Think that through. What happens if NY goes with DST and NJ goes with ST, while Connecticut stays with biannual changes?

If you don't know, that tri-State area is centered on NYC, which drives the economies of all three States. And global finance.

One of the bigger problems with nuclear is the complete collapse of investment and the industry in the past 30 years. Rectors have a design life. Society learns, develops, improves. Industries are built to support other industries.

Here we are now with proposals not to build new reactors, but rather to restart ones that are well and truly end of life. Reliability bathtub curves are a thing, and end of life reliability rapidly drops. Add to that nuclear reactors are virtually impossible to bring to an as new state due to irradiation of the system's materials, eventually the reactors need to be shutdown and replaced. We used to do that. We don't do that anymore. As such the rate of 3 incidents across 400 reactors throughout the past century in the USA is not a rate that can be used looking forward. We should have been building reactors in the 90s, not talking about restarting reactors now from the 70s. The same argument was in place for Germany recently. The question should never have been whether they should shut down nuclear reactors, all but about 5 of them were already beyond their design life and should have been shut down already anyway had the industry followed their own healthy and functioning cadence.

As for the industry part of my comment, when we don't build something, the services required to build them disband. This doesn't just magically get stood up when we want to build something again. Nuclear engineering has been a dead degree for a while, expertise is hard to come by, EPCMs who are capable of building a nuclear power plant are hard to come by (and that's one of the reasons why every project seems to suffer such catastrophic cost/time overruns). I'm reminded of the discussions in Australia a few years ago. During the election the Liberals had a plan to build 8 nuclear power stations in Australia. Leave aside the NIMBYs, and the banks, and the legal hurdles, one of the most outspoken critics of the plan was ... the nuclear industry in Australia, who barely has the resources to keep OPAL running. They said we need a decade of education, before we can start talking about designing and building new reactors to say nothing of the fact that the largest contractors all said they don't have the resources for the plan.

Wake up, that's what people will do with it. Sunlight is what triggers your sleep/wake cycle. Not artificial light, not an alarm clock.

Also, some people are children that need to go to school, often before their parents go to work, and have to stand or walk outside. There can be light when they do, or there can be night. Which do you reckon is safer? Which is more likely to facilitate learning?

Maybe you're bad at communicating or reading my response in that case.

Can you explain the exact difference? Is it something magic like a soul that makes humans different?

It's nice how everything just falls in place in SI units. 1m^3 of water = 1000kg = 1000L. But hey it's not all good. WTF is a Joule anyway? When we take 1L of water and raise it's temperature by 1 deg Kelvin it takes 1 kcal of energy, but those damn French bastards think that should be 4.184 kJ? God dammit :-)

In case it's not clear I'm just poking fun. Both sides have some good measurements. Well. Imperials has some, and SI has most but hey I'll throw a bone when it's worth it :-)

LLMs have been out for years now. It's not really the "highly experimental tool with mostly unknown characteristics" as when you last looked at it.

You had to multiple? I just added 1. :-P

Well yeah smug people are usually dumb. Normal europeans on the other hand know they simply multiply by a factor of 10 for everything, and every unit sort of falls in place.

Florida might go with permanent DST, but it's horrible anywhere else. Sunrise would be after 9am in Atlanta, and that's not exactly Northern.

I've seen that in PADI centres, probably a reflection that PSI is a silly unit no one understands. The ironic part there is PSI is descriptive, BAR is not. I always like pressure units that describe that the relationship is force over area. Sure a Pascal is 1N/m^2, but then most people haven't a clue what a newton is either and the size is large enough to make the unit too small to be really useful... to the point where Pascal is virtually never used as a unit without a prefix (kPa is common)

It looks to be mostly Florida that wants permanent DST. They're the State least impacted by the seasons, and as a tourist destination are more interested in people staying out late.

But it's a bad idea everywhere North of Tampa.

You're kidding, right? The whole point of marking time is coordination.

So, instead of a limited number of timezones, we'd have an almost infinite number of them? I'm sure that will work just fine since nobody ever has to interact with anyone who doesn't live directly North or South of them.

Oh, does the planet spin at a different speed now? At a different distance from the sun? Did the degree of axial tilt change? Or maybe it's that people don't have to go to work or school in the morning now like they did in '74?

Artificial light does not work the same as natural light.

Also, permanent DST killed many people, including kids waiting for the school bus in the pitch dark.

But I like how your solution is EXACTLY WHAT WE ALREADY DO! We just call that "fixed local longitudinal adjustment" a "time zone".

Also, where you spend most of your time is where you spend it. Lots of people work outdoors.

Probably because it's an annoying problem that we can't do that much about. From just a time perspective, time zones should follow lines of longitude. But State borders don't.