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To be clear, I don’t just hate GenAI. I also hate golf, war, monoculture farming, clear-cutting forests, and building on floodplains. I love biodiversity, wildlife conservation, regenerative forestry, soil restoration, sustainable farming, and economic degrowth.

Cause indigenous people did it for tens of thousands of years without issue and white capitalism did it for 100 years and the earth is on the verge of collapse. Inuit harvesting whales is not the same as commercial overfishing and it's genuinely racist to treat it like it is.

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history. An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose. The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life. In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food. Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch. In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable. I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

Once you understand the internal state of those who are consistently late to things you no longer feel anger towards them. The idea that it's because they're being 'selfish' is one of those boomer clock slave beliefs – Embarrassingly poor theory of mind.

Only YOU can prevent forest fires, because he's dismantling the United States Forest Service

It’s amazing how you can blame every Muslim person for 9/11 but get all bent out of shape when someone distrusts white people as a group for their brutal and never ending colonization of the world.

everyday is a new reminder of what a privilege it was to grow up as a girl who loved sports surrounded by men who only ever encouraged that

Do not look away

If you don’t want to stop and read the historical site plaques then you’re not fucking coming

“the fourth school in 6 days” Read that again.

To the endless maternal, material, and economic labour of women that sustains the world.

happy women’s day to the ocean, the moon and all the flowers

I was using ChatGPT for legal advice and it decided to completely hallucinate some preposterous nonsense about how growing wheat to use on my own farm somehow constitutes interstate commerce

ella enchanted (2004)

getting very into hockey. do I understand the rules? No. can I follow the puck? No. the power of my love for women is enough

THAT GOLD MEDAL FEELING 🇺🇸🥇 📸: Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images

1. What if you dont live in the same town you were BORN in? Or the same county. I never have. 2. What if yours doesn’t cost $15. Mine didnt. What if you dont have $15. 3. What if you dont have $165 for a passport. 4. What if you dont have a VEHICLE or reliable transport for obtaining any of this. My town doesnt have buses or Uber. You NEED a car. 5. What if you live 30 miles from the DMV to get that ID? Many people in rural America do. 6. What if you live with an abusive man who doesnt allow this? 7. What if your NAMES DONT MATCH