I don't know what you do with a voting electorate that is so low information and has so little critical thinking skills that they can't see why this is a problem and that would be vulnerable to attack ads launched against politicians over voting against the law of this bad.
You put them on ships and send them to some backwater continent an ocean away.
Oh wait. We did that already.
They are the first step toward a slippery slope toward a ban on anonymity.
It's much more than a slippery slope. It's an intentional trap. Politicians have been trying to remove anonymity from the Internet from basically the time their kids first told them about it. Nothing has been more consistent than these constant attempts, usually under the typical "protect the chiiiiildren" guise.
Mind you, the same type of people crying "protect the children" are the type of people who visited Epstein island.
Because that "one part of the USA" is the 4th largest economy in the world. Or the 5th or so depending on which statistics from which year you prefer, the point being: It's too large to ignore. Even it it's just a part of something else.
Yes, as soon as you are not local anymore, everything becomes much more difficult. Is it an urban legend or true that clocks in public became common with trains, because it was the first time that time between fairly distant places needed to be coordinated?
You are right that a lot, if not a majority of jobs need fixed schedules.
No, I don't propose a gradual shift. I think that would be even more confusing. I do think it would be easier to simply change the start and end times rather than changing the actual time. With school especially it should be possible to align it with the school holidays, so between spring and autumn holidays school starts at 8 and from autumn to spring holidays at 9.
But yes, I admit, if we want to cater to people's "I don't like it dark in winter and I also don't like it bright in summer" then DST might indeed be a shitty solution but less shitty than others.
You still don't get it, because you are fixated on "change date".
What I do is more akin to medieval life - where the sun and its GRADUAL change dictated when people woke up and went to bed.
As for scheduling - I call bullshit. Scheduling already is a nightmare, mostly due to Outlook being 10 years behind and people unable to use even that. Me starting and ending work when I want has never, not once, impacted any business meetings and doesn't make setting them up any more difficult.
So you do like DST!
Absolutely not. And what I do is totally not DST "packaged differently". The main difference is that I can pick my own time, I can change it on any day I want, I can move smoothly instead of having on "everyone change" day, and I'm not forced into it.
Yes, with school that won't work, agree. Most office jobs, on the other hand, already have flexible time schedules.
The fact is that what people really prefer is the benefits of standard time in the winter and the benefits of DST in the summer, but without having to change their clocks.
Make work and school start and end at different times in summer and winter then, problem solved. I've been doing that for years now. Working from home benefits, I know. In winter I start work at 9. In summer, at 8. About, not exactly. It works great.
established nationwide DST in 1966, and it was the right choice then and nothing significant has changed since
I don't know about the US, but in my country the official reasoning was to save energy. And study after study has since shown that's not true and no energy is actually saved.
Shocking, right?
Almost as shocking as people who bought something, anything, from the Facebook company being oblivious to the fact that the entire company is built on violating their privacy. It is literally what they do for a living.
it argues that there is no evidence that the ribbon offers "superior usability" over other interface modes.
They are so tame.
The "ribbon UI" is dogshit. It is the product of office politics. One section within MS kept tacking on features to Word, Excel, etc. - many of whom less than 1% of users actually use. Any other company would have seperated the UI into a "normal" and an "expert" mode, where ordinary users would get the 99% of features they use in a simplified UI and be happy, and for the once-per-year advanced feature they'd have to jump a couple layers deep into menus. But you can't have that once office politics enters the room, because nobody can stand being less important. So the UI team was tasked with coming up with an interface that offers everything, despite it being impossible to fit on screen. The result: Ribbon shit.
The fact that absolutely nobody outside the MS Office world has copied it speaks volumes about how bad it is. Good ideas get copied before they had time to dry.
That, exactly, is the deadlock.
Some people want year-round DST, some people year-round normal time. Since the sides are split roughly evenly, we can't decide, despite everyone agreeing that the current setup is shit.
You see that in friends groups, too. Everyone wants to go out. Half of the group wants to see a movie, the other half wants to go dancing. End result: Group goes nowhere and everyone hates it.
We have elected politicians exactly so that they can figure out a solution because unlike us that's their full-time job and they can invest the time to come up with something while the rest of us have to work. That they can't is a sign that we don't need the fuckers. We can be undecided without them, thank you very much.
The time changing is a glaring example of how our governments are unable to make decisions when no lobby is pushing them. It's a disgrace to humanity that decades after every last shred of doubt that it does anything good has been eliminated, we still have it.
"I think we really need to question what learning even is
Well, at least we can say for sure what it isn't: Letting an AI do your homework.
Not saying an AI can't have a place in learning. Using it like an advanced search machine to gather data, etc. that's pretty cool. AI is going to replace search soon - until the SEO dudes figure out how to fuck it all over again.
The main problem is that school never teaches you the meta-skills. It never tells you WHAT FOR you are learning all this shit. That nobody really gives a shit in 10 years if you remember the date of that battle or the name of that king. But the ability to put together a number of events in history into a whole story, that will come in handy.
I hated every hour of Latin in school. It took 20 years before I realized that thanks to it I can understand bits and pieces in Italian, Spanish and half a dozen other languages despite never having had a single lesson in them.
"We're not making this decision because we're in trouble,"
We are in such deep shit, "trouble" wouldn't even BEGIN to describe it.
"Our business is strong. Gross profit continues to grow,"
Gross profits are low right now, and net profits are negative.
we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving.
After a huge drop in customers, we are slowly gaining a few back, and while profitability is still negative, last quarter was slightly better then the one before.
How come that lawmakers behave as if they were never kids or can't remember how they themselves considered any and all "stay out, you're not old enough" measures a challenge to overcome?
Especially if it's a machine, which lacks the common sense of, you know, the dumbest door bitch who would take one look at you and say "I don't give a fuck what your fake ID here says, you're at most 15 and you're not going in".
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard
