I'm quitting the Internet early today. It's good to end the day with a win every once and a while. Thanks Orcas π
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Where can I donate to those orcas organization? I'm rooting all for their cause
Sounds like people should prepare for some vigilantes going all Moby Dick on the orcas.
"But researchers caution against attributing malicious intent to animals." Researcher should maybe spend more time with animals and less with paper. Animals can communicate effectively with humans if they want, I've had cows ask me to fix the waterer, and absolutely seen animals with malicious intent. You can see horses planning how they're gonna attack if you know how to look. They lie and look for excuses, I've never seen a horse scared of a flushed rabbit when no one is on their back, but mounted it's the scariest thing ever, and this is also proportionate to exactly who is on their back and whether or not they seem competent.
Also they've never seen a cat
I love orcas and the idea that some of them are doing something because we pissed them off is really sexy.
But a 15-ish meters sailboat is not a yacht, far from there, and in Europe a lot of people who sail are working class (more teachers and engineers than uber drivers or cleaning crews, but still far from rich).
In this case, the crew consisted of two members of the Ocean Care NGO. The crew members and the NGO stated that they didn't blame the orcas and didn't see there an agression from them but believed more in a kind of game because the orcas noticed boats can be rocked and find it fun.
Let's eat the rich ourselves, they are much more our responsability than the orca's.
15 meters is a pretty substantial boat.
In what world do you live in where teachers and engineers are buying 15 meter open ocean rated sailboats?
Thatβs a big boat. Storage fees alone would be crippling for most people.
BC comes to mind.....oh wait. We're doing that thing where posters unwittingly reveal they're broke as fuck and 5 thousand is a huge amount of money.
I live in France, and my parents (both teachers in highschool) bought one 10 years ago. It is an old one (built in the 1980s), lots of work to had to be done but they could afford it on a 10 years mortgage.
Harbour is about 4k/year, wich is definitely not nothing and lots of people can't afford it, but they manage.
Idk how it is where you live, but from what I've seen, on most of Northern Europe coasts (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Sweden) it's far from impossible to own a nice sailboat even when you're not really rich.
Sailboats from the 80s-90s with some work to do would range from the 30-35k for 10-11 meters to 60-70k for up to 15 meters.
Of course, if you want to have the most recent one and if you can't/don't want to do most of the repairs yourself, it's another story.
It may have something to do with our sailing culture from the 70s-80s, where lots of people actually built their sailboats to go and travel the world.
And just to be clear, I'm not saying it's easy and everyone can do it. Lots of working class people can barely make ends meet, so owning a boat wouldn't be possible. But in Europe, it's not reserved for the super rich either.
Canadian here. big boats are cheap as hell, it's the maintenance that gets you if you can't do it yourself, and it's not insubstantial either way. If youve a boat with some old marine GM motor, ain't so bad, but a lot of people buy a cheap boat not realizing it's a Detroit in there, 40,000 dollar rebuild.
They call it a yacht themselves https://www.oceancare.org/en/stories_and_news/gibraltar-orca-attack/
Not that that is the point. But such a boat still puts you back 200k, hardly a working class toy
You're right, thanks!
In my language there is a bug difference between a yacht and a 15 meters sailboat, but it seems it's not the case in english. Anyway, my mistake.
200k is a nice, quite recent boat with nothing to be done before you can go and sail.
Where I live, lots of people buy older boats which need a bit of work before they can use them. You can find nice older 15 meters sailboats for 60-70k if you're willing to have them in dry dock for a year while you do repairs and look for used parts to do the repairs.
It's still fucking expensive (and you have easily 5k/year of anchorage and upkeep), and lots of workers can definitely not afford that, but it's still possible without being really rich (I meet teachers teachers, nurses, engineers... who own their boats when I go sailing).
, a behavior that has scientists stumped
LOL obviously even orcas are sick of fat entitled rich fucks exploiting the world for their own greedy whims
Orca understand class solidarity better than 90% of people.
EAT THE RICH
Moar!
"Eat the rich."
-Orcas probably
Better marbling in the rich. Not stringy.
Idk dude Peter Thiel has like blood boys and shit I imagine heβs the most GMO of any human on the planet at this point and thereβs probably plenty of billionaires trying to follow his example
Big W from the Orcas. They have my vote!
The Orcas be pissed, man.
They have declared warca.
Now we can start calling them "killer whales"
Uncritical support to the orca intifada.
So how can we arm these orcas to make it easier?
I'd love to see lasers on their heads.
Either we start a GoFundMe to get some friggin Lazers to strap on their backs or get some big metal lances strapped on their heads
big metal lances strapped on their heads
Just get them some trained narwhals.
Are they ill-tempered?
Wouldn't you be if you were just frolicking around in your natural habitat and some human jerks kidnapped you and trained you for war?
Haha I'm in San Diego and this reminded me that the Navy here has a special program they've had going since the 1960's training dolphins and seals to patrol the waters around the ships in the bay and attach inflatable buoy devices to any scuba divers that get too close.
Here's the Wikipedia for the program:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_Marine_Mammal_Program
Tactical nuclear war-orcas
I'm not sure they could swim far enough away or accurately aim a missile in order to avoid becoming a suicide bomber.
Let's start off with "mounted laser turrets" and go from there?
Worcas.
However this goes, if shits starts popping off, I'm hopping in on the side of the orcas.
Orcas riot against the 1% better than we do.
Sadly the boats sunk by orcas probably aren't owned by the elite we all hate. More likely everyday people with < 30' boats shared by clubs or friends. Sailing can be a lot cheaper than you might think.
Well, the NGO Researchers aren't exactly 1%, which ironically is a great analogy for how violent uprisings would have collateral.
Well if I had the equivalent of 10 chainsaws for teeth I think I'd be more inclined to riot.