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calypsopub, in xkcd - Spirit

It’s fascinating how we anthropomorphize objects like this. My Roomba got stuck on some cables underneath my TV table and when I found it, it was making a sad sound that just broke my heart. As I picked it up, I found myself saying, “There, there little Roomba, I’ll rescue you and get you some juice. Poor thing.”

oce,
@oce@jlai.lu avatar

I guess it’s a side effect of the instinct to take care of our children.

dustyData,

In general, unless you are a sociopath with no empathy, humans have an innate need to help and assists others. It makes us feel good to help others, not just our own children.

Damaskox,
@Damaskox@lemmy.world avatar

I love robots and find many of them cute! And I don’t mind at all them making them cute!

Always when one of those food carrier bots of ours around here gets close by, I pet them while they pass me 💓 They just are tooo cute!

Kite, in "Spell and Speak" by Mr.Lovenstein

My cow kitty never shuts up, I don’t even need a spell to know what he’s saying! He says " food food food food FOOD pet my belly food fooooood"

moody, in "Spell and Speak" by Mr.Lovenstein

The cat says: meow!

tias, in "Jogging From the Perspective of Animals" by Jake Likes Onions

If you consider the greater evolutionary history, up until very recently humans have been kind of like the monster in It Follows. They’re not very fast runners, but they are relentless. No other animal can run for such a long time. They’ll keep going and going for hours on end, and they will eventually catch up with their victim. For an injured prey with explosive strength but relatively low endurance it must be absolutely terrifying.

Dogs joined the dark side, so they probably feel all cool and mighty next to their running master. In their head they go “yeah bitches you can run, but you can never hide from my human”.

Magnetar,
Amends1782,

Lol at a tldr being a fucking wiki article, the opposite of short

uis,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe it is “do read”

MoodyRaincloud,

Today, learn and do read.

Heavybell,
@Heavybell@lemmy.world avatar

They

=.=

kevinbacon,
@kevinbacon@lemmy.world avatar

I’m sorry so many dummies didn’t understand your post fren.

Skinwalker hands typed the OP

Heavybell,
@Heavybell@lemmy.world avatar

Can’t win them all. :) But yeah the joke is that the writer of the comment was not human since they didn’t use “we”.

xenoclast,

Canine are also persistence hunters, bears can be as well. I still like the comic though.

Tylith, in xkcd - Spirit
@Tylith@lemmy.world avatar
Chefdano3,
@Chefdano3@lemm.ee avatar

People in real life are both. For every wholesome opinion, there exists at least 1 oposing opinion, and probably another one that says you should feel like shit for even thinking of that opinion.

surewhynotlem,

Don’t forget those geniuses in the middle who want to hear BoTh SiDeS

samus12345,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

Clearly, the only reasonable position is not not value both human and artificial life!

surewhynotlem,

Good news! That’s now :-)

archon,

CoOpErAtIoN aNd CoMpRoMiSe bad MmmmKaYyY? I sMErT gUY, OnLy eXtReMiSm soLVe pRoVleMs.

surewhynotlem,

We can talk about cooperation and compromise as soon as the right starts doing it. For the last 40 years, the left is compromised and the right has dug in. This is dragged the country way farther right than we deserve.

BitsOfBeard,
@BitsOfBeard@programming.dev avatar

Just for a moment, I thought I was on Reddit again…

ComradePorkRoll,

You’re on .world, it’s basically reddit.

Damaskox,
@Damaskox@lemmy.world avatar

I do assume the day comes when we need to make the choice…but I hope I can give many more hugs to dem bots before that day comes!

Diabolo96, in "Jogging From the Perspective of Animals" by Jake Likes Onions

That’s why I prefer cycling. I become bigger, faster and conserve energy.

Texas_Hangover,

Bigger? I’ve never seen a cyclist that didn’t look like a vegan that ran out of soy.

Diabolo96,

Not enough protein.

obinice,
@obinice@lemmy.world avatar

If you think that’s bad, you should see the Americans with their conically gigantic SUVs, they’ll do anything to try to make up for their tiny… personalities

creditCrazy,
@creditCrazy@lemmy.world avatar

If it takes effort you can count on Americans to do anything to not do that

Texas_Hangover,

Holy shit! They have SUV’s shaped like cones now? I’ll have to watch out for those.

