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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. 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 satisfies that mountain itch in the eastern us. Enjoy what you have.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Less chocolate. More weed. Otherwise accurate.

Try their jalapeno cheese dip and you'll meet the gods. Then tell us that place is mundane.

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.

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.

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.