r/interestingasfuck • u/HelpMeWithMyHWpls • Jan 30 '23
University of Arizona found a bear on Mars
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u/Suitable_Challenge_9 Jan 30 '23
Bear Down!!
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u/scorpyo72 Jan 30 '23
Arizona... Arizona... Bear Down...
Edit: the U Of A mascots are the Wildcats, but the fight song is Bear Down, which is very confusing if you grew up there.
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u/Suitable_Challenge_9 Jan 30 '23
I knew that. Always been a fan of U of A basketball. It is confusing. Lol
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u/birdieseeker Jan 30 '23
If you grew up there, you’d know
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u/scorpyo72 Jan 30 '23
I disagree. If you attended the U, yes. But it was not information shared with me and I never attended the U of a.
I'm assuming you grew up there, so what was your favorite local-only food?
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u/birdieseeker Jan 30 '23
Fair enough. Perhaps should have amended my statement to “if you grew up there (and were a cats fan) you’d know”
To your question. A Sonoran hot dog and a Carmelo cannot be beat. A lot of places have them few do them exceptionally. A safe bet is Guerro Canelo. But the best come from nameless taco trucks.
You?
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u/scorpyo72 Jan 30 '23
Hands down, the steak fingers at Lucky Wishbone. Since I was a child. Sonoran hotdogs weren't much of a thing while I was growing up there. They started in the 80's and have been growing in popularity. I left about 28 years ago.
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u/roadymike Jan 30 '23
Is that the Cocaine Bear?
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u/wonderbuoy74 Jan 30 '23
Lol! Came here to say this, just saw the trailer a couple hours ago. Stupid movie.
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u/ReginaldSP Jan 30 '23
proof that life on Mars was giant bears with inexplicable engineering notions.
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u/BonusMiserable1010 Jan 30 '23
Humans are so dumb; importing all kinds of foolishness into how they take in nature/reality
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u/Honberdingle Jan 30 '23
It's literally a survival feature built into our physiology :)
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u/BonusMiserable1010 Jan 30 '23
Yes. Ironically, there are certain species advantages for being dumb.
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u/Honberdingle Jan 31 '23 edited Jan 31 '23
Is it dumb for an ape to be able to spot the camouflaged face of a predator waiting to attack? It's better to be wrong 99% of the time and right 1%, than never right at all.
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u/BonusMiserable1010 Jan 31 '23
Let me ask you a question since you clearly want to be a jerk about this: does that picture actually show a bear on the planet Mars? No, it does not. My deeper point, which you obviously missed, is that sometimes, dumb ass humans import special meaning into quotidian events with no justification for doing so.
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u/Honberdingle Jan 31 '23
Lol... you asked me a question and then answered it, and I'm being a jerk?!!
I'm explaining, quite rationally, as a response to your point, that human beings possess pareidolia as specific, evolutionarily beneficial survival traits.
Whether you think that's important enough to absorb into your brain is up to you. Being a 'jerk' is a matter of perspective, here. I thought you would appreciate the expansion of your point into knowledge... apparently not.
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u/BonusMiserable1010 Jan 31 '23
I didn't ask you anything, dude! You have been replying to me. You are talking about pareidolia. I am not and I have never have been. But I have been talking about apophenia and it's codifying by unthinking humans. You are also committing a fallacy by appealing to nature when you appear to assume that because something may be inherently true (or, natural) about human nature (pareiodolia) then it is acceptable or good. Go back and reread my original post and then get back to me...
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u/Honberdingle Jan 31 '23 edited Jan 31 '23
I disagree with the statements made in your first post. Human beings are not 'dumb'... they are merely processing the experience with the tools they have evolved, which have seemingly served them well - you may disagree. They also are aware that these tools are fallible... making them less 'dumb' than animals whose evolutionary traits have not allowed them to thrive into the current era.
Your post is open to interpretation. I'm not appealing to nature lol... I'm stating that it is a function of human minds... I interpreted it as the effect of pareidolia, because you didn't state otherwise, and it's apropos to the image.
I understand now that you're coming from the angle of apophenia in this context, so my apologies for not grasping that nuance.
Your 'question' was the rhetorical one that you answered with 'No' in your previous reply... this is getting a little tiring, so I'm going to bow out. Have a good one 👍
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u/BonusMiserable1010 Jan 31 '23
I never asked you a rhetorical question: there is a benefit to the species for being dumb; I find that ironic. And I'm stating that those particular functions of a human mind, prone for pareidolia and apophenia, reflects an unthinking (DUMB) mind. ✌🏾
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u/Honberdingle Jan 31 '23
I disagree. The unconscious part of our thinking isn't 'dumb'. It's still more active than a lichen or a cockroach.
Also, you literally said "let me ask you a question", then answered it yourself, rendering it RHETORICAL.
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u/Mapbot11 Jan 30 '23
Can we please get Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck there immediately to save this poor bear?
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