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[–] [email protected] 78 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Before AI, we just had insane people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Before AI we have Silent Hill.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

Birds with hands

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How does this make more sense? They can't bend their beaks the same way we can bend our thumb and finger

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Touch the tip of your index (also known as fore finger)to the tip of your thumb. There is no bending involved and you can generate a decent amount of force and pick things up that way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

This changes everything. Only going to use my beak for eating now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Some kind of can. But not really the same way.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If you think this is fucked up, birds have tiny little deformed hands on their wings kind of like how animators will reduce the scale of a bone for a part of a model they want to hide.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

From the foundational textbook "Garden of Earthly Delights" by H. Bosch et al

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm sorry I still don't totally understand. I don't mean to be dumb, I just really wish they labeled the different parts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I looked closely at it, comparing it to the pigeon currently nesting in our windowbox, and I can definitely say they do not look the same.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

See my reply to the other person in this thread.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But where's the mouth functionality?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I guess that orange arrow from the left points at that place

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I just want to know if birds go around thinking, “Crushing your head! Crushing your head!”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Has science gone too far? Find out in the scattered audio logs left behind in the mysteriously abandoned research complex.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes because so many birds have prehensile beaks lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

A bunch of birds have prehensile beaks; it just means "grasping". Macaws, parrots, and cockatoos for example.