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Technically yes. We could switch to perma-non-DST and just move all office hours one hour earlier. And I'd be fine.

But I'm pretty sure perma-non-DST people would not be happy with such solution.

You're wrong. EU already has the split.

China is an interesting example as well. With unofficial local times in far-away provinces.

People care about time because it's a proxy for pretty much any common activity.

Most people start and endworking at common time. If you want to spend time with other people for hobbies or socializing, you need to find a matching spot when people are done working.

Sure we can stick to solar time and adjust office hours instead. But then we're back at square 1...

Do my biological rhythms know when is the middle of solar day? Or maaaaybe the stable day regime?

In my whereabouts sun raises at 3am around midsummer (it would be 2am without DST) and at 9am around christmas. Nowdays I wake up at 7am around the year and somehow my biological rythm is fine. It used to be just fine when I waking up at 10am too. The core thing seems to be stable day rythm, not adhering to solar time.

What you're saying is sunrise matters, not solar time. Although even for sunrise, I'd say students' daily routine matters much more. Back in high school, when I spending my late evenings and nights on computer, I didn't care if it is bright or dark in the morning, i was sleepy anyway...

I'd also argue that in today's sedentary world luring people outside is very important. And bright spring/summar/fall evenings is very important at that. There's plenty of evidence for the benefits of exercise, socialising and so on. And with forever-non-DST time, we would loose that for couple weeks improvement in the morning.

But does solar time matters nowadays? In modern day-to-day life noon is not 12:00. People wake up at 5-6-7. And go to bed at 10-11-12. Even for early risers, middle of the day is well past 12:00. Having DST time makes solar mid-day closer to factual mid-day. I'd even argue to for +2 hours DST :D

At least in my whereabouts it's more about split opinions inside the country.

It's more complex than north vs south.

I'm quite north (but not the far north) but I'm strongly for DST. If we went for solar time, we'd loose long bright evenings in the summer but have sun at 3am. Spring/fall evenings would be much darker too. I hate time switching. But I'd rather switch then loose DST summer evenings. Otherwise we'd loose a lot of outdoorsy socialising on weekdays

But some people don't go outdoors after work. And they prefer brighter mornings for couple extra weeks. During the winter the mornings are dark with or without DST.

In favor of the locals? Or just in favor of a faction of locals?

I’m all for limiting foreign influence. But frequently people use this as an excuse to silence some „undesirable“ factions. For better or worse.

I’m sure that court is not biased and those banned accounts ain’t in favor of some local factions.

It may come in different styles. But what do you do with students who don’t have motivation beyond grading/punishment? Some people just do not have motivation unless somebody standing by them with a stick.

It’s not just evaluating. Students used to learn skills while doing an assignment. LLMing through assignments teaches copy-paste at best.

It’s like copy-paste Wikipedia presentations 2 decades ago. People used to learn things doing research for a project. Then suddenly it became copying off Wikipedia and people not even pre-reading what they copied into PPT.

Aye, let's redefine what „local“ means and keep buying globally. Same BS as with mercosur and all other global trade deals.

Even for music, it sucks compared to the old human-powered Pandora or legendary torrent tracker forums.

Although it may be possible to replicate either with AI. But it still should be conversation style rather than infinite feed thing without any input.

Let’s start with banning algorithmic personalized feeds. That seems to be the common determinator of the bad apples.

Every day there’s another lucky 10k.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Eh. Not the op, but calm backroads are perfect for such rides. Good enough surface so no need to scan it for the better line as on gravel roads or offroad. Little traffic. And cars are much more predictable than the chaos of bike paths.

More like an automatic green pass looking at the historical treatment of some criminals with such background.

More like a good bunch of the hippies were in it just to have a good time. And then happily built the system we know.

Latin was the language for education and science waaaay beyond ex Roman Empire. Pretty much whole christian europe used Latin in medieval age and beyond.

Vast majority of people against it seem to be against the principle, not against the implementation.

IMO it's conflict of interest of some short-sighted naive idealists vs people who want to get stuff done.

For example, solar. Shit ton of euromoneys is poured into subsidies. But those subsidies are not geofenced. Thus vast majority of people go for chinese stuff. It could have been much better to subsidise locally produced components only. Then price would be +/- the same.

Now chinese components are dirt cheap with all the subsidies. I myself went for chinese components, because break-even period was like 5 vs 10 years. I'll just pihole the inverter from calling home once I figure out how to get some statistics without the manufacturer's app.

I guess some people decided it's better to get 2-3x more solar installed power ASAP rather than prop up the local solar industry.

Frequently it is exactly the same item from aliexpress or from local reseller. Depends for different types of course.

Meanwhile local solar industry is loosing to Chinese at fast pace. Batteries industry ain’t looking good either.

EU became a thing in 1993. And soon after Europe could not keep up with US of A anymore. Even though USSR was gone, EU expanded and so on. Coincidence?

Is it?

The green deal stuff seems to be pretty bad. Manufacturing seems to have a hard time. The next tier economy, e.g. AI, is not seen on the horizon. Over-the-top regulations for agriculture and then opening up the market from goods where such regulations don't exist does not seem smart either.

And there're lots and lots of small things like those.

Market has already did the thing. In this case it's protecting local retailers who import in bulk over consumers importing individually.

In my whereabouts tick-born encephalitis is a much bigger issue. But thankfully vaccine for it exists.

Nope.

This is key paragraph from the link:

> The effects of vaccination on human behaviour presented yet another important uncertainty. Lyme vaccination, although it provides incomplete protection, may make individuals less likely to limit their exposure to ticks, which might actually increase their risk of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases (e.g. ehrlichiosis, babesiosis and Rocky Mountain spotted fever).

That was a very half-assed attempt. Hopefully a better one is coming soon.

Even for the specific strain, it's not long-lived and strong enough.

Encephalitis is much more rare, but it's much worse than lyme. And there's a stab for it. Meanwhile Lyme is much more common, but much simplier to treat. Which is basically „take antibiotics or 3 to 21 days“ depending on how long it's been since the bite.