jadero

Lake Diefenbaker, SK. Here, too. And people are excited! :(

On the other hand, I like to know what kind of nutjobs are running around my country and what they're up to. I know that it gives them fuel, but I also have a legitimate right to know what's going on so that I can respond accordingly.

I obviously didn't write clearly. I'm not objecting to DST or timezones as they exist. I'm was trying to point out that there are unresolved disconnections between solar time and the ways we want to set our clocks.

There are actual health recommendations based on solar time. For example, we are cautioned to be especially careful of summer sun exposure between 10 am and 2 pm. As far as I know, that makes sense only in the context of solar time: the 2 hours on either side of when the sun is at it highest (solar noon.)

Unless there is something about the actual timing of the risk I don't understand, under DST the recommendation should be "between 11:00 am and 3:00 pm."

Where I am, in Saskatchewan, my local time is about 1.5 hours distant from solar time. Thus, that recommendation should be "between 11:30 am and 3:30 pm," although I suspect 11-3 is close enough.

This is great news.

Now we just need a follow up where the prosecutor and Attorney General rip the police department a new one for failing to adequately train their staff on the law.

And one for low vision.

True enough, and a valid consideration that must be accounted for in any actual change to building codes.

Keep in mind that I said "by now" not "starting today". Obviously, having done little to this point, we can't just jump to perfection in one step.

It's worth pointing out that Ford claims that their F-150 Lightning can provide up to 3 days of backup power to a household in some configurations. Given what seems to be a trend of building EVs that are capable of providing backup power to households, that should be factored in as we move forward.

And it doesn't have to be 3 days. Overnight in summer would be a good start, followed by overnight in winter, then moving on from there.

The real issue is that I see $350k houses being built in Saskatchewan with nothing. No solar, no heat pump, no passive heating or cooling, and sketchy insulation. The latter 2 were figured out in the 1980s and nothing has been done since at the building code level.

That same money would build a house 1/2 to 1/3 the size, a still adequate size, with solar, heat pumps, good insulation, and decent passive heating and cooling.

Retired. I should have included that in my comment. I'll go back and do that now.

Thanks.

Who gives a rat's ass what others are doing or not doing, getting or not getting, paying or not paying? Having a spine isn't about whining, it's about doing what is necessary in the face of opposition, even when it goes against personal self-interest.

It's necessary to decarbonise. Among those honest economists not under the thumb of or on the payroll of whiny babies, a carbon tax is one useful lever. Therefore, the ethical thing to do is implement and accept a carbon tax.

If our political and business leaders were ethical and had spines instead whatever whiny organ they use as a substitute, we'd be a lot better off.

Morons is being too nice.

Our annual rebate for a rural household of 2 adults is about $1000. That doesn't sound like much, but that represents 4% of our total pre-tax income from all sources.

Edit: we're retired, BTW.

Or that we use propane heaters on patios to heat the outdoors.

I get so cranky when I see those things. They are just... nonsensical. It's almost like there is something in the human psyche that is drawn to the abjectly useless, especially if it also happens to be wasteful beyond it's mere production and distribution.

Why not both? As a boomer myself (b. 1956), I'm confidently overconfident in saying that, at 91, she's actually too old to be a boomer. Less confidently, she missed being a boomer by about 10 years.