Homesteading is rare west of the cascades, mostly because it is ridiculously expensive to buy land. I’d avoid most of the west side tbh.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others.

If I were hoping to be a dictator, why would I try and sway public opinion on Reddit? My hope is to remind folks that they’re about to repeat the same mistake 50 years later. The beauty of clocks (and “clockwise”) is our Sol. If humans embrace the heavens, instead of thinking we control it, we will reconnect with nature.

Sir, this is a 2022.

Has it though?

You already lost. We already voted. Just has to pass the house now, it has passed every other check. The only reason it didn't go great in 74 is too early school start times, and those are now later in most places, and easy to make later where they aren't. Give it up.

So you hate democracy and want to impose your "correct" will on all of PST who already voted on what they want? Did you really just propose that? I don't think you want to assign yourself time dictator and try to overtake the world, right? Surely something is being lost in transition?

The current plan is to extend Daylight Saving Time year round. This was also done almost 50 years ago—and was abandoned. I suppose those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.

We did permanent daylight saving time in the 1970s, and it was a disaster. It turns out a snap public opinion isn’t the best way to determine the right thing to do.

When we say “noon”, it means something. Don’t change that, but instead change the time we do things. The result is the same, but the connection to the sun is maintained.

It would be akin to folks saying it’s too cold in the winter, so lets shift the temperature by 10 degrees.

Everyone that says, “but I get out of work too late,” is missing the point. I don’t know why changing the hours we open an office is seen as harder than changing the clocks on the wall. Start with schools and the government. Summer hours are already a thing.

I thought summer was when the ‘saving time’ and winter was standard. So really winter hours/time would stay the same while the summer hours would get adjusted if we were to discontinue DST.

This reminds me of a bit of historic trivia: In 1582 the length of a year was recalculated to be more accurate. The inaccuracy had grown to be 5 days and had led to all kinds of screwed up dates for events like Soltices, but had also made it hard to calulate Easter. Pope Gregory introduced the reformed calendar, now called the Gregorian Calendar.

Most of the world adopted it, but in some places the peasants rioted because they believed they were being cheated of their "days"!!

Russia kept the Julian Calendar, and by early 1900s they were 11 DAYS off. After the Russian Revolution their calendar was changed to match the rest of the world, but the Russian Orthodox Church still calculates Easter the old way, so it's usually a week or 2 weeks later than the rest of the world.

I was half agreeing with you, half being silly.

Keep the clocks the same, but open the ski hill “later”, I.E still at the exact same sunrise.

Keep my 8-4 office job still 8-4, regardless of when it gets bright.

We have 7.5 hours of cloudlight. We are going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark. It doesn't matter.

In summer it matters very much to have extra light after work.

Besides, we've already voted. WA OR CA and Canada's PST regions approved DST forever several years ago.

The only thing standing in our way is FL rep's pushing nationwide DST. Which hilariously accidentally already passed in the Senate. Congress hasn't bothered with it.

I think it's the wrong approach. Currently any state can opt out of DST, but due to poorly worded legislation, can't opt in permanently.

State's right you do you. It's so bizarre that wasn't the proposed model.

I quoted “Daylight Saving” because the amount of sunlight does not change. So, whether it is 5am (where ante meridian means something) or 6am matters not. You’re just making up a number.

I’m ok with that. Ski hills would likely open up later. It’d be nice to not have to wake up at 5 to get a parking spot at Steven’s pass on a weekend.

Oh yeah I had a similar thought last night as I was trying to sleep. Are we in daylight or standard time right now, I can never remember...

Sunrise is at 8 AM. I guess we're in standard time now, so as you say, if we kept "daylight savings" then sunrise would be at 9 AM. Bleh.

The time change is still annoying, we should probably just keep it on standard time. That might mean sunrise is at like 4 AM in the summer? Kind of annoying...but better than messing with winter darkness times.

Flying rats

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I’ve been chased down on bike and trapped for the same thing in Seattle.

Dangerous assholes are everywhere. The only way to avoid them is to go nowhere. Even then… bump keys render your lock useless, all of your shit is flammable, and windows are shitty barriers. Then only reason you aren’t murdered every single day is because 99.999999999% of people in the country don’t want to hurt you… that’s reality.

And if you really want to stay safe while traveling just make sure you don’t bring anyone you know with you because being murdered by a stranger is incredibly ridiculously rare…

I watched hawk catch and eat a pigeon in my back yard a few years ago.

MaybeBlanchard and 8th? Walked past Bell and 7th today, definitely not there.

Stereotypes aren’t good. It was the exception not the rule.

That pink Elephant has been around forever, it's great to see that he has a new home.

To be fair, back in the "good old days", tenants could also actually afford rent.

About as binding as your sublease was. :p

The distinction doesn't matter much though. The remedy if your tenant doesn't vacate when they agreed is eviction. The remedy for getting a tenant out for not paying is eviction. Either way, the tenant doesn't get the cash and gets an eviction filing on their record, which they presumably want to avoid.

Hopefully you weren't asking in the other direction. But yes, if your check bounces, they could come after you in court for the money, or even for damages for an illegal eviction.

There's two, a right foot and a left foot (MOHAI). I saw the right foot on the road in Greenwood a couple of years ago.