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[-] VisualBuilder4@lemmy.world 44 points 4 months ago

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“

[-] all-knight-party@kbin.run 19 points 4 months ago

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

[-] VisualBuilder4@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

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

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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

[-] all-knight-party@kbin.run 1 points 4 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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