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https://twitter.com/mattgertz/status/1503800092242939908?s=21 Look at all these Yankees crying. Maybe move to a lower latitude dipshit
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/mattgertz/status/1503800092242939908?s=21 Dallas' sunrise in early January would be 8:30 local time. East-west matters too.
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Mar 15, 2022 21:33
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Just leave it alone, if you're not equipped to handle a 1-hour time change once every 6 months you belong in the old folks' home.
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Mar 15, 2022 21:34
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I want darkness after 8PM motherfuckers I don’t care whose future I have to mortgage to get it And I do not want darkness before 6PM, ever
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Mar 15, 2022 21:35
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saintonan posted:Dallas' sunrise in early January would be 8:30 local time. East-west matters too. Oh it’s bad for Dallas too? I love this loving bill.
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jokes posted:I want darkness after 8 motherfuckers I don’t care whose future I have to mortgage to get it You'll get it at the end of the year old timer!
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zoux posted:Oh it’s bad for Dallas too? I love this loving bill. Please, no, we can only take so much.. E: .. of everyone’s money to prop up our banks and law firms jokes fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Mar 15, 2022 |
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Mar 15, 2022 21:37
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zoux posted:Oh it’s bad for Dallas too? I love this loving bill. I mean it'd be 8:17 in Houston too. I don't care either way, but the argument has always been not wanting kids to wait at bus stops in the dark, and this bill will definitely do that.
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Mar 15, 2022 21:40
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I wonder if the house will pass that bill now. For those wondering about it, while Rick Scott was governor, FL passed a law to stay on daylight time year round. However, federal law at the moment only allows for a state to be permanently on standard time (like IL, HI, and AZ) or switch twice a year. Rick Scott and Marco Rubio have thus been working to make the change to federal law, and this is the first movement on it in four years.
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Mar 15, 2022 21:50
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saintonan posted:I mean it'd be 8:17 in Houston too. I don't care either way, but the argument has always been not wanting kids to wait at bus stops in the dark, and this bill will definitely do that.
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Well not all the parents who have to work at 8. But maybe they shouldn’t a had kids
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zoux posted:Well not all the parents who have to work at 8. Look, I was told this was about what was best for the kids, what’s best for the kids is start school later, and it is complete coincidence that that is also what is best for me personally, I am thinking only of the children here https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1503830100357402628 Hey, when little Marco is right, he’s right
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Mar 15, 2022 22:13
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Or like, just do standard time instead. Because it is the superior time.
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nodding along with lil marco until five seconds later when he says from 7-9am kids should be in the sugar cane fields anyway
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Mar 15, 2022 22:18
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If you're not sending your child to school at 5:30am for sports are you even really a WASP Texan
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Mar 15, 2022 22:22
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ReidRansom posted:Or like, just do standard time instead. Because it is the superior time. Some places already do year round standard time. That was an option. This just allows year round DST which was not before.
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Mar 15, 2022 22:23
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Proud Christian Mom posted:If you're not sending your child to school at 5:30am for sports are you even really a WASP Texan I had to get on the bus around then not for sports but because I grew up in the rural panhandle and the bus routes took a couple hours depending on where you were.
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Over the last decade, they have both moved school start times earlier and end times later in all the school disricts I have worked in. If they did adjust start times later, it would also likely slowly change the schedule to start even earlier over time to increase instructional minutes even more. Where I work currently, we start at 8:10 and end at 4:00. I can imagine moving everything forward an hour would make doing any sports or after school programs that much more miserable. Buses would be a nightmare in even more traffic too.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:If you're not sending your child to school at 5:30am for sports are you even really a WASP Texan I went to zero-hour does that count? Great way to get a good parking spot though.
