• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    985 months ago

    It’s definitely a threat. We’ll do you like you did our cousin. Sleep with one eye open, human.

    • @BonesOfTheMoonOP
      link
      715 months ago

      Apparently the trick is when you see some drop food near them, and the more they see you do it the more they associate you with good things.

      • @Zehzin
        link
        615 months ago

        That’s true with people too

      • @OccamsTeapot
        link
        245 months ago

        Yeah if you find some and give food, you should try to go every day at around the same time, if possible. They are good at learning routines and will remember you pretty quickly.

        I made friends with some park crows like this. They are pretty comfortable with me now but still can’t hand feed them or anything like that

      • @SkyezOpen
        link
        95 months ago

        They always fly away when I toss it 😢

        • @BonesOfTheMoonOP
          link
          135 months ago

          Don’t toss, drop. Put it on the ground and back away.

    • @jaybone
      link
      365 months ago

      You should hang out at a crowbar.

  • @Crackhappy
    link
    English
    745 months ago

    Fucking crows are too smart. They have trained me to leave them sunflower seeds in return for alerting me anytime someone approaches my house. Fuckers.

    • @BonesOfTheMoonOP
      link
      595 months ago

      I would love to give them sunflower seeds.

      My cousin had a tame crow who he had fixed a broken wing on and it just moved into the barn and never left. He would stand in the driveway and bellow HELLO at anyone who pulled in, and then demand you feed him some muskmelon. Eventually he got cataracts and the local veterinary university program offered to remove them, he lived like twenty years. Funny bird.

  • Drusas
    link
    fedilink
    325 months ago

    Cute story, not that’s not how crows behave. They immediately distrust any random human who interacts with one of their dead in any way, and they share their knowledge of who they dislike with their offspring for generations.

    They also wouldn’t think to bring a flower in particular but would instead bring something of significance to them, such as a shiny object, a nice rock, or some other random small thing.

    • @sunbytes
      link
      185 months ago

      Haha maybe it was a threat.

      “We remember how you mocked Old Joe’s body with flowers.”

    • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
      link
      English
      175 months ago

      I’ve been feeding my local crows roasted peanuts for a couple of years now. They’ve never given me shit as a present, ungrateful little bastards. One time I thought they left me a little cluster of seeds and berries as a present and I was happy, but then I realized one of them just puked that up so he could eat the peanuts.

      • @Shou
        link
        45 months ago

        Hahaha. Danm that’s a clever crow.

  • @hdnsmbt
    link
    315 months ago

    That crow’s name? Albert Einstein 🤯

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    285 months ago

    Other people: Awww, the crows are wholesome.

    Me: It’s a death threat. They saw you put the flowers next to the deceased, so they imply the same will happen to you.

    • @FrowingFostek
      link
      45 months ago

      HA, Murder of crows. I love a good Dad joke.

  • Asherah
    link
    195 months ago

    I WILL someday befriend a corvid. You CANNOT stop me.

  • @Blue_Morpho
    link
    155 months ago

    I tried to befriend 3 crows that are always in my yard. This past winter, I put a packet of large nuts out for the 3 that are always there. The next day there was a crow staring in my bedroom window at me. So I put more out. Later that afternoon, a mob of crows were in my yard. My driveway and car was covered in poop.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      10
      edit-2
      5 months ago

      That sounds more like Pheasant behavior. Remarkably stupid birds.

      Edit: apparently, the “pheasants are stupid” reputation is due to an alarming number of them being selectively bred for the express purpose of being dumb and easy to shoot, being released into the wild. TIL.

    • @Zachariah
      link
      225 months ago

      Whats so cute …? They were Turing to kill you …😏

      Found the bot.

      • dactylotheca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        15 months ago

        I think the Turing test is flawed; eg. ChatGPT playing the part of a doctor is more likely to be empathetic than a real doctor.

        The question isn’t whether computers can act like humans; the question is can we.

        • MBM
          link
          fedilink
          55 months ago

          My problem with the Turing test is basically Goodhart’s law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”

          • @laughterlaughter
            link
            15 months ago

            Your comment is weird. The point of the test is to fool humans. Humans were fooled. What does it have to do with measurement and Goodhart’s law?

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          35 months ago

          I got a phishing spam pretending to be the USPS the other day. Had the logo and everything, grammar was good, but at the end it said something like “USPS wishes you good luck every day.” I know the fucking post office isn’t that benevolent! Especially under the present Postmaster General. Block and Report.

        • @laughterlaughter
          link
          15 months ago

          I’ve heard people say “omg chatgpt so stoopid, not the point of the Turing test” lately.

          To me, that’s moving the goalpost.

          The Turing test is about fooling a human being into thinking he/she is interacting with another human being.

          Does this happen? Yes. 100%. Or at least almost 100% (because not everyone is fooled.)

          Now, the whole thing about chatgpt being stupid, etc, well… that’s another matter.

          Come up with another test. Name it the Goofy test, or whatever.