I feel Heebietake did not adequately acknowledge the awesomeness of the cows.
Those are some truly spectacular cows but was the earworm absolutely necessary?
No. The earworm is wholly treatable and preventable with low-cost interventions.
I'm sure those cows are very impressive in the flesh (and the keratin) but I'm calling shenanigans on that first photo. The kerning is all wrong.
wow those are amazing cows!
in honor of the mundari, i offer hornroh performing lioba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xJFuZD5CvA
balthasar streiff is a hornhorn genius, they performed this piece when we saw them in los angeles a couple of years ago and it was spine tingling fabulous.
was the earworm absolutely necessary
Those are horns, dude.
Cows are great, but they do offer excuses for Hindu nationalists to kill Muslims and capitalists to kill packing plant workers.
And New Zealanders to kowtow to China.
5: What are you seeing that looks wrong?
The guy is way behind the cow but I think they're hoping you'll assume he's standing the same distance from the camera, which would make you think the cow is a bovid of unusual size. That's in photo 1. In photo 3 it's a kid in silhouette but if you don't look closely you could think it's a grown man. Net effect: giant cow. (I may be guilty of projecting my own initial impressions onto the average observer.)
In other words, it's all a conspiracy in aid of Big Cow.
Why do you think the guy is way behind the cow? I think he's a little behind the cow, and the cow's shoulders are about level with his chest. This is roughly consistent with all the other pictures, especially the fourth, with the seated man smoking, which gives a depth of field with a whole bunch of cows, all of which are clearly amazing. The child in silhouette is very obviously a child to my eyes, and was at first glance.
The amazingness I'm concerned with is in any case the grace of the animals and size and shape of their horns, not their raw size.
In other words, your brain has been rotted by the monomaniacal steak-size obsession of Big Cow.
13. last Charismatic megafauna will do that to you, every time.
Wake up and smell the coffee, Mossy! You can't handle the truth!
I agree that the cow's shoulders in photo 1 are probably around chest height on the guy, and no question that all the cattle in the photos are among the most charmingly formed cloven-hoofed cud-chewing beasts I have encountered, but don't you think the photo-editors were at least half-hoping you'd go: "Wow - that cow is about as high at the shoulders as a man"?
I'll confess I put on the tinfoil hat about this one subject (photography) after watching this video (the most efficient place to start is 2 minutes in) about this photo of an apparently very crowded but in fact not as crowded beach in Orange County.
(To be clear, I am in no way sceptical about the case for continued very strong social distancing policies.)
s/b *probably* in fact not as crowded
Sure, as long as you 'cut footloose', because in that case you will 'lose your blues'.
From the caption on the last cow photo:
Young Mundari people dream of a better life in the future. Most of them only know the outside world through their smartphone screens.
20 Dude, I also only know of the outside world through my screens now.
But have they ever seen a violin?
I have a cat, the horseradish in my yard has bloomed (the flowers are understated but pleasant) and I am noticing signs of the neighborhood fox in the yard more often because I'm there more. Little ring of pigeon feathers one day, rawhide chew the next day then gone again. I have been thinking about falconry, also thaumaturgy. Oh and maybe casting the lead keel as a starting point for a handmade wooden boat.
I know a good website for wooden boat kits. I've never made one, but the web site is great fun.
Also, if storage space is an issue, you can build an inflatable packraft.
Maybe an animal skin coracle is more on topic.
My cows? Huge. My violin? The world's smallest.
I think the photo-editors were at least half-hoping you'd go "Duuude! I wanna dress like THAT guy".
Also, the various overpaid data scientists around here have failed to say anything interesting about the Mongolian census. You know who you are.
"Data scientist" is kind of 2016. I think we're all deep learning experts now.
The guy who I used to supervise is now a data scientist. I still don't know that it means aside from "pay me more."
That's also what deep learning expert means.
34. Possibly that was last year-- they've now realized that there isn't enough training data. This year, transfer learning specialist.
Mongoloia and cows. My cows!
(Really people, it was right there.)
32: Cowherd-chic seems to have developed a more electronica vibe to it than in my day. The get-up in 6 and 7 is definitely very fetch.
DAD! STOP TRYING TO MAKE 'FETCH' HAPPEN!
Article says that the influx of ex soldiers has driven dowries up from 20 to 40 cows but surely they mean bride price, not dowry?
I can give you anthropology or I can give you cows and I'm all outta anthro.
Nobody is going to give you cows to get you to marry them.
Tell him to keep it in his pants a couple of months. The locusts will eat all the fodder and then he can buy whoever he wants with a pack of franks.
43: I don't think anthropology would be a very acceptable alternative dowry to cows.
We joke, but apparently full-on Táin out there.