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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Because they want a fucking truce. Leave them alone.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

accept the fish or they start attacking boats again

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I feel that's fair. Also stop destroying the thing they need to live and breathe in.

but what about the billionaire's profits???

[–] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

We won't even stop destroying the thing we need to live and breathe in.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s great how we’re finally acknowledging the intelligence of other animals as the default rather than isolated and unusual occurrences. Before the work of Doctor Goodall, we basically acted as those complex social dynamics were impossible or exceedingly unlikely.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Religion has for ever tainted morons' (read: most people) minds. That is the only place I ever heard how special and unique humans are supposedly.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, it's poison. It's the most reductive aspect of our development.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

So it's kanly then, is it. Chaumas, really?! As if my poison snooper wouldn't catch that

[–] SuperiorOne@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago

Plot twist: The handed fishes are highly contained with inorganic arsenic, and they're trying to kill humans with more sophisticated methods.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Don’t be fooled by their seeming friendliness: they’re just trying to fatten us up.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I got to the same conclusion but I was thinking of the orcas as grannys, complaining that we are too skinny and won't survive without a good layer of blubber.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Ferreal, though. They already rank among crows & wolves (as far as we can tell, ahem), and if their world is rapidly turning into acid, I can only imagine what they must assume that our, much smaller home biome must be doing...

Now, if they knew that it was us behind it all?! 🥲 It'd likely be a much different story — and I wouldn't blame them a bit. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Hey, waitaminute... If the oligarchs are building bigger and more numerous yachts while the landmasses crisp to fund their puny, plastic existences... Can we use LLMs to share that info with these seawolves? (How do you even say "luigi" in orca?)

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yacht evokes images of sail ships but those billionaire yachts are more like ferries. I don't think the orcas can take them out (unless you supply the c4).

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

NGL, if orcas can deploy c4, I feel it'd only be neighborly to figure out how to supply it.

I mean, sheeyit. We gotta step it up as a fuckin' species if they're out there, more than capable of planting high-tech explosive devices invented by self-important monkey-cousins who generally can't even swim. 😅😶

[–] Forester@pawb.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

fun fact, the US military maintains and employs many aquatic non human mammalians.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

So, you're saying there's a foundation to work from already. 🤔🤓

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

They read the book: “To Serve Man”

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They're trying to make pets of us.

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

We’ll make great pets.

[–] Thebigguy@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

Orcas: maybe if we feed them they’ll stop killing everything they must be very hungry.

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Orcas have never given me anything! Why don’t they like me? Is it because I pooped in the ocean that one time?

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

where the fuck do you think orcas poo?

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

Probably on the fish they’re “gifting” to humans

[–] Willy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does an orca shit in the woods?

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

if no can smell it, does the orca shit in the forest smells?

[–] Willy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t think the orca knows his ass from a hole in the ocean.

[–] derry@midwest.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

So long and thanks for all the fish?