That’s not actually true. Physical activity, exercise affects circadian rhythms as well, and is a far more important consideration.

Again, the “circadian rhythms” factor of morning daylight can be adequately addressed with a simple bedside smart lamp providing consistent “morning light” to wake up to. That little lamp can start your winter day two (or more) hours earlier than your latitude would otherwise allow.

Stadium-style lighting over my local metro park, simulating afternoon daylight, isn’t nearly as feasible an option.

How does a lamp in my bedroom window replace an hour of afternoon daylight at my local metro park, or any of the other, non-bedroom places I want to be?

Are you not understanding that I don’t want to be in my bedroom at 4:30pm?

Kids don’t get daylight in the winter under standard time.

We send them to school before dawn. They are locked indoors until a brief recess at lunch time, then locked back indoors until 3pm. In winter, that gives them just enough time for sunset shortly after they get home.

In December and January, the only school-day hours of daylight they get to enjoy are the ones given to them by Daylight Savings Time.

Morning daylight is more than adequately replaced with a smart lamp next to your bedroom window. There is no replacement for evening daylight.

Morning sunlight can be adequately replaced with a dawn-simulating dimmer lamp next to the bedroom window.

Nothing replaces evening daylight.

School age kids don’t get daylight in winter. We lock them away indoors until a brief, lunch time recess. Then it is back inside until 3pm. They get home just in time for sunset, when they are locked back indoors after dark.

The only daylight they can feasibly get in winter is after school, and standard time deprives them of it.

Dawn-simulating lamps/alarm clocks are more than adequate for meeting early morning circadian needs; there is nothing capable of replacing the utility of evening daylight.

Mornings are miserable regardless. Let the boss man have us at the lowest and worst part of the day.

When the work day is over, we should have some daylight left for our own use. That means DST.

I think this post needs more cowbell.

The sort of tyranny you see in class based societies is not seen in Hunter gatherer society.

We can see this sort of tyranny evolved not just in humans, but in a wide variety of species. What makes humanity special in this regard? Why do you think our evolutionary ancestors were immune to these sorts of behaviors?

have social customs that strongly discourage hoarding and displays of authority, and encourage economic equality via sharing of food and material goods

The sharing of food and material goods does not imply a lack of tyrannical behavior. A focus on the “carrots” does not justify ignoring the “sticks”.

That sort of tyranny won’t last long

That sort of tyranny is the defining characteristic of these primitive, tribal social structures.

If one guy tries to monopolize the women and resources of the tribe then the rest of the men would rebel and easily take him and his goons.

Gorillas, elephant seals, wolves… If you look hard enough, you can find similar social structure even in invertebrates. If the tyrant is ever overthrown, he is always replaced by those overthrowing him, and the tyranny continues. This structure was successful because a tribe’s tyrant was a bigger threat to neighboring tribes than his own.

Also pre agricultural society was nomadic, so if a tyranny ever came the oppressed could just leave.

What really happened was that the departing group posed a competitive threat to those who remained, so they group collectively turned on the rebels. If a rebellion was ever actually successful, it quickly established the same structure with new players.

Before agriculture there was no surplus,

Tyranny thrives with surplus, scarcity, or anything in between.

So naturally these tribes filled with strife and tyranny would die out while tribes that were able to keep consensus and coherence among the men would prevail.

The lesson that arises from this is submission. Submit to the tyrant of your tribe, or the tyrants of other tribes will be coming for you. If any in your tribe would turn against your tyrant, you owe a duty to your tyrant to eliminate them, and come to your tyrant’s aid. Your tribe will die out, unless you keep consensus and coherence in support of your own tyrant. You become a supporting member of the tyranny long before you ever pick up a shovel or hoe. The pinnacle of anarchy is submission to the nearest tyrant.

You don’t need a static IP, you just have to keep track of what your current dynamic IP is.

You still need a public IP address. More and more often, IPv4 services are provided behind CGNAT, which won’t be able to work as you describe.

If you don’t have a public IPv4 for your LAN you can use IPv6. Or, you can reverse proxy your services through a gateway with a public IPv4.

I use a a reverse proxy (Pangolin) running on a VPS. A Newt tunnel connects my LAN to to Pangolin, exposing my local services via subdomains.

/edit; vpns are good and all, but they require you to setup software on the remote device to connect to it, and that typically routes most if not all your traffic back to the vpn server then out to the internet. That can create speed/bandwidth issues.

Tailscale, ZeroTier, and other similar services generally establish direct tunnels between devices, without a separate VPN server. They use a central service merely as a sort of common meeting point (STUN/TURN) for the devices to figure out how to establish direct tunnel(s).

These were not benign, cooperative social structures. They were tiny dictatorships. The leader controlled the “discretion of the tribe” by eliminating dissent. The controlling principle of their social structure was “might makes right”.

Other words for the broad concept you are describing are “harem” and “cult”.

Not under this rationale, no.

The “+s/es” construction typically indicates plurality. “It” is fundamentally singular, so there is no justification for “its”.

“It’s” eliminates more exceptions to various rules for word construction; it achieves greater simplification.

Found the English teacher.

The apostrophe-s construction “it’s” suffices for both the contractive form “it is” as well as the possessive form of “it”. “Its” exists solely to satisfy the craven pedantry of elementary school English teachers. Nothing of value is lost by abandoning this archaic construction.

“Its” is deprecated.

Downvote all you like; pedant tears are full of electrolytes.

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What are you trying to accomplish with that?

I’ve got pangolin running on a VPS. It was dead simple.

Lordstown Motors got done in partially by its own management, partially by a short seller making an ass-ton of money by screwing them over. It had little to do with fleet customers.

I really wish EV manufacturers would get around to targeting fleet pickups. Generic, bare-bones, featureless trucks.