Senate passes bill to make DST permanent

[Surly Bevo 24,908]

You built the estadio olimpico ?

No, just down the street the Celinto Catayente Towers

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Food for thought.

Health experts say making daylight saving time permanent is a terrible idea. Permanent standard time, on the other hand ...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/03/16/metro/could-making-daylight-saving-time-permanent-affect-our-health-heres-what-research-shows/

Sleep experts say Senate has it wrong: Standard time, not daylight saving, should be permanent

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/03/16/daylight-saving-bill-health-effects/

The Senate Just Voted for You to Get Less Sleep, Expert Says

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/daylight-savings-times-senate-sleep-science-1322200/

[Wally Fairway 5,541]

On 3/16/2022 at 8:00 PM, Deej said:

And that's without TxTow posting.

Hey TxTow can post whatever he wants, in what 20 years, 15 with good behavior?

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,508]

I like how China does time.  One time zone for the entire country and no time changes. Say everyone in America switched to Eastern time. Call it American Standard Time. Meetings across the country become simple: meeting at 11am today.  Everyone's clock says 11am.  Each business or school decides for themselves when they want to start their day. A school in NYC might start 8am but the California school starts at 11am AST.

It doesn't matter if the clock says 11am or 7am when you wake up. you wake up when you need to start your day. The clock is just a number.

 

[lemonlime 5,503]

As someone who's definitely not a morning person, this sounds awful.  Hard enough to wake up at 5:30 or 6 for work, or get to sleep at a decent hour.  All I fucking need is the sun to come up after 8 am.

['stache 21,795]

Yeah, I'm back to make it standard not DST. Sunrise at 8:30 am is absurd. Our elementary school kids will be an hour into class with pure darkness outside. Our bodies aren't made for that shit.

Edited March 18, 2022 by 'stache

[Wulaw Horn 19,067]

21 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I like how China does time.  One time zone for the entire country and no time changes. Say everyone in America switched to Eastern time. Call it American Standard Time. Meetings across the country become simple: meeting at 11am today.  Everyone's clock says 11am.  Each business or school decides for themselves when they want to start their day. A school in NYC might start 8am but the California school starts at 11am AST.

It doesn't matter if the clock says 11am or 7am when you wake up. you wake up when you need to start your day. The clock is just a number.

 

This is a really bad idea man. The west would end up pressured to conform to eastern time even more than they already do? And what about promos for the Big Bang theory during the nfl football games?  Do you went Jim Nantz to gabe to explain that it’s going to air at 8:00 in New York but 11:00 at night in LA?  No- 8:00/7 central has worked forever.

you want kids in California to not be able to relate to the great Dolly Parton singing 9 yo 5?  Then having to ask their parents why she didn’t just work 11-7 like everyone else in their life?  

[NeverMarryAStripper 21,872]

They should just pass a law that each day has 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of darkness and that the sun must rise at 7:00 and set at 7:00.

[Guest Lobo]

I know a good Jewish space laser operator who can make that kinda thing happen.  Totally worth the expense in the long run, based on uniformity.  

Big Sun has been pushing its weight around for far too long.  Getting all the planets in line with its bullshit agenda.  

[Victorious1 140]

11 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

They should just pass a law that each day has 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of darkness and that the sun must rise at 7:00 and set at 7:00.

Don't put it past those dumb mutherfukers

[elfenix 34,223]

Everyone Was Surprised By The Senate Passing Permanent Daylight Saving Time. Especially The Senators.

