And yet, unhitched from the menial task of transportation, the average horse today enjoys a far better quality of life than the average pre-car horse. Why? Horse girls. You see, now that the market demand for horses is no longer based on actual horsepower, horses can render the service of “just being themselves” for those who appreciate that most (in much more forgiving circumstances). In this way, horses truly are forever… and the real losers really are mankind. And its machines. In this essay, I will
Bro there is LITERALLY an anime about horse girls
Humanity won
Horses are only fast because of the shape of their four long legs. You can’t just give someone a carrot and long ears and expect them to be a horse. That just makes them a cat rabbit.
They have god-damned tails and superhuman strength for some reason
We won, but at what cost?
this is almost definitely a married to the sea watermark that someone removed the watermark on. why would someone do that?
Because it’s being used as pro-AI hype BS. No idea what it’s referencing here and now on lemmy where most people here are far less accepting of AI hype, but I’ve seen it used on the highly delusional Singularity subreddit. Usually followed by hundreds of comments from people making actual real-life plans for what they’re going to do when the “artificial super intelligence” makes them wealthy.
If cars are better than horses, why do horses still exist? Checkmate evolutionist
Just because cars evolved from horses doesn’t mean horses stop existing, only a portion of the horse population spilt off and evolved into cars
Mr. Hands enters the chat…
Can anyone confirm whether this is true?
Horses, the original automatic braking
Self driving, too, provided you want to go where the horse wants to go.
“Urgh, to the bar again? Highly irregular… but oh well…”
I keep telling my wife the auto functions in my A3 are like having a horse. Including the odd “oh I’m gonna brake for no reason because I got spooked, now”.
I fucking love it!
Yup, in that they were very good and would fling ppl to thier death.
Fun fact, there are more domesticated horses now then there were at the hight of horses being used as transportation. I found this out when a reporter asked Jay Leno, an avid classic car collector, if he was upset about the CA law that makes only EVs legal to sell as new cars in CA by a certain date. He said he totally approved of the measure, and that there was nothing to worry about for classic car collectors, and citing horse ownership rates.
Hey I’ve been searching for solid stats about this. Are you sure? Because there used to be a lot of hotses!
There are also a shitload more humans now. Even if number of horses per capita is lower, the fact that there are more people may compensate for that.
So there’s just going to be few humans per capita of AI in the future ?
Of course not. AI need a purpose, something to work for and take care of, and humans are needy little critters.
Yeah, but there are a lot of neglected emaciated horses from people that shouldn’t have horses.
You sure about that? I found this graph [Source] for population of farm based horses.
They only look at US based horses, but according to World Population Review the US are the top owners of horses, having 18% of them
What’s the oldest serviceable horse breed?
In Italy we eat horses, so they are also farmed for food. I bet all the horses that end up on a slice of bread or a pizza would rather have pulled a carriage. Still they are a much less popular meat, I don’t think horse farming is as bad as, say, pig farming, (for the horse I mean) because there’s much less demand. “Frayed threads” (lack of better translation) of horse are pretty good with olive oil btw.
Sometimes I DO wish horses were real.
Yeah, living with !horseblindness@lemmy.world is really tough…
I once thought I saw a real horse. Turned out it was just a unicorn that lost its horn
I hear age can make you less horny.
Like can you even imagine?
It’s kinda weird that between unicorns, centaurs, giraffes, and horses, horses are the only made-up ones. Like come on, giraffes? Really? It’s a centaur with a dumb face, but instead of a chest and arms it’s just more neck?
Fuck your Subaru I’ve a horse outside
Who cares what time it is, I have a Rolex.
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Horse sellers were apparently shaking in their boots when automobiles were invented 😆
One car dealer still in operation today is Normandin, who started out selling horse-drawn carriages.
Smart business make a pivot to new technology.
Cars are just a scam made up by Big Horse to sell more horsepower without actually selling any horses
There are articles from before the automobile discussing the pollution problems with horses. Apparently horses poop, a lot.
They do, but it’s an easy fix. Just need a poop bag that catches it as it falls.
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“WATCH:” ? It wants me to watch that?? 🤮
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Imagine a human being able to shit without stopping movement at any time, into a portable bag of feces.
The mind shudders
Such person would be too free from the shackles of humanity
This cannot, it must not ever happen
this is called a colostomy bag but I think most users would disagree that dealing with the bag cleanup is worth the ability to shit on the go lol
Also the infrastructure for getting rid of those bags…
Or, do what the nearby horse farm does, just head to my neighborhood and leave the horse shit all over the trail and the road and people’s yards!
Seems kind of rude to me, but what do I know.
At least that’s biodegradable
Just wait a few years and it’ll come true.
