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New comment by growlist in "Colorized and upscaled footage of a snowball fight filmed in 1896"

growlist — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 09:50:55 +0000

Worth pointing out that the original media itself is compromised as an accurate historical representation.

New comment by growlist in "Colorized and upscaled footage of a snowball fight filmed in 1896"

growlist — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 09:43:12 +0000

IDK. Personally I think it's silly to romanticise and wax lyrical about what are - when it comes down to it - errors in the data; artefacts of the crudeness of the technology that was available when the material was created. Do we routinely add errors of this type to modern footage? No. Why not? Because they detract from the material.

The material is already hugely compromised as a historical document of the reality on the day the events were captured. Let's not put it on a pedestal. For example, if we remove the effect of hand-cranking on film to make it more watchable, are we destroying or enhancing? I would argue the latter. The hand-cranking adds little of value.

New comment by growlist in "Humans are more closely related than we commonly think"

growlist — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:58:59 +0000

> Humans left Africa and began dispersing throughout the world at least 120,000 years ago

Haven't recent discoveries undermined this theory?

New comment by growlist in "Why Life Can’t Be Simpler"

growlist — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:55:21 +0000

> happiness actually derives from having cats

Not if you're part of the massive destruction of wildlife wrought by these biodiversity annihilators masquerading as cute pets.

'As an invasive species[1] and superpredator,[2] they do considerable ecological damage.[2] In Australia, hunting by cats helped to drive at least 20 native mammals to extinction,[3] and continues to threaten at least 124 more.[3] Their introduction has caused the extinction of at least 33 endemic species on islands throughout the world.[2] Feral and domestic cats kill billions of birds in the United States every year, where songbird populations continue to decline.[4]'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_predation_on_wildlife

New comment by growlist in "Garbage collection via pneumatic tubes"

growlist — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 11:16:07 +0000

Some areas are pretty much unaffected by earthquakes, like the UK.

New comment by growlist in "Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with their parents"

growlist — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 11:15:05 +0000

Perhaps they are using contraception because there are disincentives, and they are working.

New comment by growlist in "Garbage collection via pneumatic tubes"

growlist — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 14:10:59 +0000

I think there is vast potential for moving all kinds of activities underground. Upfront cost is huge, but once it's done as long as it's maintained it's there for good.

New comment by growlist in "Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with their parents"

growlist — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 14:05:52 +0000

source?

New comment by growlist in "Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with their parents"

growlist — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 11:30:04 +0000

I don't understand why Western countries are not incentivising people to have children.

New comment by growlist in "Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with their parents"

growlist — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 11:22:03 +0000

> Japan in general is about 10 years behind the western world and in some places even more

Sounds good to me

Edit: because the West is such a utopia in 2020? Please...

New comment by growlist in "Half of young women will leave their tech job by age 35, study finds"

growlist — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:53:56 +0000

Indeed, it's the first 'popular revolution' I've ever seen that's been pushed hard as a full-spectrum propaganda war by virtually the entirety of the establishment and elite; this 'diversity' they bore on about ad-nauseam does not seem to extend to diversity of thought. Object to it and you get cancelled (or worse) by the SJW footsoldiers.

New comment by growlist in "YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K, but historians want them to stop"

growlist — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:40:04 +0000

I really don't think it added the smiles etc.

New comment by growlist in "YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K, but historians want them to stop"

growlist — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 12:14:48 +0000

'“The problem with colourisation is it leads people to just think about photographs as a kind of uncomplicated window onto the past, and that's not what photographs are,” says Emily Mark-FitzGerald, Associate Professor at University College Dublin’s School of Art History and Cultural Policy.'

Why do these academics always want to complicate things and dictate how we feel? Nobody put them in charge!

'“There's something that's gained, but there's also something that's lost,” says Mark-FitzGerald. “And I think we need to have a conversation about what both of those things are.”'

I'm guessing that would be a pretty one-way 'conversation'.

Edit: looking at the Leeds video it's clear to me the processed version adds a great deal - you can even see clearly how much fun they are having by the smiles on their faces, which is pretty hard to spot on the raw footage. It's charming to think of them fooling around in the garden with new technology, 132 years ago this month.

New comment by growlist in "Delta IV Heavy rocket delayed again, raising concerns of aging infrastructure"

growlist — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:38:43 +0000

Dick Shelby

New comment by growlist in "Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads"

growlist — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:42:11 +0000

I sometimes wonder if someone at the top is trying to drive people away from TV/film/video. Yes there's more content than ever before but as regards drama etc. the writing is generally dreadful and the stories lack originality, on YouTube the adverts are becoming obnoxious and if extremely one-sided political messaging isn't to your taste, well, good luck finding a single programme that isn't stuffed to the gills with it.

New comment by growlist in "Using lasers to reduce drag in hypersonic weapons"

growlist — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 07:47:55 +0000

and with higher stakes!

New comment by growlist in "French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave"

growlist — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:29:46 +0000

How lovely. Is this affordable anywhere other than a petrostate?

New comment by growlist in "What Is a Minimally Good Life?"

growlist — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 16:23:59 +0000

There's zero wilderness left in the UK, the less populated areas have virtually zero jobs, and the government is intent on increasing the population and destroying the countryside as a consequence. There is (deliberately?) no escape.

New comment by growlist in "What Is a Minimally Good Life?"

growlist — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 16:07:17 +0000

You're completely mistaking me. Of course it's a symbiotic relationship. But if men choose not to be competitive, those men will just exclude themselves from procreation. The power is in women's hands to change it by being less avaricious. For example plenty of women have been conned by De Beers into thinking they need a diamond engagement ring worth x times monthly salary, else the prospective spouse isn't worth it. And plenty of them couldn't care less about the horrible circumstances behind their diamond. Let's not put either sex on a pedestal here.

Oh and thanks for your concern, but I'm doing just fine with my current cognitive path thanks. Mortgage, marriage, kids etc. all in hand.

New comment by growlist in "What Is a Minimally Good Life?"

growlist — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:58:40 +0000

If men choose not to be competitive and women don't change, those men just exclude their genes from the gene pool.