eta: I thought I was shitposting on the internet, where search is quicker and easier than commenting:
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
Akshually, modern birds are descended from dinosaurs, effectively making them dinosaurs themselves. So humans did, and still do, live with dinosaurs.
Little birds are so cute, until you watch them hunting for prey and imagine yourself at that scale.
Watched a chicken jumpkick a rat and the rat bleed to death. We are lucky the world isn’t full of cassowary.
I mean it’s not hollowed out and literally filled with them, but we do have SOME cassowaries.
Preach! And it’s not even “effectively,” birds are dinosaurs—full stop. They are avian dinosaurs.
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.
I suspect many survey respondents were right for the wrong reason, or vice-versa. I have two dinosaurs in my house right now.
I suppose someone small enough could ride an emu thus be riding a dinosaur! Thank you for that thought.
people ride ostriches, I did that for work a few times. fun
Ostrich rodeo? Rancher? Member of Jackass?
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
Not only that, but some countries are fully governed by dinosaurs. Ask me how I know…
And only 41% believe it!
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.
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…
checks the community this is posted in
Fuck me…. Missed that.
This and also Nessy
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.”
This does not add up…
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
I.e. 41% of Americans are completely useless and unqualified in the discourse about our society.
Dinosaurs and Unix systems coexisted, I saw it in a documentary.
Stinking Mandela Effect
me, an intellectual picks up my Dino chicken nugget “Actually we still do” 🥸
As far as I can tell US Americans still do.
We’re certainly governed by them.
Yeah, I wish I didn’t believe in Donald Trump… He’s all too real.
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.
Be a lot cooler if we did
Coincidentally, 41% is also approximately Trump’s approval rating.
Jesus Christ, how is it so high?
40% approve, 56% disapprove.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/695519/mood-subdued-crime-unity-concerns-rise.aspx
And 41 is his IQ
Well Thag Simmons obviously did.
What’s the Venn Diagram of this and MAGAs?
Ever heard of Giotto?
Do crocodiles not count?
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
I’ve ridden an ostrich before.
I’m a Dino rider!
Their brains aren’t big enough to count like you and me.
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No
Ooooh you’re lucky my instance doesn’t allow downvoting
They’re good prehistoric dogs, Brunt
You’re straying even further from Dinosaurs now‽ mammals! What a world! Lol
So chickens are out of the question
Only valid in Dino nugget form
