I’ll edit my responses here…
A small anecdote here: I read a few days ago that apparently, Alzheimer’s patients get their daily routine and circadian rhythm knocked around by this policy
Edit 2: It’s funny how people are talking about time, as if this were my 2nd post of discussion on why time measurement is bullshit, on my account…
Some memorable replies here:
another point is that it’s probably not great for animals with a strong internal clock
Do not make me get up an hour earlier I will fucking cut you.
On the other hand it is nice the park is open later but have you considered just adequately lighting the park bike paths?
it’s bad and we should commemorate the inventor with a public toilet
You’ll have to fight my duodecimal empire when we abolish the Base-10 system and implement Base-12 like it always should have been.
Over my dead base-60 body.
Signed, the Sexagesimal Gang
Hear me out folks - sexagesimal bear
Base-60 is just Base-12 with extra steps.
If we’re going to go to all the effort of switching to a different number base it should obviously be base 16
Can you count to 16 on one hand?
Cuz I can count to 12 on one hand.
I can count to 31 on one hand
I can count to 10, 12, 24, 28, 31, 33 or 34 on one hand, depending on how I wanna do it. I feel like it’s all vibes. One wants a specific number system and work backwards to retroactively rationalise it, looking for specifics that support it. It’s like people arguing imperial is better than metric because it “makes more sense”.
Well yeah, with computation none of this really matters. It’s vibes.
I vibe with 1/3 being as easy to express as 1/2 and 1/4 but that’s purely aesthetic lol
It makes more sense to you, because you grew up with it.
Figuring out how to use the thumb to count the 12 digits on one hand is a
moment lol
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Base-8
I can express 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4 super easily. All you pretenders can’t say the same.
My phone counts for me who needs counting anyway