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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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.
American defaultism
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
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?
- 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
food and housing
Capitalism
Imperial measurement system. Ffs just convert to the metric system already
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.
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.
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
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Expensive education
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Cities planned for cars
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5-day work weeks
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Grey’s Anatomy
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Nuclear weapons
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Racism
And I agree with the others who’ve said:
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Fossil fuels, particularly coal
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Private health insurance
Grey’s Anatomy
As someone who still watches let me assure you we all want it to come to an end. There was even a moment a few seasons ago where Meredith left and it seemed like we were set up for a perfect send off.
But it just kept going. Meredith is weirdly sometimes back despite living in Boston. But next season is probably the last season, and I’ve watched it all at this point, so what’s a little more. Right?
(It’s also still fine as background TV, so that’s probably why I still keep up.)
I’m confused why that show was lumped in. Do their syringes use cubic inches?
It’s just been on the air for a really long time. I wanna say 15-20 years? Something like that?
It’s in because, well, I was surprised that Grey’s Anatomy is in its 22nd season.
Its interesting that interactions here center on the one pop-culture element of my comment and none on the others. Yes, it’s a non-sequitur. It stands out.
Is it because the others are all self-evident? Flogged to death? Too controversial? Not controversial enough? Insurmountable?
… and Hugh Jackman.
Wait, what’s wrong with Hugh Jackman?
I personally find nothing wrong with him, that’s why I put it in quote format.
It’s an old Scrubs quote by Dr. Cox, who would rattle down long lists of things he dislikes or that he finds wrong with the world in general, ending it with: “… and Hugh Jackman.”
The comment above mine reminded me of this.
Ah, gotcha.
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Private health insurance companies. Study after study has shown that Americans pay more, get worse care, and are completely at the whim of these unnecessary middlemen. What the fuck!? EVERY OTHER MODERN COUNTRY HAS SINGLE-PAYER. It’s efficient, it’s obvious, it works.
The United Healthcare CEO further enriched himself by denying more legitimate claims than any other company. A private company, that can decide whether you can afford to live or die. Entire families are completely bankrupted over medical bills. Every. Single. Year. In the United States of America. It’s the entire reason Luigi Mangione garnered so much understanding and sympathy. (Not that it could have been him, he was at my place, we were playing Super Nintendo…)
Can confirm, he was at this guy’s place.
IDK about this, and I mean I honestly don’t know.
I don’t know what single payer means.
In Australia we have private health insurance but it’s just nothing like the situation in the US. Our
privatepublic health care system is fine.I would nip that shit in the bud if I were you guys. Private companies only want one thing and it’s not to help you get better.
That’s not going to happen.
It’s been this way my entire life and probably long before. Most things here work this way.
There’s a public / socialised system, and then a private tier in addition. Education is the same, public funded institutions which are free up to university, or private schools as an alternative.
3 years ago my partner fell pregnant with twins, our first children. It was a complex pregnancy for a range of reasons. We had to relocate to a major city 5 hours drive away, and we were there for 3 months. The specialist team was the best of the best, and the things they did to land two happy and healthy twins was just miraculous, honestly. My partner was in intensive care for 4 days and the kids were in the premature infants ward for 2 weeks. This was all under the public health care system. We didn’t pay a dime and even got reimbursed for the apartment I rented while I was there.
Since then with a young family we decided to get private health insurance. The insurer is a not-for-profit, so of course there are employees to be paid but everything paid goes towards paying benefits. There are for-profit insurers, but ofc they’re competing with the not-for-profit ones which keeps it real. it’s the same dynamic with the private hospitals that the private insurers are paying - yes there are private profits but the existence of the healthy public system keeps it reasonable.
Single payer is the same as our version of Medicare. Odd way to phrase it though.
That is weird. I always thought it was weird to go to the GP and horse around where you pay $x and get $y back from medicare, more like multiple-unnecessary-payers IMO. I guess if you invented a new system now it wouldn’t be so daft.
Oh sorry I forgot about that bit. I meant the bulk billing style.
I’m sure I’m gonna get some spicy replies to this, but guns and gun culture in the US. There was a major shooting in my city in the past couple of days, and you can’t even guess where because it happens every goddamn day somewhere in the country.
