(what is with those streetlights tho)
You just had regular and weird. Now there are flavors of weird.
I have an assessment next year. I’m hoping for banana chocolate.
I love flavours of weird.
Defective LEDs with massively reduced service lives made it out of the factory and into streetlights around the world. If you ever see a purple street light, a failing LED module is the cause.
none like that around here. they’re all blindingly bright af along the main streets and downtown–probably 4-5x as many lamps in each fixture as actually needed, and going up and down hills they shine right in your eyes because they don’t have adequate shades keeping the light ‘down’.
residential areas still have the much easier-on-the-eyes sodium vapor lights, though–for now.
I know a guy that very was vocal against street lights in the 90’s.
He was/is an amateur astronomer that modified his rooftop to be an actual telescope and the street lamps were angled in a certain way that like 40% of the light produced by them was shinning to the sky, making his observations harder to perform.
He went to my school to warn about light pollution and also teach us about planets and all that good stuff.
I think he became frustrated and quitted because last time I saw anything about him he was all about rescuing dogs from the street. :/
You know what’s funny? My son was evaluated for is as there was some concern because of a lot of ASD in my family.
I told them “ok, but he’s really just pretty similar to me”. I haven’t been diagnosed. I do have extremely bad general anxiety.
And his evaluation showed no risk, but some possible connection if anxiety couldn’t be ruled out. Turns out, anxiety couldn’t be ruled out.
Yep. I’m so anxious it looks like ASD apparently.
This
is really similar toreminds me of this post, which I think about a lot.Edit: hopefully slightly more accurate
I had no idea streetlights would create such controversy. Look at these passionate responses. Lemmy used to be peaceful. Way to go OP!
Yeah but that’s just one guy! /s
