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[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 129 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I did not know and now I am slightly angry at humans. Again.

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

We let the few dominate and exploit the many. Our relationship with nature is refelective of our relationship with ourself.

But the cultural focuson domination and exploitation is not biological. It's not in our nature. The potential to dominate is. But so is the potential of cooperation and mutual aid.

Let's try to rethink our society and behaviour to nature and each other and aim for the latter. For all our sake.

#GoogleBookchin

[–] ImInLoveWithLife@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wrote this on my replacement cardboard desk topper at work a few months ago. Good stuff.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'd argue that neither one stems from the other but that they are both manifestations of the same thing: our desire to dominate our environment to make our own lives (or the lives of those important to us) easier and/or safer.

[–] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Pls do not blame all of humanity for the actions of a few

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I mean like 95% of us eat fish so 95% of us are partially to blame

[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

The issue is not that humans eat fish. The issue is industrial fishing.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago

I literally can't remember the last time I ate any fish whatsoever.

[–] YoureHotCupCake@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

IDK the many allow the few to do what they want, if we all really tried we could have this over in a week. It doesn't even take everyone too, only like 3.5% of a population is required to overthrow a government.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

I hate to break it to you, but nobody asked me what I wanted.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

remember that guy who rams whalers with his ships front filled with concrete? he really wanted and he made a difference

[–] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Defeating the government is the easy part. Building something new afterwards is where it gets difficult

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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you want to know more and increase that anger a notch, here's Ocean With David Attenborough showing the devastation of bottom trawling: https://youtu.be/IzG9AwlypaY

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Thank you, now I hate humans even more.

[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Are you blaming me for this? I did not do this!

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If you eat fish that isn't line caught, you are supporting this in some form.

[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'll admit that I am not clean, but I'll also say that this is a consumerist framing which is benefitting might and machine. We are all sinners in one shape or another under the machine because we rely on the machine.

We live under planned economies governed by the eternal hunger of the machine. They sell us shit on stick through advertisements, media control and machine collaboration.

We loken these monstrocities through the dissolvement of the machine through making oppositional societies that by grounds embrace the meaningful, and being opposed to might and machine.

[–] Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How about you just try to minimise the hold the machine has on you instead of ranting poetically? And don't start with the old 'no ethical consumption under capitalism' because you don't need to actively make the world a worse place by choosing the most destructive means of consumption available to you.

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No it’s actually pretty easy to be vegetarian.

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[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How are farm fish caught? 🤔

Depends, but most fish farms heavily pollute the water and introduce diseases into the surrounding area.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

They swim right into the styrofoam tray and wait for a worker to tuck them in with stretch wrap

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 1 month ago

I guess I'm glad I'm allergic to fish.

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

I was on the moon when it happened!

Me on the moon

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[–] pipi1234@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Slightly?

As the dominant species we should take better care of the world.

But, I guess shareholder value is more important.

[–] cheat700000007@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
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[–] Entropy_Pyre@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think that gives me more thalassophobia than any animal I could find in open ocean.

[–] hesh@quokk.au 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Imagine getting caught in it

[–] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 month ago

No. I don't think I will.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This is your daily reminder to carry a knife with you. Or a multitool, a Leatherman would do the trick.

[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'll be 30 meters deep in a trawling net half a kilometer long, manoeuver my way past the piling realize to the outer boundary, reach into my pocket and start sawing my way through inch thick reinforced cord until I make a hole big enough to wriggle through and swim to safety!

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you are 30 meters deep in the open ocean without a diving suit, diving knife (presumably sharpened), and an oxygen tank, idk what to tell you — don't do that in the first place?

[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean 30 meters laterally. End of net, 30 meters of fish & marine mammals & whatever else is caught in the net, me in the middle several meters from the edges, incoming tons of marine life to pack on top.

Honestly, having oxygen would make the terror of a prolonged death worse.

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

a Leatherman would do the trick

But enough about last night at the club!

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[–] zqfm@mastodon.sdf.org 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@A404 As an American, I can't understand any of these measurements without Statues of Liberty, football fields, or hamburgers

[–] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The statue of liberty is is 93 meters tall. One kilometer is 1000 meters. This supertawler is 10 times the size of the statue of liberty

[–] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

"Okay but what is that in gumballs?"

-🐦

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[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Fuck that sea life, the shareholders must see a return!! /s

[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago

Yeah but we got the price of canned tuna way down!!! ~(until the inevitable scarcity and population decline hits)~

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 14 points 1 month ago

Where is Saddam?

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