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[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

So I looked this up. It's the viewing/sitting/fidgeting area for an interactive art installation at the San Francisco airport called the Butterfly Wall. As a kids area, yeah it's still a bit sterile and eye-rollingly "sophisticated," but they left out the actual attraction, a tank-like thing with very satisfying-looking hand cranks that raise little goassamer-winged mechanical butterflies that than then descend like fancy versions of the parachute men you'd get from the dentist because he won't keep candy. I've seen tonally similar things at a dozen different parks, museums, and botanical gardens, and this one is actually kinda nice in that being indoors it can be a little more delicate.

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As others have said, most kids areas I've seen are much less ST:TNG-coded, and even SFO has others that are "better." My kid is through the "every random play area must be experienced" phase, but she's traveled a lot, and we've seen tons of aviation themed mini-playgrounds and open spaces with primary-colored benches along the walls.

Pet peeve time: this kind of cherry-picked observation is weaponized laziness, the social media equivalent of stand-ups thinking it's clever to muse, "why isn't the whole plane made of the black box stuff?!"

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

his kind of cherry-picked observation is weaponized laziness, the social media equivalent of stand-ups thinking it’s clever to muse, “why isn’t the whole plane made of the black box stuff?!”

It's attention chum.

Hence, the blue checkmark.

It's mind boggling to me that blue checkmark Tweets are the most upvoted/commented things on Lemmy. Didn't we come here to escape that?

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 4 points 20 hours ago

Thank you for sharing this, it's cool!