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Cake day: July 22nd, 2024
  • Elevator7009@lemmy.worldtoSuperbowl@lemmy.world•Can owls learn to play the trumpet?English
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    11 months ago

    I feel like arguing by technical definitions you could reasonably classify certain things as a sport that aren’t commonly culturally considered a sport, but that do involve physical fitness, competition, skill, an audience, and often coordination with other people. People who really do dance seriously have to be fit, basically every arts field ever is super competitive and requires at least a bare minimum of skill to succeed (yes, I know about all the pop singers people think suck, they still at least attain a bare minimum bar that I’ve seen grown adults obliviously fail to pass. I know enough about music to know I don’t pass that bar either), dancing does have an audience (typical example is people going to watch ballet), and although you can dance solo quite a few dances involve partners or a whole team. But we all know it doesn’t fit what most people consider sports. I do wonder what draws that cultural “line in the sand” that makes it so most people don’t think of dance when they think of sports.

    I don’t dance seriously, so I don’t know much about how intense its physical requirements are, or how much of it surrounds pushing your body to its limits, although I’m pretty sure it is about precisely moving your body in a particular way at the right time, so it is focused on physical activity. Maybe the focus on music and artistic expression instead of just the physical task “takes away” from its sports-ness? (Full disclosure, I speak as a person who doesn’t follow sports, but isn’t a hater of them.) Maybe that it’s not always a competition? People dance at weddings or parties without having anyone try to judge who’s better. But then again, you can run or bike or swim without trying to beat anyone.

    You could also make a similar argument for marching band. Yes, there are competitions! The most well-known ones are associated with DCI, Drum Corps International. Depending on how good your high school/college was at it you might not be aware of the athleticism it’s capable of demanding. (Video is very short) But again, this culturally doesn’t count as a sport. Maybe because there’s a stereotype of more less-athletically-inclined folks participating? Is it like my dance guesses, the focus on music and artistic expression instead of just the physical task taking away from “sports-ness,” or that it’s not always a competitive activity?

    I didn’t play or follow sports growing up. I have done marching band, and I have no particular investment in anything not traditionally considered a sport being deemed as such. I just think it makes for an interesting topic.

  • Elevator7009@lemmy.worldtoSuperbowl@lemmy.world•Emotional IntelligenceEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I know that some animals can feel, but not to which degree and if all of them can. Bugs and fish being certified to have feelings on par with or even more… extreme? in-depth? not sure what word to use—would be news to me.

    This community is probably weighted towards people with high empathy for non-human creatures, people who might be more likely to seek out information about the emotional capabilities of such creatures. This is not a bad thing, but it would explain how people do not seem to know what you seem to deem obvious.

  • Elevator7009@lemmy.worldtoSuperbowl@lemmy.world•When you get the joke, try to just give a subtle clue for the next person?English
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    1 year ago

    On one hand I do appreciate you posting on the Fediverse and supplying a nice joke for us, on another, AI… it’s not exactly popular here and I can understand why. I think you might have posted something about that in Fedigrow before?

    You might want to at least label this image as AI-generated. Obviously I know this is not a real picture, people don’t walk around with owl heads instead of person heads, but I’m one of those folk still really easily fooled by AI images and without people in the comments talking about it I definitely would have thought some artist made this.