President-elect Donald Trump on Friday confirmed that Republicans will work together to ditch Daylight Saving Time, the practice of changing the clocks by an hour twice a year.

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Broken clock.

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A broken clock can be right three times a day, if it breaks between 2AM and 3AM on the day of the DST change…

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Or more often, if it runs backwards. Far less often if it runs fast or slow.

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what if the clock runs several times too fast?

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Broken record.

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Except that the Dems tried to do this recently and the Republicans wouldn’t come to the table, but as soon as they are in: “oh hey guys, check out our great policy you all love”.

Just saw this comment after posting saying it better than i: https://lemmy.world/comment/13969026

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Finally something I can support

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The Sunlight Protection Act has been put up several times and passed by the Senate as recently as 2022. It sits in a committee at this time. I’m sure trump will take credit if it works its way through.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Protection_Act

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Well I hope it does make it through, despite bronzer boy taking credit for it.

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Honestly I don’t care who takes credit, just get it done already

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Why hasn’t it passed the house if Republicans supported it in the Senate? Strange

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Not certain if it’s the same one, but a while ago such a bill was on the docket until they literally forgot about it. Like, they all supported it, but no one brought it up so they didn’t vote on it.

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They’ve got more pressing issues to deal with. Trans people aren’t going to ban themselves from bathrooms.

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Currently over 19,000 bills before Congress… Which ones get heard unfortunately is always manipulated.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/

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Good.

The extra hour of sunshine cannot be good for global temperatures.

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I’m assuming you’re joking, but I’m also assuming some morons actually believe this.

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Every hour of sunlight brings 173,000 terrawatt hours of total solar irradiance. Even one hour is enough to make a big difference.

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Those clocks are mighty powerful.

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How is anyone taking this seriously

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btw that’s 6.228 * 1017J for non-Americans

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Just trying to distract the public from any number of his fucked up shit

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