Lying To Children
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 15 Aug 15:46
https://mander.xyz/post/36032861

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not_that_guy05@lemmy.world on 15 Aug 15:47 next collapse

Hey, fuck you and let me enjoy my childhood cartoons.

BaseModelHuman@lemmy.world on 15 Aug 15:49 next collapse

How fast can coyotes run on just their hind legs though?

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de on 15 Aug 16:15 next collapse

Those that do compensate with a vast intellect.

zewm@lemmy.world on 15 Aug 18:41 collapse

Half the limbs, half the speed.

floo@retrolemmy.com on 15 Aug 16:12 next collapse

Meep! Meep!

aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works on 15 Aug 16:23 next collapse

Did this need to be an AI image?

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/19d1a2a2-9923-4162-9a24-2f84dd3b9597.jpeg">

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/df020008-ab6a-4d0b-842a-233469d4a630.jpeg">

aeronmelon@lemmy.world on 15 Aug 18:39 next collapse

I unironically really like the way roadrunners look. Excellent example of a bird.

oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 15 Aug 18:42 next collapse

Top 10 birb of all time

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world on 16 Aug 14:54 next collapse

I expected them to be a LOT bigger. Because of the cartoon, I thought they were a little bit smaller than the emus that I grew up around. Nope little fuckers are like 1.5 feet in length and 1 foot in height. Chickens are much fatter.

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works on 17 Aug 14:11 collapse

Too aerodynamic I like my birbs round

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/e191305c-a58c-490f-9e18-c7e2793bcb4c.jpeg">

th3raid0r@tucson.social on 15 Aug 22:30 collapse

Perfection!

queermunist@lemmy.ml on 15 Aug 16:31 next collapse

Next you’ll tell me coyotes can’t operate catapults or rocket shoes or even paint brushes!

Do they not even have business cards???

knacht1@lemmy.world on 15 Aug 18:20 collapse

They got Steve Fosset’s credit card after he crash landed his plane…

aeronmelon@lemmy.world on 15 Aug 16:33 next collapse

Wile E. Coyote Is not what we would call a good coyote.

the_q@lemmy.zip on 15 Aug 16:44 collapse

I’ll have you know he’s a super genius.

don@lemmy.ca on 15 Aug 17:04 collapse

ACME Corp.’s most loyal customer.

Wakmrow@hexbear.net on 15 Aug 16:54 next collapse

What is this ai slop

swagmoney@lemmy.ca on 15 Aug 16:59 next collapse

lying to us with this generated image 😡

[deleted] on 15 Aug 20:24 collapse

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BroBot9000@lemmy.world on 15 Aug 22:32 next collapse

Look at real examples of road runners that were posted and notice the distinct lack of YouTube thumbnail/Pixar animation face on the real birds.

I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org on 16 Aug 01:59 next collapse

But replace “me” with “it”, I’m on mobile or would have done

<img alt="" src="https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/580bb29b-1a76-46a9-af45-6a71df9566dc.jpeg">

Hyper realistic, but not a photo. Too far on the other side of the uncanny valley.

Skullgrid@lemmy.world on 16 Aug 04:18 next collapse

real birds don’t have ahegao youtube thumbnail face

captain_oni@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Aug 07:30 collapse

Take a closer look at the legs. They look photoshopped from another different photo They’re also all fucked up, proportion-wise.

None of the claws are planted on the ground (how is it standing up?)

Shadow on the rightmost leg doesn’t match the lighting. Shadows on the body are too soft.

Etc…

carrylex@lemmy.world on 15 Aug 17:07 next collapse

  1. Why AI?
  2. Why in retarded units?
  3. Why is the data incorrect? “In fact, a coyote’s fastest sprinting speed is 64 km/h (40 mph), which is twice that of a roadrunner’s at 32 km/h (20 mph).”
oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 15 Aug 18:52 collapse

Honestly I never really have fully gotten the whole metric vs imperial debate. The best solution is a hybrid system, which we already use and most people don’t realize it. Like if you are in a country that already used metric, guess what your time keeping system is from? From the older imperial system! Guess what you use if you are in an imperial country? You use liters, milliliters, gram and milligrams for stuff already! Just mix the two so you have the best of both worlds rather than try to remain dogmatically stuck with an objectively worse version of either system.

carrylex@lemmy.world on 15 Aug 19:16 next collapse

we

<img alt="" src="https://i.imgflip.com/a37l0h.jpg">

<img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Metric_and_imperial_systems_%282019%29.svg/960px-Metric_and_imperial_systems_%282019%29.svg.png">

oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 15 Aug 19:27 collapse

Goddamn I thought you had reading comprehension for a second there, my mistake.

The best solution is a hybrid system, which we already use…

and

if you are in a country that already used metric, guess what your time keeping system is from? From the older imperial system!

