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Metis of the Hallway posted:Some guide dogs definitely are trained to identify crossings, I know the dog I raised to become one was. But it's not standard I don't think because the handler had to specifically ask for her to be trained that way. But not zebra crossings, crossings with traffic lights. I think it's possible it does affect contrast but I think you'd see more actual low vision services and organisations raising awareness about it if it were that big a problem, and not just randos on twitter using it to beat their terf drums. Now now that's unfair, she might hate ALL LGBTQ people equally.
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Low vision impairments, where folk would have to use the contrast of black/white to identify a crossing might be an issue, but despite a lot of noise being made about it I don't think anyone can actually name a single actual incident yet.
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Other than the thousands of people having epileptic seizures cos of the gays, I mean.
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Ratjaculation posted:Other than the thousands of people having epileptic seizures cos of the gays, I mean. There’s also the effects of the rainbow crosswalks to consider.
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Crosswalks in my city have a beep or whistle when it's your turn to cross. IDK if that's standard to all places or not.
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grittyreboot posted:Crosswalks in my city have a beep or whistle when it's your turn to cross. IDK if that's standard to all places or not. these particular crossings are road markings where the pedestrian has right of way and cars yield. No sounds, but signage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_crossings_in_the_United_Kingdom Ratjaculation has a new favorite as of 10:38 on Feb 7, 2023 |
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That appears to be a pelican crossing rather than a zebra crossing. There’s a traffic light, so the visual impaired shouldn’t have an issue.
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If guide dogs could only cross at uniform zebra crossings they'd be useless because cities are terrible at making all crossings uniform. Plenty don't have markings at all.
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:That appears to be a pelican crossing rather than a zebra crossing. There’s a traffic light, so the visual impaired shouldn’t have an issue. i can't tell, I am blinded by the gay colours and had to look away due to a suden migraine
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I used the gay crossing and ended up in asgard.
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OwlFancier posted:I used the gay crossing and ended up in asgard. 
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Have the paints been designed for use on walking surfaces? If not, they can be hell of slippery when it rains. Solution: just to make sure, remove rainbow crossings, paint houses in rainbow colours. Bing bong everyone is happy.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Have the paints been designed for use on walking surfaces? If not, they can be hell of slippery when it rains. There’s no way that they are more slippery than actual road paint with its little retroreflective glass beads. 
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Platystemon posted:There’s no way that they are more slippery than actual road paint with its little retroreflective glass beads. Yeah but you don't step on the stripes (  duuuh!). In a rainbow crossing it's WHOOPS ALL STRIPES.
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I would simply step on the stripes that are not slippery.
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Vib Rib posted:e: It was this. good for her, but this is Wendy Carlos erasure 
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Platystemon posted:I would simply step on the stripes that are not slippery. They're likely slippery when wet, and I gotta say those colors look fairly saturated
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Ratjaculation posted:Other than the thousands of people having epileptic seizures cos of the gays, I mean. 
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grittyreboot posted:Crosswalks in my city have a beep or whistle when it's your turn to cross. IDK if that's standard to all places or not. Crossings with lights, here in Melbourne (and I assume the rest of the country too?), usually go tik. tik. tik. when you're waiting and then tickatickatickatickaticka when it's time to cross. But occasionally you run into a silent one. And every time I do, I miss the light because I'm so used to relying on the sound to get my attention.
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Ambitious Spider posted:good for her, but this is Wendy Carlos erasure Out - that’s the key thing. Petras is openly out and has been for some time, Carlos’ story is a bit more complicated. (Nixing some pretty descriptive dysphoria, but the full paragraph is on Wikipedia) quote:Sometime after entering graduate school at Columbia University in the fall of 1962 she encountered studies of transgender issues for the first time, which explained to her what she was feeling. In the summer of 1966 New York sexologist and pioneering transgender advocate Harry Benjamin published his landmark book The Transsexual Phenomenon, and in the fall of 1967 Carlos began counseling with him (well before Switched-On Bach). By early 1968 Carlos had begun hormone replacement treatments under Benjamin's care, which began altering her appearance. HOWEVER, I’m finding it real hard to rag on someone for being not out in 2023, let alone in the 60s-70s.
