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Comment Re:Rural populations mostly vote red (Republican) (Score 0) 59

You are an absolute fucking idiot if you think Ilan Omar, Abdul El-Sayed, and others of their ilk would not make a hard push for Sharia as soon as they felt they had a shot of doing so. It's a gradual push. The Islamists are smart enough to know their anti-American ideology is highly unpopular and thus will have to go slow with it at first.

Source: thousands of years of history. Whenever a sizable portion of Muslims invade a nation, they eventually conquer it. Turkey and Iran for example were once free nations.

Comment Re:What is left to change besides oven and microwa (Score 2, Insightful) 247

What is left to change besides oven and microwave times?

One...the most IMPORTANT one....my internal clock....

That really takes close to a week to get fixed every time.....it throws all of us humans off to some degree.

Oh...and my dog....I have to adjust her schedule twice a year too....

Comment Re:Countries that do not change clocks use ST (Score 1) 247

Even though some regions or countries stay on a shifted time offset year-round (which might look or feel like being "ahead" like daylight saving time), standard time is legally and geographically considered the baseline time zone for those areas. They simply choose not to participate in the biannual clock adjustments.

Countries & Regions That Do Not Change Clocks Most of Asia: This includes major industrialized nations like China, India, Japan, and South Korea, as well as most of Southeast and Central Asia.

Most of Africa: Almost the entire African continent stays on a single standard time year-round.

Parts of the Middle East: While countries like Iran and formerly parts of the Levant have experimented with it, places like Turkey and several neighbors maintain fixed times.

Parts of Europe: Iceland, Belarus, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan do not practice seasonal time changes. (The European Union has debated abolishing the practice entirely, but member states still currently shift together).

Much of South and Central America: Countries like Argentina, Brazil (which abandoned nationwide DST a few years ago), and most of their neighbors remain on permanent standard time.

Erm... notice a pattern there?

Most of these nations are equatorial or not that far off it. Most of them between the 26th parallels. As you get closer to the equator, there is less difference between the hours of daylight between summer and winter, as you get further you get a greater differential.

In Perth, Western Australia (36 S) there's about a 3 hour difference, in London, UK (51 N) there's an 8 hour difference and this difference does not neatly line up around 12 PM so if you had permanent GMT you'd have the sun getting up at 3 AM in the summer disrupting sleep and if you kept permanent BST you'd have darkness until 9 AM in winter causing chaos on the way to work/school.

Perth doesn't have DST (but the eastern states do so that causes problems) because the differential in daylight hours isn't much of an issue (that and Perth is incredibly backwards and resistant to change but that is another discussion entirely) however London does because there is a huge difference in daylight hours between winter and summer.

Comment Re:We already tried this (Score 1) 247

DST was made permanent in the USA in 1974, and it was so unpopular it got repealed the same year.

It sounds good until you have to live it... there are also morning people among us, and kids trying to walk to school where further darkness presents a safety issue. Not everyone benefits from potential extra sunlight to extend happy hour.

Before we had mechanical clocks, we used to adjust to the hours of daylight automatically. Daylight Savings came in because we needed to keep doing that as the hours of daylight changed with the seasons, so the solution was to change the clocks.

With most clocks being automatically updated these days, you barely have the excuse of having to change the clocks to oppose DST. You go to sleep on one time and wake up in the new one.

Comment Re:Rural populations mostly vote red (Republican) (Score -1, Flamebait) 59

I'm voting for Republicans all down the ballot, because Democrats are determined to flood the country with maximum numbers of illegal invaders.

Vote Republican or we won't have a country left. Look to the EU and UK for examples of what happens when too many Mooslums get in.

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