Why is everything so ugly?

Post by wonderwonder » Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 8:16 PM UTC

acuozzo wrote: post #245

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What I find really interesting is that women can see shades that men cannot. My wife painted several shades of grey on the wall, including "agreeable gray" and I could not tell the difference, all looked the same. I experienced the same thing when she was looking for a grey / green for the kitchen cabinets. I could not tell the difference and all looked grey. She was also able to see shades of blue where all I saw wa…

https://www.xrite.com/hue-test

Post by shiroiuma » Tue, Jan 23, 2024, 1:29 AM UTC

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As an Xer who grew up with all these old technologies and saw the transitions to modern stuff, I fully agree. It's odd how Millennials are so interested in obsolete and obviously inferior technologies like LPs and Polaroid photos. There's very, very few cases I can think of where an older technology really was better in a significant way. Mechanical keyboards like the IBM Model M (or better yet, the Model F, though t…

Personally I don't really see the point of ownership. If I can listen to the music I'm good, I don't need to "own" a copy. I'm probably an outlier, I don't really see the point of collecting things in general. Seems strange to me to have a hobby that consists of literally just buying things.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 23, 2024, 2:19 AM UTC

runsonrum wrote: post #260

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The evidence that blue light is bad for sleep is much worse from an experimental standpoint than the evidence that it improves cognition and reaction time, which are obviously rather important considerations in street lights. Consider for instance that placebo glasses which filter the so-called harmful blue light wavelengths have been shown to fully reverse the apparent effect on sleep quality. This is despite them j…

I have seen something similar on TV to do with MSG. The room was split down the middle and I believe the participants were told half the room ate food with MSG and the other half without. They interviewed the participants after and the majority on the side with MSG had symptoms. The only problem was that no one had consumed MSG. going off of memory from something I saw a decade ago

Post by shiroiuma » Tue, Jan 23, 2024, 2:35 AM UTC

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> A reminder of the rot and desperation of the that era. I think there's a tendency to romanticize this kind of thing, a la an early Tom Waits song. I've lived in Portland for a little under 5 years. I feel like it has been moving in the "ugly" direction the author describes for a while, and it started before I moved here. People that have been here much longer describe how it used to be much more "gritty" and danger…

When someone mentions the "disneyfication" of Times Square I'm declined to think they have either very selective memories or they were never around that area and 42nd Street in the 80s especially late at night. They can still hang out at the Port Authority if they want to experience echoes of that time.

Post by CyberDildonics » Tue, Jan 23, 2024, 5:51 AM UTC

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Why 2010 exactly?

Start of the "Arab Spring" and the clusterfuck that led to the dissolution of all international law.