The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Then again it would require teaching Americans (specifically) that counting up past 12 would be important for once.
Ha, that's not what the French say. Also they let us stay up as late as we want.
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@homoBalkanus The fact the reddest place in the world is in china is strangely appropriate.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Although I mentioned the same facts, my point was quite different from yours. It's not perma-DST or timezone mismatch that's retarded, it's the glorification of sun time that's retarded. As long as it's day at 10AM and night at 10PM, most people don't care how accurate their local time is as long as there are 24 hours to the day. Which also explains the widespread hatred for DST - because it makes it so there aren't 24 hours to the day anymore.
It makes a difference for stuff like when kids are going to / coming home from school.
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@boomzilla not really. In both Aachen at German-French border and in Białystok near Polish-Belarussian border, all kids still go to school at 8:00 sharp, both in winter and spring. Including DST that's 2 hours and 15 minutes in solar time variance.
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And do they go to school in pitch-black half the year and bright morning light the other half?
That is, vaguely, what I understand the argument boiled down to here if nothing else.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla not really. In both Aachen at German-French border and in Białystok near Polish-Belarussian border, all kids still go to school at 8:00 sharp, both in winter and spring. Including DST that's 2 hours and 15 minutes in solar time variance.
I've never seen any children going to school there.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla not really. In both Aachen at German-French border and in Białystok near Polish-Belarussian border, all kids still go to school at 8:00 sharp, both in winter and spring. Including DST that's 2 hours and 15 minutes in solar time variance.
I've never seen any children going to school there.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla not really. In both Aachen at German-French border and in Białystok near Polish-Belarussian border, all kids still go to school at 8:00 sharp, both in winter and spring. Including DST that's 2 hours and 15 minutes in solar time variance.
I've never seen any children going to school there.
And...?
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla not really. In both Aachen at German-French border and in Białystok near Polish-Belarussian border, all kids still go to school at 8:00 sharp, both in winter and spring. Including DST that's 2 hours and 15 minutes in solar time variance.
I've never seen any children going to school there.
And...?
I dunno, you brought up those hypothetical children.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla not really. In both Aachen at German-French border and in Białystok near Polish-Belarussian border, all kids still go to school at 8:00 sharp, both in winter and spring. Including DST that's 2 hours and 15 minutes in solar time variance.
I've never seen any children going to school there.
And...?
I dunno, you brought up those hypothetical children.
Well, we don't know if you're not actually legally blind so how do we know you could actually see any children at all?
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@boomzilla first, these children are very real. I can even give you their exact names if you don't mind me spending a few hours doxxing minors. Second, it was in response to your very general claim, unbounded by phrases like "from what I've seen" or anything similar, about the differences in solar/local time offsets somehow impacting the school hours. Don't be mad just because I prove you wrong. But even if you want be mad, at least have the balls to admit I proved you wrong. And if you believe I didn't... where's your counterexample?
Third, get off your and do the needful already.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla not really. In both Aachen at German-French border and in Białystok near Polish-Belarussian border, all kids still go to school at 8:00 sharp, both in winter and spring. Including DST that's 2 hours and 15 minutes in solar time variance.
I've never seen any children going to school there.
And...?
I dunno, you brought up those hypothetical children.
Well, we don't know if you're not actually legally blind so how do we know you could actually see any children at all?
He might be Mike Patton. We don't know.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Although I mentioned the same facts, my point was quite different from yours. It's not perma-DST or timezone mismatch that's retarded, it's the glorification of sun time that's retarded. As long as it's day at 10AM and night at 10PM, most people don't care how accurate their local time is as long as there are 24 hours to the day. Which also explains the widespread hatred for DST - because it makes it so there aren't 24 hours to the day anymore.
It makes a difference for stuff like when kids are going to / coming home from school.
Ah, soft on state-indoctrination. I bet you've got federal reserve notes.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla first, these children are very real. I can even give you their exact names if you don't mind me spending a few hours doxxing minors. Second, it was in response to your very general claim, unbounded by phrases like "from what I've seen" or anything similar, about the differences in solar/local time offsets somehow impacting the school hours. Don't be mad just because I prove you wrong. But even if you want be mad, at least have the balls to admit I proved you wrong. And if you believe I didn't... where's your counterexample?
Third, get off your and do the needful already.
LOL. No one is mad. It's just funny how you didn't address the point at all, which was that there are people who like DST changes because then their kids don't end up traveling in the dark.
