setsneedtofeed 165 points 3 years ago

Is this a screenshot of Tumblr, that’s a screenshot of 4chan, that’s a screenshot of a news article?

What a future.

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InEnduringGrowStrong 91 points 3 years ago

Take a lemmy screenshot and post it to Facebook

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setsneedtofeed 57 points 3 years ago

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reverendsteveii 28 points 3 years ago

Memba when they marketed the web as this great big all-encompassing thing where you could find anything if you knew where and how to look? The modern web is like 6 sites chained together in a Content Centipede.

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chetradley 11 points 3 years ago

In a couple of years it will be almost exclusively ai content that's been trained on other ai content.

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reverendsteveii 14 points 3 years ago

I'll be honest, I'm kinda hype to see the ragged edge of AI trained on AI trained on AI down a few dozen levels deep. The slow literal disintegration of data outputted by a system that has no concept of meaning, only pattern-matching, is gonna end up building entire cities in the uncanny calley

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harmsy 8 points 3 years ago

It will be horrible. This will be the only face you see in media...forever...

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Bubs 11 points 3 years ago

I think it's a Tumblr post that contains a collage of the news article, wolf picture, and a section of the 4chan post.

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prole 10 points 3 years ago

It's like the human centipede, if it was a complete circle.

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RagingRobot 8 points 3 years ago

I wonder, if you twist one of the people could you make a human Mobius strip?

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Restaldt 3 points 3 years ago

No but you can make a human particle collider

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GluWu 8 points 3 years ago

Five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four.

Welcome to the enshitification.

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Feathercrown 20 points 3 years ago

Just because you want to use our new favorite word doesn't mean it always applies

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Rai 4 points 3 years ago

My eyes rolled audibly when I read the comment you’re replying to

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samus12345 7 points 3 years ago

The quality is surprisingly good, though. Usually they're blurred all to hell.

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robocall 76 points 3 years ago

I'm happy they rescued the wolf from the icy river.

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reverendsteveii 72 points 3 years ago

Let them towel you off, maybe get a snack. What's the worst that could happen?

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Dufurson 42 points 3 years ago

Why fren shaped if not fren?

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FiniteBanjo 37 points 3 years ago

A wolf could have easily killed whoever was handling it. I guess it was just completely resigned to the situation.

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Viking_Hippie 53 points 3 years ago

The Estonian Union for the Protection of Animals (EUPA) said the wolf had low blood pressure when it arrived at the veterinarian's office, which may have explained its docile nature after the men carried it to their car to warm it up.

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nitefox 7 points 3 years ago

Wouldn’t the wolf understand they were trying to help?

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Viking_Hippie 33 points 3 years ago

Probably not, no. Wild wolves tend to have only negative interactions with humans and thus instinctively consider them a threat regardless of the specific situation..

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nitefox 24 points 3 years ago

Disney lied to me

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FiniteBanjo 10 points 3 years ago

It's true that wolves are more intelligent than given credit for and that they're much more afraid of humans than vice versa, but you're not going to befriend a wolf and engage in physical interactions without months of preparation. They treat us as larger predators, and will struggle to avoid being eaten.

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emergencyfood 5 points 3 years ago

While wolves can cause fatal injuries, they rarely do. From 1952 to 2002, there were 8 deaths in Europe + Russia, and 3 in North America. Most wolf attacks occur in south Asia, due to rabies.

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morgunkorn 32 points 3 years ago

Link to the full article if you want to read the story: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47330924

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OsrsNeedsF2P 63 points 3 years ago

The Estonian Union for the Protection of Animals (EUPA) said the wolf had low blood pressure when it arrived at the veterinarian's office, which may have explained its docile nature after the men carried it to their car to warm it up.

Aww

"He was calm, slept on my legs. When I wanted to stretch them, he raised his head for a moment," he added.

Awwww

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jqubed 60 points 3 years ago

If there was some way to be absolutely sure it wouldn’t kill or seriously injure me I would definitely pet and/or play with a wolf.

Of course, with those caveats I could also say the same for bears, lions, tigers, cougars, panthers, …

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Delphia 33 points 3 years ago

I think keeping a bear, even a very well trained and "domesticated" one is cruel and horrible. I also think that Russians make it look super fun and awesome on youtube.

But eventually the bear is probably going to maul me and my last thought will be the Chris Rock quote on Siegfried and Roy... "That tiger didnt go crazy, THAT TIGER WENT TIGER!"

