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The community for cool things you've done out in the real world, or are doing in the real world!

Covers things like volunteer work, community gardens, political activism, organizing clubs and communities in your public circles, and all the information surrounding how to do that stuff. Also covers self-help and betterment, because to help your community it helps to help yourself!

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Daylight saving time has started. Here's how to adjust. (www.npr.org)

submitted 2 days ago by Powderhorn to c/betterment

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Growing up in Arizona (little fluffy clouds), this unnecessary twice-a-year routine is still baffling.

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[–] Powderhorn 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

And if you're living off of solar power, the sun doesn't give shit what time it is (this is true even if you're still on the grid). It shifts the production time, which is admittedly worse when we fall back to standard because of the extra hour before I'm charging the LFP again.

[–] jarfil 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The irony is that people still live according to solar time, no matter what the clock says. It's most notable in Europe, where we use the same time zone from 9W all the way to 30E, or 2.5 solar time zones... but then breakfast, work, and dinner times across different countries, match the solar.

There was a nice graph with all the countries, that I can't seem to find now, but let this one serve for illustrative purposes:

[–] Powderhorn 2 points 18 hours ago

Good thing I have a passing understanding of Spanish and lived in Germany. I'd challenge you to find more than 20% of Americans who could grasp Alemania.