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Friggin hate that dress.

Always saw it as white/gold first but after a few seconds I perceive it as blue/black and then it stays that way.

I remember.

On my phone the background of Lemmy (not the photo) is black. And what is clearly gold in the photos doesn't look anything like black.

I know the dress is blue and black and that's what pisses me off. I can't even see blue and black if I try.

I only see white and gold, I don't understand the blue black folks.

The "color" of a thing is pure perception and often just a genuine personal choice.

It is annoying to think about it like that, but consider:

A movie projected onto a white canvas. Before the movie starts, there is no light projecting onto it and it's just the white canvas.

The movie opening credit comes on. "ALIEN" it says in thin white letters on black background. The projector does not darken the canvas, just add some lines of light forming letters in the middle. Yet we see black.

Is the canvas black or white now? If do when did it change? Is it both? How would you describe that?

People give many answers to this. Most of them based on choice of definition more than objective observation, which I find super interesting.

oh god not again with this absolutely egocentric bullshit factory..... ugh i hate our society sometimes

I can't remember the pairs of colors that are supposed to be. Were blue/black and golden/white?

Not this shit again!

thanks for making me feel old ...

Can't believe it's been 10 years. I'm getting old, and I'm not even 40.