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Tiggum posted:Crossings with lights, here in Melbourne (and I assume the rest of the country too?), usually go tik. tik. tik. when you're waiting and then tickatickatickatickaticka when it's time to cross. But occasionally you run into a silent one. And every time I do, I miss the light because I'm so used to relying on the sound to get my attention. im visiting melbourne and nearly missed one because the noise maker wasnt working but then i noticed in the cbd those raised bumps for blind people also light up which i thought was neat
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Those crossings look great. We have plenty in Halifax but they only do a smaller flag in the middle rather than the full length which is lame. To be totally fair, the paint does get a little slippy when wet I guess. Not actually a problem though because they're cool to have.
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:those raised bumps for blind people also light up
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Cable Guy posted:uh... what...? so you know those bumps so blind people can feel when they are at a driveway or crossing? they light up green or red at crossings along with the green man and red man
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:so you know those bumps so blind people can feel when they are at a driveway or crossing? they light up green or red at crossings along with the green man and red man If you press the button twice they heat up and vibrate, too. Heaven after walking around all day.
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:so you know those bumps so blind people can feel when they are at a driveway or crossing? they light up green or red at crossings along with the green man and red man Too many people with their heads down looking at phones and walking into traffic...?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Have the paints been designed for use on walking surfaces? If not, they can be hell of slippery when it rains. Yes, the paints have been designed for walking surfaces, jfc. You think you're the first person to realize weather happens outside and materials should respond?
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Cable Guy posted:No I got what you meant... but... why....? visual impairment has quite the spectrum of ailments
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Street and sidewalk painters realizing someone will have to walk on the paints feeling pretty stupid right now!!
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Key West has had a street with rainbow crossings for years and everyone down there is dead from suddenly unexplained fits or slipping under a car when it rains. It’s all true, don’t look it up.
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Ambitious Spider posted:good for her, but this is Wendy Carlos erasure
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Leon Sumbitches posted:Yes, the paints have been designed for walking surfaces, jfc. You think you're the first person to realize weather happens outside and materials should respond? I will never trust the city/municipality/whatever or whoever is contracted to do the actual work to use the correct paints. Why is everyone so opposed to painting all the houses rainbow colours. Sounds like y'all're homophobic.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I will never trust the city/municipality/whatever or whoever is contracted to do the actual work to use the correct paints. Well, that's on you, as public works of this nature are typically under strict controls by entire departments of professionals. Typically, the paint is specified by a street design engineer, the specification is included in the contract that the painter is party to, and they don't get paid unless they use the brand and product line exactly as specified.
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Leon Sumbitches posted:Yes, the paints have been designed for walking surfaces, jfc. You think you're the first person to realize weather happens outside and materials should respond? I mean, it is in the UK, so I would not be surprised if they had used the teflon paint to save tuppence per pot. We are the country that covers skyscrapers in napalm because it's cheap.
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Leon Sumbitches posted:Well, that's on you, as public works of this nature are typically under strict controls by entire departments of professionals. Typically, the paint is specified by a street design engineer, the specification is included in the contract that the painter is party to, and they don't get paid unless they use the brand and product line exactly as specified. Lmao sure. e: I once suggested as a joke that a customer who was under contract from [redacted] should buy a bunch of regular pot-metal [redacted] and a case of zinc spray instead of the specified hot-dip-galvanized [redacted]. She said "good idea!" The thing hasn't sunk yet so 
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Cable Guy posted:No I got what you meant... but... why....? Being blind is not necessarily having no vison, it can be having severely impaired vision. Something like lights can definitely help. Here's a random Youtube thing I saw the other day that shows some types of blindness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjDmdaDhoVo
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In the UK there is a secret knurled doodad underneath the box with the button on it that spins when the light is green.
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