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zapatos

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  1. 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.
  2. I surrender. Everything I said was wrong. You are right about everything. Kids should not start school later as it is bad for everyone.
  3. 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. What extra cost? You traded an hour of daycare in the morning for an hour of daycare in the afternoon. Why? They go in at the same time but school start an hour later.
  4. 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. 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. 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?!?!
  5. I agree. My suggestion was how to help kids if we make no change to DST.
  6. 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. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Perhaps part of the solution (if DST remains) would be to adjust school hours. Starting school an hour later in the day, or adding some school days during the summer when daylight is in abundance and dropping some school days in the winter would seem a reasonable idea.
  9. Can you please explain why waiting in the dark for a school bus results in continued disruptions to the sleep cycle?
  10. 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.
  11. 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?
  12. 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?"
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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?
  17. As deplorable as they might be, I believe they know that someone does not win an election by getting the most votes in a poll.
  18. Flip a coin. Will a fire burn near your house in California, or will an earthquake hit.
  19. Your houses look like they'll fall apart with the least bit shaking. 😁
  20. Where have you found houses made of "paper and sticks"?
  21. Why don't you just open a thread telling us about all the things and people you don't like and get it over with? If you do this one thread at a time it will take forever.
  22. Is there a connection between the type of verbal gaffe you mentioned and one's inability to do the job of Presidency? From my rather limited view I don't think I've known a mother (mine included) who didn't regularly call their children by the wrong name.
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