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posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 28 2020, @12:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'll-sleep-to-that dept.

American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time:

The AASM supports a switch to permanent standard time, explaining in the statement that standard time more closely aligns with the daily rhythms of the body's internal clock. The position statement also cites evidence of increased risks of motor vehicle accidents, cardiovascular events, and mood disturbances following the annual "spring forward" to daylight saving time.

"Permanent, year-round standard time is the best choice to most closely match our circadian sleep-wake cycle," said lead author Dr. M. Adeel Rishi, a pulmonology, sleep medicine and critical care specialist at the Mayo Clinic in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and vice chair of the AASM Public Safety Committee. "Daylight saving time results in more darkness in the morning and more light in the evening, disrupting the body's natural rhythm."

[...] "There is ample evidence of the negative, short-term consequences of the annual change to daylight saving time in the spring," said AASM President Dr. Kannan Ramar. "Because the adoption of permanent standard time would be beneficial for public health and safety, the AASM will be advocating at the federal level for this legislative change."

Journal Reference:
Muhammad Adeel Rishi, MD, et. al. Daylight saving time: an American Academy of Sleep Medicine position statement, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine (DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.8780)


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by srobert on Friday August 28 2020, @03:57PM (6 children)

    by srobert (4803) on Friday August 28 2020, @03:57PM (#1043372)

    Getting too far off topic here. The point is you're much more likely to be presumed guilty, even to the point of being shot at, if you're black, and if you are in Daylight Saving Time.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Friday August 28 2020, @05:27PM (2 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 28 2020, @05:27PM (#1043415)

    That's what makes their reaction so weird.

    Its like being in a war zone and refusing to duck when you hear bullets because if you're arrogant enough then the bullets won't hit or maybe people will be sorry for you.

    It just strikes me as weird behavior. If the cops have me at gunpoint the last thing I'd want to do is tell the crackers I'm gonna cap them and reach into my car for something.

    I mean, I've been pulled over for speeding, and the first thought in my head was not how to provoke the cop into shooting me. Then again, I wasn't on drugs as seems to mostly be the case in these situations.

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @05:42PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @05:42PM (#1043426)

      VLM, it is much less surprising when you realize these people who were fighting the cops were in jail before for violent crimes.
      You do what the officer says because you're not a violent psychopath with a low IQ.
      I'll say it here: their communities are safer with the career criminals dead. We need more people in jail. If they roll the dice and try to attack the cops, if they die, that's a choice they made.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @11:59PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @11:59PM (#1043983)

      Aww, one of the resident racists is trying to defend police fascism. How cuuuute.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @09:53PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @09:53PM (#1043526)

    In virtually all of these cases, the person that wound up shot was an active participant in upping the ante. That's not to take away any responsibility for the cops, in a bunch of these cases they should have handled things better, it's just a reflection of the facts. If you fight with the cops, run away from them and refuse to obey lawful orders you are significantly increasing the likelihood of being shot. This whole business of the cops randomly executing black men is at minimum hyperbole and more likely a fabrication.

    In virtually all of those cases you can find white people being killed under similar circumstances in a similar time period, the difference is that the white community doesn't go looking to blame the cops by default and can actually acknowledge when the shooting was justified. That tends not to be the case with the #BLM folks that claim that Tamir Rice wasn't justifiably shot or that George Floyd was cooperating, we have tape of both and those are both false statements that are just going to get more people killed.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @06:01PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @06:01PM (#1043831)

      Unarmed and running away means they deserved to be shot in the back?

      Getting shot while chilling out in your living room when the door busts in means they've "upped the ante"?

      So you can openly wear and brandish assault weapons (including rocket launcher) and storm a government building advocating for the governor to be hung, and that's not "upping the ante"? Would it help deescalate the situation if the unarmed black people just wore confederate flags and white power symbols? Maybe they won't get shot then?

      Your "virtually all" is virtually all bullshit, by the way.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @06:21PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @06:21PM (#1043852)

      So you're cool with how the Floyd thing went down? Face-down, handcuffed, and a cop laying on his legs, and he still needed a knee to the neck?

      Your world view of what justifies an appropriate level of response from law enforcement is really frightening, and a lot of us really don't want to live in the kind of world that you're ok with. You justify shooting in "virtually all" cases that don't involve imminent threat to anybody, much less the cops. It is really sad that you are ok with that.

      The bottom line is that if you are black and in a situation where the police have come to address what you are doing, whatever it is, no matter how major or minor, you are two to three times more likely to get shot. Are you suggesting that black people are two to three times more likely to "up the ante?" Maybe they shouldn't get too uppity and they'll be ok, just like back in the good old days?