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In 2022, the American Medical Association called for a permanent end to Daylight Savings Time, citing negative effects on health (www.ama-assn.org)
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I hope everyone who wants to be on permanent DST experiences an eternity of the first day of spring forward, never rested again

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[–] 9 points 6 months ago (5 children)

It’s pretty obvious the American government doesn’t care about its citizens health. Sick citizens = more shareholder profits for their scam corporations

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    It screws corporations as well, anyone that has a database or deals with time in any way. I'd call it a huge hazard technilogically to willy nilly change the time for no reason.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    We have been changing the time for 70+ years. Nothing about it is Willy nilly. There is a reason. The reason may invalid at this point.

    This same bullshit could be said about jetlag simply moving to a different time zone has worse effects than a single hour shift, yet many people do it 10s if not hundreds of times a year.

    It's so stupid to argue about this whole thing from a health perspective and using that as if its some kind of disease.

    So stupid

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    If there were two days a year that 300 million people took a flight that gave them all jetlag simultaneously, you'd probably tell them to stop though, right?

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I have no idea what you mean.

    Who is telling who to stop what?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I'm trying to relate the daylight savings time change back to your example of jetlag.

    I'm suggesting that, in a scenario where everyone in the US is compelled to take a plane ride that gives them all one hour's worth of jetlag (instead of changing the clocks by one hour), you'd probably take issue with that. It's an attempt to add some extra perspective and get you to think about your claim that it's stupid to argue from a health perspective, and how shallow that line is thinking is.

    It doesn't matter if it's stupid or not, it's reasonable to want the practice to stop.

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