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Re: Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow"

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Post by veunes » Mon, May 20, 2024, 7:06 PM UTC

nonrandomstring wrote: post #274

earthnail wrote: post #185

I love this. I read so much criticism here, but noise pollution is a main issue when it comes to railroads in residential zones. Yes, punctuality is an issue with Deutsche Bahn. No, this doesn’t fix that instantly. But as an organisation you can work on two things at the same time. This invention is spectacular. I wish more people would work on noise pollution. It makes a huge difference.

> I wish more people would work on noise pollution Absolutely agree. It's one of the most insidious kinds of pollution that has big effects on mental and cardio-vascular health, and is accumulative. Everything from aircraft, to emergency vehicle sirens, to construction and poor housing, is slowly killing people. In Europe we've actually made big leaps forward with regulation, building standards for isolation, and aba…

Persistent noise pollution increases stress levels..And I felt the impact of this myself when construction work started near my office. It’s very hard to concentrate.

Re: Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow"

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Post by namaria » Mon, May 20, 2024, 7:35 PM UTC

subjectsigma wrote: post #406

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If it was a swastika or the n-word I would be very concerned about the nature of the community in that neighbourhood and if I'm in danger. But in terms of how i'd deal with kids seeing it, I'd take it as a teachable moment. I don't have to hide my kids from everything I don't believe in (besides they probably see crazy shit online anyway), I just need to teach them how to deal with it. Anyway, theres a wall near wher…

Your comment is baffling, bordering nonsensical. > If it was a swastika or the n-word I would be very concerned about the nature of the community in that neighbourhood and if I'm in danger. If you lived in a large city like NY or London and you saw a random swastika, your immediate reaction would be to blame your neighbors? How do you know it wasn’t someone from somewhere else? > If you really need the authorities to…

> this is like Basic Empathy and Human Emotions 101.

Graffiti is prevalent in every major urban center. Yet you hate it.

Seems like you're the one who can't empathize.

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Post by Vinnl » Tue, May 21, 2024, 7:00 PM UTC

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At some point someone made me realise that almost anything that can be said about graffiti can also be said about outdoor advertising.

One is vandalism, which is a crime, and one is not. There, we have at least one delta now.

That's why I said "almost". But when discussing whether one should be the crime (or whether the other shouldn't), it's hard to go beyond one makes people decide to buy something and the other doesn't. Which of course also invites its own discussion about its value.

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Post by close04 » Wed, May 22, 2024, 10:35 AM UTC

wolverine876 wrote: post #462

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> It’s usually on public property Which gets cleaned up with public money that could be used elsewhere, or stays there as an eyesore. > It’s not on the front of people’s houses. Sometimes the sides too. > people say that about modern art, and about that crazy 'rock'n'roll'! Did you just compare modern art and rock and roll to the few letter “tag” sprayed in 10 seconds again and again hundreds of time throughout a cit…

Maybe I just have a different perspective than you; it's not a mistake to disagree with you - or vice versa. Unless we're interested in the world outside our perspecitve, how will we learn anything new? > Did you just compare modern art and rock and roll to the few letter “tag” sprayed in 10 seconds again and again hundreds of time throughout a city? Yes! That's what rock'n'roll is at its core, three chords (or fewer…

This isn’t about “things I don't like or understand suck”. I don't get the “completely white painting” but can say “original idea”. If the artist keeps coming out with white paintings everyone will say it’s junk.

Same for EDM, maybe it’s just noise to you but you can at least appreciate some effort went into it and every song is different. You don’t like it but you also can’t do it yourself in a way anyone likes.

Most graffiti is plain text tagging like in the pictures I showed above. Tagging is repetitive, same tag again and again, and literally anyone can do it because there’s close to zero effort or creativity involved. Take a spray can, spray a couple of letters, you got a tag. I can replicate all of the tags in those pictures, like a real artist. So I know what I’m talking about. :)

You make it sound like anything is art, “you just don’t understand it”. The problem with that view is that if everything is art, nothing is art. Me taking a breath is art. You just don’t get it.