I worked in a nature reserve, a couple times we needed emergency treatment for ostriches, and our vet said wrestling an ostrich to its knees was safer for the ostrich than using sedatives...
I'm not sure if its true, but when I was 18 years old, it was the highlight of my life
I went to Australia and went with a tour group and the bus stopped. All of the cars were stopped on the road for some reason. The tour guide said "nobody get out of the vehicle!" Then I saw a velociraptor with a couple of baby velociraptors just walking down the side of the road.
I think they call them cassowaries, but if you see how they move, those things are goddamn velociraptors.
This is shitpost, but like... You all don't really believe single polls to be representative of entire countries, right? We're just shitposting, right?
I doubt it's that high. They surveyed 1000 people over a decade ago to extrapolate that:
The poll surveyed 1000 adult Americans between June 15 and June 17, 2015, apparently on-line; the margin of error reported was plus/minus 4.4%. Further details of the polling methodology are not readily apparent.
All I have to do is turn on their national news program to gauge just how dumb America is.
This is probably the reason why we haven't had any alien contact from outer space. Aliens tune into our news networks, see just how stupid we are, especially Americans who are supposedly the wealthiest country and aliens just cringe, turn off the channel, place an intergalactic sign post just outside the orbit of Neptune warning everyone to stay away.
I mean...technically they did, and still do, since birds are technically dinosaurs, but context clued tell me that the people being talked about here didn't have that in mind when answering the survey
Demographically, YouGov noted, "While most Americans who describe themselves as 'born again' (56%) believe that humans and dinosaurs once shared the planet, most Americans who do not describe themselves as born again (51%) think that they did not."
Well, about as many believed it was a good idea to vote for Trump, so it's not surprising. Or just look how many believe Fox "News" is a reputable source of information...
"Humans and dinosaurs living together" is a popular trope in entertainment. Surprise, surprise - repeatedly exposing people to this anachronism will lead people to believe the thing.
By comparison, a mere 6% of Americans doubt the Moon landing happened. When we're constantly including Americans-visiting-the-moon tropes in our historical dramas and near future fictions, people get the answer correct far more often than not.
Fun fact: T-Rex didn't coexist with Stegasaurus. Movies lump all dinosaurs together like they all lived at the same time but they really didn't. Many species came and went over the millions of years dinosaurs lived
"Young Earth" Christians believe every word in the Bible is true. According to their calculations the Earth can't be more than 6,000 years old. The idea that there was anything before that is anathema.
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DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works · 75 pts · 329d
Akshually, modern birds are descended from dinosaurs, effectively making them dinosaurs themselves. So humans did, and still do, live with dinosaurs.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 25 pts · 329d
Little birds are so cute, until you watch them hunting for prey and imagine yourself at that scale.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 329d
Watched a chicken jumpkick a rat and the rat bleed to death. We are lucky the world isn't full of cassowary.
atomicorange@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 329d
I mean it’s not hollowed out and literally filled with them, but we do have SOME cassowaries.
mienshao@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 329d
Preach! And it’s not even “effectively,” birds are dinosaurs—full stop. They are avian dinosaurs.
Greyghoster@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 329d
I suppose someone small enough could ride an emu thus be riding a dinosaur! Thank you for that thought.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 329d
people ride ostriches, I did that for work a few times. fun
atomicorange@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 329d
Ostrich rodeo? Rancher? Member of Jackass?
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 328d
I worked in a nature reserve, a couple times we needed emergency treatment for ostriches, and our vet said wrestling an ostrich to its knees was safer for the ostrich than using sedatives...
I'm not sure if its true, but when I was 18 years old, it was the highlight of my life
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 329d
I went to Australia and went with a tour group and the bus stopped. All of the cars were stopped on the road for some reason. The tour guide said "nobody get out of the vehicle!" Then I saw a velociraptor with a couple of baby velociraptors just walking down the side of the road.
I think they call them cassowaries, but if you see how they move, those things are goddamn velociraptors.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 329d
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 315d
finally a version of this meme that makes proper sense, those two letters make all the difference
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 315d
technically "lived with dinosaurs" is still true.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 7 pts · 329d
Not only that, but some countries are fully governed by dinosaurs. Ask me how I know...
Dave@lemmy.nz · 6 pts · 329d
And only 41% believe it!
atomicorange@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 329d
I suspect many survey respondents were right for the wrong reason, or vice-versa. I have two dinosaurs in my house right now.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 329d
This and also Nessy
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 329d
And once you’re done telling everyone a tomato is a fruit, the rest of us still aren’t going to put it in a fruit salad.
Don’t be pedantic, you know what they meant.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 329d
being a fruit isn't an indicator about what to do with it. are you putting cucumbers in fruit salads too?
god forbid you put a strawberry in the fruit salad, because that isn't a fruit.
you're the one being pedantic. birds are all dinosaurs, that is a scientific consensus.
that doesn't mean that a pigeon will be the next monster in Jurassic world 8. but there are all dinosaurs.
same way humans are also primates and mammals and animals...
ngdev@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 329d
checks the community this is posted in
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 329d
Fuck me…. Missed that.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 329d
notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 329d
As far as I can tell US Americans still do.
