Imagine someone who's familiar with /r/birdsarentreal finding one of these in real life without knowing the punchline
A thing like that could shatter you. Am I even real? Did I create this place? Am I a brain in a storage locker somewhere, and it's all just made up for me? What are they trying to tell me now, when they show me these things? Am I being tested?
Imagine how the real birds feel encountering one.
"Jerry is such a weird asshole since he tried going through the invisible wall at the research institute"
Either like they've met Frankenstein's monster, Terminator or Robocop
As a founding member of the organization Birds Were Real, I resent this conflation of reality. Clearly this is evidence that birds were at some point real but now are not, Birds Aren't Real is trying to spread propaganda to push a narrative that is factually wrong.
From research and data we can tell birds existed at some point, the fossil record is inarguable, but there is zero evidence that there are any living birds left among the cohort scientists claim as living examples of "birds". It seems like every other week news comes out about how some flying creature that scientists were previously totally confident was in the bird family is actually a totally different unrelated animal like a bat or a cricket or a flying squirrel.
The Birds Aren't Real people are absolute nutjobs, they deny the reality of the fossil record right in front of their very eyes, as hard as it is to believe for some, birds did exist long ago in Earth's history but at some point they all left on a spaceship and never came back (what do you honestly believe Dodos just went... extinct because Europeans slaughtered them all for no good reason? They had built complex aqueducts and developed basic electronics by that point, there is no way they would have just let their bird sect be wiped out, it would be like human beings not developing a masculine culture of war and logic to fight back against saber tooth tigers, not a chance).
Explain.
I mean it’s compelling evidence but frankly you are going to need to provide a lot more cross substantiating backup evidence to prove such bold claims.
This isn’t a smoking gun like the infamous Nessie Photo that proved the existence of modern subfjord lava cave Plesiosaurs, and y’all think that just providing this one picture proves it all….
I'm a member of Birds Are Real and the OP is a misinfo campaign to cover up the fact that birds are real and are plotting against us
The thing I don’t get about you Birds Are Real freaks is that if birds were indeed still real and they were in fact plotting against us, why wouldn’t you just join them and help them plot? Certainly you would be in the most powerful position in the human race if you became the loyal human minions the new global overlords could trust.
The internal logic of you peoples weird little, let’s face it CONSPIRACY, doesn’t even make sense or at least it means y’all would fight on the human side in a Global Human-Bird War instead of the birds. I mean come on, if we actually did live in the absurd reality you believe is true where birds are still real then how could you possibly live with that choice?
All the cool people would immediately realize Bird Kingdom would be way fuckin better than this B-movie budget slow motion apocalypse where only a handful of billionaires have died yet in submarines.
Next we'll make the Earth flat.
We'll need a humongous iron, and an even humongouser ironing board.
Bird Law: No matter how crazy your conspiracy theory is, someone is actively working to make it a reality.
So Q was referencing Pigs in Space every time he said "mon capitan!" I knew it.
Reminds me of the Orvillecopter.
^100% of youtube was that kind of shit from its inception in 2005 through the following couple of years. It was fucking magical.
This has to be one of my favorite communities I'm subbed to. Thanks @fossilesque@mander.xyz for posting great content all the time.
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Servators part 1
“From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.
Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal…
…even in death I serve the Omnissiah.” - some bird in New Mexico apparently
in reality a steel consciousness would fail after 5 seconds because it has zero adaptability or flexibility
Macabre
Conspiracies as prophecies is not the world I want to live in.
Technically a something being a conspiracy doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Even if colloquially people often call ideas conspiracies in a derogatory manner to dismiss their validity, a plot by the government or whatever to replace or invent birds as a form of surveillance would be a conspiracy by definition: “A plan by a group of people to do something unlawful or harmful”.
/rant
Nothing new, countermeasures already exists
The problem I have with the whole "birds aren't real" thing is that bird-drones are expensive, very expensive. Think about all the "birds" you've ever seen over the course of your whole entire life. Think about how much it would cost to build and maintain that. I'd hate to see the bill.
Why do you think the US defense budget is so big?
i like to think they believe only some birds are drones. still expensive, but not impossible
Now think about how many "birds" you've seen that were walking or resting instead of flying. The system takes cost-effectiveness into consideration.
Shortwave (iirc, it was npr one,) did a thing on it. The funny part is as the episode was starting up some turkeys wandered into the road and we’re staring at me.
They knew I knew.
