OMG IT'S HAPPENING

[jmccyoung@mstdn.social]

@mensrea @sohan When I shared the post with my family I included this.

[ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us]

@sohan
I read that whole article earlier today looking for something, even the tiniest bread crumb of a Gary Larson reference, but I guess the article existing at all was all any of us needed. We all knew right away what the journalist was gesturing at.

[mensrea@freeradical.zone]

@jmccyoung @sohan it's a public service to make sure people know of this

[chawarma@piaille.fr]

@ohmu It's in the first paragraph. Maybe it has been edited after you've read it ?
"In 1982, cartoonist Gary Larson published a now-iconic "Far Side" comic titled "Cow Tools." In it, a cow stands proudly beside a jumble of bizarre, useless objects that are "tools" in name only. The joke hinged on a simple assumption: cows are not intelligent enough to make or use tools"
@sohan

[ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us]

@Chawarma @sohan
Thank you.
That's a lot to have just missed so I'll go with the edit idea.
Though it wouldn't be the first time I've missed something that was right in front of my face, either.

[chawarma@piaille.fr]

@ohmu it happens sometimes :) @sohan

[robtherunt@cupoftea.social]

@mensrea @sohan
Not seen this before and it’s great. Tho a bit confused as to why guru cow is “he”. 🤔

[mensrea@freeradical.zone]

@robtherunt @sohan it's from a more primitive time

[nycki@bark.lgbt]

@sohan hi @freja

[robtherunt@cupoftea.social]

@mensrea @sohan
😂

[ncrazed@fd00.space]

@sohan at first glance the first pic looks like the cow is doing the trolley problem 🤦‍♂️

[colinstu@birdbutt.com]

@Chawarma @ohmu @sohan oh good apparently I wasn’t the only person not a fan of that “joke”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools

Latest paper apparently hits the topic right on the head:
"Perhaps the real absurdity lies not in imagining a tool-using cow, but in assuming such a thing could never exist."

[kitsunevixi@sakurajima.social]

@sohan@freeradical.zone Youtube Video