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P0is0n
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BLACK.LIVES.MATTER | it’s free to share love | bisexual
brat inc. Katılım Nisan 2012
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Not everyone should be allowed in your home, and even fewer people should know where you live.

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Call me old school but?
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Seeing videos like these remind you how aggressively intentional colonialism was
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The ocean is scary
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estoy súper a favor de que las mascotas viajen con sus dueños en lugar de sufrir en bodega
SolidKroket@SolidKroket
¿Estás a favor o en contra de que las mascotas viajen en las cabinas de los aviones? 🤔
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I love how she never touched her face . she’s gorgeous and she knows it
Hoops@Hoopss
rihanna at 18 rihanna at 38
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You’re really at your most confident when you know your body is tea
GirlsInFrames@FemenineFrames
Simply Gabriela Moura
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every time an Elephant makes the news for killing someone, they always have a pretty valid reason
Dexerto@Dexerto
A millionaire trophy hunter was trampled to death by five elephants while hunting in South Africa
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Orcas have brain structures you don't have.
Neurobiologist Lori Marino's MRI work on killer whales identified a fourth cortical segment called the paralimbic lobe. It sits next to the limbic system and handles emotion and social awareness. It doesn't exist in humans or in any land mammal. In orcas, it's so elaborated it erupts into the cortex.
Their cortical limbic lobe, the region handling self-awareness and social processing, is exceptionally developed. Their brain weighs roughly 12 pounds, four times the mass of yours. They have spindle cells, the same neurons that let humans reason about other minds.
When an orca surfaces and locks eyes with you, it's running a social assessment with neural hardware specialized for exactly that. It knows you're a separate being. It knows you're watching it back. It's evaluating you.
Here's what should recontextualize the clip. In all of recorded history, wild orcas have killed zero humans. Zero documented fatalities. One surfer was bitten off California in 1972, and the orca released him the moment it realized he wasn't a sea lion. A 12-year-old was bumped in Alaska in 2005. The orca approached, touched him, turned back.
Orcas hunt great white sharks. They coordinate wave attacks that sweep seals off ice floes. They take down moose swimming between islands. They have every capability to kill you. They have never chosen to.
Marino's explanation: the orca neocortex is developed enough to instantly distinguish a human from prey. Other researchers point to orca culture, the traditions passed through pods across generations, in which humans simply aren't food.
That look is recognition and restraint. From a mind built for social cognition at a scale your brain can't reach.
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Something about Orcas watching you is deeply unsettling.
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