The real oppressors : memes

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] Anderenortsfalsch@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That is what happens to old people, I guess.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

[–] Razzazzika@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mstrk@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

That's true for most teenagers, what time you get up is as dependent on age as anything.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

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.

[+] Katrisia@lemm.ee -10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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%.

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like morning people apologist talk

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago

Fr. This is big morning propaganda.

[+] celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com -19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You're not a night person. You have clinical depression.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Thank you internet psychiatrist, glad I could read your insensitive comment about an illness you know nothing about

[+] Embarrassingskidmark@lemmy.world -10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think she means woke people

[–] celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What does woke mean to you?

[–] Embarrassingskidmark@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Very little. It's also the past tense of "wake"

[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

The opposite of slept.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 159 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Night owls of the world rise up! But only after midday, of course!

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 97 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

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!

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 99 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Who decided that only people who are up and out before 10:30 AM deserve fresh biscuits? This world is fucked.

[–] Pringles@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago

Economics? If there was a sufficiently large post 10:30 fresh biscuit market, I'm sure there would be providers in no time.

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[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 65 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

I'm both you and your wife. I sneak into the sleeping room and I yell that it's time to get up.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 54 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] Knitwear@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

For the curious, this is from the dropout.tv show SmartyPants where comedians present lectures and it's amazing

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[–] ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (17 children)

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

[–] almost1337@lemm.ee 10 points 6 days ago

Parties are optional. Work is not.

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Oh yeah because who wouldn't love a party at 530 am like the morning people would like

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We're winning the war, you can see here one of the oppressors is demoralized by our brutal tactics

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 week ago (28 children)

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).

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