Obsessed with this quote from an AI bro who is under the impression that horses "can do whatever they want now" as a result of the invention of the car.

[billyjoebowers@mastodon.online]

@henry

There are some stupid motherfuckers in charge of things now.

[thorium@social.linux.pizza]

@henry Well, not all of the horse. Their asses are, however, in charge of the US government currently.

[dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org]

@henry

For far to many people, the "point of going to school" is to be sorted into the bin where you get guaranteed high income.

Like, none of the actual education matters, it's the sorting, which means grades and things.

I always kind of knew this, but it really hit home when my terrible summer session decision theory class at USC had some masters student do a decision analysis on which luxury car his daddy should buy him when he graduated.

[dogfox@kpop.social]

This joke predates the automobile, and I love it.

@Thorium @henry

[len@nyan.network]

@henry if I heard someone say this in my vicinity they would get a lecture

[greenmtgirl@vermont.masto.host]

@henry Horses just LOVE getting slaughtered for meat.

[mardor@ruhr.social]

@henry Freedom sausages?

[kboyd@phpc.social]

@henry @mhoye what we need to see now is Maslow's hierarchy of equine needs.

Oh hmm, searching that ended up with a result. https://www.chrisfortehorsemanship.com/archives/510

And now I want to read this study: https://thebhc.org/decline-and-fall-horse

The US had 20m horses in 1915, and has 6.65m today (estimate via wikipedia), so, "whatever they want?"

[derherrfreitag@bonn.social]

@henry There is an perfect proverb in Germany: "Überlass den Pferden das denken, die haben einen größeren Kopf." roughly translated as "let the horses think, they have a bigger head". He could have said nothing and people might think he is a moron. But he chose to speak and now everyone knows he is...

[elenlefoll@fediscience.org]

@henry My great-granddad's business was breading and selling draft horses. He went bankrupt. My granddad had to move to the city and became a truck driver: his job was to take horses to the abattoir...

[jhooper@techhub.social]

@henry I wonder if we will see police officers riding on the back of unemployed office workers.

[jizzeletbass@kolektiva.social]

@xconde @henry Seriously, did Advait Paliwal drop out of Brown Elementary School?
How is this "Company" not a massive liability risk?

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@xgebi @henry yes honestly if he actually paid attention to history lessons this would have been a much more appropriate argument … and I might have taken a moment to think if it was a reasonable statement… so yeah, he’s a privileged idiot who doesn’t “deal with reality”

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@akamran @henry !

[xinit@mastodon.coffee]

@henry If I understand correctly, "whatever they want" was often "being butchered for food"

[morfil@climatejustice.social]

@henry so he's gonna pay their salary he?

[amro@todon.nl]

@maccruiskeen @flq @Doomed_Daniel @phf @jef @henry
Oi! I was going to do the Soylent Green jokes today!
*points at calendar*
Are you even an union member?

[karamazov1879@mastodon.social]

@henry What is this guy taking & why isn't he sharing?

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@luc0x61 @henry Someone above mentioned the rock dove or “homing pigeon” that is probably the only example of “returning to the wild” that was relatively successful and rather invasive (but hey, at least they can survive urban cities better than most species ) . Before the invention of the telegraph and a secure messaging system (no telegraphs weren’t entirely secure ) pigeons were the fastest form of communication (I don’t know if this makes you feel any better )

[ohmrbill@techhub.social]

@henry
FYI:
There's one horse in our family network. His life is mostly spent in a horse cubical & yes we can call that freedom.

Bill