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[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 68 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What, never heard of hot couture?

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

goddammitsomuch

[–] credo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

They are in a never ending bathtub tho.

[–] Karmanopoly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 week ago

That is what sweaty means, yes.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Southern Residents (puget sound orcas) are the toothless moron hillbillies of the Orca community. They starve in a weird little place that is FULL of food that they are too stupid and backwards to eat.

[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You say this like it's a bad thing....

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Given that they are facing extinction because they are starving to death while surrounded by food? They haven't had a surviving calf in a decade because they are malnourished. Yeah, it is.

The Salmon hats are probably them expressing displeasure and mourning in their starvation since it is the same behavior that they use when they express mourning for a dead calf:

https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/grieving-orca-mom-carries-dead-calf-around-on-her-head-for-a-2nd-time

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is the shittiest possible interpretation of the situation.

People act like animals can just magically decide to eat new things. It doesn't work like that. It's the same as that stupid koala meme where people whinge about them not eating things put down in their territory.

That's not how it works, at all. Animals, humans included, have instincts that drive them with it comes to what is and isn't food. And even humans can turn down things that are technically edible while starving, because they don't know it's edible, and we do have the ability to reason out ways to safely try unfamiliar things.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except that we are talking a group of animals within a species.

Other, genetically identical, Orcas literally swim into the same habitat as Southern Residents and eat all the other shit in puget sound while the resident orcas sit there and starve in the same environment.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which is completely irrelevant to that group because the process by which an animal recognizes that is and isn't "food" is partially location dependent. If you took one of them out of their territory at birth, raised them in a different one, they'd learn different food spectrum.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Right, which is why they are backwards hillbillies.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Shit, did I step into a troll?

If so, you got me good lol

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you suggesting that my definition of a population of orca as "hillbillies" is not an evidence based scientific opinion?

Lmao! Good point

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If it gives you a yardstick to measure by, they spent quite a while insisting ICE List was actually a honeypot and trying to scare the shit out of anyone that has visited the site. This was after mainstream news was already reporting on it.

I vote for mr "troll". Those Orkas have a dumb culture, so they are ass backwards.

You obviously don't understand fashion

[–] justlemmyin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Some singer. Someone in the audience was cheering for her. But it was a cheer she was not familiar with because it is not originally from western culture. Some are saying her response was culturally insensitive. Seems like kind of a big nothing burger, but I guess it’s a big deal for some people.

[–] PantaloonMonsoon@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So you know the entire story but are just tooo cooool to know her name. Are hipsters coming back?

[–] cheesorist@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

some people have a harder time remembering names than remembering a simple event

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Look! It's me.

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

Oof. Is that you or why are you offended on her behalf?

[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What was her response?

Edit: and what was the cheer?

[–] justlemmyin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Ah thanks for the gossπŸ™‚

[–] bmpvy@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago

Sabrina Carpenter

For anyone who's not seen this gem yet