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Jun 18, 2023 7:19 PM
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Harryteeters
Team Orca
MoonQueenie
What people are saying is true it's not just rich people it's everyone but that doesn't counter the fact that as a species we have traumatised other animal species to the point they're now attacking humans. The question should be "what can we do to make our impact as little as possible on the environment and the world around us to coexist with the rest of nature?"
Imimgurwhoru
Zorklunn
I feel this is pretty specific and I think you'll find the orcas didn't start it.
belovedlover
I don't think the really rich people even care, they'll get new one pretty quick with the insurance money. And no insurance company is going to fuck sideways with the rich people who insure their houses, vehicles, horses, wives, kids, girlfriends and boats worth of millions and millions of dollars. They bring in so goddamn much money, that paying for a new couple million dollar yacht isn't anything in the big picture.
ZDan
I don't think rich-people-yachts have anything to worry about, sadly...
richmondrosemead0
Your slightly off there, rich people’s boats have massive steel rudders that orcas can’t attack, poorer fishermen and shoestring sailors have puny plywood rudders that disintegrate, wrong target.
Edgekrsher
cryborg
playbynightandday
And i read it in waynes voice too
Djones06236
Sink the rich or whatever.
MannyFester1
What'd the orca say when he saw a yacht that was too big for him and his buddies to sink? Let's get Kraken... HFD
PrincessLeliana
Orcas are friends of the proletariat
MaximusPrime4444
To the orcas:
MaximusPrime4444
To the rich peoples:
PlaceHolderTitle
I thought this was just a one time thing is this happening a lot now?
PotOfJam
Your always richer than someone else... To you it's an orcha sinking their yacht, to someone else, it is a deer stepping infront of your car and writing it off.
ineedahandlemanimeanidonthaveanidentityuntilihaveahandle
My buddy's parents sold their home and live full time on a boat. They're not super rich. Wouldn't be cool if it was their boat.
Heavenissize17socks
I'd say that the orcas are trying to save us from ourselves. "But according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium – which houses the nonprofit research organization Seafood Watch – “Ninety percent of the world’s fisheries are now fully exploited, over-exploited or have collapsed.” and, they also just really like sinking boats.
perlninja
How about non-rich people who have a boat instead of the shiniest new car?
Daverson
All jokes aside, orcas are assholes and they're probably just doing it funzies, just like they enjoy killing for sport. Those motherfuckers have bee known to beach themselves trying to catch juvenile seals to torture to death.
CaroleBaskingShark
Found the seal in disguise
Sturdycrotch
What show is this from again? I cannot find the name of it for the life of me
DaddySchlongleg
Letterkenny
FancySharkDinnerParty
Dolphins are assholes, but they're not in the wrong here.
mrssugar
#TeamOrca
Ripkreed
A lot of folks on here concern me with the assumption that sailing = ima rich asshat.
Kingoftheblind
It’s quite sad, because in a weird way, it visualizes that these people are who they criticize. Conformality and black and white thinking. Somebody is able to afford a boat? Must be rich, because I cannot afford a boat. Fuck that guy for being rich!
magmakensuke
Yeah... I'm dirt poor but if I actually managed to make money, I feel like I'd be a target
Ragingjedi
"Yachts" don't always mean "rich people". There are a lot of people out on the water because they love the ocean. Don't shoot them because you are ignorant.
Lifk
If you have a boat , chance are you have more money than 95% of the rest of the world. Except if you are a fishermen but then you are activeny killing them so it's part of the game
MisuseOfLiterally
yachts are luxury boats, its like.. the point of that type of boat. Theres always a rich dude behind a yacht, or at the very least the person is wealthy enough to *almost* be considered rich. I don't give a shit fuck about any yacht owner.
Kingoftheblind
Every boat longer 10 meter is considered a yacht. I know people who bought an old sailing yacht for 10k and put in an additional 10k in material and work. Doesn’t make you rich… but I guess if you a poor af and living in the US, everyone else seems to be rich…
Lordhartley
Yep, my car is £500 merc i brought of a mate, it's 22 years old, I prey every time it makes a new noise.
Daverson
A lot of boaters I know are twats. A little splash in the drink would do 'em good.
11Weasel11
I worked in the marine industry for 12 years before I left to go work on bicycles. You see a lot of Trump flags on boats around here, not so much on the bikes.
alrightalrightalrightpartyatthemoontower
Same on lakes here. We have huge boats on lakes with flags. Probably the big boats without flags are not Trump people, but definitely flags for Trump are big, nice boats. Weird space on the lake as they are nice actually but the flag! Tells me something.
pareidoliaperson
And it's everything.
huhsaywhatnow
It's not always the rich. It's fishermen, it's guys running transpo on these things too.
AntennaDibb
given how much people are overfishing, can't say its overall a bad thing for the environment. bad for the fishermen absolutely since their livelihoods are now more dangerous and can be costly. in the end, i don't have an answer. i'm just more surprised that this behavior didn't develop earlier in orcas.
InvidiousSquid
TheMiamiVicePresident
I will never get tired of this format. +1
Sealth01
Is that number accurate?
TheSecondPiewackit
It's slightly less.
mouseasw
410 billion boats? Yeah that sounds about right considering the whole Earth's population of humans.
