i once saw some ducks with a bunch of midsized babies and some more tiny babies 💖☺️
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QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Mallard ducks in particular seem to take the view that as long as someone’s looking after the ducklings, it doesn’t really matter whose is whose.
scratchee@feddit.uk 1 day ago
In cartoon ducks: overly simplistic but cute, naive, and innocent
In humans: pronatalism. weird disgusting pseudo colonial bullshit that’s the dark mirror to “just” wanting kids.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I think you need to go outside and look at some wildlife or something.
JetpackJackson@feddit.org 1 day ago
But not ducks, clearly
ameancow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I was going to comment that this comment is going to draw in antinatalist weirdos but I am beaten to the punch.
Hey, the world is beautiful, do what the other user suggested and go out and experience it.
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 23 hours ago
Anti-natalism is such a wild and depressing position to have. It’s not just not wanting kids personally, or even just not wanting to be around kids, but that giving birth is immoral and horrendous.
I don’t really plan to have kids myself, but I have a nephew and he is so amazing and my sister is doing an amazing job raising him.
I’ve heard (well, read) from one anti-natalist that thinking children are wonderful to be around is akin to cult language. As if anti-natalists don’t sound like they are in a cult themself.
Thank you for coming to my TedTalk
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But if she found more baby rather than “make”, doesn’t that imply adoption?
scratchee@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
True. Lots of pronatalists tend towards eugenics, so doubt they’re huge fans of adoptions.
OTOH, even nurture-over-nature pronatalists would be problematic. “I’m better than everyone else so I should have an outsize impact on the next generation by adopting as many children as possible” is only slightly better than the eugenic variant.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I can’t tell if you hate ducks or are simply a pro-natalist. Regardless go watch a movie or play a game or something, may I suggest Red Dead Redemption? It’s currently on sale on steam.
BlackDragon@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I can’t tell if you hate ducks or are simply a pro-natalist
That’s an impressively incorrect reading of the comment.
nomy@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Just hopping in to say that the RDR franchise is great and worth the money.
I’ve spent so many hours just riding around hunting or collecting herbs. One of the few games you can genuinely turn off your brain off and immerse yourself in the world.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 19 hours ago
No one else said, and it seems like you’re catching on, but it needs saying out loud: today, you suck.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
magenser.
thru_dangers_untold@lemmy.world 1 day ago
More-ganser
Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
I think I saw her once, actually! A crow was harassing one of the small ones – it looked like it was trying to catch it to eat, probably?
A seagull saw what’s going on and went full-blown “I’m a parent as well, you bastard!”, and chased the crow away. And really not just a few tens of metres away or so, but really chased them away from the whole general area where the mom with really cool hair was swimming with her family!
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Crows are complex, though. The ones that live around my house can often be found ganging up and chasing away the red-tailed hawks that like to snack on the squirrels. The squirrels repay the favor by chasing off the crows who come to eat the peanuts I leave out for them (and eating the peanuts themselves). One time the crows flew around above me making a godawful racket until I went to the back yard and freed a baby raccoon that had accidentally gone into the box trap I leave out for groundhogs; they immediately flew off as soon as I let the little guy out.
Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 21 hours ago
Crow are generally awesome! I’ve only ever met one that I really didn’t like. Want to read a story featuring that one? 🙃
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
What was it? A plastic 6-pack ring?
MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Hopefully a good time instead. Seagulls love MDMA.
Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 21 hours ago
Something even more seagull-compatible than that. I don’t remember what food I happened to have with me, because this happened some, 5-ish years ago? (It also was not a surgical mask, BTW!)
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
You need to do a children’s book inspired by those three paragraphs