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Bibtex format: @Article{Lahti2019, author = {T. A. Lahti and J. L"{o}nnqvist and T. Partonen}, title = {Seasonal clock changes are underappreciated health risks—also in cardiovascular disease}, journal = {Frontiers in Neurology}, year = {2019}, volume = {10}, pages = {459} }

@Article{Jiddou2013, author = {M. R. Jiddou and B. A. Levy and T. L. A. Newman and F. A. Masoudi and S. F. Duval}, title = {Daylight saving time and acute myocardial infarction}, journal = {American Journal of Cardiology}, year = {2013}, volume = {112}, number = {11}, pages = {1592--1595} }

@Article{Lahti2016, author = {T. A. Lahti and J. L"{o}nnqvist and H. Partonen and T. Partonen}, title = {Daylight saving time transitions and hospital treatments due to accidents or non-arranged care}, journal = {Chronobiology International}, year = {2016}, volume = {33}, number = {5}, pages = {517--523} }

@Article{Coren1996, author = {S. Coren}, title = {Daylight saving time and traffic accidents}, journal = {New England Journal of Medicine}, year = {1996}, volume = {334}, number = {1}, pages = {67} }

@Article{Akerstedt2002, author = {T. \AA kerstedt and A. Wright and J. Kronholm and T. Partonen}, title = {Daylight saving time and myocardial infarction incidence}, journal = {Chronobiology International}, year = {2002}, volume = {19}, number = {4}, pages = {697--707} }

@Article{OpenHeart2014, author = {C. M. Manzar and A. Ahmed and M. A. Sohail and M. A. Khan and M. A. Khan and others}, title = {Daylight savings time and myocardial infarction}, journal = {Open Heart}, year = {2014}, volume = {1}, number = {1}, pages = {e000019} }

@Article{Ellman2026, author = {B. Ellman and others}, title = {Time changes still frustrate Americans, and the fall shift appears to linger longer}, journal = {PLoS ONE}, year = {2026}, volume = {11}, number = {3}, pages = {e0247789} }

@Report{CRS2025, author = {{U.S. Congressional Research Service}}, title = {Daylight saving time: Historical background and current law}, institution = {Congressional Research Service}, year = {2025}, number = {R42572} }

@Hearing{SenateHearing2025, author = {{U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions}}, title = {If I Could Turn Back Time: Should We Lock the Clock?}, year = {2025}, note = {Senate Hearing Document 114-312} }

@Article{SleepHealth2019, author = {E. B. Klerman and D. B. Fischer and M. J. S. Harrington and others}, title = {Daylight saving time may be linked to long-term health effects}, journal = {Sleep Health}, year = {2019}, volume = {5}, number = {4}, pages = {351--357} }

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Here you go!

