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Good thing they have a giant neon green spindle of fiber optic cable right next to the discreet cabin to help it blend in..

LtWorf 2y ago
I'd bet it's done this way to blend with the landscape, not to be a big secret.
ninalanyon 2y ago
Why doe it need to blend in? It's not a secret installation. The cabin is discreet simply because the red paint is the traditional colour for pretty much all rural plank clad non-residential buildings in Scandinavia. I doubt that any thought went into the colour scheme.
- unwind 2y ago
  It's called Falu red [1], btw. Made from mining residual products and originally liked because it resembled luxurious brick. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falu_red https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falu_red
  - ninalanyon 2y ago
    No one (well almost no one) in Norway would call that luxurious, it's what you paint the cowshed or other agricultural buoldings with. Almost no one here would paint a residential building that colour not even a hytte (cabin) in the mountains. It's one of the few class related behaviours that I can think of in Norway. Once white paint became available wooden residential buildings (that's most residential buildings) of any quality would be painted white and south of Drammen mostly still are. Cabins are normally beiset (originally a kind of two component grey or brown stain, now more properly a varnish).
  - wildzzz 2y ago
    Also common in early farm structures in America too which could likely be due to large immigration from Scandinavia. The iron oxide acts as an anti-fungal as well.
  - gsf_emergency 2y ago
    There's also an underlying theme of a resurgent clash of civilizations from yesteryears? https://www.declad.com/falu-red-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-empire https://www.declad.com/falu-red-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-... >During this time the Swedish Krona even moved from the gold to the copper standard. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/why-are-all-swedish-cottages-painted-red-180975914/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/why-are-all-swedish-co...
    - gsf_emergency 2y ago
      Ukrainian( ultranat)s adopting 801818 for their flag might constitute a FF0000 line that must not be crossed?
  - 0points 2y ago
    I prefer falu light red for the classic look: https://falurodfarg.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/stockholmskullan-1-1024x768.jpg https://falurodfarg.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/stockholm...
dghlsakjg 2y ago
Undersea cables are also marked explicitly on all nautical charts. If a rented pleasure boat can, with plausible deniability as to intentionality, drag a hook across the sea floor and easily get away, the cabin isn’t the issue. This isn’t the main weak point.
- wasmitnetzen 2y ago
  And the nautical charts are published by the responsible Swedish agency as well: https://geokatalog.sjofartsverket.se/kartvisarefyren/ https://geokatalog.sjofartsverket.se/kartvisarefyren/ Undersea cables are the squiggly lines.

LtWorf 2y ago

I'd bet it's done this way to blend with the landscape, not to be a big secret.

ninalanyon 2y ago

Why doe it need to blend in? It's not a secret installation. The cabin is discreet simply because the red paint is the traditional colour for pretty much all rural plank clad non-residential buildings in Scandinavia. I doubt that any thought went into the colour scheme.

unwind 2y ago
It's called Falu red [1], btw. Made from mining residual products and originally liked because it resembled luxurious brick. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falu_red https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falu_red
- ninalanyon 2y ago
  No one (well almost no one) in Norway would call that luxurious, it's what you paint the cowshed or other agricultural buoldings with. Almost no one here would paint a residential building that colour not even a hytte (cabin) in the mountains. It's one of the few class related behaviours that I can think of in Norway. Once white paint became available wooden residential buildings (that's most residential buildings) of any quality would be painted white and south of Drammen mostly still are. Cabins are normally beiset (originally a kind of two component grey or brown stain, now more properly a varnish).
- wildzzz 2y ago
  Also common in early farm structures in America too which could likely be due to large immigration from Scandinavia. The iron oxide acts as an anti-fungal as well.
- gsf_emergency 2y ago
  There's also an underlying theme of a resurgent clash of civilizations from yesteryears? https://www.declad.com/falu-red-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-empire https://www.declad.com/falu-red-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-... >During this time the Swedish Krona even moved from the gold to the copper standard. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/why-are-all-swedish-cottages-painted-red-180975914/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/why-are-all-swedish-co...
  - gsf_emergency 2y ago
    Ukrainian( ultranat)s adopting 801818 for their flag might constitute a FF0000 line that must not be crossed?
- 0points 2y ago
  I prefer falu light red for the classic look: https://falurodfarg.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/stockholmskullan-1-1024x768.jpg https://falurodfarg.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/stockholm...

dghlsakjg 2y ago

Undersea cables are also marked explicitly on all nautical charts. If a rented pleasure boat can, with plausible deniability as to intentionality, drag a hook across the sea floor and easily get away, the cabin isn’t the issue. This isn’t the main weak point.

wasmitnetzen 2y ago
And the nautical charts are published by the responsible Swedish agency as well: https://geokatalog.sjofartsverket.se/kartvisarefyren/ https://geokatalog.sjofartsverket.se/kartvisarefyren/ Undersea cables are the squiggly lines.