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Based on his rhetoric toward Greenland and Canada, I think he definitely wants to annex something. A cartel-governed central/south american country makes a pretty tempting target for imperial conquest.

I heard that Trump jumped up and down and threw his juice box when JD explained he couldn't pardon her.

For most of the past 110 years or so since DST was implemented, for 3/4 of the year, we have had solar noon occurring at 13:00 in the center of each time zone. You're already living with it most of the time. We've established school schedules, work schedules, industrial schedules, laws (such as curfews, noise ordinances, parking enforcement) and all sorts of infrastructure on the idea that for 3/4 of the year, there will be one more hour of daylight after 12:00pm than there is before 12:00 pm.

Either approach we take, we are going to upend a wide variety of laws, rules, practices, and customs that have been established over the past century. Adopting legacy standard time is going to impact events over 3/4 of the year; adopting permanent DST is going to impact events over 1/4 of the year.

We should select the system that minimizes disruption. That system is DST.

Outdoor trades tend to start work around 7am, when noise ordinances are lifted, and knock off a couple hours after midday, to avoid the heat of summer. With midday at 11:30, summer sunrise was three hours before they could even start their work. All those cool morning hours, perfect for hard work, completely wasted, while workers suffer heat exhaustion in the afternoon.

Fortunately, we have only rarely used legacy time in summer in the past hundred years. We've built our legal and industrial infrastructure on the premise that solar noon will occur sometime between 12:30 and 13:30 local time for 8-9 months of the year.

Maintaining that historical expectation with permanent summer time will greatly reduce the transition to a "locked clock".

The "brain trust" thinks Europe is a bunch of freeloaders, reliant on the US for their security, but disgusted at how the US provides it. The Greenland/Canada thing is intended to force Europe to build up its militaries.

It is also serving as a distraction to the shooting war they are trying to start in Central and South America.

I said the same thing, but it turns out there is a weasely way around it. The 22nd amendment doesn't actually say you can only be president for two terms. The text actually says:

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,

Vance doesn't have the support of the personality cult.

Depends what you mean by "abnormal".

It is not "normal" for solar noon to occur ante meridiem in some places, and post meridiem in others. Yet, legacy standard time requires this: the west end of the time zone experiences solar noon at 11:30 in the morning, or even earlier in some cases.

Improved time has the entire time zone experience midday in the PM.

We use improved time for 3/4 of the year; its hard to say that the more common time system is the "abnormal" one. The legacy time system might once have been considered a "standard", but so were 8-track tapes at one point. (But that's the wrong metaphor here... "Standard time" went out of fashion before reel-to-reel, before electrically-driven record players. The last time "standard time" was in common use was shortly before broadcast radio was developed. State-of-the-art audio playback was replacing hand-cranked record players with spring-loaded clockwork players. Suffice it to say, "Standard" time hasn't been "standard" in more than a hundred years. )

We have evolved a superior alternative that has become the de facto standard in everything but name.

Legacy time was developed by the robber barons in the late 19th century, to support industry. Improved time is an adjustment to that standard to favor the needs of the worker for rest and recreation. We cannot allow modern oligarchs to keep us on this outdated legacy system.

You're telling them to "change" their own working hours in a way that would eliminate the effects of the time change. You're telling them to set their hours as if the time change didn't occur.

You could just stop automatically changing their hours twice a year.

The clocks are fine for 9 months out of the year. All of the problems occur in the remaining three months, and only occur because we arbitrarily change everyone's working hours with no good reason. Stop pushing everyone to a bullshit "winter" schedule for three months, when the normal summer schedule works just fine.

Who sees what is happening in the white house and wants to crack jokes?

For the next four years, the Correspondent's Dinner should be a wake, and not an Irish one.

Is there anything I can do to make your day better?

So, you're saying that there might actually be some daylight left to do something after the work day / school day is over?