But anyways here's my funny floof, because DST, whatever else it is, isn't funny:
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@Gribnit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla not really. In both Aachen at German-French border and in Białystok near Polish-Belarussian border, all kids still go to school at 8:00 sharp, both in winter and spring. Including DST that's 2 hours and 15 minutes in solar time variance.
I've never seen any children going to school there.
And...?
I dunno, you brought up those hypothetical children.
Well, we don't know if you're not actually legally blind so how do we know you could actually see any children at all?
He might be Mike Patton. We don't know.
The Official Conspiracy Theories About Why Boomzilla Won't Create A People Who Aren't Mike Patton Thread is...a waste of time, I guess. But what isn't on this site?
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It's just funny how you didn't address the point at all, which was that there are people who like DST changes because then their kids don't end up traveling in the dark.
You're now gonna claim that's all you were saying all along, aren't you. That your first post was crystal clear this is exactly what you mean and there's no way anybody but a total imbecile would interpret your words any other way, aren't you.
Well then, I'm sorry for assuming "when kids are going to / coming home from school" refers to the time that the kids are going to/coming home from school.
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@boomzilla no worries, once I found out the real reason... well, I don't have to tell you, do I.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
But what isn't on this site
I'd argue the net total is not a waste of time because I, if nothing else, learn things I didn't know before.
Yes, that's right, this entire site's sole purpose is to further my learning.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It's just funny how you didn't address the point at all, which was that there are people who like DST changes because then their kids don't end up traveling in the dark.
You're now gonna claim that's all you were saying all along, aren't you. That your first post was crystal clear this is exactly what you mean and there's no way anybody but a total imbecile would interpret your words any other way, aren't you.
Sheesh. I didn't spell all of that out, but you just couldn't help but be retarded. It's like if I said that npm sucked and then you said that you proved me wrong by pointing out how many people use it.
Well then, I'm sorry for assuming "when kids are going to / coming home from school" refers to the time that the kids are going to/coming home from school.
At least something good came out of this, then.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Yes, that's right, this entire site's sole purpose is to further my learning.
Condolences
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@loopback0 I am in this post, and I don't like it.
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@loopback0 Praised be Anoia:
"How can it close on the damned thing but not open with it? Who bought this? Do we ever use it?"
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 I am in this post, and I don't like it.
You prevent opening drawers?
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@Tsaukpaetra I am the person the spatula is threatening.
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@JBert as true now, as it was, in the beginning.
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Something to add to my life checklist:
When buying a new oven or microwave oven, it must not have a radio clock or a built-in DST function.
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@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Let's just force our idiots in charge throw the through and through idiotic idea of DST out completely.
We (California) did. In 2018. Why haven't we? Politicians.
But it looks like things are happening again...
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Why haven't we? Politicians.
The source (or at least the conduit) of almost all that is evil in California.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Even the cat feeder adjusted itself correctly?
If your cat feeder's adjusted itself already, it's a bit early.
Oh, it's next week? I thought it had already happened.
The Americans are doing it wrongEurope and US have different DST switch dates.Can't we just all, the whole world decide to keep Daylight Time and never change again?
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
If not, just keep using the zones we already use. Just skip the dumb shit DST.
Well, the question is whether to keep using the zones we already use in winter or the zones we already use in summer.
I prefer the summer ones. The change in fall is depressing, go to work mostly dark and get home from work mostly dark.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I do not know where exactly that failed
There's a small number of people who care a lot, a substantial number of people who most of all want the goddamn politicians to leave this shit alone because they have the pain of implementing rule changes, and a lot of people who grumble a bit when the clocks change and then promptly forget about it for a few months. That's a recipe for people grumbling about things occasionally and then not doing anything about it.
I'd go with permanent (what's now) DST if I had to do any change at all, since that would bias the light of the day towards the afternoon/evening.
Agreed.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm convinced this didn't happen. I haven't had to change any clocks.
As a kid, I couldn't understand why no one ever forgot. I was always hoping that some place would forget.
How did they all know?
When I was a kid, I was wondering how did Windows 98 know. Even without internet connection.
My childhood was in the decade of the TRS-80. And we didn't have one at our house.
I think I had a friend who had and Apple something or other. And I used something for the summer youth employment program, I think that was Apple also. But in none-of those was TZ or dates in general all that relevant.When I actually got a PC, it was a 386 which my friend installed GeoWorks on. I think because he said Windows would take up too many resources.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Somewhat related (and back on topic) - fun fact: the abbreviation of Coordinated Universal Time (or "temps universel coordonné" in French) was specifically chosen so it's incorrect in both English and French, to avoid hurting feelings of either country.
