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immoderate
immoderate's Journal
immoderate's Journal
November 7, 2016
What can we do to get rid of Daylight Saving Time?
It came up last night at dinner with friends. Everyone had a different idea of how it came about.
"It's to help farmers who get up with the sun"
"It's to prevent children from getting run over on the way to school."
"It was proposed by Benjamin Franklin, to conserve whale oil."
"It's the capitalists."
Nevertheless, we were all pretty much against it, although one considered it a "thing to do."
I can't determine any benefits from it, and find it an inconvenience at best. I say chuck it! Are you all with me? Fuck whale oil!
--imm
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