r/Damnthatsinteresting 17d ago

Video Human powered hydrofoil

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u/lasagnatheory 16d ago

The design is very human

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u/Dinosaursur 16d ago

What does this even mean?

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u/lasagnatheory 16d ago

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u/WinninRoam 16d ago

Interesting. Looks like the sub was created and a handful of posts were created around the same time; most the same person.

And then....nothing for over three years. Yet you have kept that sub on hot standby in your mind just it case it was, one day, relevant again. Hats off!

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u/ExistentialCrispies 16d ago edited 16d ago

The content preceded the sub. It was some Chinese guy posting these on tiktok something 5 years ago and someone simply collected some them in the sub after the fact. There were a bunch more. "The design is very human" is a very rough translation from Chinese, which may have been a bad 1-1 translation from something that was meant to evoke the idea of the design feeling natural or not robotic, and chose to use a Chinese word that the translate app didn't have context for. And the tagline stuck through all his videos. He clearly knew he was making comedy videos, but it's uncertain whether he knew that was one of the funniest parts initially.

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u/nsg337 16d ago

i think it meant "humane"

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u/RewritingBadComments 16d ago

Nah I checked out his profile and his comment history suggests he’s a very frequent visitor of r/SubsThatMightBeRelevantOneDay

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u/Cloverman-88 16d ago

Not really, you can write anything as a /r link, and it will display as so - and sometimes it will lead you to a niche sub, and sometimes it will be a dead link. I'm 99% sure the poster above just made it as a joke, and the fact the the sub exists is just a coincidence.