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  • I imagine there being a commercial where some old man (let’s say 40 or so) says, “You kids need to stop grinding your skateboards on these rails or I’ll call the cops.”

    And one of them says, “What skateboards, gramps?”

    And he looks around and his jaw drops and everyone does secret handshakes and laughs except for the old man who scowls and shouts something irate that gets drowned out by cool boombox music.








  • Trumpism:

    Ukraine should concede Crimea and anything else Russia wants - but Obama should never have let Russia take Crimea!

    If you elect me, I’ll have a deal made on day one - but whatever deal I make they won’t take it, it’s all Biden’s fault!

    I’m going to put tariffs on every country in the world except Russia because things are already so tough for them - but they won’t listen to me, somebody needs to sanction Russia!

    I think Ukraine needs to apologize to Russia for instigating such an aggressive war - but why won’t anyone acknowledge how smart I am on foreign policy?





  • Uli@sopuli.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyzlight pollution
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    Yeah, that’s what they do in Hawaii currently, with amber LEDs that mimic the tone of the old sodium-vapor lamps.

    It’s definitely an improvement. I would love to see both the matrix and the amber spectrum applied at the same time, that’s like peak utopia for me right there.


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    Or maybe areas like Hawaii where preventing light pollution is of critical importance? I feel like a lot of mass-produced technologies face their main hurdle at manufacturing and if early adopters fund those initial manufacturing costs, the price can then come down quite a lot. But ultimately, it’s mostly wishful thinking, how I would want the world to be, seeing the issues all around us now.


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    I had a thought last night. Some new cars have “matrix” headlights, which will detect oncoming drivers and use an LCD matrix to block out areas that would blind the oncoming driver.

    I was looking at the shadow cast on my back door from a streetlight a couple blocks away and thinking it’s a very useful light for people walking on the street. Just not for me standing in my backyard or the birds sleeping in my trees.

    I wonder if we could start applying this active matrix technology to streetlights. Each time one is set up, we could program it to illuminate all the walkways but not much else. Just an idea.