• Harbard@literature.cafe
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    5 hours ago

    I would say it’s at the bottom due to wear marks and some other subtle things but what the fuck do I know about knowing shit.

  • Jesus@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Bottom. Wear marks from foot traffic + if that were the top. those mattresses would tip backwards unless someone was holding them in place.

  • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    7 hours ago

    We are at the top.

    Suppose the mattress is at the top. Why would someone fold the mattress into a V shape and not push the point forward?

    Also, it makes sense that someone would try to fold it into a V, shove it, laugh that it is stuck and take a picture.

  • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    If it were from the bottom looking up, that’d be some tall risers. So I think we’re looking down.

  • knight_alva@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    At the top-left corner of the image we see a support bracket for the hand rail. The orientation of this bracket only seems to make sense if we are at the bottom of the stairs looking up at the mattress. The shadow cast by the mattress also looks like the light is above and slightly closer to the camera.

    If we were at the top looking down, that would imply that the hand rail brackets were sideways instead of being vertical, and that the light was mounted on the wall instead of the ceiling. I have seen stranger things in construction but it would still be strange and unlikely.

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        8 hours ago

        Old carpet will show wear as people kick / drag against the backs of the steps. This is especially true for cheaper construction where the steps don’t have the typical overhang.

  • kamen@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    The carpet has wear on one side, and it doesn’t make sense for the wear to be on the front of each stair, so most likely we’re looking down from the top of the flight of stairs.

  • Legom7@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Steps in a staircase have two measurements. Tread and rise. The proportions of what we can see make more sense as treads rather than rises. Therefore the mattress is at the bottom. Also what we can see of the handrail would make sense in either direction.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      it’s about the wear patterns in the Berber.

      that’s the bottom of the stairs because we’re looking at the treads.