• Null User Object
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    1397 months ago

    In the photos, the tall, geometric figure reflects the rocky desert and perfectly aligns with the horizon.

    Ummmmm, that’s the photographer that did that. 🙄

    • @Eheran
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      497 months ago

      Tells you everything you need to know about those “journalists”.

      • @[email protected]
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        167 months ago

        …the department wrote alongside photos of the column. In the photos, the tall, geometric figure reflects the rocky desert and perfectly aligns with the horizon.

        Not sure how you would prefer that be phrased? Also, if you can reasonably see the horizon aligned with its reflection, that suggests something to the reader about how it’s more or less perpendicular to the ground, rather than slanted (cone/pyramid/etc.).

        • @Eheran
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          87 months ago

          It is like writing about how my children happened to be in my picture next to the grand canyon.

        • @Crashumbc
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          -37 months ago

          You don’t? Or write, “the photographer perfectly aligned the horizon with reflections of the rocky dessert.”

    • @[email protected]
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      17 months ago

      If the mirrors weren’t perfectly straight up the photographer wouldn’t have been able to do that.

      Also it literally says “in the photos” so yeah, what do you expect???

      • Null User Object
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        67 months ago

        It strongly reads to me like the writer is trying to make something mystical/mysterious out of a completely mundane “feature” of mirrors.