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The real oppressors

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Night owls of the world rise up! But only after midday, of course!
- We were trusted to protect the village from the terrors in the night for thousands of years! Now we're cast aside as pariahs, weird beings that shouldn't be in the group just because we're different. Until we regain the respect we deserve, the day walkers shall receive none of our treasures!
  
  Just keep it down
- The problem is, when they start with construction noises at 8am, this is all fine and legal, but if I come back at them with vacuuming at 11pm, I'll just get a fine.
  It's ok, I run my drier at night. It's enough to be annoying and not enough for anyone to call the police.
  
  Depends on the country. Mine doesn't have laws about that, other than "disturbing the peace". You can disturb the peace during the day too by revving an obnoxious motorcycle for instance. But no hours are codified as "night time" or "day time". Only place it appears is blocks of flats, where the community can set it, when it's binding. Also they can set it to be during any time they want it, so if a night owl sets it it could get weird :d
- The darkness rises!
  Everything is infinitly better at night.

Who decided that only people who are up and out before 10:30 AM deserve fresh biscuits? This world is fucked.
- We just have to invent a new meal. Can't have breakfast after 10:30? Fine, you can't have midnight meal before 10:30!
  
  Make it start at midnight. More exclusive
  
  We already invented brunch. It's too bad that it was such a good idea that it got overrun by hipster wankers.
- World is a fuck
  130,000,000,000,000 dead Pillsbury doughboys
- Y’all need some Bojangles! Fresh biscuits all day long.
  https://www.bojangles.com/menu/
  
  Recently moved back to the south and am happy to have Bojangles back. But nothing tops a Hardee's biscuit for me.
- Economics? If there was a sufficiently large post 10:30 fresh biscuit market, I'm sure there would be providers in no time.

Me sneaking into the sleeping room to not wake up my wife who has already been sleeping for 3 hours.
vs
My wife yelling "get out of the bed, it's already 9am!" in the morning.
- I'm both you and your wife. I sneak into the sleeping room and I yell that it's time to get up.

I'm a night person and my main job only has core hours in the afternoon. I'm also a farmer and if I don't wake up and work in the morning, the heat is deadly in summer (our humidity is frequently 80+%). I'm now oppressed by the climate as well, hehehe.
Sunrise and sunset in eastern Japan are also super early, so I'm not getting much of anything done between the end of core time and sunset even on our longest days.
- my main job
  I’m also a farmer
  Never has Japan felt so foreign to me as while reading this comment. Being a farmer (as a job, not just gardening as a hobby) and having another career at the same time? What is this sorcery?
  
  I have a cousin who is a farmer in the US and also has to have a second job. He probably has millions invested in machinery, but last time I talked to him about it he said for the cost of the equipment to really make sense he needs more land to farm. Right now he has unused capacity.
  
  I just bought a house with land and started farming this year so maybe ask me in another year or two how it's going, heh. No animals for now. I've managed to get a lot of food for us with some left over to sell.
  Oh, in the US, nearly all farmers are either getting subsidies and/or have off-farm jobs
  
  I mean Cole the Cornstar is also a grave digger and a YouTuber 🧑‍🌾🧑‍💼🧑‍💻

For the curious, this is from the dropout.tv show SmartyPants where comedians present lectures and it's amazing
- I hope they release more Smartypants soon. "When is the happiest birthday?" and "No thank you the ocean" are fucking incredible, but honestly it's all gold.
  
  The happiest birthday makes me upset.
  Because his point is so stupid, but I can't argue at all.
  His choice would be a legendary birthday. Your friends would know your birthday before they knew their parents' birthdates.
- https://www.dropout.tv/smartypants sauce.
  Youtube Um Actually for nerdy game show. https://www.youtube.com/@umactually that doesn't require subscription.

