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Re: Modern decor may be straining people's brains

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Post by wafflemaker »

austin-cheney wrote: post #197
obscurette wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a discussion regarding this some time ago with my grandchild who has an ADHD diagnosis. She has troubles being in noisy (especially visually) environments, yet she finds my home (relatively large home full of books, music always playing etc) comforting. She explained that all this stuff in my home is interesting for her and speaks with her - "It's you and grandma, it's full of stories". But the very modern and…

The noise on the walls is comforting to people on the autism spectrum, provided it’s bound by inferred structures. You have to also understand that elementary school education is almost universally female, much more so programming is male dominated. Like software, elementary school education is also a pool for adults on the autism spectrum substantially higher than general population average.

Can you write more thoughts or describe some situations?

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Post by astrobe_ »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #184
sgt wrote: post #94

> Many LED systems use a dimming technique that rapidly switches the light on and off (sometimes hundreds of times per second). While this is invisible as flicker to the naked eye under normal conditions, eye movements can expose it This is what I've always felt too, but if you talk to any lighting "expert", they'll say "no that's simply not the case with LED lighting since the year... 2009 or whatever ...". Highly s…

> This is what I've always felt too, but if you talk to any lighting "expert", they'll say "no that's simply not the case with LED lighting since the year... 2009 or whatever ...". Highly suspect. Way before the Internet I had games running at 50 Hz (PAL). And we fully knew the difference between, say, a 2D game scrolling at full-frame rate and a game running a 25 fps: we could tell immediately. Same for intros and d…

Well, I was one of those "armchair" specialists until I got a system why could sustain 60 FPS and I couldn't deny there was a difference between 30 FPS and 60 FPS, even though on the paper 25 FPS "should be enough for everyone".

(from TFA:) > During a rapid eye movement, the flickering light source can paint a streak of ghost images across the retina

So REM could explain it? Maybe it is somehow variable among people?

Re: Modern decor may be straining people's brains

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Post by austin-cheney »

wafflemaker wrote: post #211
austin-cheney wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The noise on the walls is comforting to people on the autism spectrum, provided it’s bound by inferred structures. You have to also understand that elementary school education is almost universally female, much more so programming is male dominated. Like software, elementary school education is also a pool for adults on the autism spectrum substantially higher than general population average.

Can you write more thoughts or describe some situations?

I am not sure what you are asking for.

Re: Modern decor may be straining people's brains

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Post by andai »

appreciatorBus wrote: post #19
michaelchisari wrote: post #5

If you've ever been in an home owned for generations, filled with books and knickknacks and heirlooms and family photos, despite the clutter it all feels comforting in a way that modern decor doesn't. The article doesn't touch much on why modern decor emerged as it did. It's a market response where everyone needs to (or feels the need to) pick up and move at a moment's notice. Companies are either expanding or like t…

I am skeptical this is the origin of modern decor. The trend away from ornamentation, toward simplicity, flatness, etc in design goes back several generations and transcends interior design. If the thesis was true, we'd expect rich people who will never be compelled to move against their will, or to move into less space, would prefer cluttered homey interiors, and poor people would prefer sparse & modern. In reality,…

I saw this comic once, of a big empty hall. "Only the rich can afford this much nothing."

I walked past a bank later and it looked almost exactly the same. (I guess that's where the money is!)

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Post by WhyNotHugo »

throwaway7783 wrote: post #96
snozolli wrote: post #48

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Only the rich can afford to own nothing/exert effort to have empty space without consequence. Reminds me of the reason that grass yards exist: to show the world that one can afford land for the sake of owning it, rather than for growing crops.

A dirt yard is sufficient if it was to show off land. Grass is not required

The grass proves that it's actually fertile lands, and that there's resources for keeping it growing.

Historically, using land with such properties for grass instead of crops was as sign of wealth, especially for large estates.

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Post by _the_inflator »

michaelchisari wrote: post #5

If you've ever been in an home owned for generations, filled with books and knickknacks and heirlooms and family photos, despite the clutter it all feels comforting in a way that modern decor doesn't. The article doesn't touch much on why modern decor emerged as it did. It's a market response where everyone needs to (or feels the need to) pick up and move at a moment's notice. Companies are either expanding or like t…

I agree with you.

