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  1. 1 hour ago, Airbrush said:

    Japan has always been a resource-poor nation.  Everything needed to be imported.

    Hardly.

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    Sakoku (鎖国 / 鎖國, "locked country") is the common name for the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, during the Edo period (from 1603 to 1868), relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited, and nearly all foreign nationals were banned from entering Japan, while common Japanese people were kept from leaving the country.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku#:~:text=Sakoku (鎖国 %2F 鎖國%2C ",nationals were banned from entering

  2. I like using a Jetboil to boil water. For me, having hot water for coffee, tea, hot meals and of course safe water greatly improves the experience. There are some really good freeze dried options for dinners. I don't bring any other cooking pots or pans as all can be done with boiling water and a plastic bowl.

    I don't know the northern section of the AT but if there are lots of streams to cross it helps to carry some lightweight water shoes to slip on.

    I love reading when in the wilderness so I always carry a thin paperback and burn the chapters as I finish them. Be sure to bring some hand soap. I like to wear bike shorts under my hiking pants as it helps prevent chafing if it's hot out. Paracord is much lighter than rope and plenty strong for hanging food and other needs. Cotton balls coated with vaseline makes a great fire starter and can be ignited with a spark. I wouldn't venture into the wilderness without a fixed blade knife with a blade at least 4" long. Don't forget a first aid kit and do a little reading refresher on first aid before going.

    Have fun!!

  3. 5 hours ago, Airbrush said:

    To show off to the world what the US could do?

    No. To better fight a war. Nothing magical about nuclear weapons, they are just like other weapons only more powerful. They also worked to develop radar, better and faster planes, jet engines, etc. None of these were to show off; they were to help win a war.

  4. 5 minutes ago, Peterkin said:

    Who would have to make what sacrifice if it were discontinued? 

    They get up earlier to allow for travel time to daycare, the parents have the extra burden of waking them even earlier and taking them to daycare, then traveling to work. And you can't substitute an hour in the morning for an hour in the afternoon - it's a completely different situation. The school starting later is not zero improvement; it's a -2 improvement.

    I surrender. Everything I said was wrong. You are right about everything. Kids should not start school later as it is bad for everyone.

  5. 51 minutes ago, Peterkin said:

    What would be the point? Besides the extra cost, which many people can't afford, the children wouldn't get that hour of sleep: they would have to get up even earlier, be rousted out, rushed through morning chores, and trucked off to daycare in the dark, in time for the parents to get to work after dropping them off - so they're tired even before school begins. What have they gained by eliminating DST in schools?  

     

    Again. No solution is optimal for everyone. If there is a change it will benefit some but not all.

    Right now all kids have to get up early, whether a parent has the flexibility for a later start or not. If you have a later start, some kids will still have to get up at the same time, but some kids will get to sleep longer.

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    Besides the extra cost,

    What extra cost? You traded an hour of daycare in the morning for an hour of daycare in the afternoon.

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    they would have to get up even earlier,

    Why? They go in at the same time but school start an hour later.

  6. 10 minutes ago, Peterkin said:

    I sincerely doubt it, for the stated reasons.

     

    Give people a little more credit. When my wife and I had young ones there were not many daycare centers but we figured out how to make things work.

    It is relatively easy and common to find temporary daycare before school. Most schools offer it in-house already.

    10 minutes ago, Peterkin said:

    What if parents are not the only people who have a problem with DST. I'm not a parent, and I hate it. Lots of other people are affected. 

    Then they have a problem with it. As I said before, no matter what you do it won't be easy for everyone. I have no idea why people think there is a way to set the clocks  that is ideal for everyone. 

    10 minutes ago, Peterkin said:

    What I'm wondering now is why you are so staunch in its defence?

    I couldn't give a rat's ass if we have DST. All I did was make a suggestion on how to address the issue for children if DST continues. How in the world can that be interpreted as a "staunch defense" of DST?!?!

