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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)

  • Mac@mander.xyz
    91·
    11 months ago

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

  • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
    65·
    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.worldEnglish
      33·
      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
        36·
        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.

        • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
          3·
          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
            4·
            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.

    • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      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
        6·
        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

    • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 months ago

      I’ve got my money on that not happening until after an apocalyptic event sends us back to the iron age. And the adaptations we’re gonna get aren’t gonna be pretty.

  • schmidtster@lemmy.world
    621·
    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.

      • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
        41·
        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

  • tias@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    56·
    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”.

    • SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de
      23·
      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
    371·
    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!

  • edric@lemm.ee
    24·
    11 months ago

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

    • Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee
      627·
      11 months ago

      Bigger? I’ve never seen a cyclist that didn’t look like a vegan that ran out of soy.

      • Obinice@lemmy.world
        155·
        11 months ago

        If you think that’s bad, you should see the Americans with their conically gigantic SUVs, they’ll do anything to try to make up for their tiny… personalities

        • cannache@slrpnk.net
          1·
          11 months ago

          To be fair I think for the average person, to simultaneously believe that America is both the home of the bleeding edge of technology and innovation, and yet also the place where it churns out uni students, after 5 year bachelors programmes to become McDonald’s workers for the next 10 years, it can definitely look depressing both from the outside and on the inside.