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- Comment on We should count in base four 7 months ago:
Maybe it’s just me: had to double back on that literal use of “where in the world”.
- Comment on ankle monitor 7 months ago:
Imagine the possibilities when they find out how the wolf had access to so much naturally occurring high explosive material!
- Comment on New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now 7 months ago:
Funny thing is- a very tiny amount of users would even know about the button’s existence anyway.
- Comment on That Funny Feeling 8 months ago:
Must have listened to the song a hundred times, but I have yet to google “derealization”. I’m guessing I wouldn’t like what I find.
- Comment on why don't people say mega meters 8 months ago:
And yet we say megatons.
- Comment on Now that ChatGPT is being trained using Reddit posts 8 months ago:
your so dumb lmao
- Comment on there's laundry to do and a genocide to stop 8 months ago:
A bit verbose, perhaps? Laundry Genocide?
- Comment on If frozen embryos are considered as children, then it must be acceptable to freeze children. 8 months ago:
The ethical issue isn’t really with freezing them, it’s more what happens when thawed. If there was no issue there, I suspect most parents would be happy to invest in a QuietAfternoon2000™
- Comment on Anatomy 8 months ago:
oh nvm it’s already there c:
- Comment on Anatomy 8 months ago:
!BeeButts@lemmy.world material
- Comment on Did some work recently 8 months ago:
just chain a bunch of functions so each only has one or two ifs. gotta make it look professional
- Comment on 8 months ago:
The algorithms only incentivize hate and anger. The baseline comes from the people using it.
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 8 months ago:
You are in new York. It’s 1000. For you in new York, it’s the middle of night. You’ll wake up in a few hours. Your day usually goes about with wake up and work around 1400, lunch around 1800, end of work around 2200, sleep around 600. You can live you life with that. It’s merely a social construct. It’s completely stupid as a construct because it’s not setup for your actual day
You say it’s not set up for your day, but how exactly? As a new yorker would it not be just as natural to wake up at 14:00 as it is to wake up at 7:00 today?
The 0 means absolutely nothing. The 12 and the 24 neither.
They mean the exact same thing. The start of July 22., the middle of, the end of.
Why have a 24 hours clock for this?
This has not changed at all either. Only reason to have that is because it can be divided up into nice chunks.
Now you need to work with someone in the UK. Can you talk to him right now? Who knows? You need to ask Internet about the time delay between where you live and where he lives.
In other words this has not changed either. So not a downside?
But there’s nothing to do about timezones. It’s and effect of the spherical earth and general relativity. In physics, there is a clock for each and every position, and a delay between each. Most of the time it doesn’t matter, so you use your local time. But when it does, you do timezones. Because that’s how the world physically works.
There is no reason to use this idea of time. By this logic time does not move at the poles in a day, since the earth’s rotation doesn’t affect it. Should we not have a special timezone that goes from 0 to 24 in a year, so it respects the sun’s zenith?
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 8 months ago:
What would change about any of this? The middle of the sunlight hours would still be Midday, and the middle of the night would still be Midnight. If, for example, the Timezoneless time for France shifted it by 6 hours, could you not call 18:00 Midday? And 06:00 Midnight, and 22:00 snacking time? Isn’t it a social construct to say that Midday should be 12:00?
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 8 months ago:
How about you do some research rather than dismiss everything offhand because you reckon you know better?
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 8 months ago:
Working on a global scale managing time zones can be a huge pain. Though most of the issues come from countries that decide to just change time zones, which happens more often than you might think.
On a personal scale if you, say, hear about an online event, then you would never have to double check time zones.
And on new year’s you would know that every human is counting back at the same time as you. Now isn’t that great?
The biggest drawback is that something changes. People really don’t like that.
Some phrases would lose their widely understood meaning, such as “9 to 5” or “me watching slime unboxing videos at 3 in the morning”. Shame, that.
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 8 months ago:
Without timezones you would not need to use two times. That is the solution. What problems is it creating?
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 8 months ago:
The point is that you would still wake up with the sun, you just wouldn’t call it 08:00, you’d call it 02:00 or 16:00 or… depending on where you live in the world.
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 8 months ago:
Google tells me it is currently 4:25am there.
It can also tell you what the waking hours would be with the same amount of effort, no?
And to give another example:
Before abolishing time zones:
“Hey everyone on this global internet forum, we are launching at UTC+3 16:00 today!”
Oh okay. Wait am I UTC or UTC+1 right now? How much would that be?
After abolishing time zones
“Hey everyone on this global internet forum, we are launching at 16:00 today!”
Oh okay, 7 hours from now.
- Comment on It's that time of year again 8 months ago:
It’s at the limit where it’s so bad but still believable that someone thought it was a good idea
- Comment on There is no point in trying to escape the simulation; Odds are, we don't exist outside it! 8 months ago:
yo why is your phone on 100% that’s weird.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
I go out of my way to double back and read 4.99 again as 5. I’m sure I’m not immune but I’m doing my best, aye?
I have some respect for the revolutionaries such as Factorio on Steam who refuse to do this. Though at the end of the day that too is, or can (and will) be, just a marketing ploy to stand out.