Even though some regions or countries stay on a shifted time offset year-round (which might look or feel like being "ahead" like daylight saving time), standard time is legally and geographically considered the baseline time zone for those areas. They simply choose not to participate in the biannual clock adjustments.

Countries & Regions That Do Not Change Clocks
Most of Asia: This includes major industrialized nations like China, India, Japan, and South Korea, as well as most of Southeast and Central Asia.

Most of Africa: Almost the entire African continent stays on a single standard time year-round.

Parts of the Middle East: While countries like Iran and formerly parts of the Levant have experimented with it, places like Turkey and several neighbors maintain fixed times.

Parts of Europe: Iceland, Belarus, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan do not practice seasonal time changes. (The European Union has debated abolishing the practice entirely, but member states still currently shift together).

Much of South and Central America: Countries like Argentina, Brazil (which abandoned nationwide DST a few years ago), and most of their neighbors remain on permanent standard time.

HubSpot appears to be one of the worst Email spam entites in the world. I block them completely. I wish they would cut 100% of their jobs and just go away. Constant Contact can follow along with them. Grrrrrr

>"The health evidence points to standard time, largely because morning light matters for our body clocks, sleep, and mood."

That entirely depends on where you are and when you wake. For many people, being forced to adjust to a time change twice a year can really screw with sleep a lot more. Some people take weeks or longer to adjust.

>""Our biological clocks need morning light to stay synchronized with the 24-hour day," said Simon Fraser"

And in the winter, where I am, it is still dark in the winter when I wake most of the time, so it never really solves that "issue", if it even is one. The difference is that with permanent Daylight Saving Time, it would not be dark when I return home, so I was have at least some daylight I could actual use after work. And if necessary, I could set a timer with bright full-spectrum lights each morning before waking in the winter.

Again, it depends primarily on your location and latitude and when you must awaken. Which is why the best idea is to allow States (or in this case Provinces) choose what they want to do for themselves:

1) Stay on Standard Time permanently
2) Stay on Saving Time permanently
3) Change time twice a year.

What is right for Maine isn't necessarily the same as for Virginia or Florida. They have very different latitudes. They can experiment and see what is best for THEM, rather than forcing the entire country into a single mode.

But if we can only have a single change/standard, I would vote for either permanent time option, rather than the insanity of switching time twice a year.

I've gone through discovery. I know it's a pain in the ass. But at the end of the day it's part of the cost of doing business. Maybe they should buy fewer MRAPs? Or maybe they should stop circumventing the 4th amendment purely out of curiosity and convenience? Or, more realistic, maybe a national ban on the use of Flock (or similar systems) until they can figure out a way to prove they aren't abusing it that doesn't cost $2M?

There's more than one, and you don't have to argue anything, I'm willing to walk away, there's nothing really useful to say anymore.

I'll even grant all photos are AI generated, it doesn't change the overall point. It's the association with the bills, together they form a picture that he really doesn't want. Even if I just ignore Epstein, and all his buddies, so that entire mess never happened, the bills alone are bad enough to label him. Let's not hold up on the point if they're AI generated, or AI altered, I can grant that, and it doesn't change anything, really. I'll quote the original point I made, in two parts:

Part A:

Part B:

The entire point of that was to mention he's doing the opposite of keeping kids safe, and collecting data he should be trying to distance from. In a very rough overview, and I'm not a lawyer or legal professional, but I do watch legal review, Carney is trying to legislate CSAM collection, why? C-8, C-22, C34, and C-36, they don't require Epstein for Carney to be guilty of what I'm calling him out on. I don't believe all the photos are AI generated or AI altered, I think I've clear on that, but either way, he's still in a world of trouble from what his party is doing. That's not false information, I've listed the four extremely problematic bills, so if the RCMP is going to make posts on Social Media about keeping kids safe, why are they not calling out the Liberals?

There's an entire grey-market industry of rich assholes traveling to third world countries for "young blood" transfusions.

Funny thing is, it apparently works and the current study is just one more bit of proof. One quick trip to Ecuador and bam, 70+ year olds get six months of being as healthy as a 30-something again. Hell, I have to admit some mornings I'm tempted to try it myself, though I'm nowhere near wealthy enough to fly halfway around the world every few months.

I'm sorry you're getting downvoted, because I get what you're saying and largely agree (though I love programming and have zero interest in working as a meat proxy / reverse centaur).

The problem here is, you're describing a world where human labor is worthless. And I'm okay with that in the abstract; I harbor no delusions about the "nobility" of work for its own sake. Know who won't be okay with that (labor-cost-savings aside), however? The billionaires with a vested interest in preserving cut-throat capitalism who currently own all the frontier AIs.

Are we on the verge of a post-scarcity society? Maybe. Are the guys dangling that carrot, while building massive survival bunkers as quickly as possible, the same folks who have the most to lose from exactly that? Absolutely. It'd be awfully nice if we could get there without half the human population starving to death in the process.

It seems pretty negligent if a police department doesn't already have something like this in place.

No it's worth the full $300. Storage is binary. You either have enough or you don't. If you are 12GB short, the only option is to pay full price to upgrade, you can't al-a-carte the number of GBs on your SSD. The idea of breaking this down to an individual per gigabyte cost is stupid as that option is not available for anyone.

False. SSDs are not sold on a per GB basis. You either have the space you need or you don't. If the latter is that you're 5GB short, then the direct cost and saving to you is the incremental upgrade to the next model of hardware which is $500 (ex-tax) for a Macbook Pro, or $100 for a Macbook Neo

WTF are you talking about? Many people just put a tiny piece of black tape over it.

There's not a society in the world (including Constitution thumping US of A) that doesn't ban products. None. Some products are not compatible with society. You're not being penalised, you can always move to a different society if you don't want to live under the shared values (laws) which underpin the one you chose.

I mean you *can* punch someone, but how much will you be willing to pay in legal fees for the privilege of doing so? If someone has a punchable face, do you really want to gift them money in the inevitable payout you suffer when they charge your dumbarse with assault?

Not in the USA, but plenty of other countries have negligent hacking coverage. "Unauthorised access" in the UK sense doesn't require any intention, just that you don't access a system in a standard way with credentials assigned to you.

In Australia OpenAI would have most definitely broken the Criminal Code (1995) Part 10.7 - Computer access with multiple examples of it's antics except... the very first line of every subdivision of the law is: "A person commits an offence if:"

Back when the laws were written no one anticipated that the law would be broken autonomously by a non-person. The concepts of computers making decisions they weren't explicitly programmed to was foreign.