With Daylight Savings once again coming up, it never fails for it to spark discussions about its purpose in modern times. People hate it widely while few seem to be okay with it and depending where you live, others don’t even know what the deal is.
Politicians have actually put it on the docket to be voted on, but seems to have lost traction. Quite frankly, this is an issue that should be done and over with. Just end it, but please end it when we have the clocks dialed back than forward, because I wouldn’t like time going faster than it already is.
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Private health insurance companies. Study after study has shown that Americans pay more, get worse care, and are completely at the whim of these unnecessary middlemen. What the fuck!? EVERY OTHER MODERN COUNTRY HAS SINGLE-PAYER. It’s efficient, it’s obvious, it works.
The United Healthcare CEO further enriched himself by denying more legitimate claims than any other company. A private company, that can decide whether you can afford to live or die. Entire families are completely bankrupted over medical bills. Every. Single. Year. In the United States of America. It’s the entire reason Luigi Mangione garnered so much understanding and sympathy. (Not that it could have been him, he was at my place, we were playing Super Nintendo…)
Can confirm, he was at this guy’s place.
What Super Nintendo game were they playing?
Mario Is Missing, obviously.
Imperial measurement system. Ffs just convert to the metric system already
I’m in Australia and it still shits me to tears that I can’t mathematically communicate with Americans. We just changed one day and it was done.
That said, the Australian mainland is running 5 different timezones right now. Some zones are only 30 minutes apart. We also have a little island just off the coast of Sydney where the DST shift is 30 minutes. The entire planet does an hour. We’ve introduced this edge case for the sake of 400 people and some stick insects.
Canada has a portion of Newfoundland that does the thirty minute thing as well.
Lord Howe Island is my fav timezone
Anyone tangentially studying anything scientific with real life measurements in the US is versed in metric. Imperial really is for the dum dums and their precious feel feels.
I just wish i didnt have to own 2 sets of tools. Even if we officially swap, im still going to have to keep 2 sets because of all the legacy junk around.
Really though, phillips heads screws bother me more than anything else. There literally designed, on purpose to strip.
Fuck, I forgot about auto work.
Also, I think hex heads are more prone in smaller applications. Phillips should’ve been the square head.
Phillips was going to be the square head, but there pattent / licencing issues i think. Torx is my fav now, but i also understand that its expensive and complicated to manufacture, especially in the past.
I’m a torx lover after rebuilding my deck! Box of 500 comes with one bit and that’s all you need.
Phillips should’ve been the square head.
Robertson.
Canada uses Robertson screws in construction. You can put them on a screwdriver and screw straight up, and they are much harder to strip out.
Yeah, you know, except for the entirety of engineering degree fields. Everything is still done to one thousandth of an inch.
This is because their bosses will not allow them to buy new lathes and milling machines.
Speaking of which. Imperialism.
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Expensive education
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Cities planned for cars
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5-day work weeks
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Grey’s Anatomy
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Nuclear weapons
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Racism
And I agree with the others who’ve said:
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Fossil fuels, particularly coal
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Private health insurance
Grey’s Anatomy
As someone who still watches let me assure you we all want it to come to an end. There was even a moment a few seasons ago where Meredith left and it seemed like we were set up for a perfect send off.
But it just kept going. Meredith is weirdly sometimes back despite living in Boston. But next season is probably the last season, and I’ve watched it all at this point, so what’s a little more. Right?
(It’s also still fine as background TV, so that’s probably why I still keep up.)
I’m confused why that show was lumped in. Do their syringes use cubic inches?
… and Hugh Jackman.
Wait, what’s wrong with Hugh Jackman?
I personally find nothing wrong with him, that’s why I put it in quote format.
It’s an old Scrubs quote by Dr. Cox, who would rattle down long lists of things he dislikes or that he finds wrong with the world in general, ending it with: “… and Hugh Jackman.”
The comment above mine reminded me of this.
Ah, gotcha.
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Religion
As a person who was an atheist for my entire adult life, so 20 years, we are incorrect. It has become very clear to me over the last two years that a notion that we are born, die and its lights out forever is wildly naive. I’m not sure which religion is correct, if any, but there’s something. Google Zoroastrianism if you’re open minded about. I’m not saying that it’s the one hit the abrahamic religions base a lot of their values on i and it predicates all the religion theatrics.