Cannacheques,

To be fair I think for the average person, to simultaneously believe that America is both the home of the bleeding edge of technology and innovation, and yet also the place where it churns out uni students, after 5 year bachelors programmes to become McDonald’s workers for the next 10 years, it can definitely look depressing both from the outside and on the inside.

Voyajer,
@Voyajer@lemmy.world avatar

Vegans have massive quads?

InternetCitizen2,

You ever see a bison?

gmtom,

Go back to twitter dude. I know you like ruining things for other people, but you are just really killing the vibe here with your pathetic “le epic troll XD” behaviour.

schmidtster, in "Jogging From the Perspective of Animals" by Jake Likes Onions

Do wolves not chase each other while playing? It’s not exactly doing it for exercise, but they should understand the concept… maybe.

toofpic,

Yeah, and border collies or huskies would also be like: “Running! Yeah!”

smeg,

OP: of course an animal would find a human running with neither predator nor prey to be simply ludicrous!

Dog: I like running

CCF_100,

Don’t horses also like to run?

smeg,

Probably, what am I, a vet?

OneWomanCreamTeam,

Yes, now hurry up, these anal glands aren’t going to express themselves.

Cannacheques,

Yes. Horses, dogs/wolves and people are the three land animals that are really weird in that they aren’t necessarily apex predators, but due to circumstance or evolution we’ve somehow stepped outside the natural flow which has resulted in us having a wide potential of diet, excess time and energy to spare due to lack of serious predators (yet) and luckily enough we’ve come to be more collaborative than competitive when it counts

winterayars,

Wolves who are “pets*” are also absolutely manic in comparison to normal dogs. Our lifestyle just drives everything to mindless activity to get it out.

(*: A wolf is not a pet even when they are very cute)

Papanca, in "Spell and Speak" by Mr.Lovenstein

The three phrases of kitties:

Let me in!

Let me out!

Give me fresh food, even though my bowl is still pretty full

query,

If you can, should give them fresh food each time and not leave it out to become stale. Have meal times and meal sizes (or cover it up).

Papanca,

I don’t know why you got downvoted, i completely agree with you. They really love fresh food and fresh water (those water fountains), it’s just their nature. It’s not that they are spoiled. Dogs for instance will also eat from a carcass, but wild felines only eat fresh

FuglyDuck,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

Also, the bonus phrase:

“Schritches…… enough scritches.”

Papanca,

They don’t need to say that; they will just sit on your papers or laptop, or stand right in front of the tv

FuglyDuck,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

It’s more of a non verbal thing.

When they want scritches, they’ll let you know

And when they’re done…. They’ll let you know that, too….

lowleveldata, in Vampire Residence

I’m guessing the little skull. Is it the little skull?

NigelFrobisher, in "Spell and Speak" by Mr.Lovenstein

Mine won’t shut up, even when we are sleeping.

handsatinizer, in He is [Mr Lovenstein]

is this loss

Dave, in "Wet" by Chris Hallbeck
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

Do they carry the umbrella around full of water dripping down when it’s sunny?

Crul, in He is [Mr Lovenstein]

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LemmyNameMyself, in "Spell and Speak" by Mr.Lovenstein
@LemmyNameMyself@lemmy.world avatar
Drbreen, in Slow and Courteous [Beetlemoses]

Slow and courteous is great, but I can’t stand it when people break common road rules to be courteous. That becomes confusing and dangerous.

essteeyou,

Absolutely! Behave as expected and everything will go better.

There’s a thing called “the wave of death” where one driver stops in the middle of a road and waves for a pedestrian to cross, but the cars going the other way don’t know this person just decided to do that, and the pedestrian has a false sense of safety from being waved across… Bad shit.

SARGEx117,

Don’t be polite: be predictable.

Don’t wave that other person through the intersection when it’s your turn, it just creates confusion. Go through like you are supposed to.

Don’t slow down to let the yeilding traffic in. They are supposed to YEILD TO YOU.

Belzebubulubu,
@Belzebubulubu@mujico.org avatar

Yeah! Make those peasants yeild to your law enforced and god given right, to hell with being nice! /s

Yeah don’t do wave another person through, that’s just an accident waiting to happen

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