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If we see Donald Trump give that big speech on Thursday in a sweater I will think we fell into the time vortex
He’s not cool enough to put solar panels on the White House or give up his family business.
Or have a cool brother who makes beer.
Can we please go metric next? I'm old but an engineer (and a farmer) metric makes things so much easier...
It would be nice. I would love to not have to keep two sets of each tool type just because America can't admit Europe did something better. And not just a little better, like, it's embarrassing how difficult SAE is over metric.
It's probably too late for me. But I dream of a world where my grandchildren only need one socket wrench set.
If you do enough stuff yourself you already have two sets of tools. And torx bits. And triple squares. And reverse Torx and triple square. And robertsons. And Allen bits.
And extended versions of all of those. And short versions. And impact versions and the good ones and the garbage ones and sometimes extractor versions if you had a real bad day and went to Harbor Freight three times.
But never a ten mill when you need one.
Australian here.
It's been a long time since I encountered a nut or bolt that was unambiguously imperial, but my 13mm socket probably gets more use than it should 😏
A distraction it may be, but I'll take a win where I can get one. Idgaf which version of the clock we're going with, I just want it to be consistent
I don't care which one they lock in, as long as they just fucking pick one and stick to it. It's the changing that's the problem - we all have electric lights ffs.
This is good ... but the same kind of good like the captain of the Titanic declaring that the kitchens must supply vegetarian meal options to those who request it.
Yes, a good thing, but really far off from the most urgent issues facing the country, isn't it?
I’m super into this. I’ve been dying for permanent DST for a long time and I really thought they were going to push Standard Time instead.
Permanent DST is more popular as most are evening people
Yeah but I like my evenings dark. Do you know how hard it is to get a 6 year old kid to agree that it’s bedtime when the sun’s still up? They’re not stupid, dad!
Exactly, the significant majority of people hate the sun going down extra early in winter. The winter is so depressing with so much darkness, we especially need to maximize how much sunlight see in winter
Honestly having darkness until 8 or 9 in the morning would be great for sleeping in during Christmas break.
But the bill is just gonna die in the Senate, so don't hold your breath
maybe in a twist of irony instead of the bill dying in the Senate, the Senate will die instead?
The mistake was calling it the sunshine protection act, that sounds too much like an environmental bill for them to pass it.
Maybe, but originally it was the Senate who passed it sixish years ago and it died in the House.
They'll fuck it up and pick the wrong time, and it will be dark at 4:30 PM for the rest of our lives.
In 50 years, they'll try to switch to the other time, but Conservatives will fight it because they think they'll lose two hours, and they'll literally threaten a Civil War over two hours, then someone will try to explain that they'll actually GAIN two hours, and they'll say it's a Communist hoax with their two Socialist hours, just handing them out to people who don't deserve them, like the welfare queens just helping themselves to as many hours as the Demon-rats can steal from the billionaires who have more hours than everybody else combined.
So they'll compromise, and go back to switching times twice a year to keep NOBODY happy, and America can go back to normal.
Watch Trump veto it because he didn't get his election rigging "SAVE" act passed.
Doesn’t the rest of the world observe standard time? Why would we be permanently out of step with the rest of the world?
Actually, all "standard" time means is that the time is somewhat related to the sun being directly overhead at noon. I say "somewhat" because once you carve the world up into zones like that, the sun will never be directly overhead at noon except maybe in the middle of the zone.
Did you know China has only one time zone? The entire huge country runs on Beijing time. The far west of the country sometimes doesn't see a sunrise until 10 AM.
So, there is really nothing "standard" about Standard Time at all.
I would like to see the world finally move to Swatch Internet Time and resolve all this silliness once and for all.
I literally do not care. Make it permanent either direction for christs sake.
Yeah. All being 'out of step' means is that it basically just shifts the time zones one step over. And as long as it just stays that way, it's fine.
As someone who works with timezones as a developer it doesnt really matter I don't think. Timezone are already kind of a mess of a concept and honestly I just want it tp stop changing, I don't really care which way.
How close are they to impeaching pedophiles in office?
I'm happy to get rid of the change, but once again they ignore scientists and health experts with the choice of daylight time.
Permanant DST was signed into law January 1974 and repealed October 1974. Everyone hated it, it went from 79% approval in December of 1973 to 46% in February of 1974.
Why couldn't they do permanent Standard Time? If history of permanent DST legislation prevails, this will be repealed within a year or two. Same as it will be in BC.
I once found a page that would show you what permanent DST or Standard time would look like in your area, but cannot find it now. Anyone know a link to something like that?
Would be better if it was clear they did any research on the subject. Last time this came around it was clear, standard time was better for us. This now just feels like rich people will keep us poors on DST while they get the clock humans get a better night sleep with and still somehow take our money.
I hate that I can believe something like this.
In Brazil we made it always standard time (the one good thing bolsonaro did in his life) though I personally would prefer always daylight savings time
Honestly either way works. The switching is the annoying part.