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Cody Lonning
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Cody Lonning
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Farmer | Lawyer | Teacher | Preacher - Working for a practical Christianity - Homesteading the Selkirks - Studying the rural-urban divide at @RurUrbBridge
Selkirk Mountains Katılım Mart 2020
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@PolyesterMather Because people don't like to read.
But on another note, I'm concerned about your attraction to polyester (and the Mathers for that matter). I've been trying to cut polyester out of my life (and the prosperity gospel). Am I making a mistake?
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The modern web has way too much white space. The text density is far too low. Why is every website mostly blank space and margins now?
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@gregorykennedy Hypothetical. But even so, the thing about being rich is that you're further from any real hardship. That's the fundamental nature of richness. The things you listed might feel significant to the rich, but they aren't in comparison to the daily lives of everyone else.
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@CodyLonning Well, if they pass a wealth tax and take away control of their company by confiscating too many shares, I would say the rich can also be greatly impacted. No one wants their assets stolen from them.
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Should eveyone pay some tax so they have skin in the game, or is Bezos right, that people who make under $100K should be able to do more useful stuff with that money? I honestly am not sure. I typically like skin-in-the-game arguments. But inflation is nuts, and the rich keep getting much richer. So maybe he is right?
The Gregory and Paul Show@gregoryandpaul
Bezos' Tax Argument - Skin in the Game
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@gregorykennedy Sure, the middle class have skin in the game too. But both the poor and middle class are more affected than the rich.
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@CodyLonning I don't agree that the poor are more impacted. The middle class, who can barely afford a home, are at the whim of interest rates, municipal, etc. I would say they are more impacted than the poor.
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People that make comments like this are clearly unaware of how life functions.
In Detroit in the month of June, the sun will RISE a few minutes before 6am, every single day. And it won't set until after 9pm.
If we were to shift to standard time AND move to Central time, you'd be shifting those times two hours ahead. We would have the sun rising before 4am, and setting just after 7pm.
If there's a person out there that wants the sun to rise before 4am when everyone is sleeping, I have yet to meet them.
James Anderson White@jamesawhiite
It’s imperative that we revert to STANDARD, not Daylight time, for two reasons, one of which you may have never considered. You know the first: solar noon is closest to 12 o’clock all year. That means an equal number of hours before and after noon each day. This also means earlier sunrises which are significantly better for establishing a healthy circadian rhythm. The second reason is that nearly ONE THIRD of US counties are in the wrong timezone. A significant swath of the country isn’t only an artificial hour ahead because of daylight time… but TWO HOURS ahead of true solar time. Year-round daylight time, especially without recalibrating time zones, would establish this error permanently, affecting millions of Americans. We should be letting the Sun dictate the day the way God made it. Arbitrary, artificial tampering would be worse for us all. Fix the time zones and affix standard time.
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The only way we will ever get rid of time changes is to stop caring whether we revert to standard or daylight. Both are infinitely better than what we do now.
James Anderson White@jamesawhiite
It’s imperative that we revert to STANDARD, not Daylight time, for two reasons, one of which you may have never considered. You know the first: solar noon is closest to 12 o’clock all year. That means an equal number of hours before and after noon each day. This also means earlier sunrises which are significantly better for establishing a healthy circadian rhythm. The second reason is that nearly ONE THIRD of US counties are in the wrong timezone. A significant swath of the country isn’t only an artificial hour ahead because of daylight time… but TWO HOURS ahead of true solar time. Year-round daylight time, especially without recalibrating time zones, would establish this error permanently, affecting millions of Americans. We should be letting the Sun dictate the day the way God made it. Arbitrary, artificial tampering would be worse for us all. Fix the time zones and affix standard time.
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@myonlinetrust @davesned Seems like you'd like to abolish timekeeping altogether. And I'd rather that than permanent daylight time, so I guess we're closer to agreement than I thought.
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@CodyLonning @davesned You must not have read what I said. There is no “ideal in the first place” for what it says on the clocks. Especially not for all seasons and all latitudes.
Schools decide their hours every year anyway.
And businesses changing their hours would help some and hurt others.
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@CodyLonning @davesned (And it’s not clear that it would be healthy to wake up at a different time relative to UCT every day anyway. If we wake up at the same UCT time every day we’ll only have one or two days when we wake up at the perfect time relative to the sun.)
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@gregorykennedy Then what are you confused about? You're making my case for me. Ask a more specific question than "huh?"
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@CodyLonning I grew up dirt poor in NYC and went to schools that had metal detectors, bro.
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@gregorykennedy Never been poor I take it. The poor already have an incentive to care about how the government spends money (setting aside that they already pay a lot in the form of other taxes) because the poor are more affected by what the government does or does not do.
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@myonlinetrust @davesned Schools start too early because parents have to get to work.
In my experience as an employment lawyer, most business do not care about what their workers want.
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@CodyLonning @davesned Most schools already start too early. Hopefully this would cause a lot to start later.
I’m not sure that businesses would change much. We’re already on DST 2/3 of the year. But if workers demanded that businesses opened later in the winter, they would.
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@myonlinetrust @davesned Because sunlight lower on the horizon is better for morning light for the same reason red-light therapy works. You think it's better for schools and businesses to change their hours of operation than to set the clocks closer to the ideal in the first place?
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@CodyLonning @davesned Great. Why not? Is it at least partially because having lots of light before people wake up is not ideal?
Do you not see how we can’t just change the clocks so that everyone in the USA wakes up at the ideal time?
Just set the clocks to something and let people adapt schedules.
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@myonlinetrust @davesned How would we adapt to it? Businesses and schools would shift their hours of operation?
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@davesned @CodyLonning I admit that part of why I prefer DST is that 1) I live in Florida, and 2) my job starts at 9AM.
But my main argument is that *it just doesn’t matter*. Changing times from what we have 2/3 of the year or changing from what we have 1/3 of the year, either one we’d adapt to.
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@CodyLonning @davesned Would it be healthier if we changed the clocks by several hours so that solar noon was 9AM?
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Yesterday I discovered that there are LOTS of year-round daylight time people and they are absolute lunatics
Patrick Payne@kpatrickpayne
If this passes I’m gonna lose my mind. Some of us like putting our kids to bed before 10pm
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@myonlinetrust @davesned It's important to get sunlight within a short time of waking up.
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@CodyLonning @davesned Is it important that the sun rises hours before I go outside?
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@OpStCyprian That's the opposite of what permanent daylight time would do
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@myonlinetrust @davesned Which is why I haven't mentioned it. The point people are making when they mention that, and that you are missing, is that morning sunlight is very important for our health.
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@CodyLonning @davesned It’s of some importance.
What isn’t important is aligning our clocks so that solar noon is exactly 12:00.
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@myonlinetrust @davesned So you do understand that aligning our waking hours with the sun is important?
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@CodyLonning @davesned No, I think if the sun rose at 6PM we wouldn’t call 9PM to 5AM the night shift.
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@myonlinetrust @davesned Do you think people who work the night shift have no negative health consequences from their schedule?
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@CodyLonning @davesned You are saying it would be healthier for me if I woke up at civil twilight every day?
I don’t agree, but also, I hope you realize that this isn’t going to happen.
Moreover, it doesn’t matter if we have 9am sunrises or 8am sunrises or 6pm sunrises. (On one day of the year!)
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