Ah, bummer :(

I’m actually tired of eating beef.

Would beef-liver supplements (like in pill form) be enough iron to replace the beef?

I don’t see the need for daylight savings either way

In practical terms, people like to be able to do their own personal, non-work outdoor activities while the sun is out. Daylight savings is intended to make it so that people on a normal day-shift have access to more sunlight during their personal activities after they get off work (or out of School), since work hours do not change or account for the reduced amount of time the sun is out for certain seasons. You can read more of the rationale on why it was created here.

Except for the places that dont really lose much morning or evening, should that have to do this too?

I would say yes. It would be unfair to punish people living in areas with more sunlight with more work hours, and would remove a potential cause for logistical issues.

Besides, working less and having more free time is healthier for a population anyway.

They get the same work length either way.

Daylight savings only shifts when a work day begins and ends, it does not alter the total number of hours worked.

To put it another way, a job that is 9:00am to 5:00pm means you will work 8 hours total. If everyone shifts their clock 1 hour back for daylight savings, you will still work a total of 8 hours, you just start and end those 8 hours shifted 1 hour earlier in comparison to non-daylight savings time.

My proposal is to change the total number of work hours seasonally, meaning in areas where it gets darker sooner, they would work 1 hour less than they normally would for same amount of pay.

So in the winter, businesses could be mandated by law to change work hours from 9:00am to 4:00pm. Or if you want to be really radical, remove 2 whole hours by making them 10:00am to 4:00pm.

This removes the need for daylight savings entirely, as then people can simply sleep in a bit more until the sun comes out, and head home earlier while the sun is still out.

The businesses won’t like that idea, as they don’t want workers to work less total hours at their businesses, even if it likely would result in higher profits from happier, more rested workers being more productive. Businesses would push for daylight savings instead of reducing work hours, because they are assholes.

I consider it pro-corporate because companies generally prefer if workers worked more hours, even if it doesn’t result in financial gains. This is evidenced by the fact that 4-day work weeks increase productivity and thus profits, but corporations a generally very against the idea regardless.

Corporations are usually bottom-line/profit focused, but they have some weird exceptions when it comes to improving worker conditions. Work from Home decreases operating costs and increases worker health, yet many corporations fight it tooth and nail.

Another examples is when Eastern Airlines was on the verge of bankruptcy. As a last ditch effort, the CEO (Frank Borman, previously the Commander on Apollo 8) decided to make a deal with the workers that gave them a fairly radical amount of horizontal control.

Doing so drastically increased productivity and profits, but Frank Borman was given tons of shit by other business owners for essentially not keeping the workers under his foot, telling him he should just let the company fold rather than give the workers that much power, just on a matter of principle.

I think reducing working hours slightly to account for less daylight makes sense from a humanistic perspective, but I believe that concept would be heavily opposed by corporations, since they would prefer to waste money and have a more tired work force than to normalize reducing work hours.

I think you may be conflating my two paragraphs together. The first paragraph explains why they collectively change their clocks forward or backward an hour. It’s because most US businesses do not have alternate hours for different seasons.

My second paragraph is an alternate proposal, by me, that would avoid the need to change the clocks at all, while as a side effect giving people an extra hour of their life for themselves.

Changing the clock itself alters the amount of light left when people get off work.

We could’ve just left the clocks alone, and instead made it mandatory that businesses reduce working hours by an hour or two in the winter, while maintaining the same pay. But since the government is corporate captured, that would never pass.

In our current system of daylight savings, corporations get the same amount of work hours, while all the workers are forced to adjust. It’s a pro-corporate compromise.

It’s similar to how studies show that 4-day work weeks boost mental health and productivity, but corporations don’t like the idea, so a law mandating 4-day work weeks without a reduction in pay would never pass, despite it benefitting society.

And gie us yer laptop 🗡️

As a thief fan, Dishonored’s stealth system felt terrible in comparison.

Guns are only a small, small aspect of political power.

I agree, though there is a place for firearms.

Tenet owned housing cooperatives are a way to have apartments without rent-seeking.

Unfortunately, Sailfish OS uses a proprietary (closed source) android compatibility layer, as well as a closed source UI.

For the parts they have open-sourced, they implemented a CLA that contributors must sign. It’s the HA-CLA-I-ANY license, which specifically allows them a perpetual Copyright and Patent license, and permission to re-license your code contributions to a more restrictive license which enables them sell or package it into a closed-source proprietary app.

Personally I’m be more comfortable supporting the development of PostmarketOS instead, since it is completely open-source with no CLA, meaning no chance of any rug-pulling in the future.

GrapheneOS is great, and it’s what I currently use, but it is ultimately a hardened Android fork. One downside of that is it is completely reliant on manufacturer updates to continue to support a phone. Once a manufacturer drops support, the Graphene team must also drop support, as they are reliant on the closed source GPU/hardware drivers that are tied to specific android kernel versions.

PostmarketOS is not based on Android whatsoever, it’s a Mobile focused Linux distro using the mainline Linux kernel. It uses open-source drivers for the GPU and hardware which can be maintained and supported for decades, and is completely independent of Google’s influence. However, it’s still currently rough enough around the edges that it isn’t ready as a daily driver, which is why it’d be so helpful for us to donate to it so they can hire more developers to polish it up, as they recently did to improve the audio support of Qualcomm devices.

Please consider donating to PostmarketOS to build up a pure mobile Linux alternative that is completely free of Google’s influence. It’s the best long-term option we have.

The issue with Ubuntu Touch is that unfortunately it uses an outdated Android kernel (which is also usually not receiving security updates) and a Halium abstraction layer to access the closed source binary blob Android drivers for the phone’s hardware. It also requires that it be installed on top of an existing Android install, so in all it’s more of Linuxified layer on top of Android, which means it’s not truly escaping the control of the Android/Google ecosystem.

UBPorts also appears to inherit the use of CLA’s from Canonical:

I’m very much not a fan of CLA’s., which SailfishOS also employs.

The advantage of PostmarketOS (even though it is not ready as a daily driver for the average person), is that it uses the upstream Linux kernel with open-source GPU/hardware drivers, not an Android kernel to access the outdated proprietary GPU/Hardware blobs.

Please consider donating to PostmarketOS to build up a pure mobile Linux alternative that is completely free of Google’s influence. It’s the best option we have.

What about my post leads you to believe it’s AI? That it uses spoiler tags for formatting? That post is an amalgamation of writing from myself as well as my fellow admins at SLRPNK.net for our community to read in our monthly meta posts. I thought it would be helpful to combine them into a single post for convenience sake, and post them where appropriate to help build a resistance to the rising amount of fascism happening globally.

There’s actually quite a lot we can do about this, and not only does that materially help our situation, it also reduces the feeling of helplessness and despair dramatically, and you’ll likely meet some friends along the way.

Here’s a handy guide on how to get involved in that sort of stuff.

I’d also highly recommend Full Spectrum Resistance to anyone who wants further info on how to resist (audiobook version here).

It is certainly not usable for the average person in it’s current state, hence why I suggest donating to it to help with developing it.

With proper funding and full-time devs, it would be able to focus on adding proper support to more phones, or potentially partner with a manufacturer like GrapheneOS just did with Motorola to get first-class support on a smaller handful of devices.

Postmarket is our only long-term mobile option that will remain FLOSS and in the users best interest, we just have to support it and help build it up into something we can all use :)