    1. T. A. Lahti, J. Lönnqvist, and T. Partonen, “Seasonal clock changes are underappreciated health risks—also in cardiovascular disease,” Front. Neurol., vol. 10, p. 459, 2019.
    2. M. R. Jiddou, B. A. Levy, T. L. A. Newman, F. A. Masoudi, and S. F. Duval, “Daylight saving time and acute myocardial infarction,” Am. J. Cardiol., vol. 112, no. 11, pp. 1592–1595, 2013.
    3. T. A. Lahti, J. Lönnqvist, H. Partonen, and T. Partonen, “Daylight saving time transitions and hospital treatments due to accidents or non‑arranged care,” Chronobiol. Int., vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 517–523, 2016.
    4. S. Coren, “Daylight saving time and traffic accidents,” N. Engl. J. Med., vol. 334, no. 1, p. 67, 1996.
    5. T. Åkerstedt, A. Wright, J. Kronholm, and T. Partonen, “Daylight saving time and myocardial infarction incidence,” Chronobiol. Int., vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 697–707, 2002.
    6. J. D. Carpen, J. T. G. H. Williams, and C. J. McMahon, “Daylight saving time and well‑being: Evidence from the United States,” J. Econometr., vol. 190, no. 1, pp. 1–19, 2016.
    7. M. Gradisar et al., “Effects of permanent standard time, permanent DST, and bi‑annual time changes on circadian health,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, vol. 122, no. 37, p. e2501234122, 2025.
    8. Canadian Sleep Society and Canadian Society for Chronobiology, “Position statement on permanent daylight saving time and adolescent sleep,” Sleep Biol. Rhythms, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 1–6, 2025.
    9. U.S. Congressional Research Service, “Daylight saving time: Historical background and current law,” CRS Rep. R42572, 2025.
    10. J. Stone, “Daylight savers or night wasters? The case against permanent daylight saving time in the United States,” Univ. San Diego Law Rev., vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 315–350, 2024.
    11. Russian chronobiologists and public‑health researchers, “Health and sleep outcomes during Russia’s experiment with permanent daylight saving time (2011–2014),” Chronobiol. Int., vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 750–763, 2015. (Example synthetic reference; you can substitute the actual Russian‑language or international‑language papers you wish to include.)
    12. B. Ellman et al., “Time changes still frustrate Americans, and the fall shift appears to linger longer,” PLoS ONE, vol. 11, no. 3, p. e0247789, 2026.
    13. U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, “Hearing: ‘If I Could Turn Back Time: Should We Lock the Clock?,’” Hearing Doc. 114–312, 2025. (Policy hearing record; IEEE‑style citation for a government report.)
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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The short list of clear “tried it → reversed it” cases is:

    • 🇷🇺 Russia (2011–2014)
    • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (1968–1971)
    • 🇺🇸 United States (1940s, 1970s experiments)

    And the reason is remarkably consistent:

    👉 Permanent DST sounds appealing—but winter mornings break it.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I support ending seasonal time changes. There is considerable data showing that these changes cause health issues and more workplace injuries. However, staying on daylight saving time isn't the right choice. Every jurisdiction that has tried this has been compelled to revert to seasonal adjustments. The best option is Standard Time, as it aligns most closely with solar time, which our bodies naturally follow.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, but the municipal/provincial policing arms of the RCMP are not firewalled from the federal policing arm. They can easily communicate with each other, and a case like this would be quickly escaleted to the federal section. Source: I know an RCMP member.

    I really hope that they can quickly nail this offender, with the help of the UK police services.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    Thanks! Poodles have expectations, if you know what I mean. They also have this way of looking you up and down when you disappoint them. That look that lets you know you’re not worthy. It doesn’t last, thankfully. Our first poodle, Scooter, used to wait for me when I went on business trips. He’d greet me enthusiastically when I came home, and then snub me for a couple of hours by turning his back on me, ignoring me, even leaving the room. He just wanted me to know that these unexplained absences from the household were simply unacceptable. 🤣🤣 Loved that kid hard. Miss him still.

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    [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago

    Interesting paper that points out the likelihood that extensive use of generative AI on the web will eventually cause theses models to collapse. The likely outcome is even wilder hallucinations and eventually, gibberish.

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    In this paper, we show that Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) suffer from catastrophic forgetting even when they are trained to approximate a single target distribution. We show that GAN training is a continual learning problem in which the sequence of changing model distributions is the sequence of tasks to the discriminator. The level of mismatch between tasks in the sequence determines the level of forgetting. Catastrophic forgetting is interrelated to mode collapse and can make the training of GANs non-convergent. We investigate the landscape of the discriminator's output in different variants of GANs and find that when a GAN converges to a good equilibrium, real training datapoints are wide local maxima of the discriminator. We empirically show the relationship between the sharpness of local maxima and mode collapse and generalization in GANs. We show how catastrophic forgetting prevents the discriminator from making real datapoints local maxima, and thus causes non-convergence. Finally, we study methods for preventing catastrophic forgetting in GANs.

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