Maybe it could beep in Morse Code.

That sounds logical, but I think there would be an immediate black market for valid codes that would be sold to minors.

Ah, the good old days of the internet. Yes, I miss them. There are still a few around, like the Linux Mint forum, and some other tech-related ones. But it used to be you could find any topic you were interested in and your account and username were specific to it, and they were separate domains (in the normal, non-tech sense of the word). So you might show one aspect of your personality in one forum and a different aspect in a different kind of forum. Just like you would with different friend or acquaintance groups.

My great grandma used to say, “I’d rather smell the smell than taste the smell!”

It might be easier to write down stuff you don’t want overheard. Carry a little whiteboard, or they have whiteboard-style paper you can erase.

We could just get rid of Internet 2.0 - that’s when the tech broligarchs took over the beautiful original internet and make it into a bunch of surveillance capitalist walled gardens with psyop addictive algorithms that turned people into ad-consumption cash cows.

Leaving the infrastructure in place for useful, non society-destroying uses would avoid throwing the baby out with the filthy bathwater.

I know. I remember because I was a school kid at the time. A couple of kids got hit by a car and it was a big story that kids shouldn’t be walking to school in the dark, so people turned against the idea. Yes it’s true–most kids walked to school back then. :) I think very few do any more, so I doubt that would be such a big point of contention these days.

Also they didn’t change them at the normal time in the fall when people were used to it, they suddenly changed them in the middle of winter so the change from light to dark in the mornings was more dramatic. The problem is that days are just short in the winter and in the northern states even changing the clock back to ST doesn’t magically make it light in the mornings.

I think you’re right that staying on standard time would be a little bit better than staying on daylight time (for that reason), but again I don’t care which one they choose and some of us think the best compromise would be to change the clocks by only half an hour and leave them there.

I dunno, the two of you here are the first ones I’ve seen that have also suggested or like the idea, most people just laugh like it’s a joke.

Maybe try to make a short viral video about the idea to build support?

1. solves all the complaints I’ve heard about which end of the day the daylight is shifted to, because it meets in the middle like you say.

2. There are other countries offset by a half hour so it’s not unreasonable in that regard.

3. It won’t be as hard to adjust to as a full hour and only has to be done one final time.

If States aren’t allowed to change their clock time, they could instead designate that standard work/business and school hours will shift to an hour later during DST (or I guess vice versa if they want to go the other way). That way everyone is still getting up and going to bed at the same actual time, even though it’s at a different clock time.

This is the solution I mention every year, but so far no one has listened. :) It would solve all the complaints from both sides of which one to choose.

I don’t even care which they choose at this point, ST or DT.

I know, I always think of that when I see sporting events like US college football, etc. where both sides are praying to the same deity for their team to win, and then afterwards the winning team thanks the deity. Does Jesus tally up all the sins on each side or what.

Gpodder has been around for ages and can do what you’re looking for. It’s probably in your distro’s repository.

Spanish wordplay: ¿Por qué está feliz la escoba? Porque siempre barriendo.

Translation: Why is the broom happy? Because it’s always sweeping (barriendo = sweeping, sounds like va riendo = goes around laughing)

TBH, I say “Not again!” on Linux if it’s a kernel update, because it means I’ll have to reboot.

This comes at it from a slightly different angle but explains the difference between us and the government in how money and debt have to be managed: https://youtu.be/sAKr55O7qaU

Correct me if I’m wrong but I think I read that it was neurological issues in general (not just autism specifically) that weakly correlated with tylenol usage.

But yes, the next question is what were they taking tylenol for? Fevers? Infections? Some type of illness? Some factor that itself might be what contributed to the neurological problems rather than the medicine they took to relieve their symptoms?

To over-simplify, it’s like saying tylenol causes headaches with no further study, because they found a correlation between taking tylenol and having headaches. Distinguish correlation and causation. Sometimes a correlation points to a cause, oftentimes it doesn’t.

With trump and oligarchs, always look to the $$$.

Oligarchs like to do a lot of stock price manipulation so they can make bank on both the ups and the downs. Step 1. Buy stock in the competitor and short the target. Step 2. Release info/misinfo to tank the target’s share price. Step 3. Take the profit on the short and also sell the competitor stock while it’s high. Step 4. (optional depending on what you plan to manipulate next) either buy the target’s stock while it’s low if you expect it to recover quickly or leave it alone if you don’t.

And of course with trump there’s also the possibility of other factors like a) there was some “nice stock price you have there–shame if anything would happen to it” going on behind the scenes to get some “donations to the trump library” and then he would go ahead and do the thing either way, and b) Little Bobby Brainworm’s fever dreams.

It’s not saying anything about past tenses in that meme, it’s just saying that each word has two different pronunciations that rhyme with the other.

Pong, right?