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[–] [email protected] 65 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Couldn't get far enough, just used the thumbnail.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I had to turn my phone angled away from my face so I'm looking more at the volume buttons than the screen

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

You're totally right. That was the only way I saw it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Unfocusing your eyes works as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I just turned my eyeballs inside out, easy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I just squinted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This worked, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Yes this is fascinating because the thumbnail is undeniably clear, but the bigger and closer you get, it's indecipherable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I moved my phone randomly from left to right, and that worked for me.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think yesterday I remembered those ai texts hidden on images and I was wondering what happened to them..

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I was making some for a while, but I think the hard part is coming up with new ideas for pictures, and also not getting fatigued from looking through hundreds of similar pictures and thinking "is this one the best? Or is this other one sliiightly better?"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Just ask the AI which one is better

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

You can still make them! Even on your own if you have a moderately good PC.

It's just that it's kinda useless, and finding a good image for the background is hard. You need something the AI can use to set the brightness, but no matter if it's bright or dark it must still be recognizable as part of the background image. So the image needs to be something without overarching structure. But you need overarching structure to fool the viewer into believing it's just a normal image.

Or maybe I'm just bad at it, lmao

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

Squinting works for me too btw

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

The stones will cry nut was how i read it at first and it got a laugh from me

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ok, but wtf does that mean

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (3 children)

A reference to Habbakuk 3:11 in the Bible, which Jesus alludes to in his triumphal entrance into Jerusalem (see Luke 19:40). Habbakuk is prophesying against the people of God and saying they've become such a bunch of self-serving hypocrites that even the stones and timbers of their house (figurative or literal) cry out against them.

If you want more explanation, I'm happy to unpack it more, but that's where it comes from.

As to why someone felt it made a good message for a rock wall? I don't know. Often Christians interpret it as the stones are crying out in joy at Jesus' arrival, but that misses the Habakkuk allusion, the political reality of Jesus' conflict with the Jerusalem temple authorities, and the context in which "hosanna" historically gets used.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago

Christians missing the actual message of scripture?

Impossible.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Now that I know something about it I've lost all interest.

I appreciate your effort and explanation, just not something I want to spend any mental effort on. Cheers

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, immediately deflated once I read it was some dumbass scripture thing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I can understand but it’s actually rather poignant. The idea in scripture is that people are a bunch of hypocrites and worship the trappings of their religion rather than their deity.

That strongly parallels with Christian nationalism.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

For some reason, I thought of Reverend Dexter from Babylon 5

"Every day, here and at home, we are warned about the enemy. But who is the enemy? Is it the alien? Well, we are all alien to one another. Is it the one who believes differently than we do? No, not at all, my friends. The enemy is fear. The enemy is ignorance. The enemy is the one who tells you that you must hate that which is different. Because, in the end, that hate will turn on you. And that same hate will destroy you.", followed by the hymn

It still hits me hard, one of the best juxtaposition scenes in a series. Chilling and beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Is this loss?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

For those who still can’t see it:

spoilerimage

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

What’s really weird is, once you see it, you can’t unsee it. It’s obvious. The brain is strange.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It helps to make these smaller. Look at the dark gaps between the interior rocks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah I opened in a new window and zoomed out, thought it was "who" in the middle. Then I viewed it on the comments page and saw the thumbnail and went "oh, it's 'The Stones Will Cry Out'".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The stones will cry out.

I find unfocusing my eyes helps with these

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah I like to try and go a little cross eyed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

That did it for me! Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought it had something to do with that penis looking formation in the middle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Everything looks like a penis when all you need is to get nailed? 🤷

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wow! That's like one of those perspective arts things where you can only see one thing at a time. Invisible until you can't not see it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

First time with one of these? They are pretty cool, yeah

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I see a zombie giraffe. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago