Rivalarrival

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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today -1 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 42 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

/ConapiracyTheory

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Nobody has a Xitter account.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 52 points 1 month ago (10 children)

They need to advertise a legitimate use for their service.

If they don't have a threat from public wifi or other security concerns to remedy, then the only purpose for their service is to bypass region limits and block infringement notices. They would be considered complicit in such infringement.

That their service also hinders efforts to stop pirates needs to be an "unintended" and "unavoidable" side effect.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

If you're not marching with guillotines at the ready, there is no point in marching at all.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Meh, for less than the cost of any streaming service, a VPN subscription gets someone else to laugh at all those letters.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hmm. Seems like combat aircraft never get hit in the engines, nose, cockpit, or aft fuselage. We could save some weight by stripping the armor out of those areas...

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The 1964 civil rights act was passed the next year after that photo went viral.

A year is an extraordinarily long time with an illegitimate occupant of the White House, pardoning himself for anything he chooses to do.

I don't think the measures that were effective during the civil rights era are at all suitable for addressing such a fundamental breach of the constitution.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

The constitution isn't to protect you from the government. It is to protect the government from you. If someone proclaims themselves the government, but are refusing the protections that comes with adherence to the Constitution, you are under no obligation to tolerate their will and whim.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We have incentivized night time consumption. Base load generation (nuclear, coal) can't ramp up and down fast enough to match the daily demand curve. They can't produce more than the minimum overnight demand, but they have keep producing that around the clock. To minimize the need for "peaker" plants during the day, they want the overnight demand to be as high as possible.

So they put steel mills, aluminum smelters, and other heavy industry on overnight shifts by offering them extraordinarily cheap power.

That incentivized overnight load needs to be shifted to daytime, so it can be met with solar and wind. Moving forward, we need to minimize overnight demand.

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