When they're born, they're called foal slippers.
https://horseyhooves.com/foal-slippers/
But just in general, horse hooves are amazing and so weird. It's literally if your middle finger was half your leg, and the nail was a huge wraparound thing. Then plus you grew extra keratin on your fingertip like a mega callus from birth. Because why not?
I've nodded some small but active enough to need real coverage subs on reddit. It's a real job. People are too weird to self-moderate.
It was my first Lemmy love.
Han Solo - I think my eyes are getting better. Instead of a big dark blur, I see a big light blur.
Wood frog - There's everything to see. The forest is beautiful and rich and vibrant, bursting with life. I love it.
Han Solo - You're gonna die here you know.
Wood frog - Han, WTF? I thought we were having a moment.
Fair point. I also code useless silly things as a hobby, so I guess maybe I'm no one to talk. But I also don't have the skills to peak around the Linux Mint errors list and just give one or two a go, which, selfishly, benefits me as a Mint user.
Horse feet are so strange. Actually, horse fingers and toes. Most of what you can the horse "leg" is what would be your finger.
With a big beefy nail that looks like horror when born, and smashes and rubs into place in their first day.
If they don't give you nightmares, you don't understand how they work.
I feel the same way about Linux distros.
There's something like 500+ actively updated distros. 39% (according to some random article from 2020) are used by less than 0.1% of users.
Y'all... Spend that time and energy other open source projects that need the help!
All us babies here smoking cigars and betting on horses like some Fediverse Baby Herman army.
Uh...I mean 225 backup plans! Yeah.
And 2 to 5 backup plans.
Taylor Lorenz had a great interview with Eric Goldman on Power User about specifically why this literally accomplishes anything but protecting kids. It's just cramming a surveillance state into Web 2.0 platforms, and will likely have worse outcomes on kids overall.
Yes! I spent 20 months looking for a variation on this exact image! Thank you!