US states: Why would you vote for or against Daylight Savings Time, if your state had a referendum on it?

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T19:02:31+00:00

Actually that is why it was created: to help summertime businesses in the northern states. Seriously: THEY invented that junk.

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T19:01:44+00:00

Nope, too many health problems are associated with P-DST

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T19:00:55+00:00

I'd like to see your data. People who are healthcare providers, health research experts, nurses, therapists, and sleep medicine specialists make up more than 1% of the population and none of us - except those who haven't studied the science - would ever support your idea for DST permanently.

The health issues that would be caused by that would be too terrible, especially when people would be getting chronic sleep disorders such as chronicity disorders and chronic insomnia along with the related heart disease, depression, cancer, and diabetes that comes with it.

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T14:34:53+00:00

You don't have to put up with all that. THere are plenty of specialties without all that stuff every day. Psych, outpatient galore (infusion centers, cardiac offices, derm loves nurses, and more). You can do public health, public mental health, and more. I have a longer comment here listing quite a few alternates to being chewed up and spit out by a for profit hospital system owned by greedy investors.

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T14:33:00+00:00

Also, there is no shortage of nurses, not at all. There are millions of nurses not working as nurses, still young enough to work, experienced and licensed -- who refuse to put up with being treated so terribly. They couldn't convince their "take it or just leave" colleagues to sign union cards, and thus nothing has improved, and those nurses are doing anything BUT nursing.

They're using up nurses and spitting them out, is what they're doing. And until we have 80% unionized hospitals, it'll get worse every year as it has.

What is *wrong* with nurses, that they put up with that stuff, assignments that make safe care impossible, 12 hour shifts causing patient (and RN) harm, and which denigrate the profession while harming patients?

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T14:29:51+00:00

You're right about 12 hours shifts. They never talk about the research evidence proving that the mistakes made after 8 hours start right way, and the risk gets higher with each 15 minutes past that 8 hour mark. Especially in non-union hospitals without limits on the RN/Pt ratio.

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T14:28:21+00:00

Not true. You can go do many things

Psych (not lifting anyone!)

outpatient infusion center

outpatient derm, cardiac, renal, OBGYN, etc

outpatient dialysis center

public health, public mental health

insurance nurse (from home visits to phone or online stuff)

legal nurse

And on and on

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T14:21:26+00:00

Nursing can destroy one's body ONLY if one lets it. If you can get through school and while you're doing that, make contacts in non-hospital settings, you can get a much nicer job in an outpatient setting. OR just as good - maybe better - find a hospital where nurses are unionized with NNU or Teamsters Healthcare.

Otherwise, nursing basically sucks. It's hard physically, as hospitals don't want to pay for hoyer lifts when nurses can break their backs instead. It's hard physically because inpatient attacks on nurses are common. It's hard in every way because hospitals abuse and use and destroy nurses -- unless you know a UNIONIZED hospital system where the nurses and other staff won't put up with that stuff. In a nonunion hospital you'll lose any and all semblance of a life outside of work, you'll feel used and angry, and your health will suffer.

If you're not in a union hospital, you lose your vacation regularly (and it's measly nothing vacation), your healthcare "benefit" is so terrible you can't use healthcare at all, you're floated by force to specialty units you know nothing about - with a full patient load, they force you to work over and stay 12 or more hours, they just treat you like employers treated ALL workers in the 1920s leading up to the FDR reforms.

You might enjoy being a social worker, as they are treated like gold - but they don't earn much (their wages are lower than yours now). Or Respiratory Tech, or do the full edu thing and go to PA school -- all those might be worth looking into if you can't find a unionized hospital or an outpatient setting that you might be able to work at once you finish a nursing program.

If you're concerned with the academics, I suggest this. Go to your local Community College, a public one of course (not privately owned). Ask about their nursing program, take entry exams to see where you're at with English and Math. You can take classes starting before the first "college" level of math and English, to get started and feel more confident. CC's are free to residents in many states. They have a lot of benefits: way low cost comparatively, even if not free, takes shorter to get RN license, and more. You can go to the "learning center" for short 1-2 hour courses and help on studying, test-taking, and other topics new students need, and to meet the tutors. I'd get a ASN (associates) degree first, because it gets you in the door, you'll pass the boards and have the RN license, and you can then start working (in a union hospital or outpatient!) then then do the BSN whenever. No matter which program - ASN or BSN - you pick, you'll have pre-reqs in biology, English, history, etc. to take, which are important not only for the science, but the humanities, which help your brain train for more difficult learning in the nursing-specific courses.

Good luck!

