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[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 61 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

People domesticate dogs before they domesticate horses.

When people come to settle all corners of Earth – the remote Pacific islands, the tundra, across the Bering Strait and the entire Americas – they brought dogs with them, not horses.

When people first encounter horses on the steppes, their hunting dogs were alongside them.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 39 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

People domesticate dogs before they domesticate horses.

By like 20,000 years or so too, I dont think people realize how long we've been domesticating dogs

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

More like 130,000 years. We have found dog burials alongside their humans that are 150,000 years old. Makes sense that the only species that has a hope of keeping up with us on long distance treks was the one we immediately domesticated.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 8 points 3 weeks ago

Do you have a source for this as the only sources I can find (e.g.) suggest that's an order of magnitude out

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

When people first encounter horses on the steppes, their hunting dogs were alongside them.

Depends on what you mean by people, homo erectus left africa and probably encountered and hunted horses long before we domesticated dogs. Same with neanderthals and other close relatives of humans. They definitely would've been by our side when we first started domesticating them though.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, it sounds like dogs are man's best friend, and horses are that other one who thinks they're good friends with man, but it turns out that man was just using horses like a tool and telling horses that a friend would carry all of man's stuff and would fight for man, and man is always sending horses out to buy stuff without ever paying horses back. Man is actually a bullying horses!

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Cities had big problems dealing with all the horse corpses. They were consumable tools before motorized transportation allowed them to be saved only for leisure and a few specialized tasks.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

The modern dog food industry in the US was built on the rapid collapse of horses as a necessity when the assembly line made automobiles attainable. Once again, our best friend comes in to save the day!

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Dogs have been both domesticated, and domesticating us for over 150,000 years. Horses are one of the "Johnny come Lately" species that we domesticated in the last 12,000-15,000 years. Then there are cats, who never domesticated, they just tamed us.

Dogs are man's best friend, not only because we MADE THEM, but because they made us better right back, and have been there for the longest of hauls.

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[–] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 19 points 3 weeks ago

Who did they take on their hunting trips and who did they take to die in battle?

And if you’ve read this far, take some time to think about where you would fall on the scale.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Horses are very often dumb idiot assholes.

Much more so than dogs.

Yes, they're very, incredibly useful.

Not really great 'friend' material though, more like you cajole them into helping you, and they maybe kind of trust you, sort of.

Wolves that we domesticated into dogs literally evolved into having eyebrow and other facial muscles that allow them to convey emotion much more analgously to how humans do.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I would trust a donkey to be my best friend before a horse. Donkeys are fucking rad and protect live stock really well. And will fuck up predators.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

I've not had much experiences with donkeys beyond basically state fairs, but that does track with what I've heard about them...

... tend to be a fair deal more intelligent than the average horse, and yeah I have heard that they'll actually stand and fight, more often than a horse, who will often just freak out and then run in some random direction, potentially directly into a tree.

[–] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yep donkeys are dope.

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, I don't let horses in the house or on the bed and dogs will literally die protecting you. Also, I like horses too - a lot.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I've ridden horses for much of my life, and always shared my life with dogs.

A good horse you have a bond with is freaking awesome, but dogs are just on another level.

EDIT: As many have mentioned here, there are a lot of asshole horses, but some are really noble. You just have to treat them nicely, not as things.

We don't deserve dogs.

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A good horse you have a bond with is freaking awesome, but dogs are just on another level. Well described. That said, I love the smell of a horse. Wet dogs, not so much, but dry dogs smell pretty okay.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 15 points 3 weeks ago

Horses were also domesticated thousands of years after dogs. So dogs got there first.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 weeks ago

I've heard it said that the horse is man's best slave.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You wouldn't miatreat a friend the way humans mistreat horses

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 weeks ago

you wouldn't treat a horse the way humans treat humans.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Send a friend to the glje factory

its a great tour

[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Horses are solely responsible for cars being invented because they would shit everywhere.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 6 points 3 weeks ago

And they were roommates

[–] sexy_animal_fucker@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I'd prefer horses to dogs if they didn't me whenever I went behind them

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 38 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think they you so hard you accidentally a whole word there

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

Sometimes I wonder if my reading is getting worse or if English’s grammar is changing on me

[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hopefully you will make it next time! Best of luck 🌟

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Might wanna double check that username, before wishing luck.....

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

There are people whose entire job it is, is to be a horse fluffer, to masturbate them prior to attempting to breed two of them, or to just get the stallions to splooge into essentially a gigantic fleshlight.

[–] RockBottom@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

Have they tried having their tongues hang out?

[–] Una@europe.pub 4 points 3 weeks ago
[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My bestie is my horse. My dogs are my babies.

The bond with dogs and horses is very different and it's hard to describe.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Man, I shoulda been a cow boy

yippie yippie yie yippie yie yo yo

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 3 weeks ago

Cowboy: wrangles herd animals from horseback

Cow boy: abomination in the eyes of man and Azathoth

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yee haw pardner

Look fair horse, if I could fit you in my tiny row home, I would

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

Applies to both really.

[–] horse@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Ungrateful humans...

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