I suspect that's a back-formation though. There is Universal Time, which has subvariants UT0, UT1, UT1R, UT2 and UTC. So they have the common prefix UT, and the C is attached at the end.
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@Bulb actually no. Based on Google Ngram Viewer, both the English and the French terms predate the IAU resolution on the common abbreviation by about 15 years. And as far as I can tell, UT0, UT1 and UT2 were adopted at the same time as UTC. Also, Wikipedia says it's a compromise too.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Even the cat feeder adjusted itself correctly?
If your cat feeder's adjusted itself already, it's a bit early.
Oh, it's next week? I thought it had already happened.
The Americans are doing it wrongEurope and US have different DST switch dates.Which is why, living in a place that doesn't do DST at all, I have to run around four times a year resetting programmed recording devices. Some of the TV and streaming radio shows I record each week don't change at all (local and major network stations with local affiliates), some change at one time because where they're broadcast from follow US rules (basic cable), and some at a different time (because they stream from other countries; my regular radio list hits three of the four countries in the UK alone; I stopped recording Taiwan about ten years ago).
BTW, they need to change the name of the feature. The US is on Daylight Saving Time for a greater portion of the year now than it's on so-called "Standard" time. Maybe make the summer "Standard" and call the winter "Daylight Wasting Time".
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
night at 10PM
You've never been far enough north that that's not the case?
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Even the cat feeder adjusted itself correctly?
If your cat feeder's adjusted itself already, it's a bit early.
Oh, it's next week? I thought it had already happened.
The Americans are doing it wrongEurope and US have different DST switch dates.We have data centers in the IST, CET, EST and CST zones. Most services schedule their activities (and hence service windows) according to server time, but some get their data from Europe and use CET even though they're located in another zone, and the some may run anywhere and use UTC. Imagine the brain acrobatics involved in deciding whether you can reboot a certain server with a historically grown set of half a dozen services at a certain point in time.
Mostly it amounted to just "looks plausible if you squint a little—fingers crossed and hope that HA stuff works". I wrote some software to give a more confident answer, but if any of the zones switches DST on that day, it will just tell you "uh, DST is evil, be very very careful today".
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
most of France
Nice preemptive here, I approve.
Spain
Though you should have qualified that one as well (it even shows on the map).
And nobody cares.
There was a semi-official poll in 2019 in France about which of the time (winter/summer) we should keep when we stop changing (see the EU stuff above). Not hugely surprisingly, there was a huge majority (80%) to stop winter/summer time (but since it was an informal poll, only people who feel somewhat strongly about it responded).
More surprisingly, at least to me, when asked which of the two times to keep, there was a strong majority (60%) for one choice (summer time). If people really didn't care, I would expect something closer to 50-50. Also somewhat surprisingly, there were about 2 millions answers, which is a lot for such an informal poll.
Though I'm not sure why people picked that one, and depending on how the question was framed it's probably very easy to bias the answer. Also I'm sad overall because summer time is further from "natural" time, which to me just sounds wrong. OTOH, it's not really as if it truly mattered, honestly.
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
But... (I do not know where exactly that failed)
Something something COVID something Brexit something, apparently. Final agreement was supposed to happen in 2019-2020 but there were a few slightly more urgent topics to discuss.
It's up to whichever country holds the EU presidency to push it, and currently it's France who has much more important things to worry about (election time!). Next ones are Czechia (2022), Sweden and Spain (2023). No idea whether they care about that.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@homoBalkanus The fact the reddest place in the world is in china is strangely appropriate.
I was going to push that joke even further: California is rather blue while Florida is red, and Texas mostly-red-but-with-some-blue, France is much redder than UK/Germany, and obviously China is deep red.
It even works with the reversal of political colours in the US!
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@dkf Winter is such fun, with like 4 hours of sun. And all during work hours. Although the opposite happens during summer and it never goes into proper night instead, just twilight between dusk and dawn.
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@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
IDGI. What does any of that have to do with daylight savings time?
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@boomzilla
It’s the token 1 funny post per page to keep the discussion compliant.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
IDGI. What does any of that have to do with daylight savings time?
There's daylight right there in the picture
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@izzion said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla
It’s the token 1 funny post per page to keep the discussion compliant.It also means you need to Jeff this DST garbage TF out of this thread, it should only be broken on DST Monday.
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@homoBalkanus said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Time to post my favourite map
What? The Russians have stumbled across an atlus and thought it was a colouring book.
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