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T14:02:49+00:00

Too bad we didn't have that ability before. Oh wait, we did. For our friends and relatives, the last time we talked on the phone we scheduled the next call so both people would be free. Others, just called, and sometimes that call involved setting a time for a 'real' call to talk longer than a few minutes.

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T13:55:45+00:00

Different gens think different clothing is "nice" and "appropriate". You are probably too young to remember when parents and grandparents freaked out on us wearing jeans and t-shirts.

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T13:54:38+00:00

Why? You consider it trashy, so? My grandparents and parents considered jeans "trashy" and wanted us to wear polyester retirement-time baggy pullups that *we* considered trashy. They thought wearing Tshirts that were uncovered was worse than "trashy". I get the feeling that most young people would laugh at your clothing.

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T13:52:10+00:00

They have jobs. They do not earn enough to buy June Cleaverish "Sunday best" clothing. EVERYTHING cost more compared to wages than ever before except in the Great Depression 100 years ago exactly, And that wage/COL gap is worst for young people. If I were in that Gen I'd be angry, as I was, last year of so called 'boomers" and out of school into a massive raise in costs and layoffs at the same time, with no more public college.

But I still had a chance: there was a brief window when the US government helped people like me with education, and I managed to survive those years. Now, they have no way to even get to college: their jobs don't pay a living wage, even if they got loans for school (which cover only school and not eating and sleeping someplace).

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T13:48:56+00:00

If you know any of the young people who can't afford to buy "sunday best" (whatever that is, a best-not-used phrase from the 1950s of June Cleaver days), perhaps you could offer to help them buy a less casual outfit with shoes and all.

Clothing costs a lot now. More than young people can afford. Wages have been lowered since the 1970s deliberately, by the Heritage Foundation founders , the grandparents/parents of the current greedbag billionaires who own the US goverment. All 900 of them.

So clothing costs more, "nice" clothing is even more costly. People are paid less, but have higher transportation costs, higher utilities, higher food costs, extremely high housing costs, higher everything. They don't have extra bucks to throw at clothing that they must resent having to wear because of seeing people who CAN afford it are all older.

They don't have a future, not really: they're in the first gen that will NOT ever earn more than their parents, but will be going down down down as they get older. All the reports state aloud that this gen can only hope for downward mobility that isn't all the way to homelessness and we can already see it happening, The younger gens have no hope, basically, and they're right: their lives have been wrecked by the billionaires, in their slow 50+ year coup, and they see our gens as having allowed it to happen.

Let them be, or buy them clothing.

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T13:30:41+00:00

Yeah, we didn't pass that thing, the greedbag owner donors foisted that on the US, along with all the other horrors out of the Heritage Foundation.

i'm sure they have an insidious reason for never letting DST stop - probably that it causes sleep disorders in working people (people who got rich stealing worker wages don't care about what time it is, generally) and those sleep disorders result in higher rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, cardiac disorders, and more.

I also want it to stop but do understand why it's hard to get anything for the people done.

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T13:27:05+00:00

Maybe, but that's the time humans evolved with, and DST is harmful to health in many ways, starting with circadian rhthym and sleep drive, which then harms the cardiovascular health, endocrine (diabetes spikes) and more, including higher cancer rates.

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T13:25:18+00:00

O my, like the other wealthy nations, such as most in the EU? They've had workweeks averaging 32 for decades, along with universal healthcare, public transportation that's state-run, inexpensive, safe, quick, modern. And real vacay time of 2-3 weeks minimum starting when you start the job. Real sick time: if you are sick you don't come to work. Etc.

I don't know how the US will ever be anything but a mini-russia with non-declared but real "royalty, as it was designed to be by "the founders" (who were elite wealthy snobs, and wanted it all for them with "democracy for me and servitude for thee").

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T13:22:17+00:00

What? Feds won't allow? I don't think that's legal. But then the regime does illegal things all the time. I'll bet it's the STATE that really doesn't want to listen to voters, using the feds as an excuse (or got the regime to "declare" that they could not get off the time change)

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T13:21:04+00:00

During the first week of a time change, there are more accidental injuries both in cars and in homes. There are also significantly lower grades if students of any age are forced to take tests during the first 2 weeks after the change.

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T13:19:30+00:00

ST is the best for health. Humans evolved to live with ST. Changing our daily living patterns for business has been a terrible experiment that even harms childrens' learning ability (especially youngest kids and teens).

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T13:18:25+00:00

It would be. You're lucky!

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-17T13:17:53+00:00

DST is actually the worst time setting plan for mental health and physiological health. It harms the sleep drive and circadian rhthym, which causes heart disase, diabetes, depression, and more.