Any situation where there is a gun or the likelihood a gun is present immediately escalates it. Everyone is on edge because at anytime someone might be carrying. A minor argument or altercation can easily turn into a homicide. I avoid large crowded events when it’s outdoors and there are no security gates and checks. I stay away from bar districts on weekends because the chances of someone intoxicated and carrying is much higher. I’m tired of having my head on a swivel everywhere I go.
And for the 2A folks, that used to work back when you can actually successfully take up arms against the government when they’re oppressing you. Joe Redneck’s 500 guns in his house won’t help stop the government from taking away his rights.
Here’s the deal, if I could snap my fingers and remove all semi-automatic firearms across the US I’d do it in a second. The problem is, the cat’s already out of the bag. Some back of the napkin math here, but there are about 20 million AR style rifles in the US. Let’s say we do a buyback program that gets rid of a full quarter of those (that’s a crazy high number, but makes math easy) for $250 a pop. Just on payouts alone, nevermind the logistical overhead, that’s 1.25 billion dollars to make sure that if someone previously had access to 4 rifles on average, now they have access to 3. Not to mention all the other types of semi-auto firearms available like pistols, different rifles, etc.
What we need to do is improve the material conditions for people in their daily lives. It’s a whole hell of a lot harder to radicalize someone when they’re happy, healthy, and have a bright future ahead of them. Nationalized healthcare, an improved housing market, and sane tax laws in this country will go a hell of a lot farther to reduce gun violence than just making them illegal ever could.
I wish this was an issue we could just legislate a fix for, I really do, but it’s a symptom rather than a disease. That’s not to say laws can’t touch the issue. Sane and fair gun laws can and should be implemented, but on their own they will just drive the issues underground.
I hear ya. It’s the culture that needs to change. There are a lot of other countries where guns are available, but there’s no culture celebrated around it and it’s not ingrained into being such an important/integral thing to society.
I’ll take a shot at a spicy reply: they aren’t wrong, at least not completely. Having a lot of guns won’t stop the government from taking your rights, but it does limit their options. That’s why American conservatives have to bend over backwards to make sure you know: if you’re an American who identifies with gun culture, they are unequivocally on your side *. The current administration would love to restrict gun ownership, but they’re still afraid of losing the support of that bloc. And I think it’s at least partially because they have guns.
*^provided you follow the law and support the troops and all the police as well and also aren’t openly queer or melanated^
A spicy reply in favor of your post: guns are obsolete. They’re completely useless and unnecessary in modern society. The only thing guns provide is the illusion of “safety”, which is only necessary because guns are allowed to exist. It’s a simple fact that getting rid of guns entirely would have the death rate plummet, especially for kids. Thousands and thousands of lives are sacrificed every year to enrich a powerful lobby and make people with smol pp energy feel a false sense of security.
Mr Beast. Can we please?
So tired of seeing that bellend’s grinning doofus face on things
Religion
As a person who was an atheist for my entire adult life, so 20 years, we are incorrect. It has become very clear to me over the last two years that a notion that we are born, die and its lights out forever is wildly naive. I’m not sure which religion is correct, if any, but there’s something. Google Zoroastrianism if you’re open minded about. I’m not saying that it’s the one hit the abrahamic religions base a lot of their values on i and it predicates all the religion theatrics.
It’s naive to think death is lights out forever but not for the reason you said.
The clue is in your incomplete chronology: born -> die -> lights out forever.
It was also lights out forever before birth, but then it suddenly wasn’t.
I would like to have a genuine conversation with you about your take. What happened to you in the last two years that had you about-face on your (lack of) faith?
I used to be religious growing up (it was a familial expectation). Then I kinda half-heartedly gave up, and I became agnostic. Eventually I decided that there is no God as we know it, but I do not deny the idea that there was some greater hand at play in our existence as a species.
Things do feel a little too coincidental to simply be random. For existence, our existence in general: the earth had to form in just the right place in space, and the temperature and oxygen levels had to level out to a specific point for humanoids to form and grow.
I know that can all be explained by science, and I am not disputing any science. But that’s my anecdotal opinion on why I feel there is something/someone out there bigger than us (but not a God).
Like I said, I’m genuinely curious on your take.
Yeah… survival bias wouldn’t have a name if it would be easy to avoid it.
For existence, our existence in general: the earth had to form in just the right place in space, and the temperature and oxygen levels had to level out to a specific point for humanoids to form and grow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_universe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis
That said, if those circumstances were different, we would not be around to observe them. But we are, so the only outcome is that it will always feel miraculous.
Trump