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Mar 15, 2022 22:27
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There’s a plane pulling a banner over downtown right now that says “PROTECT TRANS FOLX HEALTHCARE” and can someone explain the point of folx to me
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Mar 15, 2022 22:32
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zoux posted:There’s a plane pulling a banner over downtown right now that says “PROTECT TRANS FOLX HEALTHCARE” and can someone explain the point of folx to me https://www.dictionary.com/e/letter-x-gender-neutral-language/
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Mar 15, 2022 22:42
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zoux posted:There’s a plane pulling a banner over downtown right now that says “PROTECT TRANS FOLX HEALTHCARE” and can someone explain the point of folx to me The plane company charges by the letter and they were trying to save a few bucks. PRTCT TRNS FOLX HLTHCARE (stop)
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Mar 15, 2022 22:45
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Folk and folks aren't gendered. They are already inclusive of everyone. I vote they're just trying to be edgy. e: and how do you deal with a possessive X? Folx'? Dumb
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Mar 15, 2022 22:46
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zoux posted:There’s a plane pulling a banner over downtown right now that says “PROTECT TRANS FOLX HEALTHCARE” and can someone explain the point of folx to me It's twitter brain worms, don't worry about it irl
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That may be the intent, but in my experience, it is not well-liked in those communities.
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Also maybe they should be flying that plane over Plano or New Braunfels instead of the one place where it will do the least good. Unless the point is to signal to SXSW folx
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Mar 15, 2022 22:49
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I genuinely do not care if we use a national standard DST or standard time. Pick one and stick with it so I can just remember one offset. I guess I already know and remember UTC -6 so let's do that and drat the consequences.
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Mar 15, 2022 22:51
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zoux posted:Also maybe they should be flying that plane over Plano or New Braunfels instead of the one place where it will do the least good. Unless the point is to signal to SXSW folx I mean it probably is performative, yes. I just used that link to describe why they chose that bit of theater specifically.
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I've seen folx before. I get the rationale behind latinx or mx., but those are degendering gendered language. Folks is non-gendered to start with. So I want to know where it came from and why it's used. It'd be like if a bunch of people stared using y'xll: it doesn't make any sense beyond "look at how progressive my language is"
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Noon should mean that the star we orbit is at it's zenith. Anything else is heresy and they should BURN!
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zoux posted:I've seen folx before. I get the rationale behind latinx or mx., but those are degendering gendered language. Folks is non-gendered to start with. So I want to know where it came from and why it's used. It'd be like if a bunch of people stared using y'xll: it doesn't make any sense beyond "look at how progressive my language is" You're in Austin, right? I feel like you're answering your own question here.
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zoux posted:I've seen folx before. I get the rationale behind latinx or mx., but those are degendering gendered language. Folks is non-gendered to start with. So I want to know where it came from and why it's used. It'd be like if a bunch of people stared using y'xll: it doesn't make any sense beyond "look at how progressive my language is" "Folx—used especially to explicitly signal the inclusion of groups commonly marginalized" depending on how much you like merriam-webster, of course
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Plan R posted:Noon should mean that the star we orbit is at it's zenith. Anything else is heresy and they should BURN! this is good. a clock based around an equal amount of time before and after the shortest shadow of the day
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:"Folx—used especially to explicitly signal the inclusion of groups commonly marginalized" depending on how much you like merriam-webster, of course huh, even the dictionary says it's virtue signaling
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Everyone does social signals, I was just wondering if it was more than that.
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Yeah, basically It's used, well, to signal that 'Hey we aren't assholes' if its something that's not immediately obvious like, idk, a bakery or a gym. Whether or not it's really *warranted* outside of those applications is unclear, especially for this (though if they do charge by the letter, it would make sense)
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it just makes me think of zippy 50s billboard advertising, like QUIK KLEAN
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I will say I think it's the first time I've ever seen a banner without a non-insane conservative message over Austin.
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for every right the state revokes i'll add an x for diff'rent folx burma shave
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zoux posted:I will say I think it's the first time I've ever seen a banner without a non-insane conservative message over Austin. it could have been a quick turnaround operation; sunday or monday there was a THANK U AG PAXTON FOR PROTECTING KIDS plane banner
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