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Daylight Saving to be made permanent

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  • HoraceH Offline
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    Horace
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    Comedians have coined the term "clapter" for the phenomenon of an entertainer saying something virtuously giggly about politics, and the audience laughing/clapping not because it was funny but because it made a virtuous point. Those shows are all clapter these days, and the audiences are clapter audiences who aren't even acclimated to real humor anymore.

    I haven't read this piece, but it's the first google result for "clapter":
    https://www.vulture.com/2018/01/the-rise-of-clapter-comedy.html

    Education is extremely important.

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    • MikM Away
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      Mik
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      #29

      Maybe not such a good idea. But I also don't buy the idea that switching times twice a year is bad for our health.

      https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/daylight-savings-times-senate-sleep-science-1322200/?fbclid=IwAR3YL5SiVld09rLAo96_BS04caR-2IAhn4VKY_G89VosXb1AdT1rn1xyiC4

      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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      • HoraceH Horace

        Comedians have coined the term "clapter" for the phenomenon of an entertainer saying something virtuously giggly about politics, and the audience laughing/clapping not because it was funny but because it made a virtuous point. Those shows are all clapter these days, and the audiences are clapter audiences who aren't even acclimated to real humor anymore.

        I haven't read this piece, but it's the first google result for "clapter":
        https://www.vulture.com/2018/01/the-rise-of-clapter-comedy.html

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        Doctor Phibes
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        #30

        @Horace said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

        Comedians have coined the term "clapter" for the phenomenon of an entertainer saying something virtuously giggly about politics, and the audience laughing/clapping not because it was funny but because it made a virtuous point. Those shows are all clapter these days, and the audiences are clapter audiences who aren't even acclimated to real humor anymore.

        I haven't read this piece, but it's the first google result for "clapter":
        https://www.vulture.com/2018/01/the-rise-of-clapter-comedy.html

        For decades, people have cheered and whooped when some celebrity said anything at all.

        "Hello, everybody...." - screams of adulation.
        "Anybody watch the Superbowl?" - roars of fucking inane cheering as though we've just won WW2
        "What about the price of tomatoes, eh?" - hysterical laughter. Oh God, somebody kill them.

        I was only joking

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        • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

          @Horace said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

          Comedians have coined the term "clapter" for the phenomenon of an entertainer saying something virtuously giggly about politics, and the audience laughing/clapping not because it was funny but because it made a virtuous point. Those shows are all clapter these days, and the audiences are clapter audiences who aren't even acclimated to real humor anymore.

          I haven't read this piece, but it's the first google result for "clapter":
          https://www.vulture.com/2018/01/the-rise-of-clapter-comedy.html

          For decades, people have cheered and whooped when some celebrity said anything at all.

          "Hello, everybody...." - screams of adulation.
          "Anybody watch the Superbowl?" - roars of fucking inane cheering as though we've just won WW2
          "What about the price of tomatoes, eh?" - hysterical laughter. Oh God, somebody kill them.

          HoraceH Offline
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          Horace
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          #31

          @Doctor-Phibes said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

          @Horace said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

          Comedians have coined the term "clapter" for the phenomenon of an entertainer saying something virtuously giggly about politics, and the audience laughing/clapping not because it was funny but because it made a virtuous point. Those shows are all clapter these days, and the audiences are clapter audiences who aren't even acclimated to real humor anymore.

          I haven't read this piece, but it's the first google result for "clapter":
          https://www.vulture.com/2018/01/the-rise-of-clapter-comedy.html

          For decades, people have cheered and whooped when some celebrity said anything at all.

          "Hello, everybody...." - screams of adulation.
          "Anybody watch the Superbowl?" - roars of fucking inane cheering as though we've just won WW2
          "What about the price of tomatoes, eh?" - hysterical laughter. Oh God, somebody kill them.

          Celebrity worship isn’t really the same thing. An unknown hacky comic can get clapter by going on stage and saying something like “women are so much smarter than men” to set up a joke.

          Education is extremely important.

