• @[email protected]
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    1623 months ago

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

    What a future.

    • Alien Nathan Edward
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      273 months 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        103 months ago

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

        • Alien Nathan Edward
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          133 months 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

    • @[email protected]
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      123 months 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      83 months ago

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

      Welcome to the enshitification.

    • prole
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      83 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    373 months 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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      523 months 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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          333 months 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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          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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      63 months 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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      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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        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, …

        • @[email protected]
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          303 months 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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            293 months 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/

            • Alien Nathan Edward
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              63 months ago

              Oh nnnnooo it’s like Bart, the bear who played every bear in a movie or TV show when I was a kid.

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            63 months 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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              43 months ago

              You know when that tiger was crazy? When it was riding around on the little bicycle “Ohhh Im a crazy tiger!”

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            63 months 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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          73 months 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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          63 months 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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          63 months 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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    203 months ago

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

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        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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    93 months ago

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

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      423 months 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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        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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          103 months 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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          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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          13 months 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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      313 months 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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        113 months 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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        There’s 1,000+ miles and the Carpathian Mountains between Estonia and the range of the golden jackal, though