I have no idea WHY it is being done purposely, or accidentally, but it is a real problem watching segments that supposedly take place at night.
Sure, it’s “unrealistic” to have the actors VISIBLE, but makes it a lot easier to follow the story.
Especially since actors no longer enunciate their words so you can’t follow the dialogue either.
I have to caption just about everything these days, and that detracts from the cinematography when you CAN see it.

/rant

Does anyone else notice how dark, as in light intensity, current films/shows have become?

Recently I got an Amazon FireTV on sale for $200. You have to put up with a buncha Amazon nonsense, but OK, $200. It’s in the back bedroom, which is kinda bright daytime, and it seems to me the FireTV is a bit dim, but it’s not like I have glaucoma. I watch it on my laptop and it’s still dim.

In some cases, dim is near total dark. I can’t make out the visual plot. As in, at all.

But cue up an old B&W from the forties and, even if it’s midnight, Bogie and Bacall are totally lit.

My guess is that film people are saving money with the new digital film cameras which can dial in absurdly high ISO numbers which then allows the camera operators to record in natural light.

Perhaps they’ve also decided the big dark areas are sexy and cool.

Clarence Laughlin, a New Orleans photographer, made gothic surrealism out of many decaying Louisiana landscapes/cityscapes.

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/L/laughlin/laughlin_strange_situation_full.html

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/L/laughlin/laughlin_anatomical_full.html

I met him once as a friend of a friend. It was only later I realized he had that It, that visionary eye, halfway between de Chirico and Man Ray.

O god, the Southerners. We’ve had some great ones.

https://thepostmillennial.com/arizona-rules-in-favor-of-monitors-constitutional-right-to-oversee-ballot-drop-boxes?utm_campaign=64501

Without absolute numbers, a figure like “42% to 91% increased risk” is meaningless.

Just to take one example, you might have an incidence of a certain result that occurs 1 in a million times in an unvaccinated population. If it occurred in a vaccinated population 2 in a million times, that’s a 100% increased risk. But it would also be a meaningless figure that has no statistical significance.

In addition, the proper comparison would be to other vaccinations and their complication rate.

ttps://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/379/bmj.o2527.full.pdf
The FDA has been criticised for taking more than a year to follow up a potential increase in serious adverse events in elderly people receiving Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine, Maryanne Demasi reports

In July 2021 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly disclosed findings of a potential increase in four types of serious adverse events in elderly people who had had Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine: acute myocardial infarction, disseminated intravascular coagulation, immune thrombocytopenia, and pulmonary embolism.1 Little detail was provided, such as the magnitude of the increased potential risk, and no press release or other alert was sent to doctors or the public. The FDA promised it would “share further updates and information with the public as they become available.”

Eighteen days later, the FDA published a study planning document (or protocol) outlining a follow-up epidemiological study intended to investigate the matter more thoroughly.2 This recondite technical document disclosed the unadjusted relative risk ratio estimates originally found for the four serious adverse events, which ranged from 42% to 91% increased risk. (Neither absolute risk increases nor confidence intervals were provided.) More than a year later, however, the status and results of the follow-up study are unknown. The agency has not published a press release, or notified doctors, or published the findings by preprint or the scientific literature or updated the vaccine’s product label.
https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj.o2527

From here:

Marty Makary MD, MPH
@MartyMakary
Powerful BMJ piece on FDA/CDC failure to study vaccine complications.

“Pfizer & Moderna clinical trial reanalysis by Fraiman & colleagues indicated the mRNA vaccines were associated with an additional serious adverse event for every 800 people vaccinated”

https://twitter.com/MartyMakary/status/1585670629470212102

https://web.archive.org/web/20220710152103/https://howtobearetronaut.com/2011/01/detroit-in-ruins/

The fourth pic, the East Side Public Library, again, shelves and shelves and shelves of books.

FFS, people, GIVE THEM AWAY. They can’t ALL be books no one would want — for FREE!

Yeah, but Detroit has more of it than almost anyplace else.

https://weather.com/travel/news/modern-ruins-abandoned-detroit-photos-20130715

It’s an exceptionally odd place to find it, but this, at Weather.com, has a lot of pix (I first encountered them at the “late” Retronaut site, which, while it still exists, seems to have been taken over completely by someone else who purged it of all history… why they wanted to take it over… who knows. If I had kept the URL, I might have been able to find it on the Wayback Machine, but, lacking that, it’s difficult.

The photos seem to be taken by two people, who have collected them into a book:

https://www.amazon.com/Yves-Marchand-Romain-Meffre-Detroit/dp/3869300426

Currently available on Amazon for the low low LOW price of only $625.00…

Used ones are available for only $243!!

Picture 16, in particular, shows how criminal some of this abandonment is… look in the back. Those are shelves and shelves of BOOKS which have been abandoned.