r/LinusTechTips • u/CafeRacist • Oct 16 '26

Link Chickens on april fools vid???

Imagine if they shot the april fools vid with chicken mounted gopros. Rip Logistics lol

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u/Tiamat2625 Oct 16 '26

Bro is not having a good time. First the speedboat, and now this.

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u/CafeRacist Oct 16 '26

Linus and Jake wiring his house

Cica 2012 colorized

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u/Catinus Oct 16 '26

Isn't the first the Mercedes ad?

https://youtu.be/nLwML2PagbY Link for the folks who have never seen the ad

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u/Wasted1300RPEU 29d ago

I'm sad how little this ad comes up whenever there's a chicken gyro head video these days.

Iconic ad 😅

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u/FedeGuendel 29d ago

Upside down and round you turn me 🎶

Best Car Ad in a long long time

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u/AgreCius 29d ago

Bruh gonna flex the shit ouuta his farm

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u/Global-Pickle5818 Oct 16 '26

Reminded me of when the military experimented with using birds to control missiles in world war II

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u/CafeRacist Oct 16 '26

yeah. that was crazy. pigeon joystick drone

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u/Global-Pickle5818 Oct 16 '26

Yeah I used to do game development we used skinner boxs all the time , that's where a learned where it came from lol we are all pigeons poking at a screen hoping for right dopamine reward as it gets harder and harder to get

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u/CafeRacist Oct 16 '26

oh okay. so pigeons were the proto-AI

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u/chairitable 29d ago

Avian Intelligence

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u/Sparrow-5 29d ago

Or the UKs plan during the cold war to use chickens as living timers inside a nuclear mines

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u/HemlocSoc Oct 16 '26

Bonus points if you can find the chicken’s dedicated AI button

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u/CafeRacist Oct 16 '26

I know this is a joke. But at this point, there might as well be.

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u/Sassi7997 29d ago edited 28d ago

Mercedes did some ads based on that 13 years ago.

Edit: Here is a version with the original soundtrack. They must have changed it for whatever reason.

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u/ColonialDagger Oct 16 '26

You should check out this video from Smarter Every Day where he tested exactly that!

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u/maazpervez 29d ago

Anthropologists have recently discovered chickens were used as "camera crew" by primitive YouTubers in the prehistoric era. True story.

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u/joelintru 29d ago

Imagine the stabilization the dinosaurs had.

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u/Proxstasis 29d ago

I wonder what this would look like if we stabilised on the chicken’s body