• KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz
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    3 months ago

    I thought it was for drunk British tourists to climb out after they pass out while peeing in the canal.

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      3 months ago

      It’s an orange cat. He doesn’t know how he got there, and he won’t remember where he’s been.

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    Source? Only thing in English I can find is META user reporting of the same AI slop. And in Dutch I only found sources that they have done a few like a year ago?

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      You were the only person here who double checked if this is even real, or AI slop.

      I think we are going to see so much popular content not even be real. And people will defend it, thinking you are weird for wanting only real stuff, using terms as “who cares”. Its funny. :)

      How many users here are bots, to begin with…

      It may be time to walk outside. Cant fake real people. Yet.

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      Now that you’re talking about AI slop, that cat looks really dry for something that came out of a canal.
      (or really easy-going for a photoshoot)

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      They’ve a lot of canals, the ladders are custom, they’ll need to be coated to stop them from corroding, and that’ll be the installed price, so that’s a small team driving round, barriering off bits of the canal while the work is done

      If anything, seems cheap for a council job. My town would probably spend ten times that on the desk study to decide where they’ll go and to get the paperwork together.

  • rockband_broadcast@piefed.europe.pub
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    3 months ago

    Those stairs seem helpful for many living beings. I wonder if they’re still useful for smaller animals like mice and rats. I’d guess some coarse rope around some of the poles could already be helpful (and cheap) too.

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      My friends used to have a cat that lived on the boat with him hed dive off, catch fish, and then climb back up the 1.5" thick pice of rope they kept trailing in the water for him.