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          • MikM Mik

            Maybe not such a good idea. But I also don't buy the idea that switching times twice a year is bad for our health.

            https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/daylight-savings-times-senate-sleep-science-1322200/?fbclid=IwAR3YL5SiVld09rLAo96_BS04caR-2IAhn4VKY_G89VosXb1AdT1rn1xyiC4

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            LuFins Dad
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            @Mik said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

            Maybe not such a good idea. But I also don't buy the idea that switching times twice a year is bad for our health.

            https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/daylight-savings-times-senate-sleep-science-1322200/?fbclid=IwAR3YL5SiVld09rLAo96_BS04caR-2IAhn4VKY_G89VosXb1AdT1rn1xyiC4

            If the change in cycle causes you to have a heart attack, I think you were going to have a h art attack anyway.

            The Brad

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            • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

              @George-K said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

              • What the FUCK happened to late-night comedy?

              Watching old Dave Letterman clips on Youtube followed by Jimmy Kimmel or one of those English blokes you chaps seem to love so much is really an eye opener.

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              @Doctor-Phibes said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

              @George-K said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

              • What the FUCK happened to late-night comedy?

              Watching old Dave Letterman clips on Youtube followed by Jimmy Kimmel or one of those English blokes you chaps seem to love so much is really an eye opener.

              Even Leno was funny.

              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                #34

                Only non-witches get due process.

                • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                  89th
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                  Hey, what do you mean, you people?

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                  • 89th8 Online
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                    89th
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                    This is for where I live. Imagine the left and right sides shifting up an hour. Yeah it would be dark until nearly 9am in Dec/Jan, but on the flip side it would be light until almost 6pm (instead of 5pm). Anyway...I have zero control over what will be decided, I'll find the benefits to either scenario, no point in grumbling.

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                      jon-nyc
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                      #37

                      Fast forward to when your kids are school aged.

                      Only non-witches get due process.

                      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                        If DST didn't exist, it would not be reinvented, and the shocked faces at anybody proposing it would be shockier than the shocked faces at those against the idea now.

                        Education is extremely important.

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                        • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                          Fast forward to when your kids are school aged.

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                          @jon-nyc said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

                          Fast forward to when your kids are school aged.

                          Kids go to school too early. Known fact. Kids need more sleep.

                          Education is extremely important.

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                          • HoraceH Horace

                            @jon-nyc said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

                            Fast forward to when your kids are school aged.

                            Kids go to school too early. Known fact. Kids need more sleep.

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                            Doctor Phibes
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                            @Horace said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

                            @jon-nyc said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

                            Fast forward to when your kids are school aged.

                            Kids go to school too early. Known fact. Kids need more sleep.

                            As far as I can tell, the main reason the high school starts so ridiculously early is so that they can use the buses three times, once for each school. Having 16 year-olds go in at 7am is bloody stupid.

                            I was only joking

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                            • HoraceH Horace

                              @jon-nyc said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

                              Fast forward to when your kids are school aged.

                              Kids go to school too early. Known fact. Kids need more sleep.

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                              @Horace said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

                              Kids go to school too early. Known fact. Kids need more sleep.

                              Read Walker's "Why We Sleep." Outstanding book.

                              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/03/17/daylight-saving-time-sunrise-sunset/

                                Screen Shot 2022-03-20 at 6.27.27 AM.png

                                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                  https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/03/17/daylight-saving-time-sunrise-sunset/

                                  Screen Shot 2022-03-20 at 6.27.27 AM.png

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                                  89th
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                                  @George-K Haha in other words "Alaska.. you were fucked before, and would continue to be"

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                                    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                      Don't forget to fall back tonight!

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                                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                      • MikM Away
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                                        Mik
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                                        I don't think this will happen. It would mean all kids going to school in the dark.

                                        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                          Don't forget to fall back tonight!

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                                          MikM Away
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                                          Mik
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                                          @George-K said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

                                          Don't forget to fall back tonight!

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                                          Snort.

                                          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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