To Curiosity and Caring

people (mostly on twitter) are pissing me off so much with the "its reddit, who cares"

like, its not a social media, its a collection of forums, if you hate certain subs for their politics or opinions, dont visit those (you control the buttons you press or whatever)

meanwhile were about to lose so much information about niche hobbies and interests,

and these are the same people who were complaining last week that you cant find anything on google without adding "reddit" at the end,

are you fucking stupid, do you want to have to look through unrelated blogs and ai generated/pay walled quora answers everytime you need technical assistance or wanna talk about a hobby? is that what you want?

So clearly he has an unusual family dynamic, he's gone a lot of the time and he refers to his gf as his roommate. He also has a bit of awkward priorities. He clearly likes to eat ribeye a lot and he's into saving money long term in ways that do seem counterintuitive. He's also obviously excited about the dumb meatslicer.

The dude "could really use the money for bills", and given that they live together, and with him feeling a bit guilty about the meatslicer, working extra over the holidays doesn't seem like a decision born out of self interest?

I don't see how any of this makes him anything other than a bit eccentric? There's nothing to suggest that the term "roommate" isn't a mutually agreed upon way to refer to each other, possibly related to mutually not being in love, while still living together and raising children together. Aromantic people exist, people who fall out of love but who still like each other and wish to stay together as a family, exists. And so on.

The meatslicer is odd, sure, but maybe the dude has 3-4 ribeye steaks a week in his onshore days, maybe he's got cravings, maybe it's a safe food. Ribeye steaks are also expensive and there are bills to pay, clearly. So he gets the meatslicer which must have seemed brilliant at the time, but may not have been welcomed while there were still.. you know.. bills to pay. .

So now he is taking this extra shift, mentioning the meat slicer because that's his recent economic misstep that he's trying to fix.

All of this makes him a bit odd, and his family dynamic out of the norm, but he didn't say anything disrespectful about his family at any point as far as I can tell?

like, on an actual flag - which was its original purpose - it looks great!

those look fine! lovely, even! with the semi-transparent fabric, the way it catches the sunlight, it looks beautiful!

but now look at how it looks digitally

the pink and blue are so vibrant compared to the sad, lonely lavender!

and let's look at this statement from Michael Page, the creator of the bi flag:

(sidenote: he created this flag in 1998, so if his takes on bisexuality is different from yours, it's okay to notice that! a lot has changed since the 90s when it comes to lived experiences and the way we describe them. but, it's also important to respect his thoughts about this and the way he presented them, even if today, we'd probably not say that bi people "blend unnoticeably into both the gay/lesbian and straight communities.")

so in pantone colors, the pink is 226 C, the blue is 286 C, and the purple of the flag is 258 C.

but...here's the deal

Michael talks here about how the key to understanding the symbolism is to know that the purple blends into both the pink and blue. and on a physical flag, I think you can see that!

but digitally, it absolutely does not blend. it clashes badly, and looks oddly separate from the other two colors.

which got me wondering...what purple do you get if you actually blend 226 C and 286 C?

oh! oh, my god.

look at that! look at how nicely it fits between those colors!

look at it next to the original color scheme! look at how much more vibrant the purple is!

and friends. this is just blending through rgb! you get even more purple variations when you use other color spaces!

let's compare all of them:

(top: original, lab. middle: lrgb, lch. bottom: rgb, hsl)

look at all of the different purple options you can get just by combining these two colors!

if you want almost too-vibrant saturation, you can go hsl, if you want something more relaxed that's closer to the original, you can go lab or lrgb. and if you want to split the difference, lch is bright and violet, while rgb is there with its saturated but darker purple.

anyway, I guess I don't really have a point here? this isn't so much an informational post as it is Me Getting Weird About Colors, but I think it is a useful lesson about how colors look very different on screens compared to how they look on objects in real life.

and sometimes, I think it's okay to compensate for that.

out of all of these, this is my favorite bi flag:

it's the one where the colors were blended in lab color space. for me, the lighter, softer purple is close enough to the original bi flag purple, while also feeling like a smoother blend of the blue and pink

but that's just me! and it might not even look the same to you, since every screen is different, because technology is a nightmare!

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