We wouldn’t be the only ones. Several countries, territories and islands have half hour offsets from their neighbors. A few even have ±15 minute offsets.

It would save me some trouble at work for sure. We have to match timezones and calculate utc from local timestamps for millions of transactions a day from across the country. If local time and timezone was just utc, that saves me the extra steps.

Though days suddenly get really messed up. It would be “tomorrow” in the east coast before it is even dark in the summer. And, worse, it would be “tomorrow” in Hawaii a bit after lunch. In a practical sense that just seems confusing and annoying, so maybe it’s not the most practical outside of datetime data.

Dude, what did he say?! Shut up!

Well that is way less fun

That’s the name of my future band. “Bernie Again”

I thought you meant in addition to Bernie for a sec. I was about to say “talk about typecasting”.

Could you imagine being this actor (Terry Kiser)?

“We want you to play a dead guy for the entire film. The title character. You have like 10 minutes of being an alive jerk, then you just spend the rest of the movie limp. Lay on sofas and chairs a lot, lean on a few walls, get carried around, do absolutely nothing. Here’s your paycheck.”

“Wow, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity as an actor to get paid to do nothing!”

“Good news! SEQUEL!”

Did he speak back? Did he seem lucid or aware? Can you confirm it was him? Are you prepared to swear to these facts under oath?

Oh I’m aware. The amount of screwing over rural residents the telecoms have done and continue to do is massive. Satellite internet helps bridge that gap. But there are better and cheaper ways to do that just by running some more wire. If county governments did their damn jobs for their residents, there wouldnt be as much of a need for satellite internet to supplement the land-based ISPs.

“What’s this, then? ‘Romanes Eunt Domus’? ‘People called Romanes they go the house’?”

“It says ‘Romans, go home’!”

“No it doesn’t.”

I’m sure it will get better. Just give him a few more goverment subsidies, grants, and 0 interest federal loans to be forgiven later, have the entirely military fleet of humvees replaced with CyberTrucks that he’ll never produce, give him carte blanche to fill more layers of the sky with his private satellites without any oversight, regulation, forethought, or concern for the actual good or needs of humanity, and suddenly your current 3 Megs download may hit 5, even 6 megs in off peak hours! Only an extra $150/month for their premium subscription plan!

I am kind of into the idea of having a little screen on the peripheral of my glasses for a heads up display as an interface with my phone. Or even as a full screen mirror for my phone to be able to browse lemmy or watch video while still keeping an eye on my surrounding. I really can’t imagine why they decided they also needed to have it record everyone secretly.

Convenient of them to wear hats with the an actual literal fasces, the original symbol for and namesake of fascism, just to remove any plausible deniability of their intent.

I really try to reach beyond my mediocre American education on international affairs. I’m ashamed to say this one will be a Google for me.

It’s always 2 steps forward, at least 1 step back but most of the biggest problems that are happening now are specifically the coming from seed planted by the Reagan administration.

It took a pretty solid nosedive then, but the groundwork was laid by Reagan.