Victimhood par excellence: "My brain is a 200+ IQ machine desperately waiting for input. However, I cannot feed it! It is the walls, I guess."

It should be legally enforced to place every author's smartphone usage statistics into such articles. No interior design on earth can compensate for 40 hours TikTok usage per week.

And we didn't mention other streaming services as well.

It might be the smartphone usage as well as time spend.

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Post by moi2388 »

gib444 wrote: post #202

> People who are neurodivergent, a broad term covering autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and related conditions, are disproportionately affected I don't think this is at all a coincidence when it comes to office planning and design. It is purposefully exclusionary Modern offices are just social/business experiments about what a human will put up with to earn a wage and to optimise for the most desired employees. Most offices I…

> “ It is purposefully exclusionary”

No, neurodivergent and autistic people are just generally affected or annoyed by pretty much anything.

There is no conspiracy here.

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Post by aetherspawn »

dpark wrote: post #160
antonymoose wrote: post #154

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If you read Mark and the entirety of New Testament in good faith you would know the answer :) It’s your actions and not your culinary habits. If you chose to fornicate you’re sinning. Nothing in the New Testament reneges on that. Intentionally endorsing lifestyles that promote such acts are bad per the scripture. If you don’t believe that and choose to”good feels” and statism as your God, that’s your choice.

> If you read… Nah. I will decline to (re)read several hundred pages to try to find the answer you cannot provide. You didn’t even answer my straightforward question about what you meant with your seeming homosexuality-pedophilia link. > If you chose to fornicate you’re sinning. Then can I assume you support gay marriage?

It’s not like people don’t know the references, they just don’t want to engage in a public argument with you.

Old Testament: Lev 18:22, Gen 19:1-7, Judges 19:22-23, Jude 7:7

New Testament: 1 Cor 6:9, Romans 1:26-27

And your accusation about Hypocrisy in eating pork etc:

Laws of Moses superseded: Gal 3:23-25, Romans 10:4, Col 2:14, Col 2:16-17, Romans 6:14-15

by New Testament principles: Acts 15:28,29 and Acts 10:9-16

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Post by ryankrage77 »

bob1029 wrote: post #182
sirwitti wrote: post #150

One aspect that is often overlooked is a room acoustics - especially reverb time. Have you ever felt cosy in a large church? Or, if you have ever been to a wedding and wondered why everybody started talking louder and louder and it's hard to understand, a room with too large reverb time is a very probable causes. This is very draining mentally. The same goes for living spaces, especially since newer homes tend to use…

The most important aspect of a room's acoustic performance are its dimensions. Rectangular rooms have 3 axial modes that dominate. These modes are easily excited and store energy which you perceive as rumbling, booming, droning, etc. A very small input can get a large room going like crazy if it is mechanically coupled to the room in any way. Even decoupled sources (your neighbor's home theater system) can easily exc…

When testing speakers, I discovered my room (or house) is resonant around 40Hz. On most other frequencies the speaker was quiet, at 40Hz it felt like the room was shaking. I wonder if the effect of vehicle noise (I'm between a large road and train tracks, and near an airport) is amplified by this, though I've not noticed any impact - then again, it's not as though the vehicles are generating constant sine waves, and I don't have a quieter baseline to compare to.

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Post by AlexandrB »

inigyou wrote: post #169
ericmay wrote: post #57

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> It's a market response where everyone needs to (or feels the need to) pick up and move at a moment's notice. Yes, but it's deeper than that. Two broad reasons, though your point here is a good one. 1. We don't, particularly in the west, have the skills, shops/craftsmen, or access to resources to make things like we used to. It's a positive network effect where prices go up, folks don't do the work anymore, and so p…

"colonizer" has a specific meaning, it doesn't mean "someone you don't like"

In theory, yes. In practice it's just used as an epithet against specific groups. For instance, you almost never hear folks from South America being called colonizers despite how Spain and Portugal carved up that continent, meanwhile Jews are frequently called colonizers of their own ancestral homeland.
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