It gets dark too soon

  • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
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    5 hours ago

    So many ways in which this shithole country is still hopelessly stuck in the past

    And we’ll never get out without force (and force is swiftly crushed by the shithole’s surveillance apparatus)

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    fuck that. dont you dare touch daylight savings.

    its the reason why i can leave work in summer and still have some daylight as if i didnt spend my entire day in that bleak office.

    tyvm.

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      2 hours ago

      They made the common mistake of assuming winter time, the one that sucks and where daylight is “saved” by moving it earlier in the day and we’re only on for a small portion of the year is Daylight Saving Time instead of Standard Time. That’s why we call it standard, because most of the time we don’t use it!

      Obviously the summer time where we get to use all the daylight in the evening, the one we’re on for the majority of the year, is Daylight Saving Time!

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 hours ago

    You have it backwards. Death to standard time. Daylight savings is during the summer. We're about to go back to regular time.

  • Guamer [she/her]
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    10 hours ago

    Reminder that 2 years ago getting rid of it unanimously passed the senate, but not the house, so we're still stuck with it. It's an excellent example to point to about how both parties never get anything actually beneficial done no matter how universally popular it is, but somehow manage to give trillions to Israel no problem. It's something just about any American can wrap their head around.

    • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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      10 hours ago

      I want to point out that it only passed the Senate because nobody knew what they were voting for and nobody bothered to block it. After they found out what the bill actually was a bunch of Senators came out against it, after they had already passed it.

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

      • Rom [he/him]
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        9 hours ago

        porky-scared-flipped You mean we passed a bill that actually helps people?!

  • sexywheat [none/use name]
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    10 hours ago

    Even the FARMERS hate it, even though it’s ostensibly for them.

    I recall reading a Reddit thread on /r/farming where they were all bitching about how fucking pointless and stupid it is, with one user commenting “My work day starts when the sun rises, and the sun doesn’t care what our fucking clocks say what time it is”

    Unlimited genocide on daylight savings time

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      8 hours ago

      People say it’s for farmers, but obviously that’s nonsense. The intention was to reduce energy use, by shifting things so when people get off work they spend more time outside instead of inside using energy.

      Also because the guy who came up with it wanted to spend more time catching bugs iirc.

      Also if it has any effect on energy use it’s unclear which direction and it’s less than 1% either way, which is not enough to justify the increased car accidents, heart attacks, etc. that happen every time we shift the clocks.

  • Beaver [he/him]
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    5 hours ago

    Controversial statement: Noon on the clock should correspond to solar noon.

    That also means not having timezones that are completely out of whack with solar time.

  • 2Password2Remember [he/him]
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    10 hours ago

    couldnt give less of a fuck about the difference between standard and daylight savings time, i just hate the switching

    Death to America

  • Rom [he/him]
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    11 hours ago

    On the one hand, DST is annoying and disruptive. On the other hand, it no longer serves any practical purpose whatsoever.

    Really glad we still have to put up with this shit.

    • REgon [they/them]
      hexagon
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      10 hours ago

      On the other hand, it no longer serves any practical purpose whatsoever.

      In a way this would be a positive. Or there's a bright side. We can, as a society, all agree to do something completely pointless and stupid. Would be cool if we funnelled that energy towards something sillier. What if we all agreed that a certain tuesday just didn't exist or something? I dunno, could be wacky, could be nice. Instead we have DST.

  • Adkml [he/him]
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    11 hours ago

    Seriously fuck this shit. Starting next week gonna be fucking dark out when i leave for work and dark out half an hour before I leave work. Super stoked to not have any waking hours during daylight to do what I want on weekdays for the next 4 months.

    • REgon [they/them]
      hexagon
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      11 hours ago

      "I forgot how dark winters are" I exclaim every year, forgetting that The Man has Fucked With The Clock

      • Adkml [he/him]
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        11 hours ago

        The problem is all summer I lie to myself and say it's really not so bad except for like 6 weeks from the end of December till February then we change the clocks and I have to get blinded by giant fucking trucks for 45 minutes every night.

        This is a serious problem and not a petty personal grievance that's an obvious consequence of living whre I chose to.

        • REgon [they/them]
          hexagon
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          11 hours ago

          Yeah exactly. Winters are dark, but it's really only 6-7 weeks, or it would be if it WEREN'T FOR THE FUCKING FARMERS GETTING TO DECIDE OUR CLOCKS FOR SOME REASON DEATH TO THEM DEATH TO FARMERS I WILL BE THE REVERSE POL POT DEATH- [Editors note: The rant continues for 15 minutes in like manner. Transcription ends here]

            • REgon [they/them]
              hexagon
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              11 hours ago

              This joke is flying over my head, but I am sure it's very funny so I've upbeared it

                • REgon [they/them]
                  hexagon
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                  10 hours ago

                  That is funny and very clever! Thanks for explaining it
                  Also big fan of your profile name

          • Adkml [he/him]
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            10 hours ago

            The fucking tractors can drive themselves with GPS and track how much they've harvested through sensors to know when to swap tractors. Pretty sure they can figure out how to turn on the fucking headlights.

  • Tom742 [any]
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    10 hours ago

    I do shift work so when DST hits I usually get an extra hour of work that day. honk-enraged

  • imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]
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    11 hours ago

    DST sucks. i often think about how it probably kills a measurable number of people every year by slightly spiking car accidents and stuff in the morning when the time goes back.

    • GiorgioBoymoder [none/use name]
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      10 hours ago

      you're exactly right, it is measurable.

      pedestrian deaths: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0001457503000150

      deaths of despair: https://web.gc.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/2021-07/Saving-Light%2C-Losing-Lives-How-Daylight-Saving.pdf

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    11 hours ago

    I’m with you, but I’m gonna be pedantic anyway: Daylight saving time is the summer time with more light in the evening. Standard time is the garbage one we’re about to switch back to where it gets dark super early.

  • blight [any]
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    12 hours ago

    Counterpoint: death to capitalism, death to the workday

    • REgon [they/them]
      hexagon
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      11 hours ago

      Also that, but in any society there will probably be broad agreement about chronology (yes I know watch time came as a result of industrial revolution and the attitude we have now is very recent and so on and so forth) so we do risk creating a socialist utopia with daylight savings just as a result of when people meet each other. If everyone around you says it's 6 pm then it's 6 pm and if there's cultural values tied to 6 pm, like "now it's evening" then it's the evening.