BF2S Forums Fashion talk thread

I've probably talked about this way too much but these devices are so omnipresent that it just keeps coming up.

Seriously, just removing electronics from your room isn't enough these days. Fridge or coffee maker decides to turn on the LCD panel at 3am, and the whole place glows. There should at the very least be a button on every device with lights, that lets you disable lights until further notice. Maybe set a "quiet mode" timeframe. This should be a standard, and I would back legislation mandating it for new devices.

Walk out bleary-eyed thinking it's 6 am and you didn't sleep well, no it's 2 am and the laptop in the living room decided to turn its screen on to let sleeping you know that Windows Is Updating Automatically. The Star Trek atmosphere I can live without.

My microwave has a mute button for the beeper. Best microwave feature since the discovery of microwaves.

e: I'm more than willing to battle it out on this hill. Even health mags mention it seemingly on the regular. I just haven't come across anyone playing devil's advocate for the lights, I don't think.

There's a living room and a hallway between the kitchen and my bedroom. Two doors of separation between each extreme. Without tape, the living room would always be lit. If the door are left open, light from the kitchen reaches my bedroom easily.

In a pinch, I can sleep with my monitor on or in the middle of the day on a flipped schedule. It's not that I can't get sleep that way, I'm just told it isn't the best. It does seem to be a more restful thing if I can get all the little lights extinguished beforehand, though I'm unsure how much of that is placebo.

From health.harvard.edu in 2019:

Blue light from electronic devices is not going to increase the risk of macular degeneration or harm any other part of the eye. However, the use of these devices may disrupt sleep or disturb other aspects of your health or circadian rhythm. If you are one of the large number of people who fall into this category, talk to your doctor and take steps to limit your use of devices at night, when blue light is most likely to impact your biological clock.

A point repeated in many articles in years past. I just wish the steps didn't involve tons of unsightly electrical tape or even a piece of cardboard taped over a panel as a flap. Also from hh-edu on melatonin suppression. Cited by an article from lifehack (I know) mentioning it along with other psychological, physiological, and work performance factors.

Frustration at popular mechanics back in 2012:

The LED indicator proliferation is due partly to the litigious nature of consumer culture. (Hedge cites manufacturers' fears of "failure to warn" lawsuits.) But most LEDs are added because product designers see no reason not to. "Often in the world of design, if you can afford to do something, you do it," Hedge says. But even if a functional case could be made for each of these lights individually, in aggregate they just create sensory pollution and dilute the message each light ought to deliver: "Hey, something's going on with this device."

I'm a lover of electronics—but also a canary in this particular coal mine. If the glowing lights in my house indicate a trend, then I'd like to start the backlash now. Enough with the LEDs already. If there's no critical reason for a device to emit light, then it shouldn't emit light. We consumers are not afraid of the dark.

ugh.

Blame the consumer I suppose, LED-happy manufacturers. Still, what does that have to do with insisting on blue LEDs. My old giant alarm clock display with red light wasn't as room-saturating as a single pinprick of a blue LED, and even then I preferred the display turned off at night. I think blue's definitely a marketing gimmick that's a holdover from the largely forgotten times when blue LEDs were premium priced and so put on premium electronics.

Anyway it's probably bad news as far as reduction goes. If it's to avoid lawsuits, the gamer population aging probably won't remove the nightlight feature from your electronic toothbrush.

"Banishing electronics from your bedroom," as suggested in various links is also easier said than done depending on your job (or how many places you have to put things). There are people who are always on call for stretches of time.

Regarding the young fashion designer that just died...I looked at his brand's website and lord the prices on that stuff. Like $500 shirts that look like shit. $150 reusable face mask. $750 pair of jeans.

I saw the dead guy's arrow logo and I remembered where I saw it once before. One of the special Ed kids who has an Emotional Behavioral Disorder was going crazy because she left her $700 sweater in the gym and I guess lost it. Low income, low IQ, going nuts over an overpriced sweater. I was going to ask "who buys this stuff?" but I answered my own question.

Newbie wrote:

Everyone can waste their money on whatever they want.

Yeah, I know but the whole "street wear" fashion ecosystem seems more exploitative than many others. I waste money on tech but I have the money to waste and the tech has many uses. Meanwhile fashion brands market clothes to low income and young people by making them feel insecure.

It would be a lie to say that kids aren't the frequent targets of malicious marketing.

I looked at the off white site earlier today and then came back to it a few hours earlier. The parent company that owns it killed Off-White's main website hours ago.

https://www.off---white.com/

The only way to shop Off White is now through the Far-fetched website which owns Off-White. That's pretty cold absorbing the whole subsidiary before the guy got put into the ground.

I have seen videos of people getting killed and maimed while waiting on line for sneakers. It's not my thing but it would be pig man logic to look down on the whole thing. Anyone over 30 still into that sort of stuff...I don't know. Trying hard to be open minded about all of it.

I have heard a lot of good things about him too. Opened up a lot of opportunities for blah blah blah. Music and fashion though.

I understand music, fashion, and sports are some of the highest profile professions and more blaaaaaack people at the top of them is good for uplifting that community. But I rather talk up blacks who reach the top of military, politics, academia, business though. That's where the real power is. Colin Powell.

I have some gold chains as well. I like to layer them like in your pic, minus the cross. That shit is gaudy

Bracelets are tougher to pull off. I just stick to watches. Easier and more fun to accessorize

I like to stay pure

Yeah RTHKI, are you like a normal human with abs and a chest?

I meant you work out and probably have a good chest/midsection that the necklace would help bring attention to and look good on you shirtless.

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