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by quotefoundslash 2513 days ago
> Filament LEDs at 120Hz have quite a few problems; there is a large number of people who suffer from medical issues if expose long term.

No one cares.

Epilepsy or migraines? Good luck anywhere in public.

LED floodlights with unnatural spectrum aimed directly at eye height when browsing any store. Despite use of fresnel with associated hideous fringing the edge of illumination is very abrupt with no chance to adjust. Always 2-10x brighter than needed.

Exposed LED strips everywhere with no shade or proper diffuser leading to an overbright spot surrounded by darkness.

Many flickering. Due to LED ramp-up/-down the strobing is instantaneous.

They are all above and all around and to your side. Of course everyone still carries on with distressing over-illumination. But most establishments gleefully ensure there is always at least one of these directly in your vision, not just illuminating the area.

They see interrogation scenes in movies as optimal settings for work, study, play, and relaxation.

Accessibility? Equal opportunity? Hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhaha. Lighting is more and more inaccessible. Good luck even if you manage to convince them to let you be a weirdo in the dark. Everything is aggressively recessed in fixtures.

The lack of caring could be excused as laziness and ignorance, except that everyone laughs at you and makes faces when you bring it up. It doesn't matter if you speak to your immediate manager at work, or customer service at a business, or whether you speak to the appropriate facilities or HR person. It doesn't matter whether you're brief and to the point or whether you lay out the details and provide references. It doesn't matter how polite or demanding you are.

It's not that it was intended to cripple the weak and exclude invalids from society. But they'll happily take it as a bonus.

Speaking of bonuses: they can give you the side-eye as "environmentally unfriendly" if you dare to raise any issue with LED/fluorescent. (Of course the same people usually oppose nuclear power, proving their bad faith.)

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The number of people suffering under flickery LEDs is actually quite large. It's also easily prevented; don't buy cheap filament LEDs, there are plenty of other LED bulbs you can buy. Problem solved. I don't see why you take this argument ad-absurdum.