• jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    I’ve seen pretty a dump dog understand elevators well enough to run down the stairs to follow someone that had just gotten into an elevator.

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    do regular dogs go all like ‘o shit its the cops’ when they see a police dog, or is it just another dog to them?

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      Don’t do anything illegal don’t do anything illegal don’t do anything illegal SQUIRREL!! Ah crap I did it again…

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            That treaty ended a hundred year war! So what if the Squirrels took Caninea, nobody thought they’d even come to the negotiating table after the Canines glassed Squirrelandia

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            its complicated. RATO presence in the region keeps tensions high, and squirruss borders are notoriously hard to defend.

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      Protest dogs are pretty good at recognizing cops vs protesters. Better than people sometimes.

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        Long live the memory of Negro Matapacos, greatest of allies. (Loukanikos was also a very good boy)

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    People have to stop acting like animals are the stupidest most thoughtless creatures.

    Yeah, most dogs probably understand it perfectly fine because it isn’t a great mystery. They go in a room, they feel the acceleration, they feel the deceleration, they go out.

    Sure, first time they are probably confused, but they are not completely oblivious to the world around them.

    Also, yeah, this post is funny

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      Tbf people act like people are the stupidest creatures too. Especially historically speaking.

      “How in the world could these complete and utter dumbasses figure out how to build giant piles of dirt in a specific shape? It must be aliens cause there is simply no way those idiots could figure that out on their own.”

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        Idk if it’s just a trope, but there are allegedly people so into the conspiracy wondering if they were built from the ground up or the tip down. 😅

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          I think the idea the pyramids were build from the top is a joke playing of the things said by conspiracy theorists.

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              Each one has two round chambers at its base nearly 2km below the surface.

              Edit: Eh, nobody got my juvenile phallic reference.

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            Oh, I saw it in a 4 hour long debunking documentary in potato quality on YT, but I do remember seeing the image.

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        There is obviously a lot of questions on how but I think the more interesting angle is why? Yeah humans at any stage in life could probably figure out how to stack these massive stones to create a few hundred meter tall structure. But the effort involved to do so must have needed some extraordinary reason, especially when you learn that the quarry they mined the stones from was 100s of kilometers away.

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          For the same reasons humans have done things throughout history. Worship, art, glory, vanity

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      In a few centuries, provided we don’t nuke ourselves into squiggles in sandstone, I look forward to personhood being extended to our canine, feline, bovine, equine, avian, reptilian, marsupial slaves and neighbors. It seems absurd that homo Sapiens is the only species with interesting stories to tell.

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        Non-avian reptiles have very little going on in there with very few exceptions. Dogs, some corvids, some parrots, pigs, cetaceans, apes, maybe octopuses, and probably more but that’s the spread that comes to mind: I can see “personhood” being applied. I love animals but I’m drawing a line and the average cat isn’t on the same side as me and they’re well above average in terms of reasoning and emotional capacity. Something can have personality without being a person.

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    I don’t believe any of the 3 dogs I’ve had were ever in an elevator. Never thought about that before.

    But while vacationing on Maui for a few weeks, toward the end my 4-yo daughter asked, “When are we going back to the real world?”

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    Dogs don’t have much in the way of spacial reasoning or logic, possibly due to over reliance on smells and sounds for navigation.

    When the doors open and things look different they might be surprised but they quickly forget what the previous floor even looked like. It’s as bewildering or thought provoking them as simply turning a corner would be. They don’t understand it enough to even be bewildered.

    That said, there are interpersonal difference to dogs, some of them might be more than smart enough to get quite confused.

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      My dog loves getting on busses and the tube. I think he just finds it exciting to see where we’ll appear, it’s pretty great, until you’re not paying attention and he jumps on a random bus.

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      There is a documentary about dogs in some city using public transit to get around. Pretty sure that they remember where they are or were to some extent.

      Not to say that they understand elevators. It’s probably just another room or hallway.

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        I’m sure they understand that the bus moves due to the many many windows and can take them to a specific place, but they could still just be navigating by scent and other factors. It’s not a good comparison to an elevator.

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          My only point was that they are remembering where they are or were. They didn’t forget everything because they turned a corner.

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    My dog loves the elevator, definitely cant tell the difference since both floors are the same, keeps going to our downstairs neighbors door like its our own before smelling it and realising her mistake.

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    While I’ve never been able to ask a dog myself, I’d imagine they can smell the changing space.

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    Will Smith: “Can a dog compose a symphony or paint a great work of art?”

    Incarcerated robot: “Can you?”

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    There was a Fraggle Rock sketch about this with the Explorer guy

    Speaking of which can you watch fraggle rock anywhere today? No? Ok fuck Disney 🏴‍☠️

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      You make me want to watch Fraggle Rock again. Apparently it’s on Apple TV+ and they made new seasons. Or, you can find it the other way…