Right, it’s not automatically recurring. If you get below some number of credits (I forget how many), they notify you (by email of course!) so you have plenty of time to buy some more.

They don’t have to store it.

The fact that it’s a paid service doesn’t mean they have to keep your PID and payment info on file. I use posteo.de for my email, which is a paid service. But my payment info is only used during the payment process and they don’t keep it on file once they receive the payment. You buy like 12 or 20 months and have that many credits. When it starts to get low, you buy some more.

This dog begs to differ!

Hmm, I would say a monkey would be an obvious choice since they can manipulate objects and do all kinds of things, are also fluffy/cuddly, and there’s a potential for two-way communication. Possibly an ape, though it would be bigger–maybe too big and not as cute, and it could easily kill you if things don’t go well.

I’ve seen just a few that I suspected were AI, wouldn’t be able to prove it but they had that vibe–they were personal stories where someone describes something that happened and ask for people’s opinions about it. Some of the lines were very typical AI-cliche sounding to me, and the situations didn’t seem like something that would really happen . So I wouldn’t accuse the OP of pasting slop in for the entertainment of watching people argue about some made-up situation, but I also wouldn’t reply to them either. I’ve read that they’re getting that kind of thing on Reddit so I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened here too.

God forbid we finally get rid of DST and save people from car wrecks, industrial accidents, and heart attacks if it makes you have to adjust offsets once in some software.

*watches downvote counter while all the techies rage-click the down arrow*

That’s how it should be of course. Problem is businesses and companies still follow standard business hours and make their employees show up at the same time no matter if DST is in effect or not.

Yeah given a choice, I’d rather have light after work instead of before. Unfortunately when I lived in Montana, the winter days were so short that I went to work in the dark and came home in the dark. The only light I saw was going outside during lunch break.

Even more wild is they assume there’s going to be a real election.

Or more likely, you live in the northern US, or Canada. The further north, the more extreme the length of the long and short days are, which explains much of the split in whether people want to go with standard or DST when debating this.

The idea of having narrower time zones, say by adding a new one, is an interesting idea to mitigate the large difference in how people experience the time zone based on if they are at the east or west edge. Shifting the existing ones around would only change who is affected but not how many.

This is the most reasonable approach, and it meshes with medical studies about how DST affects our mental and physical health. We don’t need sunlight until 9 or 10 pm, and the sun is supposed to be approximately overhead at noon, not 1pm.

Yeah I saw a map like that illustrating how which side of your time zone you’re on makes a big difference. I wonder if adding another time zone so they’re all a bit skinnier would help with that aspect of it.

The problem is that if you’re far enough North, the days are so short that if you work full time, no amount of clock-adjusting will keep you from either going to work or going home in the dark.

They went about it in a stupid way and now we’re doomed for all time because it gets pointed to as proof we can never end DST 🥲

Exactly! Why does no one ever consider changing the time they do something instead of making the whole country adjust to time change? I know with schools, maybe their starting times are geared to when parents have to be a work or something, but surely they can figure out how to adjust their particular schedules around their particular needs and leave the rest of us alone.

exacerbate

*ducks*

I read that some senator was working on a bill to permanently switch to half-DST, which is where we set our clocks to halfway between regular time and DST. I’ve been advocating for that forever so I hope it will at least get people thinking/talking about it. It should solve the argument between whether to permanently stay on one time or the other. Split the difference and just get it done already!