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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Neither time matters, it’s all the same. But don’t change it!
Its the adjustment that sucks.
Daylight is going to be the same length either way, it’s just an arbitrary number, but if you keep changing that number it gets very annoying.
Noon should be as close to zenith as possible, tho. But yeah, it’s more important to keep the same timezone all year.
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.
I think they’re doing another trial right away, and one of them’s in BC where Doug Ford can’t get at it.
Don’t worry we have plenty of asshat conservatives here we well
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.
Pennies buckles and dimes. Inflation has rendered anything less than a quarter useless.
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!
missing one Universal healthcare or using part of the defense budget to fund/subsidized Healthcare for all in the US.
easier to get proof citizen documents/things, like passport right now its a convoluted , lenghty process for first time, and Inactive users for things like passports.
Yeah sorry, we already have free and universal healthcare so I didn’t think of it 😅 But you’re right! My mind boggles at how terrible the healthcare system is in the US. I feel awful for people with chronic conditions and vulnerable situations, especially. The fact that the most reliable option is not to be insured and hope that you won’t ever get seriously injured or sick is depressing. The people who oppose universal free healthcare and those who deny healthcare to the less fortunate are evil. I know it’s obvious, but Luigi Mangione (or whoever it was) did a good thing. I wish it were all of them, but at least he got you rid of one asshole.
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)
I’ve been doing it for 45 years, still don’t understand why people care so much
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.
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.
I hate this argument. Sorry.
Just start school later. The day is the same either way, choose to have school hours or winter hours.
And by the way, even if it is dark, so what? There are kids all over the world that go to school in the dark it really doesn’t matter.
Just shift you schedule accordingly, the number really doesn’t matter much.
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.
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?
Coal. Coal should be over as a fuel, no ifs ands or buts. Arguing for coal right now is like arguing that whale oil is still a viable fuel.
The US has been completely eclipsed by other countries who are now making more or less free electricity from wind and solar. All arguments against them have been debunked to hell, if they were at all true we wouldn’t see China now mostly running of of renewables. While we listened to fossil fuel lobbyists push propaganda they were getting ahead.
They always trot out the line that it’s not fair to put all the coal workers out of a job, but when AI comes along and starts to put everyone else out of a job we’re all supposed to just suck it up.
I blame Santa.
If that guy would stop being so jolly and load the naughties up with the coal they deserve, supply would plummet, prices would skyrocket, and it wouldn’t be a viable energy source why longer.
All arguments against them have been debunked to hell, if they were at all true we wouldn’t see China now mostly running of of renewables.
Germany has just ditched green energy.
What, no?
We didnt ditch it but Minister for Energy, Mrs. Reiche, is putting hard restrictions and obstacles in the way of revewable energies. Promoting coal and gas. She used to work for E-on in a high position. A gas energie provider. Saying “privat solar panels are detrimend and rival to the energie companies” for example
The entire conservative government is hellbend on undoing great green energie laws by the green minister Robert Habeck, of the last government.
The issue with wind/solar is that they lack consistency, they are fantastic when the wind blows and it is sunny, but you can’t count on the output.
Nuclear on the other hand is highly consistent and way more environmentally friendly, the waste storage is a solved problem, and far easier to manage than the ash from coal plants.
It is insane how energy dense uranium is, and while the waste is dangerous, it is a tiny amount when compared to the ash from coal plants.
So yeah, get rid of coal/oil/gas power generation, replace it with nuclear, use the interim period until nuclear material has run out to build out the wind/solar capacity, and add battery storage facilities to enable consistent output.
You’re right, but probably being downvoted because the wording you’ve used is the same as that used by conservatives to reject renewables all together.
Nuclear is not “the” solution, but it’s part of the energy mix of the future, particularly as we transition away from petrol and diesel transport, and gas cooking and heating.
In some cases it just doesn’t make sense. Australia for example has never had a nuclear industry and doesn’t have the requisite population density. It would take thirty years to build a nuclear plant and in that time we could build the same capacity with solar and wind.
However, if you already have a nuclear industry and do have large dense population centres then it’s a great alternative to coal.
Ah, that explains the weird response I got about lemmy.zip being fascist, thank you for explaining it!