 

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmcleod/daylight-saving-time-senate

 

 

[WBT 20,561]

The status quo is so obviously better than either change that I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

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On 3/18/2022 at 9:45 AM, Samson's Wig said:

Health experts say making daylight saving time permanent is a terrible idea. Permanent standard time, on the other hand ...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/03/16/metro/could-making-daylight-saving-time-permanent-affect-our-health-heres-what-research-shows/

Sleep experts say Senate has it wrong: Standard time, not daylight saving, should be permanent

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/03/16/daylight-saving-bill-health-effects/

The Senate Just Voted for You to Get Less Sleep, Expert Says

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/daylight-savings-times-senate-sleep-science-1322200/

Also health 'experts' for 1.5 years:  "Clothes masks are helpful"

Also health 'experts' not that long ago:  "Low fat diets are very healthy and highly recommended"

[Fudge Nuggets 19,188]

On 3/18/2022 at 2:43 PM, 'stache said:

Yeah, I'm back to make it standard not DST. Sunrise at 8:30 am is absurd. Our elementary school kids will be an hour into class with pure darkness outside. Our bodies aren't made for that shit.

Today’s kids are never outside so what difference does it make?

[RPM 26,316]

Just now, Fudge Nuggets said:

Today’s kids are never outside so what difference does it make?

Their phones autoupdate so what difference does it make?

[Hook1997 5,351]

On 3/18/2022 at 2:43 PM, 'stache said:

Yeah, I'm back to make it standard not DST. Sunrise at 8:30 am is absurd. Our elementary school kids will be an hour into class with pure darkness outside. Our bodies aren't made for that shit.

It’s December 21, no kids have school that day anyway………..

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,508]

30 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

Also health 'experts' for 1.5 years:  "Clothes masks are helpful"

Also health 'experts' not that long ago:  "Low fat diets are very healthy and highly recommended"

When COVID became more infectious with omicron, protection standards changed. 

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31 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

Also health 'experts' for 1.5 years:  "Clothes masks are helpful"

Also health 'experts' not that long ago:  "Low fat diets are very healthy and highly recommended"

I suppose none of us should ever believe anything.  Unless Russians post it on Facebook, of course.

['stache 21,795]

1 hour ago, clapclapclap said:

Also health 'experts' for 1.5 years:  "Clothes masks are helpful"

Also health 'experts' not that long ago:  "Low fat diets are very healthy and highly recommended"

God damnit, don't derail this shit. They said cloth masks were "likely" helpful at first, then confirmed that they were helpful, as far as the first wave. They later said they were less effective on the second waive mutation and that N95s were needed. It's on the fucking website right now. 

The fats argument is at least universally acknowledged now as questionable.

[Homercles 10,205]

So what’s the next step?

[lemonlime 5,503]

5 hours ago, clapclapclap said:

Also health 'experts' for 1.5 years:  "Clothes masks are helpful"

Also health 'experts' not that long ago:  "Low fat diets are very healthy and highly recommended"

And?  I have no idea what your point is other than we should ignore all scientific evidence because health experts were wrong on weight loss 30 years ago.  Off to chain smoke some cigarettes and have my knee surgery in my backyard since who the fuck knows if germ theory is real.

[Guest Lobo]

If we stuck with what "experts" originally said way back when, we wouldn't have the concept of time nor certainly clocks anyway so this whole debate is moot/mute/moops.

Once you declare something, you can never go back and adapt it based on new evidence.  Ever.  According to new rules I've just made up /izzard.

[Goredho 17,394]

My stance is the same as that of Patrick Henry, who once famously said "Give me daylight to shoot hoops after work, or give me death!"

[Guest Lobo]

I believe you're thinking of Jimmy Chitwood from Hickory, Indiana.  

[Dutchrudder 11,133]

Call it Daylight Spending Time and you probably get 99% of Congress to vote for it.  

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[Guest Lobo]

I can think of two Senators in particular who'd like daylight to hurry up and end sooner so they can get to glory hole buffet under cover of night.  But that's neither here, nor there, but it is in there

[High Plains Drifter 11,028]

On 3/23/2022 at 12:05 PM, clapclapclap said:

Also health 'experts' for 1.5 years:  "Clothes masks are helpful"

Also health 'experts' not that long ago:  "Low fat diets are very healthy and highly recommended"

 

 

are you "special"?

 

 

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13 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

are you "special"?

Chrissie Hynde is special

So special