I call that bullshit until owls give up the monopoly on every fucking fun event/gathering you can attend. Meeting with friends? Yeah let's do this in the fucking night!! Concert or a party? God damn midnight would be sufficient. What? You want to have a fun time at reasonable time of fucking day? Boo opressor go to hell
- We're winning the war, you can see here one of the oppressors is demoralized by our brutal tactics
- Monopoly my ass. You morning people are just too lame to organize things that don't fucking suck.
  Every once in a while someone forces me awake on a weekend morning, and I'm appalled by how eventless and boring it is until like noon anyway.
  
  Ha, come hang with me in the summer on a Saturday. We’ll start climbing a 14,000 foot mountain (thats like 4600 meters for my EU friends) at 5/6am with intent on reaching the peak before 12. Why 12? Because the afternoon thunderstorms are rolling in and lets just say lightning is electrifying at 14000…. Well, at any height really.
  Boring, never.
  
  I've actually seen more parties start in the afternoon or just after dinner here. I'm not even a morning person per se but I also don't want to be home at 8am. I applaud it.
- We could organize stuff earlier... If we weren't either in work or sleeping after a full week of getting up in the morning to "be productive members of society" !
  Barely relevant side note, I wanted to go to a concert in Poland, Powerwolf, Hammerfall and Wind Rose are playing in Kraków, but it's on Monday? Who the hell makes a concert on Monday?!? God-damn it.
- That's because nigh owls are counter culture.
- You're saying that and yet the farmers market closes at 12pm. That shit is my fun, and yet I'm too sleepy to appreciate it
- Only when I can have 24/7 Taco Bell again. I dont want Nacho Fries at 4 in the afternoon I want them at 3 am on a Wednesday.
  
  Fuck that. Bring back 24/7 Walmart.
  Walmart was actually sufferable at 3am.
- Parties are optional. Work is not.
- Oh yeah because who wouldn't love a party at 530 am like the morning people would like
- As a shitty musician and nonprofit fundraiser those events are my livelihood. I'm going to take advantage of my hootiness.

Recently my therapist:
Look at you! You used to work night shifts and now you're working at 5 am!
Me:
Yes, nothing changed. I just don't want to work near people. So I do what I can to minimize that.
- Mate I love starting work at 6 AM. Being able to finish work before the early afternoon and having both the post-lunch rush over, pre-rush-hour on the highways, and almost all establishments empty is such a blessing. It's a major life change from working third shift.
  
  The only good thing about third shift was being drunk at 8am convincing yourself it's normal because 8am is your night time.

As a morning person, I don’t want more people waking up early, it’s my peaceful time and I want to keep it that way.
I wish night owls respected my sleep time during holidays instead of making explosions at night cause of reasons (fireworks).
- then will the morning traffic quit making noise at 8 AM?
  
  Right? This person is so fucking entitled. How dare people enjoy a few nights a year!
  
  Drag suggests solving the problem by improving the train lines. Electric trains are quieter than cars. If everyone takes the train to work, there will be less car noise.
  
  There's still traffic that late?
- Oh no, you have to be inconvenienced on three holidays a year! Night owls have to drag themselves out of bed every day because some dickheads decided that every job has to start at 8 AM.
  
  Parties and drunk kids happen all year around.
  I just chose the obvious example.
  
  Swing and graveyard shifts exist.
- Drag read that burning heavy metals in the atmosphere is bad for public health and wildlife. Drag is ashamed drag didn't realise it from common sense and instead had to have it explained to drag. Drag is now enlightened that fireworks are bad.
  Let's do drone shows instead.
  
