WTF is a King Soopers?
It’s a very common grocery store in Colorado. Kinda like how the east coast has a million Food Lions that the west coast has never heard of. And the west coast has Vons which the east coast has never heard of. I think King Soopers is in the “Kroger” family along with Ralphs & City Market etc. I’ve lived all over the USA in the past 7 years and I’m really familiar with chain grocery stores.
Food Lion huh? We’ve got Jewel in Chicagoland. Used to have Dominick’s but they’re extinct now.
Or the Shitty Kitty as the kids call it.
Living in Colorado is a bit weird, because it’s easy to overlook a lot of the natural beauty you see every day and it just becomes part of the background.
Every once in a while I’ll be running an errand and will have to pause for a second and just go “holy shit, the mountains look gorgeous today.”
This is why part of me thinks its honestly better to live close to mountains not by them.
I want to keep them special, something that sparks that child like wonder inside when I see them.
My 16-year-old son never wants to go out of the house but he was talking about wanting to go to Omega Mart in Vegas. So I booked us a flight into Denver. Yeah it’s an 11-hour drive even after we fly. But I get to drive through the mountains, and I don’t live anywhere near the mountains. And I fucking love the mountains. And all of those miles go an a rental car.
I grew up in the US West and I was able to spend the last couple of days in the Smoky mountains, but there just isn’t anything that really satisfies that mountain itch in the eastern us. Enjoy what you have.
When I was a kid, I flew from Colorado to Tennessee and my dad took me to the Great Smoky Mountains. I was like “these aren’t mountains - these are hills!”
I guess I was a bit of an ingrate.
Air pollution makes sunsets more red
Ai…
For sure the rightmost image is AI:
- Zero correlation between the painted lines and where cars are parked (yes, more so than IRL)
- Shopping cart on left side is melding with car, shopping cart on right side doesn’t match the angle of the guy pushing
- No texture variation on the road paint or asphalt, despite being a parking lot in a place that presumably gets snow/ice.
Probably I checked with an ai image detector (I don’t know if there are good ones I should use) it said that ml detector had a 93 procent suspision on the whole image not cropped, but I think it just doesn’t like memes because this
had a 76 procent detection from the same ml detector, but on a regular photo I took only 35 procent, but tbf the image was processed by gcam and one of the issues was skin too smooth/perfect.AI-powered AI detectors are rarely much better than chance.
There is a reason they use like 16 methods or something like that, I just focused on that because that was the most prone to false alarms.
Yes I can confirm that it’s true, I made this observation last week when I had a view of a gorgeous sunset behind something simple as a Walmart parking lot! The skies are always beautiful here though, so you could say the same about any business here tbf. I love this place.
I feel this happens to me a lot, that I see the best sunsets from some stupid parking lot.
I think there may be actual geographical reasons. The land where I live is flat, the horizon is generally obscured by trees or buildings. But in the middle of the suburban Buy-n-Large parking lot, 10x bigger than it has any need to be, I can almost see the horizon for once. I can see so much more sky than I can from most other places.
It depends on the position of the clouds.
Basically, the clouds need to be overhead, but there needs to be a gap in the cloud cover to the west (possibly even beyond the horizon).
This gap lets sunlight in from below the clouds, so that it can shine up on the bottom of them. If you look carefully, you can see that the illuminated parts of the clouds are the ones facing west and down.
That’s why the sunset only looks this brilliant occasionally. Conditions have to be perfect for it. It’s most common after a heavy rain, because the evaporating water tends to create the perfect array of clouds. But the timing has to be just right too. Too soon, and there’s no gap for the sun to peak through; too late and the clouds scatter.
Not American – can someone explain the state of Colorado to me? It looks like your own little Switzerland
Definitely not little, it’s actually the 8th-largest state of the USA, and larger than many countries (it’s a little smaller than Italy). It’s a weird one, because the West and East side are totally different: mountainous on the West side, flat in the East. The population lives mostly on the border between the two side, is very highly educated, mostly liberal for the USA, and is absolutely obsessed with the outdoors.