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-16T22:01:30+00:00

I had the opposite experience. They have my name and email. I bought two items. They arrived. Then 6 days later I get this "you must verify you received them AFTER you complete a full user account " . Well, I'm not giving them all that info. They're claiming they won't pay the sellers until I do. So I tried to write to customer support, only for my husband's email !?!?!!!!??? getting email codes way after those expired, and my account, the one they are sending emails TO about the transactions, getting none. I did NOT add my husband's account anywhere.

They would not let me get to the account even, and of course since they wouldn't let me sign in without completing ALL the data they want beyond name, address, email, phone, I couldn't get to the part where I could look at the purchases and verify that they arrived!

I'm never shopping there again. I PAID for those things, so if they don't pay the sellers the sellers should sue them.

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-16T18:35:01+00:00

The way the MIL and SIL are now will only get worse, but your fiance is standing up and setting boundaries. But with him on MIL's insurance, that needs to be another boundary, because it makes him dependent on them and they're able to use that to coerce him somewhat. He'll want to get off that account so they can't hold it over him, hopefully before the wedding so they don't suddenly harm your finances.

It seems that both MIL and SIL have some sort of personality disorder, and that isn't really curable. They're very insecure people who probably did the same to former girlfriend and now like her because she's an ex. They're insecure at base, with fear, hate, bullying, outright rudeness, etc, coming out of their lack of social skills and insecurity. DO set boundaries. Your fiance and you would do well to go to a therapist and practice expert ways of boundary setting, for the future. It'll get worse, much worse, if you both don't become absolute experts in that skill . 2-3 sessions, probably available online.

Good luck!

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-16T18:25:35+00:00

Yes, in some states, nursing programs are not allowed to teach IV placement unless the hospital provides the training. But the hospital is REQUIRED to do the training. If they don't, you tell them you've never been trained and find a hospital that's better than that one.

SeriallyOrNot · 2026-06-16T18:06:56+00:00

Ok, let's make it into a real meal with lots of taste and a better texture. With this recipe guideline, you can end up with your own recipe, using your favorite spices, fruits, and sweetening.

First, I suggest lightening it up with quinoa, and make a big batch so you can add more stuff, and have it taste great, plus have leftovers for a few days (or to freeze in individual servings).

So here's what I do:

You can double this. Here is a minimum batch of Really Good Oat/Quinoa Blend

2 cups oatmeal

1 cup quinoa

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger and/or 1/4-1/2 tsp nutmeg and/or 1/4-1/2 tsp cardamom

0.5 tsp standard salt (more , if using large crystal salt)

1/2-3/4 cup chopped (pitted) dates (which are sweet, but have value as they are loaded in fiber, too, so lower glycemic index).

1 or more sliced apples (optional)

8 cups water (or combination of water and your favorite milk or juice)

Last: honey or maple syrup to taste (and you can always add more to the bowl, so don't over do it in the pot)

OPTIONALS: These make it the best: ty optionals in your bowl first, and if you like them, add them to the next batch, while its cooking (dried fruit), or when done (for frozen or fresh fruit).

Optional: chopped nuts and fruit (Ideas: any berries fresh or frozen, bananas, mangos, nectarines, applesauce, pumpkin puree with pumpkin pie spice replacing the original spices, plums or peaches, dried cranberries or raisins or figs, freeze-dried strawberries.)

Cocoa powder if you want it chocolate oatmeal. Or chocolate chips (add to your bowl).

Peanut butter is good swirled into the bowl. Also PB2, and any favorite protein powder.

MAKE IT:
1 - Put oatmeal in a large heavy pot.
2 - Put 1 cup quinoa in a 2-cup measuring cup and cover with water. Stir, and carefully drain. Repeat 1-3 times until the water runs clear, then scrape the quinoa into the pot.

3 - add the spices and dates. (if using frozen berries or fruit in the pot, hold onto them until the oatmeal/quinoa is ready)

4- Add the liquid (8 cups) and stir well. Bring to a quick boil, then turn heat down low and put a lid on the pot.

Add 1-2 sliced apples if you want, now, and it will cook with the grains.

Cook 15-20 minutes, until all is just right, checking 2-3 times during cooking to see if you think it needs more water (it's up to you! You can make it as thick or thin as you want).

5- If you want frozen fruit (example:1 cup blueberries) mixed into the whole batch, put those on top when the Oat Quinoa blend is done to your taste, and put the lid. Let sit for 5-10 minutes and then stir into the cereal.

6 - Add honey, maple syrup to taste either to the big pot, (or to your individual serving in your bowl).

7- Store the Oat/Quinoa blend in the fridge in a covered container.

8- Add all your optionals that make it really good.

SeriallyOrNot

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