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 329d
We're certainly governed by them.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 329d
Yeah, I wish I didn't believe in Donald Trump... He's all too real.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 329d
Dinosaurs and Unix systems coexisted, I saw it in a documentary.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 329d
Coincidentally, 41% is also approximately Trump's approval rating.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 329d
Jesus Christ, how is it so high?
40% approve, 56% disapprove.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/695519/mood-subdued-crime-unity-concerns-rise.aspx
db2@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 329d
And 41 is his IQ
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 329d
Stinking Mandela Effect
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub · 15 pts · 329d
*citation needed
Don't get me wrong, I believe a whole lot of Americans believe this. But that's a big number backed up by "they say"
FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com · 16 pts · 329d
OP included this
https://ncse.ngo/new-poll-dinosaurhuman-coexistence
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 329d
This is shitpost, but like... You all don't really believe single polls to be representative of entire countries, right? We're just shitposting, right?
...right..?
FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com · 7 pts · 329d
I spend a fair bit of time in 'Murica
I used to think that the stereotype of the stupid yank was just that, nothing more than a stereotype
Sure, there are millions of normal, intelligent people, but there are a huge and concerning number who are exactly as stupid as they are portrayed
The casual religiousity is damning, and when people believe in one absurdity they are primed to believe in others too
Rothe@piefed.social · 1 pts · 329d
Have you seen current day US?
ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com · 9 pts · 329d
i grew up in church, this is part of the curriculum
bulwark@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 329d
I doubt it's that high. They surveyed 1000 people over a decade ago to extrapolate that:
The poll surveyed 1000 adult Americans between June 15 and June 17, 2015, apparently on-line; the margin of error reported was plus/minus 4.4%. Further details of the polling methodology are not readily apparent.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 329d
All I have to do is turn on their national news program to gauge just how dumb America is.
This is probably the reason why we haven't had any alien contact from outer space. Aliens tune into our news networks, see just how stupid we are, especially Americans who are supposedly the wealthiest country and aliens just cringe, turn off the channel, place an intergalactic sign post just outside the orbit of Neptune warning everyone to stay away.
NovaSel@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 328d
I mean...technically they did, and still do, since birds are technically dinosaurs, but context clued tell me that the people being talked about here didn't have that in mind when answering the survey
skiguy0123@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 328d
This does not add up....
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 328d
Its one of those articles where you have stats that give you strokes.
I think it means 56% of born agains, and 51% of born onetimes
aviationeast@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 329d
Do crocodiles not count?
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 329d
no. they aren't dinosaurs, as they branched out before.
however, all birds are descendants of dinosaurs, so humans did (and still do) live with dinosaurs
icelimit@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 329d
I've ridden an ostrich before.
I'm a Dino rider!
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 329d
No
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 329d
Ooooh you're lucky my instance doesn't allow downvoting
They're good prehistoric dogs, Brunt
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 329d
You're straying even further from Dinosaurs now‽ mammals! What a world! Lol
BanMe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 329d
So chickens are out of the question
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 328d
Only valid in Dino nugget form
mdurell@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 329d
Their brains aren't big enough to count like you and me.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 329d
:slow_clap:
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 329d
Well, about as many believed it was a good idea to vote for Trump, so it's not surprising. Or just look how many believe Fox "News" is a reputable source of information...
bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 329d
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 329d
"Humans and dinosaurs living together" is a popular trope in entertainment. Surprise, surprise - repeatedly exposing people to this anachronism will lead people to believe the thing.
By comparison, a mere 6% of Americans doubt the Moon landing happened. When we're constantly including Americans-visiting-the-moon tropes in our historical dramas and near future fictions, people get the answer correct far more often than not.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 329d
Fun fact: T-Rex didn't coexist with Stegasaurus. Movies lump all dinosaurs together like they all lived at the same time but they really didn't. Many species came and went over the millions of years dinosaurs lived
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 328d
And the Brontosaurus isn't real. It's just an Apatosaurus with the wrong head.
WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social · 6 pts · 329d
How does this fit with the whole believing in God thing?
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 16 pts · 329d
"Young Earth" Christians believe every word in the Bible is true. According to their calculations the Earth can't be more than 6,000 years old. The idea that there was anything before that is anathema.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism
FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 6 pts · 329d
Dinosaurs were made up by the deepstate, obviously?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 329d
Doesn't this imply the 41% are atheists?
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 329d
Father Stickyfingers told me not to ask those questions.
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 329d
They are extinct because they couldn’t fit on the ark
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 328d
I.e. 41% of Americans are completely useless and unqualified in the discourse about our society.
TheBat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 329d
shittydwarf@piefed.social · 5 pts · 329d
PokerChips@programming.dev · 3 pts · 329d
What's the Venn Diagram of this and MAGAs?
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 328d
Ever heard of Giotto?
KombatWombat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 329d
That's ridiculous. We would make terrible roommates.
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 328d
Well Thag Simmons obviously did.
dukatos@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 328d
"Primal" surely didn't help...
CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 328d
love me a good kfc😌
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 329d
Coelacanth are still around, so kinda…
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 329d
they aren't dinosaurs, however, birds exist so yes
Geodad@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 328d
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 328d
Coelacanth aren't birds