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It would be great if some of the anti-Telsa crowd could turn anti-billboard. Some of the billboards are so bright and obnoxious. Electronic billboards in public
by brikym 1y ago
It would be great if some of the anti-Telsa crowd could turn anti-billboard. Some of the billboards are so bright and obnoxious. Electronic billboards in public spaces should be as illegal as shitting on the street.
Never mind billboards. Once people realize they can replace their girlfriend's face with Margot Robbie augmented reality is going to become very popular.
- Mountain_Skies 1y agoSome states in the US have laws regulating the brightness of billboards and how frequently they are allowed to change the image on them if they're visible from a highway. Of course, that requires someone to enforce the law, and the billboard lobby is one of the most effective at getting their way.
- spqr0a1 1y agoBeyond regulating brightness, 4 US states ban billboards entirely. (Hawaii, Alaska, Vermont, & Maine)
- CoastalCoder 1y agoI wonder if that's related to them having nature / vista tourism as a major source of revenue.
- conductr 1y agoSure but also citizens that value those aspects of their locale are probably the driving force.
- me_smith 1y agoI've traveled to Hawaii (specifically the Big Island) several times and drove H19 countless times between Kailua-Kona and Waikoloa. For about 30 minutes you are driving through old lava fields with a view of the ocean, some goats and the other cars on the road. I've never realized the lack of billboards and I thank those responsible for that. I can imagine that drive inundated with billboards if it was allowed. Trying to sell sunset cruises, sunscreen and your next time share.
- carlosjobim 1y agoCan you tell me more about the billboard lobby? Which persons are leading it? What organizations do they have?
- jrvarela56 1y agoI lived in Sao Paulo when billboards were banned (2010). It was amazing.
- danielbln 1y agoBillboards in the US are wild to me. The craziest, flashiest shit, straight into your eyeballs while you're trying to focus on the road.
- toomuchtodo 1y agoA fun fact is billboards are banned in Vermont, Maine, Hawaii, and Alaska.
- jrvarela56 1y agoIt’s a great example of how ‘the market’ sucks at externalities. We just accepted that you can pay to spam people’s visual field.
- whamlastxmas 1y agoA million people a year die from fossil fuel pollution
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- malfist 1y agoThere's now boat billboards that are the same way. Wanna enjoy a nice day at the beach? Too bad, someone parked a boat just offshore blasting a million lumens of alcohol ads straight into your eyeballs
- devmor 1y agoI have seen a couple different videos showing off drone-carried ads in the sky. It's infuriating.
- Retr0id 1y ago> Once people realize they can replace their girlfriend's face with Margot Robbie augmented reality is going to become very popular. I assume this was said in jest because I can't imagine anyone seriously wanting that.
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- Larrikin 1y agoWhy would something like that not be the next evolution of makeup
- add-sub-mul-div 1y agoBecause it's sad as hell, and I just realized I'm strengthening your argument instead of countering it. It probably will go in that direction.
- dingnuts 1y agois it still sad if it's just a younger version of your wife instead of a different person? that's basically just make-up, as the GP said
- asadotzler 1y agoIt's only not sad if she asks for it. You don't put makeup on other people without first asking and receiving permission. If you don't see this, I don't know what else to say
- somenameforme 1y agoDoes anybody have any interest whatsoever in AR? It seems to be an entirely corporate pushed thing, probably as a means of opening up a new domain of monetization. But in real life, and even on the internet for that matter, I've found practically nobody who has any interest in it whatsoever. Yeah yeah - 'if I asked people what they wanted, they'd have said faster horses', but if they knew what cars were that quote wouldn't exist. Everybody knows what AR is, a sizable chunk of people have tried it, and nobody seems to want it. If there were some ultra high end AR goggles for $10, I still wouldn't buy them (sans obvious angle shoots like reselling/repurposing the hardware or just pack-ratting it away in a closet). The reason I mention this is because of this paradox where everybody assumes its success, but nobody has any interest themselves in using it. I think this is because AR is just about literally always a part of sci-fi and so we kind of assume well it must be what the future holds. But it seems like one of those many ideas that sounds way better than it actually turns out to be in real life.
- sebastiennight 1y agoI have long predicted that someone will come up with a popular AR/VR filter that selectively replaces people (of a certain look, ethnicity, gender) with something else (modifying them or just removing them), which will put the last nail in the coffin of shared reality
- wldcordeiro 1y agoYou own a Tesla don't you?
- bird0861 1y agoBillboards shit in your eyes so this is a good comparison tbh.
- netsharc 1y agoThere's a Black Mirror episode where soldiers are fighting against monsters, but one of the monsters stabs a soldier with an electric prod that turns out to be a device to disable the soldiers' brain implants, implants which are there to turn scared refugees into aggressive insect-like monsters, that the soldiers don't hesitate to shoot. But we've learned the last 1.75 years that we don't actually need such implants, our brains are still very very capable of seeing our fellow humans as cockroaches. Actually even longer than that...
- yard2010 1y agoSometimes I wonder what if violence is an epidemic? Enough exposure and you caught it. You must definitely make other people get it as well. If that's not a zombie apocalypse, I don't know what is
- classichasclass 1y agoThey Live has a related concept with the sunglasses.
- mrexroad 1y agoST:Voyager had a similar episode. The Commander gets captured and subjected to brainwashing to hate a specific group in effort to make him a foot soldier in a war. After being rescued and treated, the Commander still felt immense hatred at sight of the group he was told to hate, even though they helped rescue him. It closed with him making a remark about wishing it were as easy to stop hating as it is to start. Unfortunately, we are where we are today. “Modern media” (whatever that is) and amplification from social media has allowed hate/outrage evolve from being a sledge hammer (e.g. “USSR is evil!”) into being a scalpel for daily governance and policy setting. Just look at how many people suddenly advocated for jailing (or executing, as I overheard at my kid’s baseball game) a specific former immunologist and presidential advisor. We’re tribal by nature and all too eager to treat the out-group as “less” than we are.
- Trixter 1y agoLots of prior art for this concept. For example, this is almost exactly the plot of The Outer Limits (1995), Season 4 Episode 3 "Hearts and Minds".