I’ll edit my responses here…

A small anecdote here: I read a few days ago that apparently, Alzheimer’s patients get their daily routine and circadian rhythm knocked around by this policy

Edit 2: It’s funny how people are talking about time, as if this were my 2nd post of discussion on why time measurement is bullshit, on my account…

Some memorable replies here:

another point is that it’s probably not great for animals with a strong internal clock

Do not make me get up an hour earlier I will fucking cut you.

On the other hand it is nice the park is open later but have you considered just adequately lighting the park bike paths?

it’s bad and we should commemorate the inventor with a public toilet

              • Sickos [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
                9·
                1 year ago

                THERE were two instances of "just Rude” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought Rudeness in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted a mere comment, the other had lasted an entire career; the one inflicted insult upon a single poster, the other upon a hundred million workers; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Rudeness, the momentary Rudeness, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of a quick breach of Civility, compared with lifelong suffering from sleepiness, sleepiness, sleepiness, sleepiness, and sleepiness? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A Facebook memorial page could contain the posts filled by that brief Rudeness which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Rudeness—that unspeakably bitter and early Rudeness which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.

                • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  4·
                  1 year ago

                  good post

                  I still disagree though 7am is in the realm of when noise is allowed and morning people must suffer in turn when we make noises at night. People are irritating that’s a fact of life to be free of irritation is only possible for those who create their own prisons of sterile isolation

                  if you live around people you will be annoyed

                  • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                    12·
                    1 year ago

                    If you make noises at 7am I will strangle you. I enjoy mornings, in part because they are nice and quiet. When I worked on construction sites we would do our best to do quiet work until 9, because we all acknowledged that making a lot of noise before 9 was just rude.

              • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netMEnglish
                4·
                1 year ago

                The protestant work ethic and its valuation of things like regular and early schedules, diligence in your dedicated lifelong vocation, and refusal of frivolous purchasing is largely responsible for the structure and dominance of capitalism.

                Maybe check out The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber and do some self crit?

      • trompete [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        Did your government put you in an incorrect timezone or something?

        Every time there’s DST change in my country a bunch of articles pop up that explain the following consensus put forward by sleep scientists:

        During DST, most people sleep less (as in: not enough). There were studies where people got locked in windowless basements or something and they tended to adopt something like 25h rhythm (varies by person). That internal clock gets modulated back to 24h by exposure to sunlight. When people are forced to get up too early, they tend to no fully compensate by going to sleep earlier by a similar amount, due to the natural rhythm telling them it’s too early for bed. This causes chronic lack of sleep, a permanent jet lag. Most of the working and school age population suffer from this during DST here, especially teenagers, since something something hormones makes them evening people.

        The usual recommendation is to start school (especially for teenagers) not earlier than 9 normal time (instead of the usual 8 here). And to get rid of DST obviously.