Demented Rants

Bah. DST is a farce. If your work is that concerned about you ‘getting out during daylight’ maybe they should change their schedules accordingly instead of screwing with the rest of us.

It was repealed many many years ago (1930s if I remember correctly) and didn’t have a nationwide standard again until the mid 80’s. This happened only because big corporations got involved, and 2 senators pulled crap out of their ass: OMFG IF WE ADD AN HOUR, THAT’S ONE MORE HOUR PEOPLE CAN BUY FRENCH FRIES! HOLY SHIT!

Seriously, I’m not fucking kidding.

So, technically since so much of obesity is automatically attributed to bad diets from fast food restaurants, and more importantly the fries and grease that those fries were cooked in until a few years ago, you can blame DST for obesity in the US.

Let’s ban that shit. It leads to obesity. Which kills people in record numbers, every year.

Want more proof?

In Indiana, in 2005, they finally passed into effect that we too had to observe DST. In this year, the Indianapolis Police District recorded 13.5 per 100,000 capita of homicides, almost 5 times the 2005 national average. This year, there were SEVERAL multiple murders.

In 2003, it was only 13.1 per 100,000. It doesn’t seem like much of a difference, but when you account for the brutality of the murders in 2005, as compared to the brutality of those in 2003, it becomes apparent of only one thing: DST KILLS!

This article has been brought to you for the lulz…. ok, mostly. Seriously, I don’t think that it had anything to do with the murder rate in Indianapolis, but I do think it’s BS that we are being forced to participate in something that isn’t necessary by any stretch. To all you assholes who tell me to just suck it up and go to bed an hour earlier, I tell you this: Try just getting up an hour earlier. I don’t have TIME to go to bed an hour earlier, I have a kid and work. That’s it. But goddammit, both suck up 99% of my time during the day, that 1%, I am sleeping. So piss off, and have a good extra hour day, dicks.

Also, for all you people who’ve already msged me on facebook about how it helps the famers, and electricity, you are flat out wrong.

Yes, you aren’t going to use lights, but you are going to use fans and air conditioning units because guess what? You are at home when you would NORMALLY be at work. So, instead of coming home as your cranny of the world is cooling off, you are coming home when it’s at its hottest. And last I checked, an AC unit takes up a LOT more energy than a singular light.

For the farmer argument, as much as I hate quoting wikipedia, this specific quote has several verifiable resources, so I’ll use it:

Conversely, DST can adversely affect farmers and others whose hours are set by the sun.^[4] For example, grain harvesting is best done after dew evaporates, so when field hands arrive and leave earlier in summer their labor is less valuable.^[52]

Doesn’t sound like farmers actually benefit in anyway after DST kicks in, does it?

It’s a world economy people! So much business is done off of GMT and on the internet, it makes little sense to use any type of time zone period and even less sense for DST to exist. It has no major provable bonuses other than false morale by corporations ‘letting’ their employees go home while it’s still daylight. Well, if they were that concerned about that sort of morale, they’d change employee hours to either pay more so they employee could work less and make the same amount; or change the hours themselves so they actually come in an hour earlier. OMG LOGIC!