By adamg on Sun., 11/7/2021 - 7:55 am 
Tenar Arha spotted this protest flier in Coolidge Corner last night.
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If only peoples schedules were actually based on the sun
By fungwah
Sun, 11/07/2021 - 10:30pm
then this argument might mean something.
in the summer...
By JJ
Mon, 11/08/2021 - 8:07am
... they are. Don't know about where you live but where I am the demand for athletic fields in the summer is high. Most don't have lights. Schedule can't begin until after work / school hours for obvious reasons. So having an extra hour makes a difference.
Leisure hours
By lbb
Mon, 11/08/2021 - 9:35am
Leisure hours are no doubt controlled by the sun. Not much else is, although arguably it should at least be taken into consideration.
They Have Played Us For
By ggggg
Sun, 11/07/2021 - 8:58am
They Have Played Us For Absolute Fools
Time is a social construct
By StillFromDorchester
Sun, 11/07/2021 - 9:31am
And so is punctuality. Abolish time keeping.
Is that the time?
By tachometer
Sun, 11/07/2021 - 2:58pm
No, time is an abstract concept. This is a wristwatch.
(open challenge to see if anyone spots the reference, no cheating with a search)
We have Ed Markey to blame.
By Refugee
Sun, 11/07/2021 - 10:40am
We have Ed Markey to blame. In 2005, Congressman Markey was the person who wrote legislation to get Daylight Saving extended into November under the pretense of Halloween, which doesn't make sense anyway because you can trick or treat in the dark.
Huh?
By brianjdamico
Sun, 11/07/2021 - 12:27pm
I fail to see your argument as valid. Might as well blame Obama for it too since he voted for the bill. But DST would have existed in the US with or without the change in 2005...
In 2005 Congress passed a big
By Refugee
Sun, 11/07/2021 - 1:27pm
In 2005 Congress passed a big energy bill. At that time, DST ended the last Sunday of October. Markey (and someone else in the Mass delegation I forget who) injected a change into the bill to extend DST into November. Markey still brags about that.
Beginning DST earlier made sense. If you're going to do DST, it may as well begin mid-March. Ending DST later did not make sense. The only groups lobbying for that were candy manufacturers like Mars, Hershey's, and Nestle.
Right
By brianjdamico
Sun, 11/07/2021 - 1:43pm
I looked up the bill, but we're talking about abolishing DST entirely, not reverting back to the pre-2005 period of DST. All he can be blamed for is for when the changes happen each year now. The changes existed before then and would be happening at some point each year without his changes.
Extremes everywhere
By LackOfLaughter
Sun, 11/07/2021 - 10:48am
With all of the problems our planet faces, daylight savings is one of the less-important items to worry about.
Flyers of this are sometimes produced as a tongue-in-cheek attempt at humor but in today's world there are far-too-many that will take it seriously.
I've always fancied myself as being, in general, left of center and even voted for Bernie, but a lot of what I seem to be seeing and hearing from some of our far-left progressives is mostly Marxism. They just seem to be using a softer name for it now. This is why the far right is labeling them communist and socialist, in so far as what they seek to sell is textbook Marxism.
Certain social programs are beneficial to society, but there can be extremes, and as this last few years have shown, much of the population is incapable of discerning well between these two extremes to see where common ground may exist to serve a broader range of people.
While daylight savings was an effort to aid an agricultural segment of the public, it really didn't have a serious impact on the rest of us when you take a deep look at the whole thing. Seriously, did you really lose that hour of sleep and take days to recover? You knew it was coming. Go to bed a little earlier. Watch your TV program when it repeats.
Making this a political hot point to rally people around is only going to create a segment of the public to be defined that can easily be rallied for the next goofus plan, until one day those same people find themselves in opposition of our democratic public.
This is what is happening in the GOP states. Just because your political bent is different does not mean that you may be susceptible to similar extremes.
Stop. Read. Apply rational thinking.
As to my own struggle with daylight and standard time, it was harder to reprogram the digital clock last night. Otherwise I rose and had my coffee and life went on, leaving me to try to fathom why this is even an issue for anyone. Or is this just another tool and excuse to drive the stake between people who think different and have different opinions.
We saw a lot in the press about Russian interference in elections. What's the chance that there is an effort in the smaller things in life that a handful find irritating? By all means lets toss some kerosene on those glowing embers and see what happens.
