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Comment Definition of Crazy (Score 3, Interesting) 262

Why do they always push for DST instead of regular time.
(Yes this is AI summarized but it illustrates the point.)

The primary argument for permanent standard time (regular time) over daylight saving time is that it aligns much better with natural human biology, leading to superior sleep health and fewer accidents. Sleep experts and health organizations overwhelmingly prefer year-round standard time.

Economic and Social Context
        The DST Preference: Despite health warnings, lawmakers often push for permanent DST because retail, tourism, and golf industries lobby heavily for extra evening daylight, which increases consumer spending.

Health and Biology
        Circadian Rhythm: Standard time aligns the clock with the solar cycle, providing natural morning light that signals the brain to wake up.
        Melatonin Production: DST creates darker mornings and late-evening light, delaying the body's natural production of melatonin needed for sleep.
        Chronic Sleep Loss: Medical groups like the American Academy of Sleep Medicine warn that permanent DST leads to a permanent state of "social jetlag" and chronic sleep deprivation.
        Health Risks: Studies link the circadian misalignment of DST to higher rates of cardiovascular disease, obesity, and mental health struggles.

Safety and Practicality

        Morning Safety: Permanent standard time ensures the sun rises earlier in the winter, preventing children from waiting for school buses in pitch-black darkness. [24, 25, 26]
        Accident Reduction: Better sleep quality under standard time reduces daytime fatigue, lowering the risk of drowsy-driving traffic accidents and workplace injuries. [27]
        Historical Precedent: The U.S. repealed its 1974 permanent DST experiment specifically because dark winter mornings caused a spike in schoolchild traffic fatalities. [28, 29]

Comment Re: Oh well (Score 1) 249

So in your mind "spread the word" is actually marketing to the students.
Did they have to market lawyer or finance bro, or doctor?
Or did those jobs Demand higher salaries that then caused the students to pick those jobs. Raise the salaries raise the job opportunities instead of importing workers, and the students will already know before picking a major.

Comment Re:Investor Fishing (Score 1) 38

Basic question since I have not researched Nuclear power in a long time. The last time there was a big push and building of nuclear reactors the main problem was the spent fuel rods. The response back then was we will have developed the tech to deal with it in the future when the rods are used up. Has this happened? or are we still doing the bury it in the earth until the future when we have developed the tech to deal with it?

Comment new laws (Score 1) 74

Can we have a law that says if the company states something or promises something during the buying phase then it is written in law for that company.
If they change their mind later then the current C suite gets 10 years in prison?

Comment Re: Destroy Them (Score 1) 67

or how about they go to jail for the amount of the sentence of the innocent person recieved. Then MAYBE they will actually do the job and investigate, including going through all information trying to exclude the suspect. If they can't exclude them and the evidence shows it was them then you have the correct suspect.

Comment Re:MBA strikes again (Score 1) 41

We are missing a HUGE point. It is illegal for insurance companies to use this data to adjust their pricing.
So why would the insurance companies be buying this data?

Time to start investigations on when they received the data and when their customers started receiving increases in insurance rates.

Comment Re:They'd ask, won't they? (Score 1) 103

Unfortunately I call BS on this. These companies know exactly how much that raised prices on exactly which products due to tariffs. Otherwise they would not be able to forecast profit margins.
They also have a record of all CC transactions and which products were purchased and at what price. So they also know exactly who bought what, how many, and how much extra they paid in tariffs.
The companies could pay the customers back but never will.
Maybe next year we could give them a bigger tax break so they can continue to be job creators.

Comment Re:And of course pass those onto the customers (Score 1) 103

Just to clarify, that is $175 billion of US TAX Payers money, not the government money.
When worded like that it assumes the US Gov creates money to pay stuff with. It receives or creates money from you and me, the tax payer.
As Lindsey Gram said about Iran, "When this regime goes down, we are going to have a new Middle East, and we are going to make a tonne of money." (the we here does not include you or me)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news...

As with everything about this administration squeeze the poor / middle class to give to the rich.

Comment Wall street (Score 1) 99

When was the last time wall street had mass layoffs?
How come every idea they come up with makes them tons of money and their investors take the hit?
All of those ideas 10 years later are looked at and decided that is not ethical so maybe we should make a law saying you can't do it.
Then the SEC says you can't make laws.
and around and around we go.

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