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[CW Dead Bird]] Birds aren't real (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)

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[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Its a series of tubes.

Its seared in my brain.

[–] Wbear@lemmy.zip 6 points 20 hours ago

It's not a dump truck!

[–] socsa@piefed.social 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

The part I hate is how many overconfident internet technicians will be like "well ackshually the metaphor isn't that far off" completely missing the very important difference between an information channel and a power channel and what the capacity limits are for each.

For example, free space is a pretty great information channel, but it absolutely sucks for reliably transmitting fluids.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 19 hours ago

Also, the fact that in context, it was coming from an ignorant old man ranting on the floor of Congress while trying to pass an anti-net nutrality bill. The fact that the analogy even kinda works is an accident and missing the bigger problem.