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[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 42 points 3 weeks ago

My grandma saw these one time and cherished her photos and memory of it for years

I was lucky enough to see these a couple years ago, it was very very cool to see in person!

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago

Never seen clouds like these. Reminded me of Starry Night at first haha.

Are they only in certain regions?

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 weeks ago

They’re pretty rare, I’ve only seen them one time, and my grandma in northern Ontario only ever saw them once in her 80+ years.

It was such an event in her town that everyone went out to the street to see. When I saw them I also went into the street to take it in, but I didn’t see anyone else enjoying it

Apparently they’re more common in the US plain states (not sure what they include)

[-] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Saw them often when I lived in Oklahoma

[-] yucandu@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Isn't this the global warming cloud? As in this type of cloud is becoming much more common due to global warming.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Wouldn’t surprise me... Ontario weather is becoming increasingly like the us midwest with tornadoes.

[-] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

Makes me want to scream for some reason.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

While I have seen clouds like this (looks like blankets or pillows)

I suspect this is a generated or at the very least AI enhanced photo.

Look at the back of the car, and the lines on the road are not quite correct either. Also it chose to clone the same color car, which could or could not have happened.

Edit: After looking again with less tired eyes, the back of the car is just poorly cloned to hide the plate, probably by “hand”. Something about the road texture still feels filtered (possibly an artificial zoom mentioned below). It could be a really big lens in a nice DSLR, but note that AI has tuned my ability to trust my eyes, I hate that I can’t be sure.

[-] 0x0@infosec.pub 4 points 3 weeks ago

All i see is that the plates on the closest car being removed

[-] antaymonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Looks like a rubber stamp tool was used to remove the plate. Nothing suggests ai to me.

[-] MapleFawn 13 points 3 weeks ago

If you paint that on a canvas minus the human Infrastructure I’d Frame it.

[-] atomicorange@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Just you wait…

[-] Katrisia@lemmy.today 10 points 3 weeks ago

Late 19th century painting.

[-] mirshafie@europe.pub 3 points 3 weeks ago

Why are the telegraph poles pushed into the overgrowth, and why have the horse carriages been abandoned??

[-] fraksken@infosec.pub 8 points 3 weeks ago

Oh my! This would be great when tripping on truffles 😬

[-] xylol@leminal.space 5 points 3 weeks ago

I thought they were super rare and expensive, and yet you have so many you're tripping over them?

[-] gwl 4 points 3 weeks ago

They're a dime a dozen in EU

Oh wait you mean the mushrooms not the chocolate of the same name

[-] xylol@leminal.space 2 points 3 weeks ago

Is out chocolate with mushroom essence or something?

[-] gwl 3 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, fully just people going "from a distance, it kinda looks like a truffle"

A confection having a center of ganache and an outer coating of powdered cocoa or chocolate, named after the visual resemblance to a Black Truffle

[-] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Truffles are a type of hallucinogenic mushroom. I bought some in Amsterdam once. I think they were called philosopher stones.

[-] tamal3@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

US and Amsterdam seem to have different truffles. Weirdly, ours are marketed as European....

[-] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Are we still talking about the fun kind (fungi) or the little chocolate things?

[-] notabot@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Truffles are also a sort of non-hallucinogenic fungi, prized as a seasoning for certain foods, typically dug up and harvested by truffle hunters aided by dogs or pigs. I suspect they're the ones you get as European, unless you're talking about the chocolates.

In fact, the work truffle refers to too many different things. Someone should do something about that.

[-] gwl 1 points 2 weeks ago

No, that's just a subtype of truffle

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

As a child I only ever knew of the chocolate version of truffles and man, having had both...child me was right. Chocolate truffles are the best.

[-] Hatshepsut@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Saw some of these about 10 years ago. They're mesmerizing. Had to pull over to get pics and I wasn't the only one. They're trippy af.

For lovers of clouds:
Cloud Appreciation Society

NOAA site about clouds

WMO Cloud Atlas

[-] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

The back of that vehicle is even stranger.

[-] Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

This looks like it was painted by Bob Ross

[-] khepri@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Not by me they aren't don't tell me what to do

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'm going to need a really long spoon.

[-] ShotDonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Quite cool to look at the pic upside down, too.

[-] Luci@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Pictures don’t do this justice, you need to see these irl they are amazing!

[-] AllToRuleThemOne@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

My brain hurts.

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