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fossilesque @mander.xyz

6mo ago

Colours

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How else would you cosplay as neopolitan ice cream?
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- Get you and your alternative expression of human development, prosperity, and productivity out of here. This is a science channel!!
  
  Just for that I'm going to team up with the historians and say you fell off a horse selling bad copper.
What about hyperbolic orange? Stygian blue? Self-luminous red?
- Put the colors away, man, they're callin' the cops
Colors are a social construct
- Colors are a retinal construct
  
  Both. There is a perception that's 100% biological for sure. But lumping all the blue tones together, that's social. Some languages (including Russian and Greek) have different words for light and dark blue, other languages have one word blue and green (sometimes translated as "grue"). Sure they can see the difference and name it (leave grue vs ocean grue for example) but socially, they perceive it as the same "color category".
Look, if you don't include florescent black, why even bother?

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