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Littleface100s
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@TigsTown @RobLong73 No, the time changes kill people who wouldn't otherwise die. Pick one and stick to it
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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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@tinamerritt123 @TigsTown Nobody who starts school at 7:30 still has recess
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@TigsTown When is sunrise? 7:30? 7:45?
Now imagine leaving when it’s dark, getting to school in the dark, before school playground in the dark, recess in the dark and then finally the sun rises after 9am. That is completely messed up.
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@creesemusic1 @pj_schreiner They do run sets. Buts its all based on read and react because the scouting and defensive schemes are 10x more complex now the the average player is way more athletic than the average player back then so it doesn't look like the basic 1->2->3 sets from 40 years ago
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@Littleface100s @pj_schreiner Majority of the top players in the league are less athletic or on the same level as past players. SGA, Jokic, Luka... Again the game is faster but it's less fluid because there are NO sets. Even if it's not a triangle, offensive have zero identity besides high P&R and numerous 3s
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@MrFlickRocks Or we just keep it how it is. DST sucks in the winter but its great in the summer. Therefore, we do standard in the winter and DST in the summer. Theres like 4 days in the spring that suck because of it. Its still better overall
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Permanent Standard Time is the preferred choice by most Americans. The disastrous experiment in 1974 of permanent DST contributed to a loss in GDP, deaths attributed to early morning darkness, and disrupted sleep for all.
#DeleteDST
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@pcdebol @AgainstWoke People who live in an area that would never have a 4 am sunrise
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It's crazy that people want DST to me. The sun rises so early and sets so late in AZ during the summer already. I'd rather it stay like it is here where we don't do DST. If we switched, it would be a disaster.
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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@AgainstWoke So just because you like how things are in your specific area therefore everybody else should be happy even though their circumstances are entirely different. Gotcha
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@Bennieeexyz Your SIL doesn't get headaches from "Asian Food", she gets them from cheap short order Chinese places that load their food with MSG. Most quality sit down restaurants don't do that.
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My son turned 11 and asked for sushi for his birthday dinner.
Done. Made the reservation.
Then my in-laws called. They were coming into town and wanted to get together. I invited them along.
One problem.
My sister in law doesn't eat anything with Asian origin. Says it gives her migraines. For years we'd rearranged plans around this without question.
I sat down with my son.
Me: Hey. Your aunt doesn't really do Asian food. Would you consider somewhere else?
Him: (looked at me)
Him: It's my birthday.
Me: I know.
Him: I want sushi.
Me: (fair)
I called the in-laws. Explained everything. Told them they were welcome to come to ours the next day for the Superbowl instead if the restaurant didn't work.
Them: We want to see you both days.
Me: Then we'll see you both days.
I figured that was their decision to make.
We showed up to the restaurant.
My son ordered everything he wanted.
My sister in law sat down, looked at the menu for a long time, and ordered edamame and white rice.
She was fine.
No migraine.
My son ate sushi until he could not move.
Him: (on the way home, completely full)
Him: Best birthday.
Me: (looked at him)
Me: Yeah?
Him: Can we do this every year?
Me: (thought about the in-laws)
Me: (thought about the edamame)
Me: (thought about his face at that table)
Me: Absolutely.
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@survivingCanada @Stephen19718352 He just doesn't realize that when your a kid with no bills to pay you can blow all your money and teenagers today are doing the same thing
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@Stephen19718352 You do realize that you were privileged right?
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I was a teenager in the late 90's, early 00's and had a similar experience. I could do days of stuff like this with a $20 bill. $5-$10 of gas seemed to last forever.
My dad was a manager at a dairy plant and my mom worked customer service at an insurance company and we lived in a nice suburb, with 2 decent cars and went on vacation every year.
Minimum wage was the same then as it is now and I worked like 16 hours week at a large hardware/farm supply store, which made it possible to do basically anything I wanted. I could eat fast food whenever I wanted, drive anywhere, buy a PS2 and games, maybe even a little weed, pay older losers to buy me beer and cigs.
I sincerely feel like I was the last generation of teenager that had it really good in America.
Amber Em@AmericanFemnst
When I was a teenager in the 90s, everyone had a car and we “cruised” for fun and never worried about gas. We ate fast food and went on dates at restaurants multiple times a week. We went to concerts and raves and bought name brand clothing at the mall. We worked part time and always had extra money. Our parents owned nice houses, worked ordinary jobs, and took us on vacation at least once a year. I feel sorry for Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
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@Stephen19718352 Because you were a teenager and had no responsibilities or bills to pay. My teenage daughter does the same things and my wife and I always laugh about how we had "more" disposable income as teenagers making 10k a year than we do now.
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@pannapacker @silencedoesgood You guys don't want anything thats white male coded so thats not surprising at all
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@silencedoesgood College admissions advisor and emeritus professor here: travel sports are a huge net negative in college applications. We do not want them. In an extreme way.
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Parents of modern teenagers get so confused why public school, travel baseball and TikTok fail to turn out well rounded children.
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@creesemusic1 @pj_schreiner The defensive rules nowadays combined with the speed/ athleticism of today's players make running that style highly ineffective now. It has to be read & react but unfortunately it makes for a less esthetically pleasing brand of hoops
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@pj_schreiner The reason basketball is worse now is because players have limited knowledge of actually running an offense. Everything is dribble hand off, high screen and roll, or desperation three. There's no actual flow to an offensive gameplan... Teams just hoop now...
