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  • Dasus@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneCaribou rule
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    5 hours ago

    been able to walk right up to very large “deer” species such as elk

    I completely forgot that you guys say “moose” for the biggest fellas, and thought that you just walked up to moose and try petting them and I was gonna tell you what a bad idea that is, but yeah, you mean Cervus canadensis. We don’t have elk that big. Moose, reindeer and a few different deers, basically. I guess the closest would be the white-tailed deer. I started reading that, and seeing how it’s an American species more or less, I was very confused, as I walked up to one as a kid when I didn’t live in the city. But it’s been introduced to Finland as well.

    Reindeer are fairly small. Smaller than what I feel like they look in that picture. (Perhaps it’s a small man or an odd angle. Or just a unit of a reindeer)

    https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rQj0TrKxwcY/maxresdefault.jpg

    See?


  • Well, the article says “deer”, but it’s just reindeer, and reindeer are a semi-domesticated species. All the reindeer in Lapland are owned by someone, but they’re also literally free to roam around and graze wherever. When it comes time, they gather up the tokka (collective noun for a reindeer group ~herd).

    People aren’t walking up to wild deer to paint their antlers.





  • Continuously decide to leave the status quo as it is

    You’re acting as if there’s actual democracy everywhere and changing the status quo is just a matter of deciding we want better things. You’re disregarding the practical state of democracy and literally all the activism. You’re disregarding the entire history of humanity, basically. You’re acting as if we could just have a conference call among humanity and just decide to get rid of everything bad, and if that doesn’t happen, it means that everyone is a shit selfish person.

    “The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends,” Ser Jorah told her. “It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.” He gave a shrug. “They never are.”

    Our systems literally favour psychopaths in leading positions.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackmccullough/2019/12/09/the-psychopathic-ceo/

    Give me evidence.

    Of what? People doing things to change things? How about literally all activists? Most people are too busy with their own lives to actively give up everything, but if you’re arguing that no-one is doing anything to “make things better”, that’s a position that’s very easy to prove wrong.












  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldSelective rage
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    20 hours ago

    “Blindly trusting the words of an article”

    No. Again, it’s the SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS.

    “All scientific consensus means is the agreement of the global scientific community, that’s not something you can trust, EVER, so you should listen to me, a random person online, rambling. It’s for sure gonna be more accurate, despite me having actually admitted that I don’t even understand genetics.”

    Are you smoking crack or something?

    You clearly haven’t read them. Honestly, it’s incredible that you’ve spent all this time here, when you could’ve just read them and understood why race isn’t a thing. You don’t understand the argument they’re making. You don’t understand that no such thing as a biological race exists according to the BEST understanding we have. Do you think your half-assed ideas are better than the research of THE ENTIRE GLOBAL COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT HISTORY?

    I’m not angry. I’m trying to emphasise the thing you’ve clearly missed. You don’t understand that we aren’t on an equal footing in this. You admit yourself you don’t understand genetics, yet think you can have a “discussion” about pushing your ideas which rely on not understanding genetics. If you did understand genetics, you wouldn’t hold those idiotic ideas in the first place, which is WHY YOU SHOULD READ THE STUDIES.