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Wed. 03/16 - Permanent Daylight Saving Time?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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How Prohibition was far more global and far more progressive than it’s often portrayed. And, is the United States about to stay in Daylight Saving Time forever? Sponsors: DeVry University, Learn more at DeVry.edu/Future Lendtable, Use code KOTTKE at Lendtable.com to get an extra $50 added to your Lendtable balance Links: Myth Vs. Fact: Daylight Saving Time and Farming (AgAmerica)  The Senate unanimously agreed to make daylight saving time permanent. (Slate)  The Senate just voted to make daylight saving time permanent. Good. (Vox) The Real History of Prohibition Is Global (The Atlantic) Abolition, Women's Rights, and Temperance Movements (National Parks Service) The Forgotten History of Black Prohibitionism (Politico) Watch Prohibition | Ken Burns (PBS)  How You Know You're Drinking A Great Prohibition-Era Cocktail (Thrillist) February episode on Prohibition-era "wine bricks" (Kottke Ride Home) Last year's Daylight Saving & St. Patrick's Day segments (Kottke Ride Home) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.8

Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Wednesday, March 16th, 2022.

0:40.5

I'm Jackson Bird today.

0:42.6

How Prohibition was far more global and far more progressive than it's often portrayed.

0:48.8

And is the United States about to stay in daylight saving time forever. Here are some of the cool things from

0:56.4

the news today. Sometimes it's still wild to me to think that we had nearly 13 years of

1:05.2

prohibition in the United States. For the whole 20s, the manufacture, sale, and transportation

1:10.3

of intoxicating liquors was illegal.

1:13.6

There was a whole amendment to the Constitution which a significant majority of Congress members and states voted for.

1:20.0

Imagine that kind of political unity today.

1:22.9

Looking back, Prohibition is often painted as something put forth by moralists trying to regulate

1:28.3

everyone else's behavior, perhaps a part of the growing evangelical movement at the time.

1:33.5

And at least in portrayals in popular culture, we shake our head at those and extol the speak-easy

1:39.0

goers, the flappers, the bootleggers, and the rum runners, the gangsters, and the

1:43.6

entrepreneurs just trying to

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