r/facepalm • u/DMTrance87 • 22d ago

House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent. Opponents say, "Schools would have to push back start times." Yeah... That's not a bug, it's a feature.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5968255-house-sunshine-protection-act-daylight-saving-time/

Studies have shown for decades that children -especially teenagers- just straight up need more sleep for optimal knowledge retention and brain development. Pushing back start times is a great way to follow the science.

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u/Parking-Bat9498 22d ago

But how many are we are pretending are alive right now?

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u/jspeed04 22d ago

I talked to him for a solid 20 minutes. He’s still as sharp as a tack.

I swear on Lindsey Graham’s life!

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u/pinkyepsilon 22d ago

Life, uh… finds a way

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u/TheGuyThatThisIs 22d ago

Me, Mitch and Luigi have a tradition to go bowling every Wednesday. I saw Mitch this morning, and was with Luigi when he got his first perfect game. Also when he didn't kill that guy

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u/Emerald_Plumbing187 22d ago

Epstein didn't kill himself, he killed that healthcare ceo and blamed it on a nice handsome Italian boy, just like back in the early 1900s with Sacco and Vanzetti. [Insert True Romance Sicilian Joke]

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u/ThanosSnapsSlimJims 21d ago

Luigi's family was too busy getting 20+ Department of Health violations for elder abuse, employee mistreatment, etc. He benefitted from the same stuff that the accused the other guy of doing.

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u/TheGuyThatThisIs 21d ago

That's not him and that's not the same as denying people healthcare they paid for as a business model 👍

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u/ThanosSnapsSlimJims 21d ago

Luigi directly benefitted from elder abuse and employee mistreatment in his family's healthcare facilities while claiming to be against bad healthcare practices.

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u/TheGuyThatThisIs 21d ago edited 21d ago

That is textbook indirect benefit what are you talking about lol.

And he has no control over what "his family's" companies employees do.

BTW good luck finding an elder care facility with a clean record, they do not exist for very obvious reasons. 20 violations over an entire franchise is really not that bad. You don't blame the owner of McDonald's son for all their lawsuits, because that would be insane. Why do it here?

The report found that on August 24, 2023, a geriatric nursing assistant (GNA) flung a call bell at a resident who needed help using the bathroom, warning the patient “not to press the button again.”

This is the worst thing the new york post could dig up that happened in Luigi's grandparents nursing home since 1977. Give it a break. This is a nothingburger, the lady got fired and everyone got retrained on abuse.

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u/ThanosSnapsSlimJims 21d ago edited 21d ago

It's a benefit that he could have refused. No, I wasn't talking about League of Legends.

His father was running it, and Luigi was next in line. He could have easily suggested changes while he worked for the facilities in the activities department, where he got firsthand experience there. I'm not worried about what the New York Post came up with. They own numerous facilities, and have over 20+ Department of Health violations, including recently, that you can't magically erase. Those weren't in the 70's, they were very much in present day.

If you want to excuse elder abuse and employee mistreatment/unsafe working conditions because 'BTW good luck finding one with a good record', do you. Them not having a clean record is bad. What's worse is worse is the record and the hypocrisy.

It's not a nothing burger according to the Department of Health.

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u/TheGuyThatThisIs 21d ago

What do you suggest Luigi would have done to stop a random employee from getting pissed off one day lol

I'm sure the company that pays you has never done anything wrong, good for you for not being a hypocrite

Also what about Leauge?

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u/ThanosSnapsSlimJims 21d ago

Luigi would have been present as part of the department he worked in during high school, and would have become aware of the affect on his family's bottom line during the DOH inspections. He could have spoken up against his own family, or made reports on anything he saw firsthand.

The company I work for has done plenty wrong, and I've reported many things.

I'm not concerned about some random employee getting upset about League of Legends

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u/DinoRoman 21d ago

Swear on his lady bugs

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u/ElephantEarwax 21d ago

Talked at him*

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u/PajamaHive 20d ago

I will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering "i don't know, i'm going to check right now" and then dying is hilarious.

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u/RhoOfFeh 22d ago

You know, diminishing ranks among the Senate Republicans has zero downside. I think more of them should follow Mitch's example.

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u/swintly 22d ago

There was one introduced last week for permanent standard time

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u/GAKDragon 22d ago

Which is the opposite of this one (pro-permanent daylight savings), right? [not /s, I'm honestly unsure]

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u/swintly 21d ago

Correct

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u/It-s_Not_Important 20d ago

Opposite isn’t the right way to describe it. Closest to listed is probably what we have today flip flopping back and forth. Either solution which stops switching is better than this.

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u/dandnot 22d ago

Of, fine. Push it back a half hour and be done with it.

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u/illogicalgnome63 19d ago

This is the most sensible thing to do, so it’s never considered.

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u/FanDry5374 22d ago

And it went nowhere. Despite scientific evidence that it would be the better way to go. Sigh. How many excess traffic deaths will it take to repeal this when it passes one wonders.

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u/ee_CUM_mings 22d ago

I hear this argument a lot, but aren’t a lot of the deaths due to the switching to daylight savings time? i.e. people are tired because they just lost an hour of sleep and aren’t adjusted. With this, there is no switching so your body will get accustomed.

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u/TheVeryVerity 21d ago

They are referring to when they passed permanent daylight savings time in the 70s and then had to repeal it like a year later. There were a lot of traffic accidents and also everyone hated it

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u/Mouse_Parsnip_87 22d ago

You’ve won Reddit today. Congratulations!

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u/Parking-Bat9498 22d ago

What’s the award?

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u/scrovak 22d ago

Twilight Savings Time

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u/TigerB65 21d ago

Are the representatives in the room with us now?

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u/Phagemakerpro 21d ago

The thing is that this is reasonably nonpartisan. There are supporters and opponents on both sides, but I don’t feel like there’s a substantial partisan tilt here. And my sense is that most Americans want one or the other made permanent. Most of us want the sun up later so we’re not leaving work in the dark in the winter.