Matteroftaste
Vaguely
gnarledhalo
It's not just yachts it's fishing boats, too. Still, I root for our aquatic cousins.
TheAccursedHamster
I don't eat fish anyway, so fuck em.
FurtiveGlancer
Yawn - the rich people will just get another batch (from insurance) - if only the orcas could learn from us and "eat the rich"
LyraTheLycan
TheMayo16
I thought it was just sailboats
KPuff
080080
it's not luxury yachts. if it was luxury yachts, some russian oligarch would pay to have orcas hunted to extinction.
PirateRubberDuck
Most plastics in the ocean cones from fishing boats that with the noise and over fishing, I don't blame them.
dentista320
Small sailing boats, more like.
meauho
An analysis of trash island found the majority of it came from commercial fishing: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/06/dumped-fishing-gear-is-biggest-plastic-polluter-in-ocean-finds-report
Kitakita
eh, we're overfishing the seas as is. I can go a while without fish
WellAckchually
It's not like the orcas have a ship silhouette identification guide
JonnehxD
Not to mention the sailors who aren't rich, live on their boats & maintain them themselves. I watch plenty of youtubers in this situation. They just don't want their homes attacked.
ikusame1211
They should switch to something more sustainable. May as well ask me to give a fuck about coal miners.
bekkayya
dont sail into orca territory idk nobody is like coordinating this they're orcas dude
randomwalrus
Counterpoint: Orcas do not want to be attacked in their home, to have their food taken from them, etc. People are not entitled to the ocean.
DeadeicPrints
I'm torn, anything hurting rich ppl is good. But I fucking hate orcas so much I'd like to wipe them out myself lol.
2graves
Lol that's a new one
AgainstMethod
Orcas are brutal and intelligent predators, so I'm not saying you have to like them. But wishing them extinct seems like a bit much.
kaoticgirl
How does one come to hate orcas? Unless, of course.... Did an orca sink your ship???
MisuseOfLiterally
well with that statement being out there, Id root for the orcas against you
DeadeicPrints
So if I didn't say it you'd have remained neutral as it happened?
kaoticgirl
Seriously though, are you really not going to explain the orca-hated?
MisuseOfLiterally
no? id be unaware, hug difference
randomguy365
I would like additional information on how this hatred came into being.
Sageypie
Orca once swam into his bum on porpoise....ON PORPOISE, CARL!
Animorphs
They were severely abused as a child while Free Willy played in the background
CharunDrakarus
Saw the wrong kind of free willy.
SonderingStrike
The sunfish guy ate a rare candy
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DaBaDoop
Here you goooo! /gallery/QZKkK
WhyDontYouMakeMe
DeadeicPrints
Not every use of time HAS to he the best use. Optimizing life in such a way would be boring as hell.
WhyDontYouMakeMe
I'm not saying to optimize your life, but maybe be to do things more productive with your time
DeadeicPrints
We're all making imgur comments while taking a shit. The content of any comment here doesn't change the amount of productivity.
AgainstMethod
Yeah, Orcas attacking yachts is them doing us a favor. Orcas attacking fishing boats is just fair play.
bamblebimble
It's also them attacking sailboats which belong to rich and poor alike. In fact it's mainly sailboats
DukeOfAnkhMorpork
If they’re working together, it means the attacks are well Orca-strated. All right, I’m going…
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imakebuns
We've already destroyed their habitat. This is them "fighting" us back. We are the bad guys here.
MythIncarnate
Always have been.
ViscousCousCous
humans are an extinction level event
AgainstMethod
Fight *back*? We're decimating ocean ecosystems across the globe; they're the ones fighting back.
Piano440
I now live next to a fishing town on tge Oregon Coast. The fishermen arnt there because they want to be. The companies that own the fishing vessel pay them to but in the short time iv lived up here, their names have been added to the boardwalk. Fishermen lost at sea.
AgainstMethod
I don't mean anything against the guys on the boats, anymore than I judge the average coal miner. But that doesn't erase the damage done by the industry.
Piano440
But don't wish ill on the innocent endentured individuals
AgainstMethod
I don't! But I don't have to endorse their endeavor, either. I hope most of them have to find different jobs in the near future.
Vallete
Fishing boats have a pretty high carbon footprint (compared to farm fish which also has problems, so lose-lose) maybe the fish are sick of it? https://sustany.org/farmed-or-wild-caught-fish-which-is-better-for-the-environment/
CaptSheffield
Valletta, so, no fish, no meat, no plants. What's left. Must be something else we can't eat.
Vallete
See my response to knarledhalo
Sageypie
Also, a lot of fishing boats are wiping out whole oceanic ecosystems because they're using smaller meshed nets to catch smaller fish. Why are they catching the smaller fish? Because there aren't many big fish to catch. Why arent there more big fish? Because fishermen are catching all the small ones before they can grow bigger, so they end up needing smaller mesh nets to catch smaller fish, which means there aren't enough big fish, so they need even smaller mesh nets to catch....
gnarledhalo
We're damned if we do and we're damned if we don't. The best I can do is limit my consumption and try to make good choices when it comes to fish.
Vallete
All you can do. Just remember, the best thing you can eat to reduce you carbon footprint is a billionaire!
gnarledhalo