Polish Mountaineer Climbs Country’s Biggest Mountain, Only to Find Cat Just Chillin’
Climbing a mountain is an incredible feat — not just because it takes a lot of work, but because every single part of the process seems designed by God to kill you.
Published 11 months ago in Ftw
Climbing a mountain is an incredible feat — not just because it takes a lot of work, but because every single part of the process seems designed by God to kill you.
Climbing a mountain is an incredible feat — not just because it takes a lot of work, but because every single part of the process seems designed by God to kill you.
As one ascends a mountain, they encounter numerous pitfalls, icy cold and, of course, thin air that makes it difficult to breathe. Then, if you make it all the way to the top, the most you’re getting out of your effort is a good view (and, I guess, a sense of accomplishment or something).
What a mountaineer might not expect to find is anyone, or anything, else at the peak, but that’s exactly what happened to this mountaineer. Instead of being able to reflect in his lonesome at the peak of the mountain, he found a cat, who was just vibing.
Polish mountaineer scaled his country's highest peak, Rysy, which is 2,499 metres (8,199 feet) high and found a cat. pic.twitter.com/PAUv7DXh1n
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 5, 2024
According to the Daily Mail, Wojciech Jabczynski (yes, all Polish names are like this) climbed almost 8,200 feet in order to reach the peak the summit of Rysy, the country’s highest mountain. When he did, he found a cat, who didn’t seem too impressed by his accomplishment.
No one knows how a simple tabby ended up at the summit, though Jabczynski speculated that it came from a small tourist hut elsewhere on the mountain. Regardless, the cat seemed friendly enough, with the climber even going out of his way to offer the animal a bit of his cheese sandwich (the cat wasn’t interested, in case you were wondering).
meanwhile my cat jumps on the counter and to the top of the fridge and then cries for help because the jump back down is too overwhelming https://t.co/nrrXiTgx5d
— Sarah Rumpf (@rumpfshaker) April 23, 2024
So shoutout to Jabczynski for climbing that mountain — and big respect to the cat for doing the same and not appearing to give a single shit about it.
Dude Trolls Self-Driving Car By Wearing a Stop Sign T-Shirt
According to the Elon Musks of the world, self-driving cars are the future.
Published 11 months ago in Funny
According to the Elon Musks of the world, self-driving cars are the future.
According to the Elon Musks of the world, self-driving cars are the future, because dreaming of a future where people might not need cars at all is too ambitious for Silicon Valley, I guess. One company leading the way is Waymo, formerly the Google self-driving car project, which operates vehicles in San Francisco and Phoenix.
Late last year, Waymo published data that demonstrated that its driverless cars were 6.7 times less likely to be involved in a crash that resulted in injury than human drivers, and 2.3 times less likely than human drivers to be in a police-reported crash. The data seems promising, but given the technology is still in its infancy, there are still a lot of kinks to work out.
Jason Carr, a digital creator who describes himself as an “ebike propagandist,” highlighted one such kink in a recent video, in which he sported a T-shirt with a stop sign printed on it in an effort to trick the driverless cars into stopping, having interpreted his T-shirt as a genuine stop sign.
Of the four tests they conducted, two during the day and two at night, the cars stopped three times, with it barreling past in just one of the nighttime tests. In the final test, the car stayed in position at the “stop” sign until Carr walked away. Carr’s theory was that in this instance, the car read him as a sign being held by a lollipop man, where the stop sign would typically be turned around to let drivers know it’s safe to proceed.
Funny way to confuse self driving cars - print STOP sign on your T-shirt pic.twitter.com/rBn3ECJrad
— Engineering is S3Y (@S3XYengineering) April 21, 2024
After one engineering account posted the video to Twitter, a lot of A.I.-diehards started taking offense, including one person who wrote, “I hope some of those people were rushing to an emergency, and your funny, while delightful personality, had them make everything worse!” I’m not sure I’m ready for a future where people summon driverless cars in emergencies, let alone driverless cars whose technology is still being perfected and who can be tricked by a guy wearing a T-shirt.
While this is definitely entertaining, it also isn’t likely to be a huge problem for Waymo, unless people suddenly start wearing street sign T-shirts en masse as some sort of protest against driverless cars.
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