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by dimes 17 days ago
Couldn’t you say the same thing about time zones? Why adjust the clock when you can adjust all aspects of society instead?
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that's a reductio ad absurdum, the opposite of which would be adjusting our clocks by some seconds every day so the sun would always rise at 6:00:00 AM. both extremes are equally neat in some way and painfully inconvenient in many others.