Day Light Savings ????

[Pioneer1]

Can someone explain to me why.....

With all of these news and information outlets on the internet.
Youtube channels and websites.

NOBODY mentioned anything about Daylight Savings Time being last night????

It wasn't talked about on CNN or Fox News

Nobody on Youtube talked about it.

People talked about a whole lot of other shit but I didn't realize time had changed until I looked at another person's cell phone and noticed her time had change and started clowning on her over it and she reminded me of it.

[Troy]

My daughter mentioned it to me yesterday if it wasn’t for her, I would not have heard about it anywhere else.

 

Talking about daylight savings time doesn’t generate revenue. You be much better off talking about how LeBron James got into Stephana Smith’s face at the Lakers game.

 

We should get rid of daylight savings time anyway it serves no purpose other than to confused people wreck havoc with our sleep schedule.

 

 

[Pioneer1]

 

I agree.

Now, eliminating Daylight Savings time is an Executive Order I'd support Trump on, lol.



 

[ProfD]

The meteorologists on local news outlets will remind folks of Daylight Savings Time (DST).

 

DST is supposed to go away in a few years. I forget why it's still ongoing at present.

 

IMO, DST is pointless other than  1) messing up sleep patterns a couple days and 2) making folks believe the sun is out longer during the day.

 

Days aren't getting any longer. Still 24 hours a pop.

[aka Contrarian]

If you'd  checked out your local news channels, or social media you would've known it was that time of the year to "spring forward" and set your clocks up an hour to get a headstart on the sunlight.

 

You guys are all so untrusting and dismissive of the much-maligned media that, in boycotting it, you miss out on a lot of what you consider "trivial" events. 

[Troy]

3 hours ago, aka Contrarian said:

You guys are all so untrusting and dismissive of the much-maligned media that, in boycotting it, you miss out on a lot of what you consider "trivial" events. 

 

@aka Contrarian To me saving my mental health by not subjecting myself to the algorithm, not contributing to the wealth of multi-billionaires, and supporting Black-owned indie platforms is not worth the trade-off.

 

It is not like I'm on a media blackout.  I listen to the radio almost daily and read newspapers and magazines.  Despite that I still did learn about day light savings time from another human being, so I did not miss-out on the no-so-trival event

 

 

[aka Contrarian]

@TroyYou can read social media and not participate in it. You don't have to give "likes" etc, don't have to engage in discussions, or reply to questions or take quizzes. Or extend condolences or wish happy birthdays or post pictures or click on to links. You don't have to participate at all. Like with a news paper, you can just scroll through it and read whatever captures your interest. That's pretty much all  I do these days because I'm burnt out -  been there, and done all  that.

Now, I  simply observe - just to have something to do to pass the time.

Just like I watch Family Feud on TV  every day. Just to observe the body language and see how stupid and illogical  people are and how fat and ghetto most of the predominantly black female contestants are, and  how excited they all get over the paltry prize money which really doesn't amount to that much since it has to be divided 5 ways.  And then, of course, there are the antics of the jive-ass host Steve Harvey...

No fools, no fun!

[Troy]

3 hours ago, aka Contrarian said:

You can read social media and not participate in it.

i actually don’t think you can… not without being manipulated on some level. You’re constantly prompted to do something even LinkedIn shares with you the activity of your friends what they liked or if they have an anniversary or birthday you’re being prompted to send them a congratulations.

 

Now sending someone a birthday greeting in response to a prompt sounds pretty innocuous, but it’s not because it potentially begins a whole chain of exchanges that you might not be interested in engaging in, and if you ignore it, then you feel like a dirtbag who can’t be bothered to say happy birthday…

 

On Facebook, I post to my business account remotely and occasionally I look at the meager engagement that I get and I will reply to that if someone writes something that requires a response. My homeowner’s association has a private Facebook group that I look at periodically because sometimes there’s some useful information on it or I can get a question answered. But I generally go in there with blinders on.

 

I know I may come across as being very judgmental regarding the use of social media. I have no issue with anything that an adult chooses to do with their free time. 

 

when I talk about social media, I’m typically talking about us collectively as a group. I contend that as a group our data and attention and privacy are being exploited. Indeed, we are being exploited  and creating vast wealth for a relatively small number of people (small compared to the number being exploited).

 

I don’t come to this position from a place of ignorance. I used all of these social media platforms from the moment they were invented. I was very active on them for years, but I saw had operated and I decided to quit. It’s like the cigarette smoker who learns how bad the product is and stops using it.