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Re: Modern decor may be straining people's brains

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Post by mlrtime »

Al-Khwarizmi wrote: post #201

I don't really know what to take away from this piece. I think I might be misunderstanding something. On the one hand, "Eyes and brain alike evolved over millennia to process natural scenes, forests, rivers, coastlines, open skies. These environments share a specific mathematical pattern: their visual complexity decreases predictably as you zoom in on finer and finer details" - What, isn't it just the opposite? Coast…

They are difficult to find locally and expensive.

Look for Waveform or Phillips Ultra.

Re: Modern decor may be straining people's brains

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Post by rationalist »

StefanBatory wrote: post #199
xyzelement wrote: post #114

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Is it really an American thing? Every company's London office is filled with Germans, French, Italians and polaks/Russian. How'd they get there

I am very interested in why you both chose to single Poles out with this, used lowercase AND used slur here. > and polaks

Unless OP speaks Polish, it does appear to be a mispelling of an offensive term.

> In Polish, "Polak" simply means a Polish man (with "Polka" meaning a Polish woman).

> In English, the spelling "Polack" (and its plural "Polacks") is an old borrowing from Polish, but today it is generally considered a derogatory or offensive ethnic slur for Polish people

Re: Modern decor may be straining people's brains

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Post by ShinyLeftPad »

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…

Even those homes these days are all LED that flicker during saccades.

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Post by theoreticalmal »

kmfrk wrote: post #185
obscurette wrote: post #31

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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 acoustics of homes with clean walls and floors can also be absolutely miserable. Some small dining rooms amplify all the worst noises and make it terrible to be in, drains your mental battery like few other things.

I’m so glad to see someone else who thinks this. Barren walls, vinyl flooring, 5k Kelvin lights, and scented candles everywhere. It’s like the most miserable consumerist environment imaginable.

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Post by rationalist »

mlrtime wrote: post #231
Al-Khwarizmi wrote: post #201

I don't really know what to take away from this piece. I think I might be misunderstanding something. On the one hand, "Eyes and brain alike evolved over millennia to process natural scenes, forests, rivers, coastlines, open skies. These environments share a specific mathematical pattern: their visual complexity decreases predictably as you zoom in on finer and finer details" - What, isn't it just the opposite? Coast…

They are difficult to find locally and expensive. Look for Waveform or Phillips Ultra.

FWIW: I am sensitive to high-frequency flickering lights, and the cheap LED light bulbs at Home Depot do not bother me at all.

Re: Modern decor may be straining people's brains

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Post by nly »

jmbwell wrote: post #79
pooploop64 wrote: post #70

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Lawns are for much more than just flexing. It's an outdoor part of your property which is flat and open enough to use for various activities and purposes. I don't know where people get such a cynical idea that this is THE reason anyone has lawns.

Yeah this is all very regional too. Row houses in London and brownstones in New York or whatever won’t have front lawns as a function of density, but may have back yards or gardens, which may or may not be a function of producing your own food, which is all tied up in different experiences of war, while certainly countryside estates are for form more than function, while post war housing in the midwestern US was in p…

I live in a London terrace, originally built circa 1900.

There's plenty of evidence the rear gardens were used for growing food and drying laundry back then

Children would also play there where they could be seen from the kitchen (which was always in the rear), rather than playing in the road (as much)

Rear gardens also served as a space where you would converse with your neighbour. Typically fences between neighbours were low and wire (tall 6ft wooden fences came later)

The other thing is the only toilet in a 4 bedroom property would also be out there, as an outdoor WC, accessible from outside

I doubt much read space was reserved for lawn back then

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Post by dpark »

aetherspawn wrote: post #218
dpark wrote: post #160

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> 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

And what about this?

Luke 6:34–35 - And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

I hear a lot of anti gay preaching but no preaching against charging interest. Cafeteria Christianity indeed.

It is also super weird to hear Christians say that the Old Testament is superseded but then keep quoting it when it’s convenient.

Re: Modern decor may be straining people's brains

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Post by ericmay »

watwut wrote: post #135
ericmay wrote: post #89

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The "colonizer" rhetoric is just part of it, but it's more so as a piece of the puzzle that shows of an overall change in how we perceive ourselves and how we report on things in the public sphere. It's unquestionable that ostentatious displays of wealth are met with revulsion and derision, therefore we don't show those displays. The downstream impact is that the masses have nothing to aspire to or look up to in this…

The masses wear colorful t-shirts with selections of cool pictures and variety of decorated cloth. If anything, suit is boring minimalist choice, every man looks exactly like the man next to him. The leftist ideology in women leads to colorful hair styles, even more variety of clothing cause they integrate in unusual styles.

> If anything, suit is boring minimalist choice, every man looks exactly like the man next to him.

It's less about the suit itself - I don't mean to imply everyone should wear the same thing. It's about the perception around it and the moaning one does when it comes to trying to present yourself in society. There's a "I don't need to impress anyone" attitude, which I'm certainly sympathetic to, but I think it is heading in the wrong direction.

It's like when you talk to a pickleball player and you ask them if they play tennis. The typical answer is "no" "that's so hard" "too much running" - it's the undercurrent of not trying and not having high standards that I take issue with. (Nothing against pickleball, truly)

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