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7 votes
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Christiania, Copenhagen's hippie oasis, wants to rebuild without its illegal hashish market
11 votes -
Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ neighbors have no voting rights to stop it
19 votes -
The blight of bright white LEDs
I feel like I'm the only one noticing this and it's driving me crazy. With everyone transitioning away from incandescent, it seems like anywhere you go now there are these blindingly bright and...
I feel like I'm the only one noticing this and it's driving me crazy. With everyone transitioning away from incandescent, it seems like anywhere you go now there are these blindingly bright and high color temperature LED lights. Of course, if LEDs are better and more energy efficient we should use them. But whenever I've tried buying LED bulbs, they've been consistently brighter and higher color temperature than the stated lumens and Kelvin. And a lot of times, it's just extremely difficult to find LED bulbs for certain shapes at a reasonable luminosity. Like our house uses a lot of BR30 bulbs that are supposed to be around ~400 lumens, but the lowest you can possibly find is 650.
I'm genuinely concerned what effect this is going to have on our shared spaces and even potentially our psychology/circadian rhythm. There's an especially egregious example on an important cultural street in the city, where there's this truly blinding light in a parking lot about a third the way from the edge to the center of the district that makes the entire immediate area extremely unpleasant to be in. Someone tell me I'm not crazy.
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Tokyo: The big city that is also pleasant to live in
6 votes -
Gavin Newsom signs bills aimed at creating more affordable housing in California
12 votes -
Why we won’t raise our kids in suburbia
11 votes -
The end of "The End of San Francisco"
9 votes -
There's no such thing as a dangerous neighborhood
11 votes -
Suburb in the sky: How Jakartans built an entire village on top of a mall
9 votes -
Poor neighborhoods make the best investments
7 votes -
'Will I have existed?' The unprecedented plan to move an Arctic city
14 votes