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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 117 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is mammal propaganda!

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

of course it's attacked by avian propagandist without proof to the contrary

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Penguins don't force their children to fly.

Checkmate, atheists!

[–] starik@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

Penguins are birds that are trying to evolve into mammals. Commendable.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My atheist ways have proven to be wrong. I am now a firm believer in penguin Jesus

[–] protist@retrofed.com 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When resources are scarce, birds will literally push the weakest chick out of the nest to increase the survival chance of the rest. They'll keep going too, and kill them all if they have to

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Loads of mammals will do that.

Bears, for example.

Hell. Some seals just leave their kids on the ice.

Possums are so smooth brained their kids fall off and mum just keeps the bus rolling. Tasmanian devils, too.

And hippos just forget their kiddos are even there and trample them.

And that’s not even mentioning the crazy shit humans get up to

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cats famously do this to runts

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I have kittens on the way. I am... pretty stressed out

It makes me sick.

[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago
[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 45 points 1 day ago (3 children)

h/t P D Eastman, whose books I have read like 16,000,000 times after having children

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[–] silver@das-eck.haus 19 points 1 day ago

This book went hard when I was 4

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How did the crocodile egg get in the nest?

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A boy found the egg laying on a path. He was surrounded by turtles, alligators, and a bunch of other non-bird animals that also lay eggs. But he assumed it was a bird egg, found the nearest bird nest, put it in, and thought he had done a Good Deed.

What a maroon

A macaroon, even!

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

That's one hell of an egg

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reptile: mom? Mom where are you!?

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

Alligator mom: "Yurr ein my mouf, idiot"

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sharks, with hungry babies hatching inside them: “WELCOME TO THUNDERDOME!”

[–] erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 day ago

And these vicious sods, throwing their babies at predators. Look into the face of true evil.

That’s racist.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago

TIL my parents are birds

[–] its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] muhyb@programming.dev 45 points 1 day ago

Tell that to giraffe

[–] Elilol@fedinsfw.app -3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

1-Europe
2-Asia
3-USA
4- South America

[–] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Isn't the US infamous for being one of the only countries where once you hit 18 your parents expect you to fuck off?

And if you don't, everyone belittles you for living in your parents' basement?

And if you don't, everyone belittles you for living in your parents' basement?

In more individualistic countries, that is the case. Living with parents and relatives is common in more family-oriented cultures. Even in Europe, the mostly Catholic countries still have people living with their parents. But for Protestant and individualistic European countries, they will judge you harshly for it.

I have to say though, I find that some people who expect anyone over 25 to even move out are a bit simple minded considering the cost of living crisis. You have to have a good job to afford to move out. It is unrealistic these days for many people to do so because of housing crisis. Heck, even with a good job and good pay, the current expensive economic situation mitigates all those advantages! I had a manager who still lives with her parents. My best friend still lives with his parents as well, long after he turned 18and working for many years now. And the more simple minded individuals expect the old ways to still be applicable, but those same individuals actually don't have savings, unlike people who still live with their parents.

Ideally people should move out of home because it is part of growing up and maturing, but the current exploitative system prevent most of us to fulfill our own potential.

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

18 is when legal parental requirements end, but like … only shitty people do that.

Its prevalence in media belies how little that kind of thing actually happens IMO.

[–] Elilol@fedinsfw.app 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I get it for Americans, most go live at the college, and then they don't go back to their parents.

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

After college, which some people go away to, most kids end up back home unless they found a job or established a life elsewhere.

[–] Elilol@fedinsfw.app 0 points 1 day ago

Is it so hard to find a job?

In Venezuela they just raised the montly minimun wage from 0.13$ to 240$ for the first time in YEARS and basic food for 2 adults and a child is like 800$ a month.

We are VERY unprepared.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago

Not as true as it used to be I don't think. But yes it has that reputation.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Someone else already replied well, but I wanted to add that we're not entirely homogenous, either. Southern US culture still has multigenerational homes as a normal thing. It isn't the majority, but nobody really bats an eye in the South or Appalachia if you live in a home (or on piece of property with multiple dwellings) with your parents, grandparents, some cousins, an aunt or two, and that dude you brought over to dinner once that moved in at 14 when your parents found out his parents were shitty to him.

Yes they do lol

[–] callyral@pawb.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i'm brazilian and i don't think so, but it depends on the parents i guess

[–] Elilol@fedinsfw.app 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At what age you move our parents house?

[–] prof_tincoa@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 23 hours ago

Move out? Lol

Sometimes we build a new room in our parents house, which already look like an architectural jigsaw puzzle, and keep living there. É só fazer um puxadinho.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Looks like you triggered some people. Can you elaborate on South America? Is it from personal experiences?

[–] prof_tincoa@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 23 hours ago

Less triggered and more annoyed at the inaccuracy. It's not uncommon for one kid to live with their parents until the end. Nothing like the last panel.

[–] Elilol@fedinsfw.app 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We go out of our parents houses when we marry if we ever do, otherwise it's hard to rent or own unless someone's dies assuming they're home owners.. sometimes we live in the family homes all of our lives.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't see how that fits the meme.

I think 4 is the American system where a lot of parents expects kids to move out the moment they turn 18.

[–] Elilol@fedinsfw.app 1 points 1 day ago

Might be.

We are never teady, tho.