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Tinidril 29 points 3 years ago

There is a guy in my area that runs a wolf refuge and therefore has a zoo license. Local police took possession of an illegally owned black bear cub and came to him because it was too domesticated to release and they couldn't find a zoo that would take it. He refused but then relented because the next option was euthanasia. Now his wolf sanctuary has a black bear that he raised by hand and does "wrestling" shows with. He and the bear pretend to wrestle in a bunch of different poses. The bear could snap him like a twig, but is clearly very affectionate towards him.

https://bigrunwolfranch.org/

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jballs 6 points 3 years ago

"That tiger didnt go crazy, THAT TIGER WENT TIGER!"

Lol my wife and I use this quote all the time, but it's so old that I don't think anyone ever understands it.

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samus12345 2 points 3 years ago

(This predated the actual attack on Roy by 10 years)

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Alexstarfire 14 points 3 years ago

Ohh my.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

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jqubed 8 points 3 years ago

I mean, I guess I kind of married a cougar, and I do try to pet and play with her every day. Different kind of cougar than I meant in the other comment, though.

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Mouselemming 6 points 3 years ago

Apparently, dropping them into ice water until their blood pressure drops could work. But it would be a cold wet cuddle, until it becomes a cozy warm deadly wrassle!

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reverendsteveii 6 points 3 years ago

My partner and I went to a nature preserve the other day and had the exact same thought about buffalo. Still furry and warm, still friend shaped even if it has forehead spears. What if your furry snuggle buddy was an entire alive couch?

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gamermanh 5 points 3 years ago

Find someone with a wolf-dog, preferably mid to high content, hang out with it for a bit

I owned a halfer (she-wolf and husky parents) and it was basically wolf default behaviours with begrudging love for his humans. Looked like a slightly (maybe 80% size) small wolf and had the body power and intelligence to match.

It's not exactly the same as being near a full wolf (which I have done) but it's the experience you're imagining for "friendly wolf", and quite awesome

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localhost443 26 points 3 years ago

They were lucky that wolf was so chill...

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Thcdenton 22 points 3 years ago

Good boy

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Mandarbmax 16 points 3 years ago

Thanks 🥰

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Kedly 21 points 3 years ago

I saw the blanket and "ancestors warned me" and my initial first thought was FAR DARKER than domestication xD

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caseyweederman 5 points 3 years ago

cough cough

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Wogi 3 points 3 years ago

Ummm.. Context?

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Kedly 17 points 3 years ago

In North America, White Settlers attempted to kill First Nations people with blankets given as gifts that were infected with smallpox

edit: "During a parley in midst of the siege on 24 June 1763, Captain Simeon Ecuyer gave representatives of the besieging Delawares two blankets and a handkerchief enclosed in small metal boxes that had been exposed to smallpox, in an attempt to spread the disease to the Natives in order to end the siege"

Wikipedia Link

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Wogi 4 points 3 years ago

Well now I'm in the "people who know" side of the meme

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candyman337 9 points 3 years ago

That's gotta be a wolf coyote mix right? He's too small to be a full blown wolf

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jqubed 45 points 3 years ago

Article said it was estimated to only be about a year old by a local hunter; I’m going to assume that’s not full-grown for a wolf

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prole 5 points 3 years ago

I wonder if a wolf experiencing such a traumatic thing like this at such a young age, only to be rescued by humans, does anything to "fast track" their domestication?

Like are they aware at some level that they owe their life to this human? Like I wonder if you looked at it side-by-side with a normal wolf cub taken out of the wild and treated as a dog, would it end up more or less docile as an adult?

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candyman337 10 points 3 years ago

So there's a difference between not wild and domesticated. A non wild wolf will be nice around people, but it will still have way more instinct drive than a domesticated animal. Domestication is essentially removal of instincts that harm humans

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janNatan 7 points 3 years ago

Sure, it would end up less feral than an untrained wolf.

In much the same way, lava is less hot than the sun. I'm not touching either one, though.

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kandoh 1 point 3 years ago

Just anecdotal evidence here but I've noticed a lot of animals are less scared of humans than I remember from my youth. Maybe it's just algorithms showing me rare things frequently creating this perception but who knows

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candyman337 2 points 3 years ago

Ah that makes sense then

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schnokobaer 31 points 3 years ago

I was going to say there are no coyotes in Europe but my quick research revealed the somewhat similar golden jackal is at least native to southern Europe. So it is possible, but I'm leaning towards it being an adolescent.

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dfyx 11 points 3 years ago

Jackal territory reaches to the south of Romania and Hungary which are still about 1450 km (900 miles) from Estonia. So unless some lonely canine went on a looong honeymoon I'd say that's rather unlikely.

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Skua 4 points 3 years ago

There's 1,000+ miles and the Carpathian Mountains between Estonia and the range of the golden jackal, though

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AeonFelis 4 points 3 years ago

I'm more of a cat person, but I'd still totally would.

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Kolanaki 4 points 3 years ago

Legoshi vibes.

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