  Drone shows for the win!
- Moving the fireworks to when the sun is high in the sky will be a hard sell, no one can see them and everyone will complain, daysider and nightsider.
  Tell the markets to stay open past noon or the shopping centres to stay open later than five. Late night shopping where I live is six pm. Weekend shopping? Four pm, unless the shop randomly decides to close at two. I've lost count how often I have rocked up to a store, and hour before closing, to find out they closed early so they could go enjoy the sun.
  Seriously, I hate that if I keep to my normal sleep schedule (and this avoids insomnia and being sick all the time), I have a two hour window on most days to get things done. That two hours is from the moment I wake until shops close, not including the normal wake up stuff like showering, or eating. It also doesn't include travel time, and I live in a sprawl where everything is a half hour away. I'd love to support the farmers markets, or browse the local markets and fairs. They are closing when I arrive, and I've already sacrificed sleep to try and attend.
- If only you knew the joy of walking around the city at night. Not a damn soul. (Unless it's the weekend ofc, then the streets are full and everyone is smashed)

I believe this is a screenshot from "Smarty-pants" and I can strongly recommend the episode "God's Mistakes: How I Would Make Our Bodies Better"
- Yup, I just watched this episode yesterday. It's Pallavi Gunalan, on episode 7 of Smartypants.

Fuck yeah I am, now get out of bed, we’re gonna be on the trail by dawn
- "We ride at dawn removed!"
  
  Gentlemen to bed, for we rise at 8:30 for 9!

Somehow in my house I wind up being the morning person AND the night owl.
- If you stay up late enough you can be both
  
  And you can get it all over with much sooner since you'll probably die of heart disease at 45.

Time for a Revolution
- Too early, let's sleep in and start the revolution at 10 a.m.
  
  You’re going about it all wrong! We’ll start it at 10pm

The revolution shall start at ~~sunrise~~ dusk!
- Diabel: Alright, looks like everyone's grouped up. Get plenty of rest tonight, people! We leave at noon!
  Player 2: Groans* Noon?
  Player 3: That's so early!
  Diabel: Sighs* Alright. What about 1 o'clock?
  Player 8: 1? Dude, come on!
  Diabel: Groans* God, fine! We leave at the crack of... 2:30, I guess. Lazy butts...
  Player 4: Christ, I'm gonna have to set my alarm.
  ~Sword Art Online Abridged, episode 2
- Reminds me of this https://youtu.be/zhbL8FFKARg?si=pAPl8FJs_D6B96yH

People see staying up late as a moral failing and feel that it's their job to guilt trip anyone who sleeps in as lazy and wasting the day away.
People see morning people as industrious and morally superior and don't criticize them for their preferred sleeping habits. At worst they get some ribbing for not being able to stay away for new years, but it's seen as understandable and a more pious lifestyle.
So... Yeah. Morning people wingeing in the comments here can fight me, I'll meet you at 10 o. Clock tonight outside.

Please share this knowledge with everyone (irl too), even for the oppressed class this might be a PSA!

"They asked me how well I understood class consciousness. I said I was a member of the conscious class. They said welcome aboard."

I wake up at 8 everyday even on weekend with a headache and a sore body. I don't want to wake up at 8, but I have the body of a 80 years old.
Am I a morning person?
- That's just when your rhythm wakes you. Put up some blackouts (and put in some high quality earplugs), go to bed later, and it'd be 11 easy enough.
  
  Not if you live with chronic pain it won't. He clearly does, and a lot of people do for a multitude of reasons.
  Source: I'm 38 with a couple of organs of a 60+ year old due to an autoimmune disorder. I'll be blind in a few years, and after that the real fun begins.

DROPOUT MENTIONED
- All my homies love Dropout

Morning people are just night people who now have children
- I feel this with all my being and I hate it.
  I'm a turd in the morning. Nothing good is done.
  I wanna go to bed at 1am and wake up at 9, but now I can't.
- But den vatt do we do both de children of de night?

What the fuck, chronobiology sounds badass how is this a real field
- Here's a podcast if you're interested:
  Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee: #479 The New Science Of The Body Clock: How To Boost Your Immune System, Reclaim Your Energy & Improve Your Mental Health with Dr Kristen Holmes
  Episode webpage: https://drchatterjee.com/479
  Media file: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p6315/traffic.megaphone.fm/FBLM7950292182.mp3?updated=1727174570
- For a hot moment I though it said chernobiology ... and when I actually read it I was still interested!
  
