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Interesting, but if the blobs in the pictures are car-sized, then Argentinians are three-meters tall. The modern internet really does provide constant practice
by polotics 2y ago
Interesting, but if the blobs in the pictures are car-sized, then Argentinians are three-meters tall. The modern internet really does provide constant practice in mild disappointment.
- taejo 2y agoThe OP seems to be at the end of a long chain of broken telephone. The 19 February 2020 press release from the institute doing the dig doesn't say anything about cars [1]. The 21 February 2020 article in Metro [2] correctly states that glyptodonts could grow to the size of a VW Beetle, but leaves out that it's not this species of glyptodont and certainly not these specimens (it also incorrectly calls glyptodonts a genus; the specimens here are in the genus Glyptodon but the largest in the subfamily Glyptodontinae are Doedicurus clavicaudatus). The mixing up of these specimens with the largest ones makes it into the headline. 1. https://www.conicet.gov.ar/hallan-cuatro-gliptodontes-en-la-provincia-de-buenos-aires/ https://www.conicet.gov.ar/hallan-cuatro-gliptodontes-en-la-... 2. https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/21/ancient-armadillo-size-car-discovered-dried-riverbed-12279638/ https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/21/ancient-armadillo-size-car-di...
- taejo 2y agoIn a few minutes of searching I couldn't find any report in English that doesn't have this error.
- greenavocado 2y agoThis says everything we need to know about how centralized the media is. There is zero diversity. A single source drowns out competition
- lolinder 2y ago> The mixing up of these specimens with the largest ones makes it into the headline. Where were the editors in all of this? Did no one person look at both the headline and the photo?
- tharkun__ 2y agoThe editors had OKRs that had key results driven by money metrics. What did you expect the result would be?
- robertlagrant 2y agoGood point. How could one possibly notice this if you have to ever consider money? It's impossible.
- lynx23 2y ago[flagged]
- coldpie 2y ago> Where were the editors in all of this? Their salaries were redirected to google's ad network employees.
- karaterobot 2y agoThe editor is listed at the end of the article, and in an ideal world would have corrected the error by now, if not before publication. I know what role editors used to play in journalism, but I'm honestly not too sure what they do these days. Write headlines, I guess. Look for the little red squiggly lines beneath misspelled words, and occasionally stir themselves to correct them. And someone has to press 'publish' on the CMS, might as well be them. I'm even less sure whether the traditional fact checking role still exists; it doesn't seem to!
- sheepscreek 2y agoI think it’s - “Write catchy headlines and get more page-views” now.
- soperj 2y agoSo the real title of the article was "Argentinian Farmer Finds Family of 20k-Year-Old Car-Sized Armadillos Purple Monkey Dishwasher"
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- Qem 2y agoPerhaps not car-sized but car-massed? Cars have lots of internal voids, like the passenger compartments. Most land animals not. A VW beetle weights about 800kg, IIRC. An animal with similar weight probably has smaller total volume.
- sbarre 2y agoThey have pretty small cars in Argentina...
- redareda9 2y agoThe good ol' "Make a mistake so that everyone talks about it"
- GaggiX 2y agoThe car is perhaps a Citroën Ami.
- owenversteeg 2y agoThe CAFE standards that incentivized today's massive cars are actually relatively recent - the original standards were enacted in 1975 AD. Twenty thousand years ago, this was a perfectly normal size for a car.
- xienze 2y agoYou might want to check those pictures. They’re barely bigger than the people squatting next to them. Cars have gotten a lot bigger but they were never THAT small.
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]
- hashtag-til 2y agoIt's hot-wheels car sized.
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- hi_hi 2y agoWouldn't it be _hilarious_ if, years from now, it was proven that the reason for LLMs hallucinating was because they were mimicking the reality of what they were trained on. We could have had accurate AI all along!
- verisimi 2y agoIf Argentinians are three meters tall, then their cars must be even bigger than normal cars. So these armadillos are even bigger than car size... probs the size of a small truck!
- sourcepluck 2y agoI think you mean three deci-metres tall? Or are you saying Argentina is really wild, and they have extra tiny cars and extra tall people? Like some sort of clown land? Bit rough on the Argentinians. More seriously - how does such a crap clickbait article filled with actual mistakes get all those upvotes? Do the hackers of hackernews merely "smash the like button" based on titles? Uh-oh!
- jvanderbot 2y agoNo, GP was right in the comparison: If that is a car-sized rock, then the person seems to be much larger than the car. In fact, it seems that if they laid down next to it, they'd be longer than the car-sized rock! Given a car is probably >2 meters, and < 5 meters, that person must be even larger! 3m is the minimum integer meters to satisfy that. Unless I'm missing a ninja edit in GP?
- sourcepluck 2y agoAhhh I get it. Hah. No I think you're reading correctly and I was imagining the opposite, like they have tiny cars, so they must be tiny.
- papichulo2023 2y agoFun fact, people thought giants (patagones) lived in our land, hence the Patagonia name. I blame Thor personally for their eradication, otherwise we may have been 3m tall.
- tartoran 2y agoA bit funny but in all honesty they don't specify what kind of car that is. Maybe they meant cart and the t got lost along the way in the noise.