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Basketball has changed so much.
In some ways, this shows more of a team sport and the development of complex plays.
In other ways, this reveals how much slower, less aggressive, and less athletic the game was.
Boomers and millennials are going to hate to hear this, but the reality is the 2026 OKC and Spurs would dominate both these teams.
Coop™️@imyycooper
First 3 minutes of the 1998 Game 6 NBA Finals Basketball used to be so pure 🔥
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@jamesawhiite Shut up nerd nobody gives a shit about solar noon or circadian rhythms. Sunsets at 4:15 pm for 3 months is depressing as fuck
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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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@Will_Tanner_1 He saved the country from total collapse you bitch and you and all your friends have been doing everything you can to break it again for the last 45 years.
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FDR was probably the worst president America has had, though Lincoln and Jimmy Carter are close
From the moment he was elected, FDR the pinko and his commie wife went to war with everything it meant to be an American, and did all he could to destroy that which had made America a prosperous land of liberty
ThinkingWest@thinkingwest
The FDR worship needs to end. Putting him over Washington? Criminal behavior
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@BadgerBeliever @jacobzolman Of course. And tournaments are fun!But the idea that we have a better way to determine the best team now is just wrong
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@Littleface100s @jacobzolman Football is played once a week. If you want at double elimination tournament with even 4 teams, it would take 5+ weeks. Football doesn’t work unless it’s single elimination
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Actually never having a legitimate national champion is the biggest stain on the sport.
Ben Dukes@BenDukes
Unpopular Opinion: There was absolutely nothing wrong with College Football being an outlier in how it chose its champions, and the changes have not improved the sport.
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@mouthnose34 @bsmolka Nope it definitely starts around 10/11 nowadays. We had to start all our own Baseball/Basketball programs so we could schedule things in a way kids could play multiple sports because coaches were punishing kids for missing practice
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@bsmolka It happens but not at age 10. Happens closer to high school when college or pro options come into the picture.
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And the intense pressure from coaches to make the players become single-sport athletes at age 10 is horrendous. “Play year round for us or you lose your spot” absolutely is a thing
Lenore Skenazy@FreeRangeKids
Sandlot it ain't. Youth sports now $40 B industry: "Teenagers on travel teams are rolling into weekend tournaments wearing a few thousand dollars of apparel, equipment & swag. Avg family spending on baseball increased nearly 70% between 2019 and 2024." wsj.com/business/retai…
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@BennyBondestino @GSpellchecker People ate out FAR FAR less back then. This is undeniable
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@GSpellchecker You're a Brit, I don't know what it was like there, but in America fast food was not some rare luxury in the 80s and 90s.
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This is completely untrue. Growing up working-class in the late 80s and 90s, my parents never bought it for us. The only times I ever set foot in a McDonald’s were for someone else’s birthday party.
The housing market is undeniably broken, but at the same time, the number of luxuries this generation now considers basic necessities is on another level entirely.
Raven@raven_brah
Boomers seem to forget that fast food used to be a normal, everyday expense for them because it was affordable. You could get a burger easily on minimum wage, it wasn’t some fancy treat you had once a year as a reward for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.
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@raven_brah Wrong. And I hate to defend boomers here but when I was a kid we never got fast food because it was too expensive and we had food at home.
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Boomers seem to forget that fast food used to be a normal, everyday expense for them because it was affordable. You could get a burger easily on minimum wage, it wasn’t some fancy treat you had once a year as a reward for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.
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@AnneShi46917471 @CynicalPublius You don't seem to like it too much either
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@CynicalPublius They really don't like it when people think for themselves.
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OK, for those of you who are not NFL fans, please allow me to identify the folks involved here:
1. Jaxson Dart is the second year quarterback of the New York Football Giants. He is from Utah, graduated from Ole Miss, and is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Yesterday he introduced President Trump at a political rally in New York, not too far from New York City.
2. Abdul Carter is a second year edge rusher for the New York Football Giants. He is from Philadelphia and graduated from Penn State. He is a devout Muslim who prays to Allah on the field before games, and is extremely open about his faith in and out of the locker room. When Carter saw that his teammate had the temerity to accept the honor of introducing President Trump, he ripped him on X.
3. Both Carter and Dart were 1st Round draft picks last year, and both had strong rookie seasons. Giants’ ownership and management hopefully consider them to be the cornerstones of a team-wide revival to be led by new head coach John Harbaugh (a Super Bowl winner with the Baltimore Ravens and also someone who is not afraid to meet with President Trump). (That optimism exists even though Carter could not stay awake in team meetings last season.)
So with that background in mind, I have this to say to Abdul Carter:
Muslim terrorists destroyed a large swathe of New York City in the name of Allah, yet you are accepted on your team and in NYC, and no one challenges your beliefs or your right to express them. So how about you shut the fudge up, focus on learning how to sack the QB at the NFL level, learn how to stay awake in team meetings, and stop tearing your team apart when your teammate is given the honor of introducing the President of the United States of America?
This is a free country. You are free to worship a deity that enslaves women, and Dart is free to say hello to the President. How about you just accept that, Abdul?
Deal?
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@CynicalPublius His grammar isn’t very good either. Doesn’t look like he paid attention and slept through English class.
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