(what is with those streetlights tho)
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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.
Where I live all street lights used to be low pressure sodium (very monochromatic yellow!) Due to a nearby observatory. Now to hell with everything! It’s LED lights everywhere. They’re strong and not diffused so all the light comes from a small area meaning instant after image… (Sigh)
Even worse, people now put LED lights on their outdoor house fixtures and all kinds of office buildings pointing UP. Goodbye night sky…
We’ve still got a few of those around here. Most have been reported and replaced. But for a time, we had a whole stretch of freeway that was lit up purple. It as sweet
Same thing in my area, at one point a whole half mile of streetlights near my house was purple. It was cyberpunk as hell and I loved it.
You just had regular and weird. Now there are flavors of weird.
I love flavours of weird.
Taste the spectrum.
White LED bulbs are the devil’s work.
Can’t stand them for street lighting, just makes everything look cold and uninteresting, I’ll take the warm ones over them any day.
Where I live they did put up slightly warm tinted LED ones
Obligatory technology connections https://youtu.be/wIC-iGDTU40?si=AsUcJdORCk743Lfz (at least I think it’s the right video)
At least the modern ones don’t flicker.
So he wrote some kind of Streetlight Manifesto?
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I saw them at Starland the night they played all of “Everything Went Numb” and “Somewhere in the Between”. Incredible show, almost broke my leg when a crowd toppled over.
Really sad I missed the Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution show a few years ago.
I’ve seen them probably fifteen times over the years. Best live show I’ve ever been to. Hopefully they get the new album out soon and go on tour again
Is it because Keasby nights aren’t that dark?
Seriously, what is up with these streetlights?