WOW, Congratulations!!!!
By Deezak
Mon, 11/08/2021 - 9:55am
You are a true sleep champion!! I am so happy that changing the clock does not disrupt your circadian rhythm or your life at all and that you struggle to fathom how anyone could be thrown off by such an unnecessary and arbitrary change.
-probably a paid Russian troll just trying to divide you
I mean...
By lbb
Mon, 11/08/2021 - 11:28am
...when someone gets on a plane and flies to Chicago, you'd think they were dramatizing if they moaned about how disrupted their circadian rhythm was and how much they were thrown off by this "unnecessary and arbitrary change".
Normal people change time zones fairly frequently and without being overly fazed. Just sayin'.
Magoo sez
By MisterMagooForYoo
Sun, 11/07/2021 - 11:19am
Magoo here. Magoo was a fussy budget this morning in bed laying next to Mrs. Magoo around 5 AM and couldn’t figure out why. Finally Magoo remember that indeed it was daylight savings time and that’s why Magoo was being such a fussy budget because Magoo wanted to get up but for the early hour. Magoo.
Bowel movement
By Plen-T-Pak
Sun, 11/07/2021 - 12:27pm
If you had mentioned that you missed your usual daily bowel movement time at the first commercial break during Jeopardy I would've liked your comment. No poop joke, no thumbs up.
the real issue
By Juan deZengotita
Sun, 11/07/2021 - 11:49am
Is that each time we change time, the collective disruption of sleep causes an increase of heart attacks, strokes, car accidents and deaths, likely due to sleep deprivation. So those kids waiting for the school bus could lose Nana or Yayo to a stroke, or a parent to a car crash. Not to be grim, but seriously, daylight savings is actually killing people twice a year. Definitely not worth it. It would be better to install lights at the bus stops, and have us all keep our regular sleep cycles.
Killing people
By lbb
Mon, 11/08/2021 - 9:40am
So's the Super Bowl. So are elections. So is bad weather. So are Black Friday sales. So are a great many things, most with a less tenuous cause-and-effect than DST, and some of which can actually be changed. Why not change those?
Apparently deaths from some causes go down for one transition
By Tim Mc.
Mon, 11/08/2021 - 10:25am
just as they increase for the other. I think it might have been heart attacks? But yeah, both are definitely disruptive overall.
So this....
By Karl
Sun, 11/07/2021 - 12:03pm
This is what They are starting the Radical Reich protests with today...
leave the damn clocks alone!
By scollaysq
Sun, 11/07/2021 - 1:00pm
I have no good argument. I just think it's unnatural and messes up my SAD.
I don’t care which time we keep …
By Lee
Sun, 11/07/2021 - 1:12pm
… so long as we chose one and stick with it year round.
The time change twice a year is annoying. Dangerous too because of the increase in traffic crashes attributed to commuters being more tired in the days after the changes go into effect.
eliminate the DH !
By JJ
Sun, 11/07/2021 - 1:50pm
Wait… is this the right thread???
Hear that?
By anon
Sun, 11/07/2021 - 3:29pm
The reptilians are laughing at us.
There's a simple solution
By roadman
Sun, 11/07/2021 - 9:56pm
Move the clocks by one-half-hour and then leave them there permanently.
Or, alternatively…
By Bob Leponge
Mon, 11/08/2021 - 2:23pm
Avoid the sudden disruption to people’s sleep cycles by phasing DST in by changing the clocks 5 minutes per day for 12 days!
♬ Hello darkness my old friend ♬
By erik g
Mon, 11/08/2021 - 8:58am
Why have you come at 4PM?
We need to go to Atlantic
By redheadedjen
Mon, 11/08/2021 - 9:56am
We need to go to Atlantic time as well.
as well?
By JonT
Mon, 11/08/2021 - 5:25pm
You're saying go to Atlantic time as well as year-round DST? So the sun wouldn't rise until after 9:00 for two months of the year?
Move to Atlantic Standard Time, don't change clocks in Apr & Nov
By Ron Newman
Mon, 11/08/2021 - 5:50pm
The effect would be to leave everything here unchanged for eight months of the year, and to have sunset at 5:30 pm instead of 4:30 pm during the cold months.
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