Most of the rest of the world is at lower latitudes than than North America and Europe, so they don't see the same variability of daylight. China is the big exception, but they only have one time zone, so they've got their own relationship with time that isn't really comparable to the rest of the world.

*The former fucks with our sleep schedules

The latter fucks with our sleep schedules, while the latter does not.

Your statement is not a refutation of the one you're responding to. He was talking about Standard Time, not a standard schedule. You can sleep more in the winter than in the summer on Standard Time just as easily as you can on DST.

Sunlight in the morning makes it much easier to wake up, and much safer to get to work and school. Hardly useless.

I guess I've been hallucinating windows all these years ...

The last time we tried it, the country pretty quickly decided that it would not, in fact, be better.

As a natural night owl, nothing sucks more than having to wake up before it's light out. Our bodies are not made for that. If the issue is to get rid of the time changes, standard time would be much more sensible.

What taxes? A lot of these things are being built on sweetheart deals that exempt the owner from taxes for long periods of time.

What employment? The construction jobs are for skilled tradespeople who would have no shortage of other jobs to do in the absence of these projects. And there are only a handful of jobs at the finished data centers.

And then there's what they're being used for - AI slop generation and mass surveillance, mainly. We'd be better off paying all these people to dig ditches and then fill them in.

It's pretty easy, actually - all you have to do is listen to what the person in question has to say on the subject of race or their gender, respectively.

Sir, this is an Arby's.

What Winnipeg lacks in winter sun it more than makes up for with winter wind. It's one of the most windy places in the nation.

Especially once large-scale battery storage starts coming online.

Don't forget about thew opportunities for good old-fashioned graft. Nuclear involves awarding a lot of contracts to the private industry, which can be gamed for power and profit.

Why? Tides wouldn't exist, sure, but plate tectonics just requires a plastic-like mantle and lighter continental plates. Those conditions don't require a moon.