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
I fully agree. I think a big part of winter solstice traditions centering so much around family and togetherness is because of the harshness of winter. And we act completely detached from that. Just because most people in the imperial core don’t struggle for food in the winter doesn’t mean there aren’t people freezing or starving at higher rates. And seasonal effective disorder is a whole thing that we’ve pathologized and divorced from cultural knowledge about the season. Capitalism and white supremacy truly do just chew cultures up and spit them out.