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Re: A Day in the Life of Americans

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Post by 40acres »

mmartinson wrote: post #28
40acres wrote: post #13

I wake up @ 4AM most days to get my work out in. Walking to the gym gives me a glimpse of a different America. It's mostly men, white guys in my city, they are all middle class looking dudes. Loading up trucks at the nearby grocery or beginning/ending their shift, maybe some security guards once in a while. There's some homeless people every once in a while but for the most part they don't seem to be active. There ar…

Curious, do you manage to fall asleep by 8 or 9? I'd love to get up early more regularly, but I find it tough up turn my mind off before the world quiets down.

I try to be in bed by 10 or 10:30.

Re: A Day in the Life of Americans

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Post by whatshisface »

mancerayder wrote: post #24
charmides wrote: post #3

Seems like my sleeping patterns are a lot different than those of most other people. Also, I felt depressed to see that people spend most of their lives sleeping and working or in some transition thereof.

Even more suspicious or chore-seeming to those that are more productive during the evening, which studies recently suggest this could be how some of us are wired. There's this, I think Anglo-Saxon fixation on early mornings being where productive and good people do things. Maybe a cultural byproduct of regions of the world with short, dark winter days?

>early mornings being where productive and good people do things

If everyone demands that you start work at 8:00 sharp, those who are at their best at 5:00pm will actually be worse at everything, all else equal, than those who are at their best at 8:00.

Re: A Day in the Life of Americans

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Post by joejerryronnie »

40acres wrote: post #13

I wake up @ 4AM most days to get my work out in. Walking to the gym gives me a glimpse of a different America. It's mostly men, white guys in my city, they are all middle class looking dudes. Loading up trucks at the nearby grocery or beginning/ending their shift, maybe some security guards once in a while. There's some homeless people every once in a while but for the most part they don't seem to be active. There ar…

3am is when the really strange things happen. It's too late for most people to be out after a night at the bar and too early for even the earlybirds to be out and about. The last time I regularly saw 3am was my first couple of years in college when we were experimenting with things that make it tough to sleep.

Re: A Day in the Life of Americans

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Post by zuminator »

joejerryronnie wrote: post #33
40acres wrote: post #13

I wake up @ 4AM most days to get my work out in. Walking to the gym gives me a glimpse of a different America. It's mostly men, white guys in my city, they are all middle class looking dudes. Loading up trucks at the nearby grocery or beginning/ending their shift, maybe some security guards once in a while. There's some homeless people every once in a while but for the most part they don't seem to be active. There ar…

3am is when the really strange things happen. It's too late for most people to be out after a night at the bar and too early for even the earlybirds to be out and about. The last time I regularly saw 3am was my first couple of years in college when we were experimenting with things that make it tough to sleep.

Makes sense. According to the data sim, from 3:15am to just before 4am, about 96% of people are asleep. So if you're up and about at that time, you're really seeing an unusual slice of the population.

Re: A Day in the Life of Americans

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Post by purplezooey »

40acres wrote: post #13

I wake up @ 4AM most days to get my work out in. Walking to the gym gives me a glimpse of a different America. It's mostly men, white guys in my city, they are all middle class looking dudes. Loading up trucks at the nearby grocery or beginning/ending their shift, maybe some security guards once in a while. There's some homeless people every once in a while but for the most part they don't seem to be active. There ar…

what exactly is an 'active' homeless person

Re: A Day in the Life of Americans

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Post by crooked-v »

purplezooey wrote: post #37
40acres wrote: post #13

I wake up @ 4AM most days to get my work out in. Walking to the gym gives me a glimpse of a different America. It's mostly men, white guys in my city, they are all middle class looking dudes. Loading up trucks at the nearby grocery or beginning/ending their shift, maybe some security guards once in a while. There's some homeless people every once in a while but for the most part they don't seem to be active. There ar…

what exactly is an 'active' homeless person

Presumably "not asleep like most people are at 4 AM".

Re: A Day in the Life of Americans

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Post by abenedic »

40acres wrote: post #13

I wake up @ 4AM most days to get my work out in. Walking to the gym gives me a glimpse of a different America. It's mostly men, white guys in my city, they are all middle class looking dudes. Loading up trucks at the nearby grocery or beginning/ending their shift, maybe some security guards once in a while. There's some homeless people every once in a while but for the most part they don't seem to be active. There ar…

> It's mostly men, white guys in my city

I am sorry, I am not American, though I live here. Does this not in itself contribute to the uncomfortable feelings of women and minorities in your city?

Re: A Day in the Life of Americans

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Post by bbddg »

mercer wrote: post #16
steveklabnik wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will" was a slogan in the labor movement, fighting for the eight hour day, coined in 1817.

If only that was just the beginning...

Sorry that you're being down voted on this hellsite.
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