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Post by matthewdgreen »

josephcsible wrote: post #478
matthewdgreen wrote: post #455

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Here in Baltimore the city seems to have purchased a huge batch of defective LEDs that are actually purple. It’s disturbing when you encounter one.

Nitpick: "are actually purple" makes it sound like they came out of the factory purple, but they're actually changing from white to purple over time as the phosphor coating fails.

Just to be clear, these are about 1-3 years old. So yes they probably weren't purple on the day they were installed, but this is a defect and not normal aging. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/136nz3b/til_...

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by NoGravitas »

swed420 wrote: post #169
ReDeiPirati wrote: post #157

I don't have faith that this is something we can fix in the short term because most of us have been educated in a very competitive environment where individuals come first. I'm not saying that the opposite is good either, but we should find a balance in between. I also feel like that we are all becoming more disconnected, alone, and where the center of gravity is only ourself. Despite my premise, I still have some ho…

> most of us have been educated in a very competitive environment where individuals come first This is definitely intertwined with rampant individualism, but I don't think it's just our education or lack thereof that's to blame. It's also the environment we're born into and therefore never really question where it leads us and why. Century of the Self [0] makes an excellent case for where/how things went wrong, and w…

Yes, this is the correct understanding of the problem. The thing is, correctly understanding the problem is highly disincentivized, much less doing anything about it.

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Post by noisy_boy »

presentation wrote: post #628
helboi4 wrote: post #586

I really do not care but that is because the economy has incentivised me to get into work I don't care about. It is completely unprofitable to do things I do care about. So I don't do them. So everything I do do, I don't care about. Of course, I would hope if I was a doctor or sth where I really affected people's lives, I would care just for their sake if nothing else. But I'm a developer. It's really not that deep.…

If everybody followed their hearts deepest passions, we’d all be starving.

Unless you can find a person who's deepest passion is feeding others.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by xkcd1963 »

"You're at the airport. There's a group in front of you on the escalator taking up the full width, preventing anyone from walking by" take the stairs

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by stronglikedan »

tqi wrote: post #425

Its ironic, because this dude doesn't seem to care enough to even the slightest bit of research to understand why any of these problems he highlights are the way they are, and lazily attributes everything to OTHER people not caring. LEDs last longer, are more energy efficient, and also reduce light pollution because they are more directional[1]. Took me 30 seconds to google. There are enormous design standards for de…

Thanks for this. My parent's neighborhood has these purple lights and they are terrible. I never cared enough to do even the slightest bit of to understand why this problem is the way it is, until your comment.

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Post by hansvm »

whycome wrote: post #338
maxerickson wrote: post #254

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Yeah, there's always the "No thanks" button but not the "No, fuck you" button.

I hate that the options when faced with a location permissions request is "block" or "allow". why isnt ignore an option?? Block adds the site to a discrete local list which i dont need recorded on my computer...

Qutebrowser offers that.

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Post by logifail »

drunner wrote: post #721
logifail wrote: post #549

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> There are enormous design standards [..] I would suggest that "design standards" do not always make things uniformly better, certainly not for end users.

Go look into the design standards used in The Netherlands. https://international.fhwa.dot.gov/pubs/pl18004/chap03.cfm gives a decent overview of some of those things. They are much better for end users because someone over there cared. Whomever designed the ones in the article clearly does not.

> They are much better for end users because someone over there cared. Whomever designed the ones in the article clearly does not

This is kind of my point, at a very general level the statement "$thing follows design standards" may or may not mean that $thing is actually better for users.

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Post by bitcoin_anon »

My hot take on this is that it is due to a lack of energy. I liked the phrase “a will to have nice things.”

We all want the nice things. However, they require conscientiousness. People who are run down and lack energy struggle with conscientiousness.

So why are we all rundown and lacking the energy required to have nice things? There are many reasons, some controversial.

One that is not so controversial is the industrialization of food. As the quality of food that our mothers consume has degraded, so have their offspring. I believe in TCM this concept is called maternal jing, or the essential life essence that you receive from your mother. Healthy moms breed a healthy populace. This is a problem generations in the making that keeps getting worse.

One that is more controversial is the impact of banking. Money is the life blood of society, and we’ve given bankers the right to siphon off our blood as they see fit. Generations of wealth transfer from the working class to bankers has left the populace anemic.

Japan has it better because they have maintained a more traditional way of life.

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Post by pdimitar »

chgs wrote: post #506
bee_rider wrote: post #485

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One thing you know about ad guys—they are really good at tricking people into spending money. I mean, it’s right there in their job description. For some reason their customers don’t seem think they’ll fall for it, I guess.

The average “smart person” thinks a trillion dollar industry can’t brainwash them.

Meh. I have no idea if I am smart or not -- the last several years proved to me I am definitely stupider than I thought -- but I know that with time I only started buying things I directly derive value from or in the worst-case scenario, I'll undoubtedly need during the next few months. No cutesy phone cases, no gadgets "because why not", no extra socks "because you never know", no new toaster because the current one just a tad too big etc. Almost no unnecessary purchases.

It's much more related to maturing on this or that axis than being smart IMO.

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