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[–] VisualBuilder4 45 points 7 months ago (10 children)

My quick guess is that it is so dim, that our eyes are seeing it mostly with the rods (instead of the cones), which only see black and white. „In the night all cats are gray“

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Wait... Did you really just use the Benjamin Franklin grandma pussy quote for this?

[–] VisualBuilder4 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Oh. I didn’t know this was a thing. In my mother tongue (German) it is like a normal expression.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Nachts sind alle Katzen grau

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachts_sind_alle_Katzen_grau

Apparently it was originally adapted from Don Quixote

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I'm sure it is, it's just because my first experience with it was through that letter, so now it's ruined for me.

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