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In reply to the discussion: Daylight saving time bill stalls again in US Senate [View all]BumRushDaShow
(162,466 posts)9. Adults have an easier time dealing with evening darkness just due to a "height advantage"
        as opposed to children exposed to child predators driving around in vans snatching kids off the street in morning darkness. And add to that, the perpetual issue experienced by children fortunate to have a school bus to pick them up and having drivers not seeing the children running for it and ignoring the big flashing lights on the bus, and driving around it while a child is crossing the street to get on the bus. And that happens with public transit buses in the mornings too, but there's no "flashing school bus-type light" to alert drivers to people crossing the street to get to the bus.
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        Adults have an easier time dealing with evening darkness just due to a "height advantage"
        BumRushDaShow
        Yesterday
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        And what happens with the parents who have to go to work BEFORE school starts?
        BumRushDaShow
        Yesterday
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        Everything has to move together, if school starts one hour later, then industry must allow of r that as well.
        Escurumbele
        Yesterday
        #26
      
        
        Rick Scott will do anything to make him look accomplished after he defrauded Medicare
        mdbl
        Yesterday
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        You could start by using the European dates for changing - end of March, end of October
        muriel_volestrangler
        Yesterday
        #22
      
        
        "humans do normally get up earlier when the sun rises earlier (and when it's warmer)"
        BumRushDaShow
        Yesterday
        #30
      
        
        I definitely prefer daylight savings time. 4:15-4:30 sunsets are not cool!
        Lucky Luciano
        Yesterday
        #14
      
        
        No, the whole country should be alternating Standard Time and DST like it currently is.
        maxsolomon
        Yesterday
        #40
      
        
        It hurts businesses, mostly the construction industry who have to stop working at around 04:00pm
        Escurumbele
        Yesterday
        #24
      
        
        Who gives a flying fuck? We have a fucking NAZI running this Country in collaboration with Putin
        Bengus81
        Yesterday
        #36
      
        
        If there is any issue that should be controlled at the state level, this is it.
        thought crime
        Yesterday
        #37
      
        
        BTW, DST was NOT Benjamin Franklin's idea. He wrote a satirical piece criticizing Parisians for sleeping in until noon
        eppur_se_muova
        17 hrs ago
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