Jimbo Slice

Wouldn’t it solve everyone’s problem just to make the time zones diagonal?

permanent standard time is the most insane position available. with permanent standard time, today in chicago the sun would rise at 4:29 am, when zero people are awake, and set at 7:24, when everyone is out and about

@demo_beta_v2 @TedRall I have a great job, not everybody's a loser who shows up at 9am for a fake e-mail job

@CJS_III @TedRall Work harder and get a better job.

Only a nation run by retards would politicize time and Circadian rhythms. Human bodies rely on syncing up with the sun at the start of the day. Extra sun at night is fun, but what matters to our health is sunrise. Permanent DST is a fucking stupid idea for fucking stupid people.

@obxpilot23 @mhartl @nancymarie1000 It's fascinating how many people are incapable of understanding that other people may have different preferences. I already drive to work in the dark much of the year with the sun setting right as or right after I get home. I would rather get the hour of light in the evening.

@mhartl @nancymarie1000 I don’t think the reality of winter has crossed their minds. It’s the big reason this country bailed on permanent DST in the 1970s.

Close to the summer solstice, permanent Daylight Saving Time seems great. But if this bill goes into law, come wintertime it will be obvious that it’s a terrible idea. If you want to avoid twice-yearly time changes, permanent Standard Time is the only sensible choice.

@madlizzy17 @Steak91 @aakashgupta Kids are already doing that. Where I live atart times are staggered with earliest at 7:30.

@Steak91 @aakashgupta I'm sure the school aged kids in AZ will be happy to walk to school in the dark all winter as long as you're not inconvenienced.

America already made daylight saving time permanent once. In December 1973, 79% of Americans supported it and Nixon signed it into law. By February 1974, eight weeks into the experiment, support had collapsed to 42%. The policy never changed. Winter arrived. Sunrise in Washington DC came at 8:27am. Kids left for school in total darkness, carrying flashlights and wearing reflective tape. When Congress moved to repeal, members cited the deaths of eight Florida schoolchildren in the first weeks of the change. The energy case collapsed too. The whole point was the oil embargo, and the Department of Transportation concluded the fuel savings were too small to matter. Ten months after signing it, Congress repealed it and Ford put the country back on standard time. There's a mechanism that makes this cycle repeat: permanent DST is only ever voted on when the sun is up. Polls run in the abstract, votes happen in warm months, and the benefit, a free hour of evening light, is easy to imagine year-round. The cost is concentrated in about 10 weeks of dark winter mornings and only becomes real after implementation. So the policy polls beautifully right up until January. Today's vote happened in July. The 1974 law passed in December, right before the exact winter that killed it. If this clears the Senate, the first real test arrives in January 2027, when sunrise in Indianapolis comes after 9am. Sleep researchers have watched this loop for 50 years, which is why the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the AMA, and the National Sleep Foundation all back the opposite reform, permanent standard time. Congress just picked the one version of clock reform America has already tried, hated, and repealed.

@Eleven__11XI Block the foreign engagement farmer

A genuine question for those defending every casting decision in The Odyssey… If someone adapted Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and completely reimagined the nationality, appearance, or traditional portrayal of several iconic characters… Would you still say: “The best actor should always get the role.” Or would you suddenly start talking about staying faithful to Shakespeare? That’s why this debate fascinates me. Should we judge every classic by the same standard… Or do we only defend creative freedom when it’s our favorite director

@gothoperas @MaxsBigMove @OIiviaaaaAAAA You're not being tested on your ability to remember formulas. Many of my engineering exams were open book because you needed the reference tables. If you don't know what you're doing, having the book won't help you within the hour time limit.

@MaxsBigMove @OIiviaaaaAAAA surely the reward for the student who studied would be doing well on the test without needing a cheat sheet in the first place

is this an american thing what the fuck is a cheat sheet

@pissvortex I do 95% of my reading on a kindle

Do people still use Kindles? Like does anyone still swear by them as their preferred reading method

@Arbeitologist I've always preferred to read vs watch a video or listen to a lecture

the 'learning styles' myth laid the groundwork for this btw - of all the people i've met who say this, none of them say reading is their special style, its always visual or aural lol

@fentamin I don't see what there is to be conflicted about. Shun every creepy dork wearing these.

This shit is why I’m pretty conflicted about meta ray bans becoming more common and socially acceptable at amusement parks.

@Brewbrew69 @KySportsRadio You're weird bro

@KySportsRadio Awww is the Duke liberal upset there’s a Republican playing golf in Lexington??

JD Vance playing golf at Idle Hour Country Club today in Lexington

I’ve seen some folks refer to NYC as Mamdanistan, so I’m here to remind you that the suffix for a city is -ibad.

@funkybutler0 @2024dion ...what do you think a tab is? It's like your check at a restaurant. You don't pay for your drink then pay for your appetizer then pay for your entree then pay for your dessert. You don't have a food debt to a restaurant...

@2024dion having a drinking debt to a place is crazy when cocktails are $15 each

my local bar has had it with zoomer culture

@HiddenPluto @2024dion They're explicitly making it known you're not welcome. Hope this helps!

@2024dion Devil’s advocate, bullshit like this is why kids don’t want to go out and deal with real life stuff anymore Yes people buying drink by drink is annoying but dealing with annoying things is part of running a business. Deal with it People don’t go where they don’t feel welcome

@EckhartsLadder 15

How many books have you read this year?

@MorePerfectUS Petition to make it legal to punch anyone directly in the face we see wearing these to break them. First candidate to run on this policy wins 400 electoral votes

@fawfulfan Yeah the "10-15" here is the problem, but by the 2036 election Biden would be 93 while Clinton, W, and Trump would be 90. Possible we have a 2-term president with only Obama alive among ex-pres

The only living former president *of the current former presidents*. It's very, very likely the winner of the 2028 presidential election will be alive 10-15 years from now.

I'm a sucker for the Declaration of Independence. Just an incredible document even if America has never lived up to its professed ideals.