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LYING TO CHILDREN (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 month ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[–] aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works 199 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Did this need to be an AI image?

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 month ago

Top 10 birb of all time

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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 5 points 1 month ago

Too aerodynamic I like my birbs round

[–] th3raid0r@tucson.social 4 points 1 month ago

Perfection!

[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why AI?
Why in retarded units?
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 -50 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

we

[+] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone -23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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: https://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.

[–] GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

That's not metric time

This is metric time

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time

[–] _edge@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How many millilitres are in a gallon?

[–] Luccus@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[+] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone -6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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. https://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 7 points 1 month ago

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

[–] SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 4 points 1 month ago

tbh current time keeping kinda sucks.

[–] swagmoney@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

lying to us with this generated image 😡

[+] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz -6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

real birds don't have ahegao youtube thumbnail face

[–] captain_oni@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

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...

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

But replace "me" with "it", I'm on mobile or would have done

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

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago

Fucking Ai slop

[–] th3raid0r@tucson.social 34 points 1 month ago

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

[–] JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

eww, ai

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

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 6 points 1 month ago

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 3 points 1 month ago

I think his name is Wile. Wile E. Coyote

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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 1 points 1 month ago

Also the entire point was that he was incompetent

[–] Fourth@mander.xyz 23 points 1 month ago

That image is beneath you fossilesque.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] BaseModelHuman@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 points 1 month ago

Those that do compensate with a vast intellect.

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Half the limbs, half the speed.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] don@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

ACME Corp.’s most loyal customer.

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that an AI image?

[–] khaleer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Do you really need to ask?

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

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

[–] dotslashme 1 points 1 month ago

The enjoyment was very real