You are absolutely right, nuclear is not the solution, it is an interim solution giving us 100-200 years of remarkably clean energy, if we designed a standard reactor that could be built inside existing fossil power plants, I think we could cut down on the build time by 80%, though that requires that we have approved designs.
I also believe that we in Sweden/Scandinavia should build large underground nuclear waste disposal sites, and offer to take care of nuclear waste from around the world, we have stable bedrock, our politics have been stable for decades. If would be a nice income stream while solving the issue for other countries. It has to be done, and we are well suited for it.
You can mostly solve the solar issue by building more solar, it generates power in virtually any weather, maybe less but then you just build more to account for it. And when it’s not sunny it’s normally windy.
Also grids normally span multiple areas, you don’t build all your solar in the same spot, you spread it around so it’s sunny somewhere.
Batteries or even pumped hydro also solve the problem of power being generated at a different time than needed.
Outside of the US, solar capacity is being added at speed because it has become so cheap.
Yeah, solar IS fantastic, but as someone who lives in northern Europe, when we need stable power, in the winter, there is very little sun.
I realize that I am probably projecting our climate onto the entire nuclear question world wide, and that is unfair.
I just want us to shut down fossil plants as soon as possible, while maintaining a supply for baseload, and the way I read it, the grid isn’t ready for dispersed power generation yet, and while solar is very cheap, it isn’t yet able to deal with a baseload in northern europe.
There is also a geopolitical question here, the vast majority of solar panels and wind powerplant components are made in China, until we can produce our own panels and components of similar quality/cost we are in a quite vulnerable position if we become dependant on China for everything needed for power generation.
Nuclear obviously have similar issues, but seems less so as Europe has the capability of building our own reactors, and the cost is less of an issue due to longer lifetimes.
Eh, I freely admit that I am quite tired of the anti nuclear crowd who for decades has been against nuclear power out of fear and not reason, and thus prevented closure of fossil plants earlier.
China alone is pushing the world into the renewables age. For the rest of us, we just follow the wave.
Nuclear does not have similar issues. Nuclear is a super long game that basically leaves a few states left to explore and invest in this area. Nuclear power is basically a bespoke option that needs to be developed like an art piece and an investment. Any nuclear power installation requires massive budgets, massive budget overruns, and over 10 years of development and installation which will overrun as well. By the time a nuclear project breaks ground, only the next generation will possibly enjoy whatever power is generated.
Nuclear also requires massive investments of teams of specialists. They basically need teams to operate over huge periods of time to retain the institutional knowledge of building, maintaining, and improving upon these installations. In that sense nuclear is similar to rail companies in that we want teams with over 100 years of experience in this business to maintain a certain level of competence.
Nuclear is fun to drop like in SimCity or Civilzation, but it is completely, seriously inaccessible for many.
Solar plus battery is much cheaper than nuclear. And it adds immediately. Nuclear takes years and doesn’t come online til the project is finished. Solar comes online incrementally and can be anywhere.
True, however I live in northern Europe, even with huge batteries and large solar infrastructure, I have doubts that it will be enough during winters.
Also I am annoyed at the anti nuclear crowd who for decades prevented nuclear power from being built, and increased our use of fossils.
I shouldn’t let it cloud my general judgement of solar however.
Iceland pretty much runs on thermal energy. You can also use hydroelectric dams, tidal energy and wind energy. And a lot of countries are using that instead of fossil fuel. Of course, there’s lunatics like Merz, who wants to literally replace renewables with nuclear, but the less said about that b-st-rd the better.
Well planned hydroelectric dams are fantastic, but they do disrupt ecosystems quite badly.
Are you the only Lemmy user who missed Technology Connections recent video?
I don’t really watch that channel, never got into it
Don’t take this wrong, but you’re repeating misinformation, and that’s quite damaging to the acceptance of renewable energy that is necessary to reduce the magnitude of the upcoming ecological catastrophe.
That does it I’m filtering out that entire instance, fuck you Lemmy.zip, fascists mouthpiece fucks
What?
How does nuclear power equal fascism?
lol 😂
what does nuclear have to do with facism
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.
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.
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.
