Comment on I feel betrayed...

Lexam@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This but unironically, horses are constantly being bred to be bigger. The reason people rode chariots in Greece is because horses were too small to ride horseback.

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Wait, really?

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    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah one of the main causes of the downfall of chariot warfare in the ancient world was that horses were bred that could carry a fully armed rider with armour.

      Disclaimer: I know very little about anything.

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m not so sure. There’s plenty of accounts of ancient warriors using ridden horses as transportation. It probably has more to do with a chariot being more compatible with horse/soldier training and soldier gear at the time. Riding a horse into battle takes a lot of unique training and gear, and camels were the better option for a lot of the latitude around North Africa/Middle East, where you had ancient empires with the ability to research technology.

      The idea that horses had to embiggen, I think, comes from the Persians. They wanted the world’s first heavy cavalry and they certainly needed bigger horses for a fully armored rider. But light cavalry has evidence dating back to at least 5,000 B.C. thanks to the proto mongols. (Central Asian tribes before they were united)

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Of you feed a house kerosene it will run much faster but it will emit white smoke.

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• jumjummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Don’t forget about the gear all horses are on nowadays! You need to check the labels for All Natural hp.

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  • Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Say, I’m not really a horse guy, but my dad says my mustang needs more blinker fluid. Well the guy at the stable sold me some, but now where do I put it?

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    • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I mean, it’s the eyes that blink…

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    • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      On the right and left nacelles.

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• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  So what do you want?

  Faster horses?

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• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Horses today yes. They are built incredibly efficient compared to yesterday’s horses. Better ligament material, lighter and stronger bones, not to mention the carbon muscle fibers.

  and i thought horses used to be toeing the line between fucking exploding and run fast hee hee hoo hoo

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