Christopher Mims
If I had to pick my favorite thing about the end of daylight savings time, I guess it would be the way it feels like the world has been plunged into an eternal Arctic night from which the only release is death
Nov 6, 2023 at 10:44pmWeb
Show threadAndy FamigliettiNov 6, 2023

@mimsical if only it would get cold. The kind of real, sharp cold we used to get in upstate NY when I was a kid. The kind that sank into your bones and reminded you forcefully that someday you would die.

Stupid climate change, replacing all the pleasing reminders of death with actual mass death.

Show threadcognitively accessible mathNov 6, 2023
@mimsical I think this is a function of folks mostly being inside buildings. Good grief, changing a number assigned to a time does not change how many hours of daylight there are. It's a gradual change and hey, 12/21 the days start getting longer!
Show threadcognitively accessible mathNov 6, 2023
@mimsical my favorite thing is the way people were driving this morning -- attentively, not aggressively; timing approaches to intersections... as if they'd actually had enough sleep this weekend.
Show threadHeidiNov 6, 2023
@geonz I had a very different experience driving this morning. People weaving in their lane, one of which came very close to hitting me, 2 cars racing, a truck driving 10mph under the speed limit in the restricted left lane. I'm glad I don't commute.
Show threadcognitively accessible mathNov 6, 2023
@Heidiknits I like midwest university-town infrastructure. It's still USA and rife with problems and places that are deadly, but ... not on my commute.
Show threadJock Rutherford šŸŒ»šŸ„„šŸŒ“Nov 6, 2023
@mimsical Same.
Show threadJon ReedNov 6, 2023
@mimsical it gets better when thereā€™s snow on the ground to light things up but right now is the worst
Show threadEric JenningsNov 6, 2023
@mimsical @MittenGirlPeach the downside of tricking ourselves into waking up early for most of the year is that every now and again we have to face the reality of actual solar time.
Show threadAnthony BakerNov 6, 2023
@mimsical I feel this in my bones.
Show threadJ   Nov 6, 2023
@mimsical Cheery! šŸ˜†
Show threadstevenrayNov 6, 2023
@mimsical ah, the power of positivity šŸ˜
Show threadShannon Quinn Nov 7, 2023
@mimsical @brohrer Itā€™s truly magical
Show threadMA CaitiNov 7, 2023
@mimsical ....and the night people shall rule the earth!
#nightperson
Show threadlolonurseNov 7, 2023
@mimsical
..........and that is your favorite thing?!?!?!...
Show threadEdelruth, PBS Passport HolderNov 7, 2023

@mimsical

Which is why we should leave the clocks on standard time and allow the more natural, less jarring version of sliding into all that that you said šŸ™‚

Show threadChristian SchwƤgerlNov 7, 2023
@mimsical isnā€™t it wonderful to be back in what they call ā€œnormal timeā€.
Show threadSteve GisselbrechtNov 7, 2023
@mimsical
This but not ironically.