Here is an article for metric time: metrictime.info Does that look that look like the classic 24 hours in a day system most people use? No? Congrats than you learned something today.

oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 15 Aug 19:36 next collapse

If you want to convert people who use imperial then don’t be an asshole and alienate them. But if you are gonna be an asshole at least be right about the thing you are talking about. I know metric time is largely forgotten but at least have a basic understanding if you want to talk shit.

carrylex@lemmy.world on 15 Aug 20:30 collapse
Zerush@lemmy.ml on 17 Aug 14:43 next collapse

I’m from the EU (Spain), they are 100% in the metric system, but the Imperial system is certainly difficult to kill, for reasons I don’t know, used in Nautics, Air Traffics and curiously also in Plumbing, where tubes are still in inches. The biggest drawback in the Imperial system is that it leads to errors (NASA crashed 2 Mars probes because of it, before changing to the metric system), it’s because the different units don’t have any relations among these and are complete arbitrarily, which difficult a lot of precise calculations. Never was a good idea to use the bodyparts of a death King as measure units.

GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz on 18 Aug 02:36 collapse

That’s not metric time

This is metric time

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time

Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it on 15 Aug 20:01 next collapse

tbh current time keeping kinda sucks.

_edge@discuss.tchncs.de on 16 Aug 07:45 collapse

How many millilitres are in a gallon?

oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Aug 14:08 next collapse

What next you are going to ask how many inches in a mile? Those are two units that aren’t used in the same context. I’d be like if I asked you how many seconds are in a year. Or if I asked you how big a notebook is in kilometers, rather than in centimeters.

A hybrid system really isn’t as wild of a concept as it sounds. We already just use conventional time keeping, metric is largely forgotten because of how unhelpful it was. metrictime.info

Doesn’t mean you have to take all of the weird units and conversions from imperial but it means to cherry pick the best of both worlds so we have a system that just works with what real people use it for.

carrylex@lemmy.world on 16 Aug 16:45 next collapse

What next you are going to ask how many inches in a mile? Those are two units that aren’t used in the same context.

Ever converted a pound-force second into a Newton second? No?

Some non-metric country’s space probe also didn’t do that

<img alt="" src="https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/aXYPY36_700b.jpg">

SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space on 16 Aug 16:56 collapse

how many ounces are in a cup? how about in a pound? how about how many tsp there are in 1/4 cup.

Luccus@feddit.org on 17 Aug 13:58 collapse

1l of (4°C) water weighs 1kg. 1kg (of anything) is 1000g. 1g of water is 1cm³. Stack 1000 1cm³ blocks to get a 10m high column. This column exerts 100kPa of pressure on its base. 1N would accelerate it by 1m/s every second. And to heat it by 1°C requires 1kcal.

Meanwhile if you convert feet to miles, you get 5,280, for some reason.

dotslashme@infosec.pub on 15 Aug 18:37 next collapse

The enjoyment was very real

BroBot9000@lemmy.world on 15 Aug 19:41 next collapse

Fucking Ai slop

JandroDelSol@lemmy.world on 15 Aug 21:01 next collapse

eww, ai

slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org on 16 Aug 16:22 collapse

I start seeing it IRL now too, it’s fucking disgusting.

th3raid0r@tucson.social on 15 Aug 22:28 next collapse

I think I speak for all of Tucson.social when I say fuck this AI bullshit.

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 16 Aug 02:01 next collapse

Wily was literally starving all the time. He wasnt able to run top speed because he didn’t have the energy and his muscles are atrophying.

Though this is still mostly all his own fault. He always bought machines to try and catch the road runner instead of exercising and if he could order dumb contraptions, he could have also just ordered Domino’s.

Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works on 16 Aug 04:38 next collapse

He did live out in the desert, probably outside the delivery range of fast food.

Wasn’t he shown eating canned food at various points in the cartoons?

Kobibi@sh.itjust.works on 16 Aug 08:44 next collapse

I think his name is Wile. Wile E. Coyote

Madison420@lemmy.world on 16 Aug 17:55 next collapse

Got an ass load of money and a mail system that’s damn near as fast as the road runner though seems like his ass could have ordered canned food faster.

caseyweederman@lemmy.ca on 17 Aug 11:11 collapse

Also the entire point was that he was incompetent

Fourth@mander.xyz on 16 Aug 02:29 next collapse

That image is beneath you fossilesque.

Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml on 16 Aug 05:06 next collapse

Disney lies to kids all the time. It was Disney that came up with the lemmings jumping off cliffs en masse idea. Turns out, it was just someone off camera literally shoving them off the edge. Mass murder, not mass suicide.

rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works on 16 Aug 08:16 next collapse

But Wile E. Coyote didn’t run after the Road Runner. He was a “Super Genius” so he used traps and contraptions and purchased solutions to achieve what he was above. If he had just chased after the Road Runner, he would eventually catch it.

That is part of the joke.

Iirc there’s an episode where he chases RR and catches it, then scratches his head for a bit wondering what to do next… then ties it to a rocket for no reason, with entirely expected outcomes.

Phegan@lemmy.world on 16 Aug 16:46 collapse

Is that an AI image?

khaleer@sopuli.xyz on 17 Aug 16:23 collapse

Do you really need to ask?