trade, multiculturalism, science-based education based on facts and credible sources, government transparency and accountability, a true democracy where the electoral candidates actually represent their party’s base and voters don’t feel hopeless, economic equality, socialism, natural fibres in fabrics, simple and natural food, therapy, mindfulness, healthy homemade packaged food, and kids staying off social media needs to be good again!
The Electoral College
If we want to say we’re a democracy then we need to be a democracy.,
Here in Canada, parliament has been discussing universal basic income for years. Economists have proven it would save the government money. It would be a win-win. Do it already.
Personally I am for staying on Daylight savings time permanently, rather than getting rid of it. But getting permanently off of it is preferably to the back and forth every year.
Interestingly
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-adopting-year-round-daylight-time-9.7111657
We just got rid of it
I want to stay on daylight saving time year round. I agree, the fact that we keep changing the time twice a year is ridiculous. There’s no reason. Who is demanding we do this? We’re doing it solely because of tradition, like in the story “The Lottery” where they stone a random person to death every year for no reason, just because of tradition. Ironically, this is something I can see Trump getting rid of, it would be one of the very few things I’d support him on (along with abolishing pennies)
People with young kids do not want daylight savings time all year around because it would be dark when they go to school. People like myself would like dst all year around because we hate it being dark at 4pm.
Daylight savings, pennies, the electoral college, gerrymandering, monopolies, the oil industry, for profit prisons healthcare and education, poverty, borders, militaries/armies, interest, capitalism, countries, shirt tags
I have good news on the Penny front, they stopped making them back in December.
Idk about the rest of that lol
…and shitty cops.
- Doorbells and dogs barking in commercials
- General purpose household lighting above 3500K color temperature
- LED rope lighting bordering a storefront’s windows and doors
- Terrible cereal bags
- Turn indicators being on the inside corner of headlight assemblies
- 4 legged chairs/stools/tables at restaurants. By employing a 3 leg standard, they’re incapable of being wobbly
3 legged chairs sounds like a nightmare, why not 4 legs with basic suspension mechanisms in the legs? 3 legged chairs is such a bad idea I’m questioning the validity of most of the rest of your screed. How do you propose 3 legged chairs to work without being a tipping hazard? 1 leg in the front or well off the back (impeding the walkway behind the chair)
Chairs with three legs are semi-common, it functions like a tri-pod which can be very stable. The legs don’t extend beyond the top much more than any other chair.
What defines a terrible cereal bag??
The heat press or glue or whatever is too strong and keeps me from opening the bag cleanly. Top tier cereal bags essentially peel open and leave a clean hole at the top of the bag to pour from.
And you see, people wonder why I always have, like, six knives on me.
Not OP, but I would say a lot of cereal bag plastic has too much elasticity. This means that you will pull in the bag in attempts to open it, but the plastic will just stretch, until all of a sudden the elastic tension (?) is released and the energy is distributed through a hairline crack in the bag that goes halfway down. The sudden release of energy can also cause the cereal to go everywhere.
That qualifies.
American defaultism
There are like 70 countries with DST, and in the northern hemisphere all but Egypt start theirs in March.
States can opt out of DST like AZ and HI. But the federal government doesn’t allow for states to opt in to permanent DST like CA tried to do.
I agree we should just ditch it at the federal level. But states are welcome to ditch it whenever they want, as long as they actually ditch it, and not try to make it an all year thing.
Some states have chosen their timezone. Whats the difference between dst all year around over just moving the timezone over?
food and housing
Authority, hierarchy, government, capitalism.
It really is amazing, all the insights, the discoveries, the knowledge, the artistry, the technology that the human race has acquired. Historically, every time we thought we knew the limits of our potential, we have gone far beyond those limits. Except that we still haven’t figured out how not to hand over control of everything to the absolute worst of us. Like literally put our most deluded narcissistic psychopathic pedophiles in charge of the entire fucking world.
Genuine question. I agree with you. How many of us do you think there are?
To me it seems obvious that we can do better. We could have a fair, sustainable, non-hierarchical, global system, where the people making big collective decisions are genuinely prosocial and competent. Surely if enough of us coordinated our efforts, we could bring this about?
But the older I get, the more people I get to really know, the more I find this to be a very, very rare perspective. Most people seem to believe in the current system. We must be divided into competing regional factions (nations) and within those have a power hierarchy based on wealth, and individually be primarily motivated by greed.
Let’s be more specific. Which of these do you think is most likely:
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folk like us—willing to sacrifice our immediate interests for a prosocial future—are common, but something is keeping us isolated (e.g., our communication networks—mass media, social media, etc—are being manipulated)
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folk like us are currently rare, but most people just conform and imitate. If our position was sufficiently publicised/promoted, the majority of people could potentially get on board, we could change the world.
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folk like us are rare, and most people are and will always be genuinely selfish. This system, where the strong exploit the weak economically, but in a way that leads to global economic growth, is the best we can do as a species, because most of us will always be selfish and short sighted.
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This is the purpose of the American Experiment. To devise a society that won’t ever truly be occupied entirely by the worst of us.
Imperial measurement system. Ffs just convert to the metric system already
Speaking of which. Imperialism.
I’m in Australia and it still shits me to tears that I can’t mathematically communicate with Americans. We just changed one day and it was done.
That said, the Australian mainland is running 5 different timezones right now. Some zones are only 30 minutes apart. We also have a little island just off the coast of Sydney where the DST shift is 30 minutes. The entire planet does an hour. We’ve introduced this edge case for the sake of 400 people and some stick insects.
Canada has a portion of Newfoundland that does the thirty minute thing as well.
Anyone tangentially studying anything scientific with real life measurements in the US is versed in metric. Imperial really is for the dum dums and their precious feel feels.
Yeah, you know, except for the entirety of engineering degree fields. Everything is still done to one thousandth of an inch.
This is because their bosses will not allow them to buy new lathes and milling machines.
I just wish i didnt have to own 2 sets of tools. Even if we officially swap, im still going to have to keep 2 sets because of all the legacy junk around.
Really though, phillips heads screws bother me more than anything else. There literally designed, on purpose to strip.
Fuck, I forgot about auto work.
Also, I think hex heads are more prone in smaller applications. Phillips should’ve been the square head.
