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FloogleFinagler t1_jaxf1a3 wrote

Reply to comment by KrasierFrane in Terry Pratchett: Facing Extinction (2013) - Author Terry Pratchett, having been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, returns to Borneo, where 18 years earlier, he encountered wild orangutans for the first time [01:01:50] by BigJimNorton

Why so precious about it? If we can't laugh at the shit life throws at us, we might as well top ourselves.

You lot are just too wound up!

I reiterate my question, why am I so awful?

You come at me like a hoard of republicans, feeling offended and insulted by everything and you have no Idea what you are bitching about. And personal insults too? Who are the awful ones?

Keep whining and downvoting all you want, I just don't care for your irrational behaviour. Bring it on.

Oh by the way, you are all going to die, probably in ways you never considered. Don't waste time being little bitches.

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CaptainChaos74 t1_jax6g6k wrote

Reply to comment by AlliRmbrIsDrtSkyDrt in Terry Pratchett: Facing Extinction (2013) - Author Terry Pratchett, having been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, returns to Borneo, where 18 years earlier, he encountered wild orangutans for the first time [01:01:50] by BigJimNorton

Every web server I administer adds an X-Clacks-Overhead HTTP header to every response with a value of GNU Terry Pratchett (as well as the name of my own father who died way too young at 55).

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WookieWeed t1_jawmgut wrote

Reply to comment by KingJoffer in Terry Pratchett: Facing Extinction (2013) - Author Terry Pratchett, having been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, returns to Borneo, where 18 years earlier, he encountered wild orangutans for the first time [01:01:50] by BigJimNorton

Thank you for the information about the deforestation, its powerful to know exactly how they're being harmed. I was becoming frustrated wanting to learn more about orangutans plight.

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KingJoffer t1_jawlq9q wrote

Reply to comment by WookieWeed in Terry Pratchett: Facing Extinction (2013) - Author Terry Pratchett, having been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, returns to Borneo, where 18 years earlier, he encountered wild orangutans for the first time [01:01:50] by BigJimNorton

They also lose habitat from deforestation as palm tree farms are not suitable for swinging (their main method of mobility). They are forced to walk on their legs which is harmful long term, they cannot effectively find mates in forests fragmented by farmland, and they cannot get sufficient nutrients from the palm trees to survive.

I know you were just making a point about the site, just thought we should list more of the reasons.

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WookieWeed t1_jawjloa wrote

Reply to comment by slyder777 in Terry Pratchett: Facing Extinction (2013) - Author Terry Pratchett, having been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, returns to Borneo, where 18 years earlier, he encountered wild orangutans for the first time [01:01:50] by BigJimNorton

It took a lot of digging on this website to find exactly how the palm oil industry is harming orangutans.

"After palm oil plantations are established, displaced starving orangutans are frequently killed in the most brutal ways as agricultural pests when they try to obtain food in the plantation areas."

It would do a great service to their cause to come out and say this on the front page then wondering how the these orangutans are dying. It got confusing with all the logging talk and while all is bad exactly how they're being harmed is of the most concern.

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BigJimNorton OP t1_jawjg6o wrote

Reply to comment by Noir_Ocelot in Terry Pratchett: Facing Extinction (2013) - Author Terry Pratchett, having been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, returns to Borneo, where 18 years earlier, he encountered wild orangutans for the first time [01:01:50] by BigJimNorton

Yeah, Choosing to Die is my favorite one. And probably one of a handful of documentaries that has really impacted my life and how I think about death in a major way.

Highly recommended.

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