The World Has Changed

As the first week of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine passed, our hosts are here to ...

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As the first week of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine passed, our hosts are here to discuss how the world has changed. Plus, President Biden delivers his first State of Union address and Texas holds the first primary elections of 2022. What have we learned from the last week?

Show Notes:

–TMD: “A Nuclear Plant Scare in Ukraine”

–The Dispatch: “Will the European Union Admit Ukraine?”

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    Brad Armstrong

    Farmers do not like Daylight Savings.
    1 - Livestock do now own clocks. You're either showing up early or late for feeding. The clock change is particularly hard for dairy farms.
    2 - The majority of small farmers (and even 1 in 6 of large operators) have a second job. DST that starts before spring and ends after fall means people are doing chores in the dark before they go to work.

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  2. Robert Connell

    Dark in Nashville ? For perspective try Alaska DST. After a winter of more darkness than you can likely imagine we get our meager sun shifted away from life rhythms that are moreimportant than in areas of longer daylight. The disruption is neither helpful or pleasant. I suspect the reason we have it is the same reason our time zone is off; business interests pushing ledislators the keep the time difference between EST and AST to a maximum of four hours. If you look at the longitude we should be five hours from EST.

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    Nikkimemmott

    I had this thought recently and keep coming back to it - Everyone assume that what is happening to Russia is a deterrent to China, but I can’t help wondering if continued escalation is actually an incentive for them to invade Taiwan. Wouldn’t they much rather invade while EU or NATO already have boots on the ground in Ukraine and US is focused there? If China was able to do what Russia could not and take Taiwan quickly, would anyone even issue sanctions while a Ukraine conflict still raged?

    Maybe they really are concerned about the economics of it all, but it just wouldn’t shock me if China took advantage of a ground war in Europe to get what they want while the world is busy.

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    Kim

    https://twitter.com/andreivkozyrev/status/1500611398245634050

    I would like to hear what the Dispatch crew thinks of this twitter thread.

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    CA Allen

    The problem with DST is when they pushed the start to March. When it was late April to late Oct it was ok. For all those like David and Sarah that never want to “fall back” ie stay on DST year round, it would be dark until 730 8am most of the country as late 9am in some places, do we really want kids going to school, assuming we ever have them go back, in the dark for a couple of months so it’s day light at 530-600pm?

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    The Bell Tower

    Did David French really just propose to permanently eliminate my extra hour of sleep during alcoholic Halloween season? I have a 2 year old! This is reality for me:

    https://youtu.be/HyWmDHo7PMU

    Yeah, yeah…. lose an hour in Spring. It’s Lent!

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    wj

    As another commenter said here, I too found the voting discussion a bit hand-wavey and partisan.

    Is it not also possible that the TX voter suppression laws were a factor in the widening margin between the R and D turnout in the recent election? That's the actual intent behind many of these laws, after all.

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  8. Shadraq

    Putin has "threatened" nukes. So who does he pick as a target(s) since it's all of Europe + US who are sanctioning him?

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    Robert Ernst

    Spring forward and never look back.

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    Ben Connelly

    Scott is right: libertarianism is not for cats! I will happily join him as part of the anti-cat vote. As Jonah always says, “it is not enough that dogs succeed. Cats must also fail.” So true.

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