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  • Circadian rhythms aren’t based solely on the sun. They are also based on social and physical activity. Things they don’t get when sitting indoors for the entirety of their daylight hours.

    Lack of sleep is primarily because they are not physically tired come bed time. They aren’t physically tired becauae they haven’t engaged in any physical activity all day. They’ve been obligated to sit indoors during daylight hours, and they don’t have daylight for outdoor evening activities.

    Instead, they get to sit indoors, under artificial lighting and watching bright screens, both of which screw up their sleep schedules.


  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.worldThis is madness
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    4 days ago

    DST is in use 3/4 of the year. It is “normal” time, where everyone recognizes that 4am is entirely too fucking early for a sunrise, so we push that back to 5AM.

    “Standard” time is the abnormal abomination that we currently switch to for about 3 months in winter.

    Seasonal depression in kids and teens is primarily due to the lack of outdoor activities in winter, which is caused by an abnormally early sunset driving them indoors immediately after school.

    Locking the clocks on normal, “summer” time solves the problems with the time change. The “kids walking to school in the dark” problem is mitigated by the fact that they already spend the darkest three weeks of the year on winter vacation; we can extend that one more week by stealing three days from each end of the summer vacation. The remaining two or three weeks of early morning darkness do not justify stealing months of evening daylight from the rest of us.


  • (Buffalonian bison) (Buffalonian bison intimidate)] intimidate (Buffalonian bison).

    [(Albany cattle) (Utica bison bully)] intimidate (Syracuse oxen)

    [The] Albany cattle (that Utica bison bully) intimidate Syracuse oxen.

    In this sentence, “cattle” are the subject, and “oxen” are the object. The verb is “intimidate”. Everything else is some form of adjective modifying “cattle” or “oxen”

    We can go further:

    [The] Albany Cattle (that Utica Bison bully) intimidate [the] Syracuse oxen (that Poughkeepsie yak deceive).

    Cattle are still the subject; Oxen are still the object.

    The cattle (which are bullied by the bison) intimidate the oxen (which are deceived by the yak)

    Moving on:

    [The] Albany cattle (that Utica bison [that Buffalo buffalo buffalo] bully) intimidate [the] Syracuse oxen [that Poughkeepsie yak deceive].

    The cattle are still intimidating the oxen. Which cattle? The cattle that are bullied by bison. Which bison? The bison that are buffaloed by buffalo.

    Which oxen? The oxen that are deceived by the yak.

    The buffalo buffalo the bison; the bison bully the cattle; the cattle intimidate the oxen. Which oxen? The oxen which are deceived by the yak.




  • You can’t make that round.

    I mean, you could. You’d need three times as many contacts in the receptacle as pins in the plug. Each pin would have to be able to touch exactly 1 or 2 contacts simultaneously. Each receptacle contact would need to programmatically assign itself to perform the role expected for the particular pin it is touching at any given moment.

    Pin 1 would start off touching Contact A. As you rotate it, it would connect to A and B. Keep rotating it, it drops A and touches B alone. Then BC. Then C. Then CD. Then D. Then DE, and so on.








  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.world1/4>1/3 but 151>113
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    1 month ago

    In taste tests, customers actually preferred A&W’s burger to McDonald’s,

    If those taste tests are accurate, I’m guessing that individual stores could select their own suppliers, and didn’t choose the suppliers used for the taste tests. Because every A&W burger I’ve had has been terrible. Completely inedible.

    I would rather buy a quarter pounder from anywhere else than accept a free 1/3, 1/2, or 1lb A&W burger.



  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.world1/4>1/3 but 151>113
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    1 month ago

    This, exactly.

    Anyone repeating this 1/4 vs 1/3 bullshit never had one of their 1/3lb burgers. They were fucking terrible. Sysco prison-grade burger patties, drowned in store-brand ketchup with a thin slice of “American”-flavored yellow #5.

    Absolute worst burger I’ve ever had.

    Growing up, A&W was for chili dogs and a big glass mug of rootbeer. Never order anything else; its always a fat sack of disappointment.




  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.worldVapor dispersal.
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    2 months ago

    Those diagrams and pictures are a disinformation campaign. They show a system that obviously can’t function, so you dismiss the theory out of hand.

    But the reality is that they mix the mind control chemicals directly into regular jet fuel. The pilots don’t even know they are involved.

    /s