10 points

So does CNN just push all the bullshit now?

They were supposed to be moderately respectable but this is a mad article. It’s not even the first time this comment is being made and every single time it’s pointed out how stupid it is

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It’s popular to make robots white because it shows scuffs, falls, and damage more easily. Which helps developers figure out how they fall or where they scuff from mistaken actions.

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8 points

Nooo! It’s gotta be racism. Because everything is racist.

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3 points

My phone is black. That’s definitely racism. Somehow.

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7 points

Most devices are actually black but Apple tends to make white products (even if they do offer other colours, it’s the white version in their ads) to differentiate themselves from other products.

Because Apple puts a strong emphasis on marketing, a device that has white casing is seen as new and more advanced than other products. So when companies are promoting a new technology they will tend to make it white to piggy back on Apple’s extensive marketing.

I mean look at that photo of that robot. They’d probably need to round out the edges a little more to make people feel like it’s something that Apple would make but there is some degree of association there.

There’s probably some influence from science fiction too, but the root cause of the aesthetic of the robots in things like the Portal games can probably be traced back to Apple as well. I don’t recall robots in science fiction looking this way until after Apple went this direction in their product design.

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9 points

a device that has white casing is seen as new and more advanced than other products

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Eeeeeeevv.
Eeeeevveh.
Eeeevehh?
Eeeeeeeeevvv.

Don’t tell me you didn’t read that in his voice.

It’s astounding how Pixar is able to imbue such emotion in tin cans. One of the best movies they’ve made, imho.

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12 points

Shit, and here I was thinking I like white robots because white is my second favorite color. Damn, that makes me racist, doesn’t it?

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-7 points

White isn’t even a color

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4 points

Imagine still thinking that colors exist lol, what a loser

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0 points

Are you for real

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11 points

Let’s not be pedantic. White is a color.

Yeah, yeah, white is composed of all wavelengths, just like green is composed of the yellow wavelength and the blue wavelength.

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11 points

green is composed of the yellow wavelength and the blue wavelength

  1. You are confusing wavelengths and photoreceptors. All the colors in the rainbow have a wavelength - both yellow and green. There are colors, like pink, that don’t have their own wavelength - and white is one of these colors.
  2. Between green and yellow, yellow is the one who doesn’t have its own photoreceptor in the human eye and thus the yellow we see is actually composed of red and green.
  3. The yellow + blue = green thing is a concept of subtractive colors - which means the formula is actually white - yellow - blue = green.
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Green has its own wavelength, 500–565nm. It’s pink that doesn’t have one and is a mix between violet and red wavelengths.

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4 points

Clear is my favorite color

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3 points

Yes. White should be your least favorite color, not second most.

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5 points

This but unironically. Its a bitch to keep clean and exhausts my eyes to look at for long periods of time.

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4 points

In bright light, I prefer black letters on white background and white letters on black background in the dark. I find it easier on my eyes that way.

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2 points

ermagerd, are you telling me that if I add a website to “Favorites,” they all disappear and get replaced?!?!?!

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1 point

Yes. Any website not favored is erased from browser history.

Show no bias! Favor all or favor none!

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19 points

I have never met a human the color of that robot. Not even albino folks are that color.

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Not even albino folks are that color.

Spatter it with some orange freckles and I could show you a few Irish folks that shade.

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Facepalm

!facepalm@lemmy.wtf

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