• Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      It’s apparently a hold over from olden times when good Christian farmers weren’t going to skip church to travel to the county seat and vote. So Monday is a travel day and Tuesday is when you vote. Or something like that.

      Voting day and daylight savings time are the two immutable objects in American life.

      Edit: and both are catering to farmers. Those and corn subsidies are the 3 immutable objects in American life, all catering to farmers.

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        4 months ago

        Voting day and daylight savings time are the two immutable objects in American life.

        Unless your George W Bush, in which case DST can be rescheduled by 2 weeks and cause everything with automatic time changes but no updates to be manually adjusted twice a year…

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          4 months ago

          Valid point. In my head I was speaking of the existence of DST, not when it changed. But I did use the word “immutable”, so I guess I’m back to 2 of those - Tuesday voting and corn subsidies.