1mo ago

This is my favourite educational picture in Wikipedia! Turtles have this thing called the Turtle Mode.

(Original picture by Brocken Inaglory, 15 April 2010)

Alternative title:
Michelangelo: "Oh no! DUCK!"
Leonardo: "...you made me look stupid, didn't you?"

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Can someone link me to this info? I already wiki searched turtles and didn't find it. Websearch is stuck on turtle graphics
- I guess the web search messed up then. You should search for biology stuff! Not computer science stuff! Turtles are very computer science related creatures, but there's more to them!
  Turtle Mode is actually a complicated thing! It's often implemented in two ways: Cryptodira are the turtles that just pull their heads in, while Pleurodira kind of tuck their head inside sideways.
  But it gets even more complicated with certain ancient turtle species. For example, we have the snapping turtles. Technically cryptodira, but they don't really enough shell to cover themselves. Not that they need to because they'll fucking go snappity snap on everything on range. Or we have things like the megacephalum which again is a cryptodira turtle but probably can't retract the head because did we mention it's called the Megacephalum.
  EDIT: Forgot: snapping turtle copypasta
I’m not trying to be a dick here, just confused. But is this post indicating that you’re old enough and smart enough to know how to use the fediverse but didn’t know that turtles turtle?
Also, like tisktisk@piefed.social indicated, I get results for anything but the animal when I search “turtle mode”. Graphics, EV modes, and even flipping a quadcopter drone, but nothing about neck mechanics in a shelled amphibian.
- What I was trying to communicate was that Wikipedia has plenty of photographs that illustrate various concepts. This is a photo that displays typical turtle behaviour, which I didn't think I implied that I was unaware of and I don't know how you came to that conclusion. Anyway, it's the sort of photo you wouldn't need to include in an article but it clearly is suitable for the purpose.
  I did post this picture and all of the rambling while drunk and I'm having a bit of a mild anxiety breakdown right now and I just don't know what I was saying. I'm terribly ashamed of posting this if this caused anyone any confusion.
  
  I'm not trying to give you anxiety, mate. Drunk posting provides adequate context.
  \ "Turtles have this thing called Turtle Mode" just gave me pause about your experiencing the existence of turtles.
  \ Couple that with the weird search engine results and no mention of "turtle mode" even in the informative links you provided and I was just a little confused.
  I see now this is a c/aww post; you got nothing to be ashamed of or anxious about.
Testudo!
I rather support the idea that this photo should be memorialized
This reminds me of the photo about the tanks….
- Yeah it kinda makes sense, turtles are, after all, the tanks of the nature!
  However, in this photo, the roles are kind of reversed, aren't they? These are just Nature's Tanks, which are unduly harassed by some random thing that literally flew in from the sky!
  Events that happen on nature rarely have immediate and direct tangible interpretations on political policy, is what I'm getting at.
This is proof that we are all living in a turtle's dream.
This is also known as The Shell Station.

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