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Meta agrees to pay $18 billion to settle US lawsuits over children's social media addiction ReutersMeta to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims The New York Times2 hours a day, no late nights: How Meta's settlement will change teen accounts The Washington PostMeta Reaches $18 Billion Settlement With 48 States Over Child-Safety Claims WSJ
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Tim Curry, star of ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show' and ‘It,' dies at 80 NBC NewsTim Curry, Star of ‘Rocky Horror' and Much More, Dies at 80 The New York TimesThe Muppets Perfectly Tribute to Tim Curry's Long John Silver After Actor's Death YahooActor Tim Curry Dead at 80 TMZTim Curry, Famous for Roles in Rocky Horror Picture Show It and Annie , Dies at 80, 14 Years After Paralyzing Stroke People.com
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Topic: FuturismInventionsPeople love and hate Daylight Savings Time. Or more to the point, they hate the transition to and from it, particularly the spring one where you get 1 hour less sleep. It's even been tracked that traffic accidents go up after this shift.
There's a virtue to DST, though. We've become a night culture, and many of us get up well after sunrise and stay up well into dark, wasting hours of daylight every day. DST reduces that, though if you start the day too soon, you are rising and commuting in darkness. In the "energy crisis" they made year-round DST and many complained their kids were going to school in the dark. Of course, you can just resolve to get up earlier, or later, as you like, and control your own day, but many people must work on dictated schedules, and everybody wants to be in sync with those around them.
In the era before clocks, people tended to wake around sunrise each day. Indeed, the dawn twilight is what woke them up. Then they stayed up for 16 hours. In summer, it was 16 hours of day. In winter, they would get what daylight there was, then stay up into the night. Each day, they got up with the sun, arising at a different time, a few minutes earlier than before from December to June, a few minutes later the other half of the year. This is the natural clock that we evolved to, and is probably best for us.
Japan
Before contact with the west, Japan used a very different system. The day was divided into 12 "hours" or
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