they told us we were crazy

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• mozz@mbin.grits.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Imagine someone who's familiar with /r/birdsarentreal finding one of these in real life without knowing the punchline

  A thing like that could shatter you. Am I even real? Did I create this place? Am I a brain in a storage locker somewhere, and it's all just made up for me? What are they trying to tell me now, when they show me these things? Am I being tested?

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  • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean we are all brains in a storage locker. It’s just a portable/mobile storage locker.

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    • OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s just brains in storage lockers all the way down

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  • Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    welcome to Blade Runner

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• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Imagine how the real birds feel encountering one.

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  • UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Jerry is such a weird asshole since he tried going through the invisible wall at the research institute”

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  • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Either like they’ve met Frankenstein’s monster, Terminator or Robocop

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• dumpsterlid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As a founding member of the organization Birds Were Real, I resent this conflation of reality. Clearly this is evidence that birds were at some point real but now are not, Birds Aren’t Real is trying to spread propaganda to push a narrative that is factually wrong.

  Clearly birds existed at some point, the fossil record is clear, its just there is zero evidence that there are any living birds left among the cohort scientists claim as “birds”. It seems like every other week news comes out about how some flying creature that scientists were previously totally confident was in the bird family is actually a totally different unrelated animal like a bat or a cricket or a flying squirrel.

  The Birds Aren’t Real people are absolute nutjobs, they deny the reality of the fossil record right in front of their very eyes.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

    Explain.

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    • dumpsterlid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean it’s compelling evidence but frankly you are going to need to provide a lot more cross substantiating evidence to prove such bold claims.

      This isn’t a smoking gun like the infamous Nessie Photo that proved the existence of modern subfjord lava cave Plesiosaurs, and y’all think that just providing this one picture proves it all….

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m a member of Birds Are Real and the OP is a misinfo campaign to cover up the fact that birds are real and are plotting against us

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    • dumpsterlid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The thing I don’t get about you Birds Are Real freaks is that if birds were indeed still real and they were in fact plotting against us, why wouldn’t you just join them and help them plot? Certainly you would be in the most powerful position in the human race if you could became the loyal humans the new global overlords could trust. If your own logic was right, and let’s face it, to put it kindly the whole Birds Are Real thing is a fringe conspiracy,

      The internal logic of you peoples weird little, let’s face it CONSPIRACY, doesn’t even make sense or at least it means y’all would fight on the human side in a Global Human-Bird War instead of the birds. I mean come on, if we actually did live in the absurd reality you believe is true where birds are still real then how could you possibly live with that choice?

      All the cool people would immediately realize Bird Kingdom would be way fuckin better than this B-movie budget slow motion apocalypse where only a handful of billionaires have died yet in submarines.

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  • DudeDudenson@lemmings.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I should be amazed you’re being up voted while saying today’s birds aren’t real but then I remember this is lemmy

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    • kzhe@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      cannot get satire

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    • photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Birds aren’t real, bro. Why do you think they follow you everywhere? Why are there always birds around? Because they are SPYING on you.

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• Default_Defect@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Next we’ll make the Earth flat.

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  • SpeakerToLampposts@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We’ll need a humongous iron, and an even humongouser ironing board.

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• Nobody@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bird Law: No matter how crazy your conspiracy theory is, someone is actively working to make it a reality.

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  • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So Q was referencing Pigs in Space every time he said “mon capitan!” I knew it.

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• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reminds me of the Orvillecopter.

  ^100% of youtube was that kind of shit from its inception in 2005 through the following couple of years. It was fucking magical.

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• The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This has to be one of my favorite communities I’m subbed to. Thanks @fossilesque@mander.xyz for posting great content all the time.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ♥️

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• Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Servators part 1

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  • Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.

    Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal…

    …even in death I serve the Omnissiah.” - some Mexican bird apparently

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    • sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      in reality a steel consciousness would fail after 5 seconds because it has zero adaptability or flexibility

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• Damage@feddit.it ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Macabre

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• Gorillatactics@hexbear.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Conspiracies as prophecies is not the world I want to live in.

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• Zorcron@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Technically a something being a conspiracy doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Even if colloquially people often call ideas conspiracies in a derogatory manner to dismiss their validity, a plot by the government or whatever to replace or invent birds as a form of surveillance would be a conspiracy by definition: “A plan by a group of people to do something unlawful or harmful”.

  /rant

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• Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nothing new

  viewtube.io/watch?v=lW0hyg4kfaw

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• numberfour002@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The problem I have with the whole “birds aren’t real” thing is that bird-drones are expensive, very expensive. Think about all the “birds” you’ve ever seen over the course of your whole entire life. Think about how much it would cost to build and maintain that. I’d hate to see the bill.

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  • TurtleTourParty@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why do you think the US defense budget is so big?

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  • lseif@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i like to think they believe only some birds are drones. still expensive, but not impossible

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  • Trudge@lemmygrad.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now think about how many “birds” you’ve seen that were walking or resting instead of flying. The system takes cost-effectiveness into consideration.

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Shortwave (iirc, it was npr one,) did a thing on it. The funny part is as the episode was starting up some turkeys wandered into the road and we’re staring at me.

  They knew I knew.

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