It’s naive to think death is lights out forever but not for the reason you said.
The clue is in your incomplete chronology: born -> die -> lights out forever.
It was also lights out forever before birth, but then it suddenly wasn’t.
I would like to have a genuine conversation with you about your take. What happened to you in the last two years that had you about-face on your (lack of) faith?
I used to be religious growing up (it was a familial expectation). Then I kinda half-heartedly gave up, and I became agnostic. Eventually I decided that there is no God as we know it, but I do not deny the idea that there was some greater hand at play in our existence as a species.
Things do feel a little too coincidental to simply be random. For existence, our existence in general: the earth had to form in just the right place in space, and the temperature and oxygen levels had to level out to a specific point for humanoids to form and grow.
I know that can all be explained by science, and I am not disputing any science. But that’s my anecdotal opinion on why I feel there is something/someone out there bigger than us (but not a God).
Like I said, I’m genuinely curious on your take.
For existence, our existence in general: the earth had to form in just the right place in space, and the temperature and oxygen levels had to level out to a specific point for humanoids to form and grow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_universe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis
That said, if those circumstances were different, we would not be around to observe them. But we are, so the only outcome is that it will always feel miraculous.
Yeah… survival bias wouldn’t have a name if it would be easy to avoid it.
Trump
terminating his entire adminstration, and those that collaborated with him.
Circumcision
There are rare actual medical reasons for it, but the vast majority should have never happened.
Capitalism
AI datacenters.
Aside from the huge drain on resources and the carbon emissions, it’s just leading to a future where the younger generations grow up dumber and dumber…
Mr Beast. Can we please?
So tired of seeing that bellend’s grinning doofus face on things
Here in Canada, parliament has been discussing universal basic income for years. Economists have proven it would save the government money. It would be a win-win. Do it already.
I think they’re doing another trial right away, and one of them’s in BC where Doug Ford can’t get at it.
Don’t worry we have plenty of asshat conservatives here we well
Canada did a study trial of UBI. People who could physically work ended up getting jobs while on it.
But, this is not the reality that sells in suburban Canada.
People are driven to work for fulfillment and nobody likes being poor. People will always try to make as much money as possible. The “welfare king/queen” is a rare mentality, most people are not content with being poor.
The Electoral College
If we want to say we’re a democracy then we need to be a democracy.,
Fossil Fuels
Daylight savings, pennies, the electoral college, gerrymandering, monopolies, the oil industry, for profit prisons healthcare and education, poverty, borders, militaries/armies, interest, capitalism, countries, shirt tags
I have good news on the Penny front, they stopped making them back in December.
Idk about the rest of that lol
…and shitty cops.
Here’s a feel good story. Pedophile cop suspended without pay prior to trial.
Authority, hierarchy, government, capitalism.
It really is amazing, all the insights, the discoveries, the knowledge, the artistry, the technology that the human race has acquired. Historically, every time we thought we knew the limits of our potential, we have gone far beyond those limits. Except that we still haven’t figured out how not to hand over control of everything to the absolute worst of us. Like literally put our most deluded narcissistic psychopathic pedophiles in charge of the entire fucking world.
This is the purpose of the American Experiment. To devise a society that won’t ever truly be occupied entirely by the worst of us.
Time to reset the experiment with different parameters
It’s so far still working as a whole. If it were to fail, there’s no resetting it.
Not sure what you meant by “occupied entirely” but a society ruled by the worst, and committed to bringing out the worst in its populace is what I’d call a failed experiment.
Not at all. The American system is specifically designed to remedy that situation. Until it fails to do so, the experiment continues.
Sure thing bro. No war in Ba Sing Se
Executive Orders in the U.S. political system
I’m Canada we have the “Notwithstanding clause” which can serve a similar function; allowing a premier to unilaterally decide something without the approval of parliament.
Neither should be allowed to exist.
Also remove the entire idea of some countries having “veto” power in NATO and UN matters.
Problem is, the president is head of the executive and is supposed to give orders and tell the government employees what to do, within the law. How can the executive orders be avoided?