  Isnt that what the scientists in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. do when they study the animals of the zone.

I am now 58 years old and something happened and I wake up at 6 in the morning every day for 6 months, if I have to get up or not. I was never a morning person, but now I am and I have no explanation for it. I like it, but I try to not bother others with it.
- That is what happens to old people, I guess.
  
  Yeah there’s a reason retirement homes serve breakfast at like 5AM and dinner by like 5PM. As you get older, your circadian rhythm tends to drift more towards waking and sleeping early.

I'm not a morning person, but my dog is which forces me to be awake between 6 and 7 am every day. I just have to roll with it and start my day cause fuck it I'm up.
- Interestingly, I became a morning person after a couple of years of being gently woken up by my cats around 7am, not with loud meowing. Now, I just enjoy waking up at that time every day, even on weekends.
  
  Meanwhile my cat doesn't make a peep till he hears me wake up (scrolling youtube or something), then starts screaming like his life depended on it. Love being able to sleep in, no idea how / why he learned to do that. I just assume he is a total bro, like at everything else he does.

I made a dhampir in pathfinder based on several truths about me and one of them was that I abhor direct sunlight.

Bah, bullshit. Businesses are the oppressors. Morning people are just the victims who get whipped less.
Meanwhile, night ~~fucks~~ folks are the cool kid clique not allowing anything fun to happen until the rest of humanity is struggling to not die.
- Meanwhile, night ~~fucks~~ folks are the cool kid clique not allowing anything fun to happen until the rest of humanity is struggling to not die.
  We used to be trusted as the night protectors. Until we regain that respect, day walkers shall receive none of our treasures!

Figures that I don't like to go to bed late, I just like to be up the hours after midnight. Oh how the tables have turned.

I will not be oppressed by your linear constructs!

Yep morning people oppression probably stunted my growth. Starting classes in high school at 8:15 was horrendous, I basically spend the entire day as a zombie. Didn't matter if I slept on a regular time schedule I always felt tired.
- That's true for most teenagers, what time you get up is as dependent on age as anything.

Where do I fit in? Being a night person since I'm working graveyard shifts. I go to sleep at noon and get up to work at 8pm.

I fundamentally disagree (on a social level). Social dance mfers don't even start until 9:30PM, most people rock up at 10:30PM
This some oppressive shit if you want to be up at 7 if that's your body clock.
I want to sleep hombre.
I want to be up with the sun friend.
Where are my 6PM socials. Hurt.

💯

I hate this joke and I'm going to address it seriously.
The majority of us sleep and wake at similar hours. If someone feels like sleeping only at 2:00 or 3:00 a.m., they are probably not a night person, there might be something wrong (e.g., too much caffeine, major depression). People who naturally feel the need to sleep extremely early or extremely late are rare.
Now, same bell curve logic, most people have a not-too-early and not-to-late natural clock. 'Early birds' and 'night owls' are also not the norm. The so-called morning people who naturally wake up at 7:00 a.m. or earlier and sleep early too are not only in the minority but also impacted by all the night lights, night life, "important ceremonies are at night", etc. As students, many cannot go to sleep early because of homework, practices or activities in the dormitories. We are all affected by unrealistic schedules, especially people in demanding fields (e.g. medical field). This is why we have normalized taking stimulants.
Lastly, I need to say it, a lot of gamers think they are night people because they like to stay awake playing videogames. That's not how circadian clocks work. I understand the quiet and freedom of nighttime, but that's not necessarily our biological preference. When we are adults, we ought to find what our bodies need and provide it because our health (and future quality of life) depends on it. I'm giving this advice because it's advice I would've liked to hear when I was younger.
Back to the meme, blaming the morning people is, again (we do it in many debates), shifting the blame from capitalism and a culture of "we need to do all the things, at all hours, cities that don't sleep" to a group of people that's not the 1%.
- Sounds like morning people apologist talk
  
  Fr. This is big morning propaganda.

I think she means woke people

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