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xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet

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Building Inspectors HATE This One Weird Trick

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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

That's generally the thing with decisions that don't matter much. If one option is much better, there is no discussion.

But if the benefits of either option are marginal at best, you get tons of discussion and no decision.

For example, the EU decided almost a decade ago that they would get rid of daylight saving time, and everyone quickly agreed that DST sucks, mostly because changing the clocks sucks.

Since then, the whole EU has been arguing about whether to keep summer time or winter time, even though that matters so little that we have been using both of them for decades. A week after switching DST, nobody even notices the time shift.

That's why at work if a discussion goes on for too long I usually point out that that's the case because all options are almost equally as good and thus we should just pick a random one instead of continuing to waste time discussing in circles.