- cross-posted to:
- eesti@lemm.ee
- cross-posted to:
- eesti@lemm.ee
Is this a screenshot of Tumblr, that’s a screenshot of 4chan, that’s a screenshot of a news article?
What a future.
Take a lemmy screenshot and post it to Facebook
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.
In a couple of years it will be almost exclusively ai content that’s been trained on other ai content.
It will be horrible. This will be the only face you see in media…forever…
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
Five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four.
Welcome to the enshitification.
Just because you want to use our new favorite word doesn’t mean it always applies
They were lucky that wolf was so chill…
Link to the full article if you want to read the story: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47330924
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
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, …
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!”
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.
Oh nnnnooo it’s like Bart, the bear who played every bear in a movie or TV show when I was a kid.
I saw the blanket and “ancestors warned me” and my initial first thought was FAR DARKER than domestication xD
Ummm… Context?
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”
Let them towel you off, maybe get a snack. What’s the worst that could happen?
That’s gotta be a wolf coyote mix right? He’s too small to be a full blown wolf
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
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?
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
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.
There’s 1,000+ miles and the Carpathian Mountains between Estonia and the range of the golden jackal, though
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.
A wolf could have easily killed whoever was handling it. I guess it was just completely resigned to the situation.
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.
Wouldn’t the wolf understand they were trying to help?
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…
Disney lied to me
You better sit down for this next part…
Remember The Lion King? Turns out lions can’t sing and have no concept of monarchic rule!
This is true. It’s an established fact that lions adopted a unicameral parliamentary system as far back as 1643.