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So long, penny! Trump orders US to ditch 1-cent coin after decades of complaints (apnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Should have been done a decade ago at least.

Now do Daylight Savings.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Sure thing, we'll just move everyone to permanent DST because that makes the most sense and causes the least amount of problems...

Or did you think we were going to switch everyone OFF of DST because that's your personal preference?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

I don't care either way. I just want it to stop fucking with everyone's schedules.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Permanent DST could just as much be considered a personal preference as ST.
Regardless of which is chosen, the “clock” times for anything & everything can simply be adjusted to taste. The numbers on the clock don’t have magical powers. The numbers are arbitrary, only the position of the sun is of real interest.
In ST, “noon” on the clock at least matches up with the sun’s midday position, roughly anyway, given the vagarities of time zones. It keeps as close to what noon traditionally means as possible, without throwing time zones out altogether.
Time zones were invented & adopted because of trains. We need them for our faster-than-horse travel & communications technologies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I leave my clocks as-is and they’re accurate enough through the year, sometimes I’m an hour early and have time to sit and meditate

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The numbers on the clock have magical powers as far as what time I am expected to report to work. Most people do not start work at 4:30am when the sun come up (if you do NOT change the clocks), so that would mean more hours of the day lost. If you have the energy to get up early and do things for work, great for you, but the rest of us sleep until the alarm and use that extra evening hour to get things done. Now it's easy to say 50% of the population is wrong when we look at the current administration, but having the sub come up at 4:30am doesn't really help you and for most people it means trying to get those last couple hours of sleep while the sun is shining in your eyes. What you're suggesting is useful for a small handful of people in exchange for fewer hours of good rest for the majority of the population.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The numbers on the clock have magical powers as far as what time I am expected to report to work

The problem isn’t the numbers on the clock, it’s that your boss is making you show up too early (or late). Whether that time is called 4:30 or 5:30 or 6783465876 or π, the problem is that that’s too goddamn early (or late) in the day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

DST leads to higher heart attacks and more casualties, especially for locations that are closer to the changing arbitrary lines

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why would that have any affect on heart attacks? That reminds me of people saying that changing the clocks leads to more car wrecks when it's just really showing how many people are unable to drive in the dark.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

it's the sleep disruption

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4189320/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/why-daylight-saving-time-could-increase-your-heart-attack-risk