Re: speaking of colors...

On Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:28:41 +0200, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:

In article <ed92edeb-ad47-790f-02d1-10f879b94a53@electrooptical.net>,
Phil Hobbs  <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

On 2025-05-21 07:33, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:

In article <8knk2kl9p0bqgahik80gh8rhophd33nrem@4ax.com>,
john larkin  <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:

Colors are so faddish.
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Cars used to come in colors. Having my hair done today, looking out
the window up at Twin Peaks, I counted 41 cars on a row that were
black, white, or grey, then one blue one to break the run. I have seen
a few new cars that have color, if mostly muted muddy ones or grey
with a hint of color.
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Houses around here for about 10 years now have all been painted grey
or some even black. Some old gingerbread victorians with doodads and
gold leaf were painted over in dark monotones. Just lately I see a lot
of pale grey-green.
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Electronics used to be grey or black krinkle finish. Tektronix changed
the style to light anodize with etched color-filled legends. Then we
had pastels. Lately the style in electronic instruments is black.
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Ugly.
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See some youtube video's of Sjanghai. The colours are dazzling,
especially at night.

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Exclusively at night.  Those LEDs cover up a landscape of decay and
"tofu dregs" construction(*), like that building that collapsed in
Bangkok a couple of months ago.

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The CIA invests 300 million dollars/year to bad mouth China, so
it is hard to get realistic picture.

Waste of money. Their narcotics and crap products do the job nicely.

In China corruption (especially that harms the economy) is a dangerous game.
Trump level corruption merits the dead penalty in China,

Unless it's done at the highest levels.