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Holy shit, is that man behind his shoulder pregnant with triplets?
They call it "Sunshine Protection Act" ? These people are so unserious.
Imagine if this becomes Trumps version of Hitlers "but he built the autobahn". The one good thing he did that people in the future will use to make it look like he "wasnt all bad".
Yeah, but he also...
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sigh.
Yep. This might be it.
He also got the world to stop relying on the US. Well not yet, but we might get there.
He's also accidentally accelerated the world's shift to renewables. It's still not fast enough, but it's better than it was.
hell, even hilter had more than just the autobahn - nazis also brought about the first decent animal cruelty laws. Plus he killed hitler! Trump tho, this might really be the only thing. It's the only one I can think of at least, and it hasn't even happened yet..
Yeah this and killing the penny
Minor decent things that really don't make a difference in the suffering of the people
It's like if somebody was robbing you and then tipped you a couple of dollars for being a good victim.
And before this last election, I was even looking forward to a celebration of what we had not a memorial for what we are losing at 250 years.
That and making petrol so expensive even hardcore conservatives are considering electric cars
Lemmites have been doing that for years now
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I smell tankies
Even if we don't get rid of dst, at least he got rid of the penny
It probably will be
I’m just wondering what happened to all the daylight that we did save up over the years?
they freaked it
It would genuinely be easier to change the start times of elementary schools to match the daylight hours than to make everyone change their sleep patterns twice a year.
That's its own beast; do you stagger the start times so that teenagers that are up the latest get proper sleep, or do you reverse it so they can take care of the younger kids?
I would say "What the fuck teach your five year old to walk down the street or talk to your community to help them, you have utterly failed at your job as a parent if your kid has that little ability to act independently of you" But that's why the school asked me showing up to random parent-teacher conferences.
No, give us permanent DST, during winter half the country drives home from work watching the sun set.
Edit: wait that's what he's doing. Even malicious and incompetent people accidely do something good occasionally.
...i live pretty far south and it's already dark when i leave work midwinter...
Exactly, permanent DST buys you an extra hour of daylight in the evening, at the cost of having to do morning stuff with 1 hour earlier levels of sunlight.
...hence my skepticism that half the country leaves work before sunset...
NYC is north of most of America. The earliest the sun sets is 430, itll be 530. So yeah in the absolute worst case, northern people in the dead of winter, they will drive home as the sun sets instead of at night. But later in the year and further south, it will give you meaningful time at home during daylight. I do kinda wonder if itll increase car accidents for people who drive to New Jersey after work.
https://weatherspark.com/y/24600/Average-Weather-in-Manhattan-New-York-United-States-Year-Round
...i think we're talking across each other: my point is that the majority of american workers currently commute home after dark in the dead of winter (as do i at 30° latitude, with most of the population north of me), so more than half of the country don't even see the sun set...
I haven't been in America for a year and a half, but the data says otherwise. Are you in a cloudy area?
...how late do you think americans work?..average winter sunset is at 17.30 at 30° latitude...
5pm is standard, throw in 30-45 minute commute, I'd wager roughly half of americans have better conditions, half worse.
...i've not seen anyone leave at 17.00 in the private sector for thirty-five years...
I did before most days before I went remote
So this idiot wants DST to be the standard, instead of the actual Standard time. Typical trump fucking up a good idea. In 1974 we did this and people HATED it. The whole planet should be on Standard time. If you need to change hours so your business is open more during daylight, change your damn Winter hours, don't expect an entire nation to change the clock.
That's the plan Congress has been tossing around for years. It's always staying on Daylight time for some stupid reason.
"Well, it's Trump O'Clock now...I'll meet you at the Gulf of America between Trump thirty and Trump 45"
He'll give new meaning to the "Golden Hour".