It's a much stranger system than many realise, and not really a manifestation of democracy. Time zones are actually federally regulated, by the US Department of Transportation. That's a han… (View Post)

Logical that Spain, which is on the wrong time zone anyway thanks to Franco, is the most enthusiastic about keeping summer time year round. It would be interesting to see the regional breakdown of th… (View Post)

I think that's too wide a definition of the word "religion". The first definition Google served me (from Oxford Dictionary) is: "the belief in and worship of a superhuman power or… (View Post)

Real interest rates still -7%. (View Post)

I'm not sure that "just about all of us" followed pandemic rules, certainly not all of them. People may self-righteously tell pollsters they did, and if they were old and felt in dange… (View Post)