  7. 2 hours ago, swansont said:

    “Parents” is not some monolithic group. Ones pushing for an adjustment in starting time might be the ones who have the flexibility to change their own schedule 

    If we change the rules, things will be different. Someone will have to adjust. If you are looking for a change that will not affect anyone I can't help. 

    2 hours ago, Peterkin said:

    Logically, it should be employers, having the least at stake

    If the employers don't have employees to serve their customers when they want to be served they'll soon be out of business. Parents figured out how to get extra care in the afternoon when both parents work. They can also figure out how to get extra care in the mornings when both parents work.

    If the parents are the ones with the issue, logically it should be the parents who make the adjustment. I wish my bank would pay for my overdraft as it wouldn't impact them in the least, but it would impact me a lot. However, it is my issue, not theirs.

     

  8. 22 minutes ago, swansont said:

    But now you have the issue of parents possibly not being home at the beginning of the day to see their kids off, unless they, too, adjust their schedules - if their employer affords that kind of flexibility. Younger kids not supervised makes a lot of people nervous - more than when I was young. 

    Well, they typically have that problem in the afternoon anyway. Maybe it is just a switch from afternoon issue to morning issue. In the US the typical school day ends at 3:00pm.

    Someone, somewhere is going to have to adjust if we make the change. If parents are pushing for the change, then perhaps it is not unreasonable to expect them to bear some of the burden.

  9. I would imagine a one hour change in sleep rhythm would be resolved rather quickly. I used to travel quite a bit and while I think I noticed a change in myself it wasn't very significant. I've heard many times that DST is bad for students but it is unclear to me why that is other than for a very short time.

  10. On 3/11/2024 at 12:09 PM, TheVat said:

    Student performance also declines after DST starts, due to the critical need for a full night's sleep that children and teens require for normal brain function

    Why do students sleep less due to DST? Do they change the time they go to bed, or the time they set their alarm to get up for classes?

  11. I'm sitting here watching Ninotchka and heard this joke:

    A man enters a restaurant and asks the waiter to bring him a cup of coffee without cream. The waiter walks off then comes back a few minutes later and says "I'm sorry sir but we are out of cream. Can I bring you a cup of coffee without milk?"

  12. 2 hours ago, Externet said:

    What are the 'flowering' ones biological purpose ? 

    Reproduction of course. Some trees are male, some are female and some are both. Ornamental trees are often manipulated to produce showy flowers and/or minimal fruit. I've never heard of a flowering tree that produced no fruit at all.

  13. 44 minutes ago, J.C.MacSwell said:

    Don't mind me. I thought we were done with Trump after the crap he pulled after the last election. Apparently not.

    Old Joe may be holding it together better than expected, or not...depending on your expectations...but he's not getting any younger.

    We are much to close to a return of Trump.

    It's like watching a train wreck.

    It gives me heartburn. And Trump is only the half of it. The other part is that it turns out half my neighbors think like he does. And it's not even the politics that bother me so much since I can accept policies that are not to my liking. It is the fact that by most measures he is a despicable human being, and half of my fellow Americans find that acceptable. I honestly didn't know that so many people could be like that.

    I don't read much political news anymore beyond the headlines. It is too much like watching your neighbors cheer for those who sponsor dog fighting or human trafficking. It's just kind of depressing.

  14. 23 minutes ago, J.C.MacSwell said:

    Clearly again the two best choices in the U.S. population of 300+ million to run America.

     

    I imagine any selected candidate in any election in any country will be the "best" only by chance. The electorate does not vet its candidates, much less the entire population. Candidates self-choose and the electorate gets to decide who of those who stepped up they like the most, or dislike the least.

  15. 11 hours ago, LaurieAG said:

    Although biased polls might possibly influence the vote of some of those who aren't too bright.

    Really going out on a limb with your predictions there. 

    Do these dim voters vote WITH the majority or AGAINST the majority as seen in the biased polls.

    Are dim people similarly affected by NON-biased polls?

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