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"Jogging From the Perspective of Animals" by Jake Likes Onions (files.mastodon.social)

submitted 11 months ago by Masimatutu@lemm.ee to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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First panel: [blank white space with black text] Jogging from the perspective of animals

Second panel: Wolf by a tree looking at a man jogging. "What are you running from, apex predator"

Third panel: Wolf: "Are you chasing prey?" "You need to conserve energy"

Last panel: [second wolf peeking in] "The hell is that guy doing" [first wolf] "I don't know. I don't understand"

(alt text by @cypnk@mastodon.social)

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[-] Mac@mander.xyz 97 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Conserving energy is for nerds.
Humans can run all day long.

[-] FireTower@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago

Remaining still to conserve energy < Running just to deplete excess energy

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

What is this excess energy you speak of?

[-] FireTower@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

Fat

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Burn!

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[-] Hexagon@feddit.it 11 points 11 months ago

Run, Forrest, run!

[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Conservation in general isn't a human strong suit.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/study-space-junk-pollution-1.7010373

We are quite talented at the opposite, in fact.

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[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 71 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

We've become so successful at getting food, we don't have to move much to do it any more. So we have to go out of our way to be active to stay healthy since evolution takes so long to catch up.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago

I used to refer to going to the gym as the "farm work simulator". It always amazed me that society progressed to the point where physical labor isn't necessary, but we chose to pay money, so that we can pretend to do it, in order to live longer

[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 38 points 11 months ago

Ngl, if they make gym work as some kind of "heavy work" simulator games like Farming or Mining, with tracking progress, achievements, and competitive ranking, I would be at the gym way more.

VR games already make me work out way more than I thought I would.

[-] Thranduil@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Add a leveling system in there and make it an mmo

[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Honestly just tie it to some repetitie game. Think Skilling in RuneScape. All they really need is a number that goes up, and the occasional firework.

Throw in skins for your pickaxe or whatever and you're golden. People will get so buff, going for the sparkly anime-girl skin, you have no idea.

[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 4 points 11 months ago

LOL What would you do with your Skill Points?

[-] Thranduil@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Dunno it just adds a progression system which gets me going

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[-] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I had a room mate who would drive a 5 mile round trip to the gym and back to walk five miles on the treadmill. I didn't have a car at the time and was always pointing out the nonsense of it. She said she just preferred the atmosphere of the gym to the side of the road or any of the many beautiful nature trails near by. 🤷‍♀️

[-] millie@slrpnk.net 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

To be fair, I can close my eyes and just sort of flail on an elliptical in a way that would absolutely hurt me if I tried it on the ground. It's also a lot lower impact and when I'm done I can just stop.

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[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

It's kinda like burning dollar bills in the fireplace to make the place look cozy.

It's kind of the ultimate symbol of excess evolutionary wealth to be able to go for a run just because we want to burn off excess energy.

[-] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

we want to burn off excess energy.

A step further even, a lot of us need to burn off excess energy, because we're so well off (evolutionarily speaking) that we practically can't help but take in more energy than we burn naturally

[-] SeabassDan@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Hell, food comes to us now.

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[-] schmidtster@lemmy.world 64 points 11 months ago

Do wolves not chase each other while playing? It’s not exactly doing it for exercise, but they should understand the concept… maybe.

[-] toofpic@lemmy.world 56 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah, and border collies or huskies would also be like: "Running! Yeah!"

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 43 points 11 months ago

OP: of course an animal would find a human running with neither predator nor prey to be simply ludicrous!

Dog: I like running

[-] CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

Don't horses also like to run?

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[-] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

Wolves who are "pets*" are also absolutely manic in comparison to normal dogs. Our lifestyle just drives everything to mindless activity to get it out.

(*: A wolf is not a pet even when they are very cute)

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 64 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you consider the greater evolutionary history, up until very recently humans have been kind of like the monster in It Follows. They're not very fast runners, but they are relentless. No other animal can run for such a long time. They'll keep going and going for hours on end, and they will eventually catch up with their victim. For an injured prey with explosive strength but relatively low endurance it must be absolutely terrifying.

Dogs joined the dark side, so they probably feel all cool and mighty next to their running master. In their head they go "yeah bitches you can run, but you can never hide from my human".

[-] Magnetar@feddit.de 14 points 11 months ago

Tldr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting

[-] Amends1782@lemmy.ca 25 points 11 months ago

Lol at a tldr being a fucking wiki article, the opposite of short

[-] uis@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Maybe it is "do read"

[-] MoodyRaincloud@feddit.nl 7 points 11 months ago

Today, learn and do read.

[-] xenoclast@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Canine are also persistence hunters, bears can be as well. I still like the comic though.

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 53 points 11 months ago

If any animal understands running just for the hell of it, it's the dog.

[-] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 44 points 11 months ago

The chad humans, chasing prey beyond the brink of exhaustion

[-] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop!... ever... until you are dead!

How animals feel about humans

[-] Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee 34 points 11 months ago

Meanwhile, my dog when the walls creak due to temperature changes and every other living thing in the house is asleep and doesn't care:

HOLY FUCK! HOLY FUCK! HOLY FUCK! ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM JUMP SCRATCH HOLY FUCK!

[-] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 11 months ago

That's why I prefer cycling. I become bigger, faster and conserve energy.

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[-] scytale@lemm.ee 24 points 11 months ago

Also, animals: I don't know what they're running after/from, but let's chase them!

[-] PoastRotato@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

"You're running from me, now"

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Run in circles, then target the... target.

[-] figaro@lemdro.id 6 points 11 months ago

Anyone have a source on this? I want more lol

[-] Mylemmy@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

Fake. Wolves get the Zoomies also

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