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Where I am, it's light out from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the shortest days of the winter. The thing is a lot of people aren't even awake at 7 a.m. and if they are (I am), they're doing indoor things like making breakfast/showering/etc. So for a lot of people, that hour or two of morning light is really just wasted. In the afternoon though, everyone can take advantage of the daylight.


"lot of people aren't even awake at 7 a.m."

I wonder what the actual percentages are. It's probably a thing where each group can't believe that there's a significant number of people in the other.

"that hour or two of morning light is really just wasted."

Only for people who wake up late. There could also be benefits to aligning one's circadian rhythm to morning light.


Go out and watch the highways at 7:30AM. They're packed. Most people start work at 8AM. Which means they're probably on the road by 7:30 and probably awake by 6:30.



Thanks! A lot of people here I assume can make their own hours more or less, don't have kids, and sleep until 8AM or so. But the vast majority of people have to be to a workplace by 8AM and wake up at 6AM so they can get themselves and their kids ready. They don't want 2.5 hours of darkness in the morning. Some light before and after work is ideal.


Neither option is great. Permanent standard time might be better, although I assume blackout curtains will be popular with twilight starting around 4am in the summer. There's really not going to be light both before and after work in the winter for many places. Current twilight is about 630am now, so it would be more like 1.5 hours, not 2.5.


FYI, I've taken 10mg Xanax during a trip that wasn't going well and it did literally nothing. Normally, 0.5mg would put me to sleep. Seroquel (Quetiapine), on the other hand, does work if you want an escape hatch and don't mind being sedated.


I’m curious to what dose of Seroquel you take to get you out of the trip.


It's not being used to mean lifespan. It's being used to mean death.


I was curious so I looked it up and found:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/07/14/fac...

The examples they give in the article are Ebola in 2016, West Nile Virus in 1999, and the Spanish flu in 1918.


Supporting transactions on the darknet drug markets is a legitimate use case with practical value.


That's fair. People with needs outside of the current financial system, like paying for drugs or murderers or illegal pornography might enjoy using cryptocurrency. Let's keep just one cryptocurrency for that and stop talking about Web3, then.


Web3 sites are how these people (and oh by the way all of the legitimate ones!) are accessing each other! (Most popular: Coinbase?)


also it was one and only driver behind the Bitcoin before speculation set in.


We haven't had the technology to create novel viruses for very long so you statement is meaningless.


And the novel technology to create novel viruses was being actively developed in this lab. They've proudly and openly published results to this effect. Further, they were trying to get tens of millions in grant funding to develop the technology further.


I just read a couple Kiwi Farms threads and damn that place is depressing. Just an entire forum filled with cruel, shitty people.


It's almost like the media is taking cues from the Biden administration.


Yes, but this is more the trans-administration national security blob than Biden people in particular.

The WSJ author had brought us other CIA-approved gems about WMDs in Iraq once upon a time.

You might be onto something with garden-variety liberals feeling 'free' to try and blame China now that Trump's out of sight, though.


> The WSJ author had brought us other CIA-approved gems about WMDs in Iraq once upon a time.

In case other people besides myself were confused, we're apparently talking about Michael Gordon, and this WSJ article [0], not this one [1]. Michael Gordon also wrote [2], which reported on the Bush administration's claims that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-w... [1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/wuhan-lab-leak-question-chinese... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/world/threats-responses-i...


If that's the only evidence you've seen so far, you're not looking very hard.


It's actually this exact attitude that kept it out of the media. I'm curious: what is your goal? Everyone can see the glaringly obvious circumstantial evidence that it was a lab leak. At this point, comments like your's just look ridiculous.


Oh, so vulnerable and fragile media decided to spin a ridiculous narrative because of stupid comments on the internet? Maybe the media should grow up and stop acting like a stereotypical 13 year old girl.


No, it's an attitude of haughty dismissal, which the media has a real problem with too.


Yeah, it seems like a real problem when the media can’t even clear the bar for internet comments.


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