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For the Love of All That’s Good and Holy, STOP the Clock Changes!
Stupidity is repeating the same mistake on purpose
Spleen venting time.
Good morning, America, the powers that be have messed up your day again. They tell you it’s time to “spring ahead” like it’s something positive. Like forcing everyone to get up an hour earlier doesn’t mess up everyone’s lives and health and productivity.
The data is showing that the wrench of the clock changes are damaging our health. It is literally killing us. There is a lot of hard data on the harm caused by the clock wrenching.
Time exists, though no one in science or philosophy can define what time is. It’s bad enough that the human species decided to dispense with its natural rhythms and instead stuffs itself into this arbitrary, artificial thing of clock time. Time is mostly a fallacy.
Our clocks are arbitrary, a self-imposed burden. It’s worse to then arbitrarily and artificially decree that we must twice each year move the clocks an hour. We…