That makes sense. This church was ‘non-denominational’, which meant that if they could just have the church band play a jam session and still make money, they would.

… Y’all never had that happen?

“The Lord has other plans for the service today, so we’re going to continue in this state of worship.”

Seriously. Someone never clicked on the “you are an idiot” popup that auto-played music, moved around the screen, prevented task manager from opening and cloned itself if it was closed.

What if the story is from a week ago? Yes, your 3am happens at the same time as their 3am, but your ‘night’ is still their ‘day’.

You’d have to intuitively know every time zone and their offset in order to have an immediate understanding the way you do now that 3AM is the middle of the night. It requires an additional question or lookup table, which makes it objectively worse of a system for humans to use and remember.

The complexity with scheduling will still exist - it’s only shifting where the complexity lies. Scheduling a meeting at 1PM Sol time is no guarantee that either person would be awake at that time, depending where they are on Earth or Mars.

But we’re past the point where humans need to do the math. There’s global calendars that will do the translating for us rather than asking the vast majority of humans to change.

The many people

8/24 time zones, or 1/3rd of the planet would deal with that at work.

I used to work both.

With universal time, the answer is meaningless without also knowing where they live. If you have a friend who is traveling and says “Oh man, I stayed up until 3AM last night.” Did they go to bed early or late? Not only do you have to clarify their normal sleep schedule, you also have to figure out where they currently are before “3AM” has any relevant meaning.

It’s objectively worse for communication. As I’ve mentioned to other posters, we already have GMT if you want to use that. Let me know how well people understand you when using only GMT for scheduling.

I’m glad GMT exists as the middle point for us to use personalized time zones, but don’t want to lose that “midday” is when the sun is high in the sky and “midnight” is partway through the dark time.

You’re forgetting about days of the week, which would change part-way through the day now.

“Are you free on the 18th?”

“We’ll, we start work at 20:00, so are you taking about the 18th from 0000 - 0400, or from 2000 - 0000? Those are two different days for us.”

There’s a spike in car accidents, accidental deaths and general loss of productivity for around a week at both times when we change the clock every year.

A single person losing an hour of sleep is manageable, but it becomes problematic when it’s EVERYONE. It literally kills people.

Yes. That’s the point. What question would you ask otherwise? Because it’s not a standard question that exists right now.

It’s introducing a new concept that’s just as confusing, but without a common reference point. “When is day for you?” “What’s your light schedule?”

If you want to use a single time for everyone, we already have GMT, no one uses it for daily use because it’s obtuse as hell if you don’t live within an hour or two of it.

Please think how confusing this would be to talk to your overseas friends. It doesn’t actually solve the issue, just pushes the confusion into a different metric that is also hard to track. People in 23/24 time zones will also have a “different” schedule to adapt to.

“It’s 10AM here. What time is it there?” “Also 10AM.” “Oh. Um… the sunrise is at 7AM here, so 3 hours past that. What about you?” “Well, the sunset is at 5AM here, so it’s almost bedtime.” “Let’s meet tomorrow night then.” Do you mean when the clock says PM, or when it’s physically dark here?"

A nerd who had these costumes also would have either said “Wicket and Chewbacca” or “Ewok and Wookie”. That’s not just “an Ewok”. That’s the most well known Ewok.

Yep! My brain works similarly. I essentially set bookmarks in stories for specific information. Although it can backfire when I answer without considering where I am or who I’m talking to first, which is why I’ll occasionally say horrifying, arrogant or otherwise tone-deaf stories without realizing it beforehand.

“Sorry that story involved a graphic injury and/or abusive situation, that was just the required-context paragraph for any story in that folder in my brain. It’s worked in similar social settings before, like with my therapist or with the school guidance counselor right after it happened, so I didn’t realize it wasnt appropriate in this job interview.”

“For the third time, please leave.”

“They all have similarly vague ‘clinical’ vibes though, right? You can see how I got confused.”

Didn’t the guy who originally posted the “1:1 model comparisons” later admit that he stretched and scaled the models to fit better?

It’s derivative, but not a ripoff.

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Oh. Oh no.

If only something allowed you to use the typing system you already know, was able to be rolled up, doesn’t require you to already own a 3D printer and have knowledge of modeling software, and cost less than $50.

If only…

I think what will hurt worse is that the genocide is still talking place and his sacrifice didn’t move the needle as much as he would have expected.

Faked for rage bait.

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It also destroyed the “pass the aux cord” when driving with friends.

“Hey, I want to show you a song. Pass the aux cord.”

Plugs

Plays

Now:

“Hey, I want to show you a song. Let me connect to your car’s Bluetooth.”

“Oh, I can’t while the car is driving. Can you pull over for a minute?”

“Which submenu was is it in? Bluetooth or Settings?”

“Do you mind if I remove one of the devices already connected?”

“Oh, it just auto-connected to your phone instead.”

“Here, I’ll just send you a link.”

“Your phone locked. Can you enter your password again?”

“Oh, you don’t have [streaming service] premium? We’ll have to sit through an ad first.”