Yes, that's what happens when you try and dictate silly timezone things to people. Newfoundland is a small island that was an independent British dominion when timezones were formalized, and they didn't send anybody to the conference. They eventually realized they needed some standardization and picked something within a minute of St. John's solar time, which is in the extreme east. Most of Labrador, in the west, thought that was dumb and so, outside of a little chunk around the ferry landing, they don't use it.

Newfoundland itself is a holdout with their half hour timezone. They used to be fairly common but all but a few have switched forwards or backwards to align within a whole number of hours. It's been proposed in Newfoundland a few times too but the Newfies like being different. They can get away with it because the only connections to the area using NST/NDT are air, a three hundred kilometre highway with literally nothing on it, a 6-7 hour ferry and another 14-18 hour ferry that only runs in the summer.

I have one actually. Very nice.

Why stop there? You should live in a small village with no more people than you can know personally, interact with the outside world very rarely and no more than absolutely necessary and devote your life to worship.

What could possibly go wrong?

The Amish are a religious splinter group with specific beliefs, i.e. a cult.

The group sex alien suicide cults are a small minority.

While Putin seems to have made up that specific term (in Russian) the Soviet Union was fond of liberations and friendly assistance.

The US has a long history of police actions, contingency operations, interventions, incursions, expeditions, foreign internal defence (probably my favourite), targeted strikes, extraordinary rendition, enhanced interrogation etc.

Ah, but imagine you are in a room that doesn't have any air!

China does that. Except they don't. Bejing decrees it and the locals just use their own unofficial time zones.

The kids in the dark thing is an excuse. Nobody wants to say "it sucks to get up an hour earlier in the winter."

I also grew up in the far north. Getting up in the dark sucks. Getting up an hour earlier than that sucks even more.

Newfoundland does. Labrador doesn't.

Computers did not, steam engine did not, cars did not.

I don't think you are right about that. They've all caused absolutely massive changes. Steam engines drove the industrial revolution.

lol oops trying to avoid the lameness filter which hates the Nahtzees. We all know who invented the modern highway!

Apparently slashdot doesn't like mention of the third empire, Nahtzees or Hartler.

It's ironic that you complain about the military while using the internet; which is based on the work done by the US military when it developed ARPANET sixty years ago.

And the web was invented by civilians working on basic science research.

Food preservation

People have been working on food preservation for millennia. Refrigeration via artificial means (i.e. not using natural ice) was invented by civilians (one cycle even invented by Einstein). Freeze drying apparently is very old, since you can do it in very cold climates using the weather. Modern freeze drying was invented by a civilian but it a heavily adopted by the military from near obscurity.

GPS: sure.

Radar: sure, the military put a lot of work in, but it didn't start there.

Nylon: nothing to do with the military
Epipens: autoinjectors or adrenaline? Autoinjectors predate military use and while they were basically the first major adopter, those ones are nothing like epipens.

And highways? You know who ELSE liked highways :) The modern highway (special intersections, separated carriageways, type restrictions) was a creation of the for the greater glory of the as something of a propaganda/self aggrandizement tool. For it to work well the dictator pushed for a "people's car", or in German, Volkswagen.

Superglue... kinda, but only kinda.

And duct tape, sure, but a lot of the heavy lifting, like pressure sensitive adhesives and tearable cloth tape was done in the civilian world. But that specific formulation with the plastic coating? OK sure.

Most of these things were initially developed without military funding. In some cases, like RADAR and GPS, the funding advanced them hugely in a short time. And in some cases it was the initial impetus for building them in America (interstates). Though in most cases this is a deeply inefficient way to go about it.

Yay another perpetual motion machine!

If you hand me a working reactionless thruster[*] I can hand you back a perpetual motion machine. If you don't believe in free energy then you cannot believe in reactionless drives either[+].

[*]more efficient than a photon rocket.

[+]Well for certain values of "you". There are some people here who will just screech invective when presented with basic physic, so it turns out a person can continue to believe hi angel'o'sphere

Do you think every CVE out there has a fired human associated with it? In order to have a sensible discussion about how LLMs relate to security relative to people you need to be realistic about people.

No, panspermia, actual life coming from space isn't what's being discussed. It's the idea that some or all of the complex organics, like amino acids, could have been delivered by comets. We observe lots of these in space and we know how they can be made there via processes that involve things like lots of UV that might not be as common on the surface of a planet.