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Not going to lie, friends: I’m rooting for the whales.
by dmvdoug 3y ago
Not going to lie, friends: I’m rooting for the whales.
- cowthulhu 3y agoThe orcas are attacking small sailboats, which tend to have less of an environmental impact… less engine use, quiet, fewer people on board, very small scale fishing (if at all). It’s weird to be rooting against this sort of ship when cruise ships and trawlers are the real problem - and also pretty difficult to attack. Will you count it as a success if people favor larger powerboats over small sailboats?
- dmvdoug 3y agoOh, I think you misunderstood. I’m rooting for the whales as against all the humans. ;)
- ThisIsNowhere 3y agoI know I'm on HN when someone is explaining why the "woke" ideology of the orcas attacking yachts is ultimately futile.
- someweirdperson 3y agoTry to explain that to the Orcas. They are killing those baby boats before they grow into big evil loud adults.
- cowthulhu 3y agoI’m not explaining any ideology… definitely don’t think of Orcas in terms of “woke” or not. Just stating that rooting for the orcas is rooting for something fairly self-defeating.
- sh34r 3y agoGaia is fighting back. Nature is healing. As the great George Carlin said: the planet isn’t going anywhere, we are!
- isoprophlex 3y agoOur burden raised the world set free The earth returns to land and sea Our buildings burned and highways gone I love my friends and everyone But we've had our chance let's move aside Let time wash us out with the tide
- nyolfen 3y agoas leonard cohen once said: you won't like what comes after [humans]
- Scarblac 3y agoJust to be pedantic: orcas are dolphins, not whales (despite also being being called "killer whales").
- ethbr0 3y agoI too support our proletariat whale and dolphin brethren. Why should the richest humans sail on personal gilded craft?! Down with yachts! The hour of revolution is at hand!
- deanCommie 3y agoI love whales. But never forget that Orcas aren't called Killer Whales because they're "Whales That Kill", but because they're "Killers Of Whales". Orcas kill other whales, sometimes for fun not for food. And they have such a reputation in the cetacean kingdom as brutal murderous assholes, that whales will help seals escape from them, to their own detriment/risk. So yeah. In Humans vs. Orcas, it's hard not to root for the orcas, especially considering how we've treated them in captivity for the last 100 years. But on a more broader mammalian scale, we're both kind of the intelligent assholes of the animal kingdom.