• SuperiorOne@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

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

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    15 hours ago

    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.

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      12 hours ago

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

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    17 hours ago

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

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      17 hours ago

      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.

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        16 hours ago

        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?)

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          16 hours ago

          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).

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            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. 😅😶

  • Greg Clarke@lemmy.ca
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    16 hours ago

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