The mountain side boasts some of the most gorgeous landscapes on Earth. The orogeny that led to their creation was rapid, unusual (in that it was mid-craton and not on the edge), and recent, so that they are jagged and rough and wild. If you’d like to get an idea, just look up “San Juan mountains” in your image search engine of choice.
I feel like you know more about my home than I do, thanks for the educational write up
You are very welcome and thank you! It used to be my home, too, and I absolutely love love love it. One day, I’ll be back and the remaining 23 14ers will be very afraid!
, it’s actually the 8th-largest state of the USA, and larger than many countries (it’s a little smaller than Italy).
I think this is something that many Europeans seem unable to grasp. The US is massive
Last winter there was a question about why a freeze warning in the northern plains states didn’t apply to other states to the East and West. And people were like “well, the mountains…” this and “uh, the Mississippi…” that, but I couldn’t get over how “y’all, you’re missing the big thing here. It’s not weird that so few states have the same weather, it’s weird that so many do.”
If you put the US over Europe, with New Mexico over Portugal, Maine would be over Moscow. The contiguous 48 states is basically the same size as China. By itself, it’s bigger than three whole continents (not combined).
A little smaller than Italy is truly crazy
Interesting. It definitely sounds like a unique state
The eastern half is flat and empty. The western half is mountainous like Switzerland, but also pretty empty. Most of the people live in a strip of cities along the foothills.
The mountains are impressive and the elevation gets nearly as high as the highest point in the alps. What’s weird about Colorado is that even the lowest elevation areas are really high up. Denver is at the base of the mountains, but is at 5280ft/1610m. For comparison, most of Switzerland’s cities are below 1500ft/500m.
Damn, that really is high
Less chocolate. More weed. Otherwise accurate.
When I visited the Grand Canyon, I set up my tripod so I could take a timelapse of the sunset. I figured it would be amazing in that setting.
And… it was just like the first picture. Mild, delicate colors, nothing like what I was hoping for. Though if you like watching the shadows grow and move over the canyon, it’s still good for that.
I suppose the hidden bonus was that by having my phone sitting on the tripod for hours, it meant I spent that time enjoying the scenery and talking to fellow travelers, which was cool.
Magic can appear in the most mundane of places if you look for it.
Try their jalapeno cheese dip and you’ll meet the gods. Then tell us that place is mundane.
Edit: I’m assuming whoever took this pic was going in for that dip.
The difference? Photoshop.
Definitely not, Colorado sunsets are wild. Here’s one from a few weeks ago, photo is literally blown out the colors are so wild, it looked much crazier in person.
And this happens all the time.
Edit: the hdr didn’t come through on some of these, like the second to last was SO MUCH MORE COLOR than that photo shows.
All the Southwest is like this.
Totally amazing sunset…in the Wal-Mart parking lot.
Yes, exactly. And look where you took those beautiful photos.
Yeah the meme is incredibly accurate. But it also makes sense because aerosols above cities make the sky redder for sunsets. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-smog-creates-beautiful-sunsets/
For example this one is out in the mountains and the sunset isn’t nearly as orange or red.
Can confirm, I used to live there and the spectacular views just stepping outside are what I miss.
Yeah it’s the opposite, the photos never show the true craziness of the real thing . And sunrises are even more intense . I saw some crazy shit on the school bus on the way to school back in the day .
Hmmmm I love when the land turns into a crisp silhouette like that
Interesting how orange it is, here in my city in Australia I feel we get really vibrant pink skies.
That means you have less pollution. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-smog-creates-beautiful-sunsets/
Niceee
Na, I live here. It just be like this
Nah, the real difference? Pollution. In general, airborne pollution up high reflects red light and absorbs blue light. Vivid sunrises and sunsets are often found near cities for a reason.
could also be just natural dust, like in germany we sometimes get sahara winds that make for beautiful sunsets
For sure it’s just as likely, but let’s just hit them with the shock value now, instead it happening in the store.
This happens all over the Southwest, it really depends on patchiness of cloud cover. Amazing sunsets don’t care if you’re in the parking lot of Wal-Mart or out somewhere with trees.
