I've seen a lot of Germans but I've yet to come across those taking their artificial light and window blinds down to the beach. Hint: Any argument you think you're making about DST in your home or workplace is invalid. No one gives a fuck about the light outside when you're in those situations.

We can operate at night, but do we want to? Your comment is precisely why I'm an advocate for permanent DST I'm not a morning person, so fuck any light in the morning. Give me sunlight in the afternoon to sit outside and enjoy myself.

Also no we can't operate perpetually at night, at least not without medical issues. This is one of the reason vitamin D deficiency is a thing.

And I agree changing clocks is silly, but I was just pointing out that the only way to adapt a society schedule in a functioning easy way is to change a clock. My comment was in reply to someone who suggested that people could adapt individually. No they can't. We don't live by ourselves without the interaction with common people. The bank isn't going to open up an hour earlier for someone just because their personal belief is to enjoy more sunlight in the afternoon. We need a common understanding of how society interacts and an agreement of when to interact.

You're begging the question. Where's the evidence to say that left without clocks and relying exclusively on our internal cycle is the healthiest? We have plenty of evidence to show that too short or too long of sleep is unhealthy, but that is only born out in the data of extremes, e.g. regular repeated sleep deprivation or excessive repeated sleepins. Additionally you just need to look to the weekends to see that when left without clocks actual people's sleep routines vary wildly.

So your complaint is that it's too cold to do things in the morning and then too cold to do things in the afternoon? You're not really making much of a case here.`Sorry but the Netherlands isn't remotely an extreme case. There are places in the world where your comment makes sense. The south of Spain for example where weather and temperatures actually are able to prevent work. But the Netherlands is simply insanely mild all year around.

Too cold to do things in the afternoon? Horseshit. The entire country flocks to enjoy the freezing cold for the brief periods every other year it happens. People seem to be far more active when it's -5C outside than when it's 5C.

Literally anything other than the three you list? I mean I could name 7 other brands one of them being OPPO which is the same company as OnePlus.

headline would make me spit coffee on my screen and laugh, instead of today when they make me throw up a little in my own mouth.

One company suddenly increasing in size to the tune of 7 figures is not just "4 major studios instead of 5". One company is literally buying an insane size of the market along with a lot of IP.

The market is far better served letting Warner go bankrupt and having the company divided and the 4 major studios equally getting to bid for parts of the business.

The end result of this is that Spirits time slots and assets are bought by a variety of airlines. Yes that's exactly where we want to go. You're not served by pretending there is competition simply because one company has two different coats of paint on their planes while they overnight massively increase the amount of market coverage, and dominance in the industry. This does not benefit the consumer.

And yeah it sounds bad, company goes under, jobs lost... I suppose millions of Americans just decided to no longer fly now? Except that's never been the case with any airline going bankrupt in the history of the airline industry. In reality consumers still fly, companies still want to serve consumers. Airports are all effectively running at full slot capacity. The end result is those people who lost their jobs get jobs at various competitors who fill the whole. The planes and assets get bought and reused by various competitors. The flight slots get taken up by various competitors.

You may see the key word there: "various". From a market point of view and from a consumer competition point of view, having one company go out of business is MASSIVELY preferable to having the company "saved" by being bought by another company. The former process preserves competition, the latter creates consolidation.

Industries in trouble need to be blocked from mergers. Allowing them can have worse outcome than market competition.

On what basis?

So the industry doesn't need mergers then? Just let it go away? I'm struggling to see what point you're making, your post is inconsistent. Do we consolidate power in a monopoly or let an irrelevant industry die?

The cable industry has a FUCKING HUGE influence on the world, especially in America. Media are king makers. It's anything but a waste of time worrying about this. Unless that is you want every show in the future to be some variation of "Ow my balls"

Yep, let's go with the latter. If they are going to be reduced than their assets should be divided up and sold individually, not making one of the 4 companies fucking massive compared to the other.

Mergers of that size should be prohibited. You are not well served by a massive monopoly on media. You're far better served with everyone in the competition getting a slice in the firesale.

Worth noting we've already done this. ReCaptcha has used input characterisation for a long time now. Again I didn't disagree it'll be worked around, just that it won't be as easy as people think.

There's a difference between capturing and replaying data (something that will be easily detected, humans are biased but still have variance), and properly generating a human looking input. This is harder than people think.

The rest of the world laughs at how the greatest country in the world suddenly dies because it's not light outside. Maybe that's why Trump wants Greenland? To teach Americans how to use light switches?

Indeed. Now how do we do this on a societal level quickly and easily in a way that everyone remains in synchronisation and there's minimal confusion and no requirement to adjust signage / information?

The idea that opening or working times are a choice are a delusion by someone without kids or without an employer (contractors can chose their working hours).

I agree people complaining have no clue. The idea that peak hour follows the sun is just stupid, as you can see by the wide WIDE differences between summer and winter sunrise / sunset times. Add to that the insane amount of road maintenance that is done overnight in NL and your post ends up with only one point left: You think it's annoying.

But the Netherlands is the Netherlands. The entire country thinks everything is annoying at all times. The rain is annoying, the sun is annoying, the cold is annoying, the heat is annoying, the wind is annoying, the lack of wind is annoying, etc, etc, etc.

Dark at 10am? People up north laugh at you.

CBS along with the other main 3 broadcast (ABC and especially NBC) are heavy left leaning....CNN is very left leaning, but not so much as MSNOW (used to be MSNBC).

So far, it appears the new lady in charge of CBS has indeed tried pulling them to at least center left rather than far left.

She herself is NOT a right leaning person....

We need some balance....everyone LEFT with Fox New being the sole Right leaning news in the US just doesn't work....I'd rather them all be center but at least balance out the left and right if that's the only option.

Yeah but you're a greybeard Slashdotter, hardly a representation of a normal person ;-)

Also clearly a lie, we've heard that GenZ doesn't spit out kids, so grand parents can't possibly exist before their midlife crisis.