• EnderWiggin@lemmy.world
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    While I’ve never been able to ask a dog myself, I’d imagine they can smell the changing space.

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    do regular dogs go all like ‘o shit its the cops’ when they see a police dog, or is it just another dog to them?

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      Protest dogs are pretty good at recognizing cops vs protesters. Better than people sometimes.

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        Long live the memory of Negro Matapacos, greatest of allies. (Loukanikos was also a very good boy)

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    People have to stop acting like animals are the stupidest most thoughtless creatures.

    Yeah, most dogs probably understand it perfectly fine because it isn’t a great mystery. They go in a room, they feel the acceleration, they feel the deceleration, they go out.

    Sure, first time they are probably confused, but they are not completely oblivious to the world around them.

    Also, yeah, this post is funny

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      Tbf people act like people are the stupidest creatures too. Especially historically speaking.

      “How in the world could these complete and utter dumbasses figure out how to build giant piles of dirt in a specific shape? It must be aliens cause there is simply no way those idiots could figure that out on their own.”

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        There is obviously a lot of questions on how but I think the more interesting angle is why? Yeah humans at any stage in life could probably figure out how to stack these massive stones to create a few hundred meter tall structure. But the effort involved to do so must have needed some extraordinary reason, especially when you learn that the quarry they mined the stones from was 100s of kilometers away.

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          For the same reasons humans have done things throughout history. Worship, art, glory, vanity

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        Idk if it’s just a trope, but there are allegedly people so into the conspiracy wondering if they were built from the ground up or the tip down. 😅

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          I think the idea the pyramids were build from the top is a joke playing of the things said by conspiracy theorists.

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              Each one has two round chambers at its base nearly 2km below the surface.

              Edit: Eh, nobody got my juvenile phallic reference.

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            Oh, I saw it in a 4 hour long debunking documentary in potato quality on YT, but I do remember seeing the image.

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    Dogs don’t have much in the way of spacial reasoning or logic, possibly due to over reliance on smells and sounds for navigation.

    When the doors open and things look different they might be surprised but they quickly forget what the previous floor even looked like. It’s as bewildering or thought provoking them as simply turning a corner would be. They don’t understand it enough to even be bewildered.

    That said, there are interpersonal difference to dogs, some of them might be more than smart enough to get quite confused.

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      My dog loves getting on busses and the tube. I think he just finds it exciting to see where we’ll appear, it’s pretty great, until you’re not paying attention and he jumps on a random bus.

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      There is a documentary about dogs in some city using public transit to get around. Pretty sure that they remember where they are or were to some extent.

      Not to say that they understand elevators. It’s probably just another room or hallway.

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        I’m sure they understand that the bus moves due to the many many windows and can take them to a specific place, but they could still just be navigating by scent and other factors. It’s not a good comparison to an elevator.

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          My only point was that they are remembering where they are or were. They didn’t forget everything because they turned a corner.

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    I don’t believe any of the 3 dogs I’ve had were ever in an elevator. Never thought about that before.

    But while vacationing on Maui for a few weeks, toward the end my 4-yo daughter asked, “When are we going back to the real world?”

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    My dog loves the elevator, definitely cant tell the difference since both floors are the same, keeps going to our downstairs neighbors door like its our own before smelling it and realising her mistake.

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      I mean… I also went into my neibours apartment a couple times by mistake.

      Looking at my dog, I think he understands elevators. Maybe not that why it goes, but probably does that it goes. Sometimes I think animals have better spatial awaerness then humans.

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        Some do, many don’t. Humans are actually really graceful compared to most animals and intuitively do very complex things in space. Tossing a paper ball into a garbage can from ten feet away is an almost uniquely human ability. You ever see a dog try to fit a long stick through a narrow door? Their ability to judge relative sizes and distance is terrible, comparatively.

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          I have seen too many videos of small monkeys and big apes throwing their dong to agree with your paper ball theory. Also frogs don’t throw balls but are great at catching insects, a lot of other animals have great spatial awareness when it comes to hunting prey. But tbh, I doubt wether they could grasp the concept of a box going up and down like humans do.

          Have seen too many videos of dogs trying to take long sticks through narrow doors to disagree with you there though. Personally I think dogs are just not that smart after all that (in)breeding we did. I’m not calling dogs stupid, don’t want the world to dislike me.

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            Frogs and archerfish and chameleons and such have evolved to do that one thing, it’s more like a preprogrammed algorithm than spacial awareness. And they miss a fair amount if you sit and watch them, that just doesn’t make the Animal Planet highlight reel.

            Speaking of highlight reels, that kind of confirmation bias also applies to poop-slinging monkeys. They literally don’t have the musculature for fine control, they just throw a lot of shit.

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    I was at a festival years ago and a couple was sat next to me with a dog that looked like a German Shepherd cross that was clearly on edge, looking around at the crowd walking by. Then a guy with a kid on his shoulders came near. All you could see at first was the guys shoulders and the kid’s head above his. You couldn’t see the kid’s legs because the guy had his arms wrapped around them. The dog jumped up and started barking its head off at them. Until they got to the point where you could see them side on. As soon as the dog realised what was going on it immediately stopped barking and sat back down. I’ve often wondered what that dog thought was going on at first.

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      I hate the elevator at work. The building has two elevators from the 70s and at last one of them is usually broken. Once it’s repaired the other one breaks. Both of them make strange noises and vibrations if you ride them…

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    There was a Fraggle Rock sketch about this with the Explorer guy

    Speaking of which can you watch fraggle rock anywhere today? No? Ok fuck Disney 🏴‍☠️

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      You make me want to watch Fraggle Rock again. Apparently it’s on Apple TV+ and they made new seasons. Or, you can find it the other way…