mycorrhiza
What I REALLY want is to live a lifestyle that is less dependent on accurate clocks. Let my body decide when to sleep and wake up. Make plans to meet people “around midday,” or “dusk.” Lounge around while I wait for the other person to show up, and be unbothered because neither of us is in any hurry.
Mar 9 at 3:08pmWeb
Show threadmycorrhizaMar 9

I’m far from the first person to observe this, but we are definitely in a different stage of capitalism than our grandparents now that the ruling class has stopped making even hollow promises of a life of leisure for the rest of us. “Nope, you’ll just continue to toil under deteriorating conditions while we steal the value created by any new technology, because what are you gonna do about it?”

It’s morbidly funny that they gave up the game so completely over a technology that’s so unlikely to actually create any value.

Anyway, here’s hoping that I live to see them get no more and no less than what they deserve, so I can repurpose these wristwatches.

Show threadAndre LouisMar 9
@mycorrhiza Welcome to the Caribbean. When visiting Barbados, I had to get used to that very thing. As a Londoner I found it very difficult.
Show threadPilsnerdMar 9
@mycorrhiza I don't mind nightshift jobs for this reason. If given enough free time it's basically the sleep cycle I fall into anyways.
Show threadLasse BeyerMar 9
@mycorrhiza +1
Show thread0x4d6165 (Julie)Mar 9
@mycorrhiza this is why they shot the clocks in the Paris Commune
Show threadGraydon HoareMar 9
@mycorrhiza 10,000x YES the clock is the root of all evils in the modern age
Show threadGraydon HoareMar 9
@mycorrhiza (I mean sure money obviously but money is time and anyways money is way older and it didn't used to be so bloody accurate)
Show threadmycorrhizaMar 9
@graydon One way to think of it (that just occurred to me now but has probably been written about before by others): currencies, calendars, and clocks are among the most powerful tools that empires have used to impose order on their subjects.
Show threadmycorrhizaMar 9

“Wait, what’s wrong with calendars?”

Don’t get me wrong; paying attention to where you are within the solar cycle makes a ton sense. Measures like “about one quarter-moon before the spring equinox” probably provide all the precision you need if you want to do agriculture or forage effectively. But this “Monday March ninth” shit is for the bosses.

Show threadLeon BarrettMar 9
@mycorrhiza @graydon See also, "Seeing like a State": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State
Seeing Like a State - Wikipedia

Show threadGraydon HoareMar 9
@mycorrhiza it has indeed been written about by many people!
Show threadMisuse CaseMar 9
@graydon @mycorrhiza Some of us need accurate clocks to take our medications on time.
Show threadJamie GaskinsMar 10

@MisuseCase @graydon @mycorrhiza Do you need to know the time specifically? Or do you need to know it's time to take your medication?

Honest question. I don't have experience with medications with strict timing requirements.

Show threadBiggles 20X6!Mar 10
@jamie @MisuseCase @graydon @mycorrhiza it's usually to keep a regulated dosage level in the body. Not too much, not too little. Antibiotics for instance often have an 8 hr dosage duration. Or others with dangerous build up levels e.g. paracetamol/Ibuprofen.
Stimulants, antidepressants and steroids also need time measured dosage regimens
Show threadtessaraktMar 9
@graydon @mycorrhiza “May the gods damn the man who first discovered hours, and the one who set up a sundial here, for he has miserably chopped my day into pieces.”
Show threadunsponsorMar 9
@mycorrhiza home before sunset
Show threadCard StreamstoneMar 11
@mycorrhiza gosh me too
Show threadnerd teacher 🦇Mar 12

@mycorrhiza Please, please, please just let me exist within my own time and largely on my own schedule. Everything about life is so much better—and I'm so much healthier in so many ways, including my normally garbage immune system—when I can exist on my own schedule.

I'd also really, really, really like some more exploration of nighttime society. Like, why can't I do basic shit in the middle of the night when other weirdos with odd schedules are around?