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bubba7557 t1_j7zjxrp wrote

Reply to comment by ma2412 in Killer whale moms are still supporting their adult sons — and it's costing them by RestSnorlax

Yeah it wasn't great. BUT I also was making some poor choices. I had turned down college scholarship offers and didn't apply to college because I didn't want to leave the city where my gf lived. Instead I'd gotten a job at a steel mill and was spending most of my time smoking weed and working. My mom's rationale was, you don't want to go to college fine, but I'm not paying for your housing. You have a job, go be a real man if you think that's the life you want. I did that for about a year and realized real work, real bills, real life was damn hard and I'd rather be back in college where it was reading books and parties even if it was far from that gf I had. So in a year I went back to college and my mom graciously began helping me with housing bills again so I could focus on school. A little bit of a harsh lesson but it pointed me where I needed to go. I just needed a year of being stubborn to figure that out myself.

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FuqLaCAQ OP t1_j7z704y wrote

Reply to comment by transientrans in Kansas City Chiefs Mascot Wants To Be 'The Hands And Feet Of Jesus' by FuqLaCAQ

It's not just this guy.

The Kansas City Chiefs are basically an Evangelical cult, and I imagine a substantial proportion of their fanbase is oblivious to this fact.

And frankly, I don't blame them: fandom is probably more fun that way.

https://sportsspectrum.com/sport/football/2020/01/18/kansas-city-chiefs-ceo-clark-hunt-identity-faith-christ/

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diagnosedwolf t1_j7z3no7 wrote

Reply to comment by Paradox_Dolphin in Killer whale moms are still supporting their adult sons — and it's costing them by RestSnorlax

> Obviously, they have no concept of the fact that a hairless land ape was causing all of this destruction

I wouldn’t be so sure of this. Whales are known to not only understand the impact humans have on their lives, they have changed intergeneral behaviour because of it.

There is a species of whale that used to sing loudly in the Arctic. It was heavily hunted in the 1800s, and thought to be extinct for a while in the 1900s because it wasn’t seen or heard for decades. Only when recording devices were left behind did the whales get “rediscovered”.

It turned out that the whales had straight-up learnt that humans were hunting them in boats, so they went quiet and hid when they perceived human presence. They taught their children how to do this, and every generation since.

Studies with other species of whales showed that they can perceive the difference between a research boat and a whaling ship.

TLDR: whales understand an awful lot

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