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The old Victorians and deco and moderne houses are quirky and wonderful.
I despise Victorian design. Arts and Crafts was a welcome relief.
Exteriors are as bad. No architect now is willing to use decoration or
colors any more. All the new stuff is ugly flat boxes painted grey, or
crude bare concrete.
On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 23:00:22 +1100, Max Demian <max_demian@bigfoot.com
wrote:
On 21/03/2023 02:10, Rod Speed wrote:
On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:58:33 +1100, Max Demian <max_demian@bigfoot.com
wrote:
The retention of red/green colour-blindness in some people could be
because such distinctions aren\'t all that important,
or it could be that such colour-blindness defeats the camouflage that
some predators adopted.
Can\'t see why that would be. More likely that those who aren\'t
colorblind would be able to see the prey better than the color
blind,
The extra colours have a confusing effect.
Not convinced.
Have you looked at the colour blindness test books, the ones with lots
of colour dots where you have to tell which numbers are there? There\'s
one which only colour-blind people can work out as it has wavy red and
green lines.
But wild animals and plants don\'t use any scheme like that.
but that doesnt explain why color blind is much more
common in men.
This is because the gene for the extra yellowish cones (don\'t know which
one) is on the X chromosome and men only have one of those. If the gene
is faulty you only have two working cones; women have two X chromosomes
and provided one has the working gene they are all right.
Sure, but that\'s a separate question to why we evolved with some
colorblind.
On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 03:12:30 +1100, \"Rod Speed\"
rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 23:00:22 +1100, Max Demian <max_demian@bigfoot.com
wrote:
On 21/03/2023 02:10, Rod Speed wrote:
On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:58:33 +1100, Max Demian
max_demian@bigfoot.com
wrote:
The retention of red/green colour-blindness in some people could be
because such distinctions aren\'t all that important,
or it could be that such colour-blindness defeats the camouflage that
some predators adopted.
Can\'t see why that would be. More likely that those who aren\'t
colorblind would be able to see the prey better than the color
blind,
The extra colours have a confusing effect.
Not convinced.
Have you looked at the colour blindness test books, the ones with lots
of colour dots where you have to tell which numbers are there? There\'s
one which only colour-blind people can work out as it has wavy red and
green lines.
But wild animals and plants don\'t use any scheme like that.
but that doesnt explain why color blind is much more
common in men.
This is because the gene for the extra yellowish cones (don\'t know
which
one) is on the X chromosome and men only have one of those. If the gene
is faulty you only have two working cones; women have two X chromosomes
and provided one has the working gene they are all right.
Sure, but that\'s a separate question to why we evolved with some
colorblind.
Probably just a defect that is not strongly deselected.
Humans are
still evolutionary kluges
There\'s overlap between features and bugs.
Civilization, things like agriculture and specialization and language,
have applied new selection pressures that evolution hasn\'t caught up
with.
On Thu, 09 Mar 2023 09:54:33 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:
On 2023-03-09, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:50:47 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
I can\'t believe you lived through the 1980s without knowing more about
the color teal. The entire decade was colored teal and mauve.
I will have to resort to DuckDuckGo to find out what the hell mauve is.
Oh, purple, sort of. I went though the \'80s without a woman hanging around
the house. They know about that sort of stuff. Well, maybe not my ex. She
never cared about House Beautiful and afaik she never wore makeup in her
life.
I\'m pretty much indifferent to House Beautiful and never wore makeup.
But my capacity for trivia is nearly boundless.
That said, my husband and I like to watch various home improvement
shows where decorating is also involved. We criticize bad construction
technique and marvel at the decorators\' ability to listen to the
homeowners and do nothing like what they wanted. It\'s always
white walls, kitchen cabinets, and countertops. I think their purpose
is to scrape any personality away from the house.
If an interior decorator ever knocks on my door, they\'ll be shot
on sight.
Exteriors are as bad. No architect now is willing to use decoration or
colors any more. All the new stuff is ugly flat boxes painted grey, or
crude bare concrete.
The old Victorians and deco and moderne houses are quirky and
wonderful.
On Thu, 09 Mar 2023 08:51:43 -0800, John Larkin wrote:
The old Victorians and deco and moderne houses are quirky and wonderful.
My ex and I had some fun times in the little room at the top of a tower in
an old Victorian. The entry was sort of a trap door so we wouldn\'t be
disturbed. The curved glass panes blew my mind.
On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 04:01:53 +1100, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
Civilization, things like agriculture and specialization and language,
have applied new selection pressures that evolution hasn\'t caught up
with.
That\'s very arguable indeed. The reality is that modern humans
are brilliant at being able to ensure that those with very bad
genetic defects can in fact survive and breed and pass on those
genetic defects.
On Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:51:43 -0000, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
The old Victorians and deco and moderne houses are quirky and
wonderful.
Best thing for inside and outside are half logs.
On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 06:24:56 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Thu, 09 Mar 2023 08:51:43 -0800, John Larkin wrote:
The old Victorians and deco and moderne houses are quirky and
wonderful.
My ex and I had some fun times in the little room at the top of a tower
in an old Victorian. The entry was sort of a trap door so we wouldn\'t
be disturbed. The curved glass panes blew my mind.
Should you not have been paying attention to your ex?
On Mon, 03 Apr 2023 11:14:28 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
We were in the Castro yesterday and I didn\'t see many dogs. There are
other neighborhoods where I think it is a felony to walk around without
a dog or a kid.
Around here a Subaru Forester and a Labrador with a red kerchief are
issued at birth. I like dogs but I wish their owners were bright enough to
realize you\'re supposed to take the little bags of shit with you. The
cartoon instructions at the trailheads omit that part.