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[–] [email protected] 165 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It also propels itself forward by discharging high velocity watermarks.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago

I liked the meme, but your comment got an actual chuckle from me. Thanks for the laugh, friend

[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For those interested in this species, this is actually called a "Long-tailed tit". This particular one is of the caudatus subspecies, recognizable by its pure white head, like this

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

I like tits of any colour

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you use Shopify for image hosting?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Nope, that was just the first appropriate image search result

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Me writing my resume in third person

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What an asshole putting that obnoxious watermark on a picture he didn't take

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Here's an insta of an actual Japanese wildlife photographer chock-full of great photos of this bird (among others)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

tiktok automatically watermarks it when u save a pic from a slideshow

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, so they're the assholes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

always have been

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Indeed, it's a really wonderful photo otherwise

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The photographer who took this photo barely escaped with his life.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I heard that the bird actually tracked him down and murder him shortly after. They found the camera's SD card is the only thing still intact at the scene.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Reminds me of the indie game, Skate Bird.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

If there is one thing I've learned from Physics, is that everything is relative.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Killer borb

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

That's a snowball.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Did you mean pounds per square inch? The foot-pound is a unit of torque. That number would make more sense for the force generated by its wings.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a japanese bird, that should be Pascal.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unless you mean the specific individual in the photo, it's not Japanese.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

No non-metric area in that picture, the core of my joke still stands :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

think of the bird's claw as a small torque wrench ... similarly, when we unscrew the cap of a jar, we notice that our hands have a limited torque capacity.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pictured above, a bird whose wings double as ears

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Hard to unsee

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sweet, a Long-tailed Tit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Has anyone measured the impedance of that bird? It could be in the trillions of ohms! Terrifying if you think about it!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I know it's a joke but it bugs me because foot-pound is energy not pressure

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Pssssh. The bag is wet, move in! Pssssh!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

We all know that this bird is a murder hobo.

Which… really just makes it cuter.