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Your Quote of the Day

 
 
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Fri 20 Sep, 2024 06:46 am
“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth.
It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here.
There's only one rule that I know of, babies - God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
~Kurt Vonnegut
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 21 Sep, 2024 11:09 am
“I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.”
― Merrill Markoe
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 22 Sep, 2024 08:16 am
“There’s nothing wrong with being an actor, if that’s what a man wants. But there’s everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue.” - Sterling Hayden
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 22 Sep, 2024 08:29 am
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Sun 22 Sep, 2024 08:44 am
@edgarblythe,
Dolphins gang rape.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 22 Sep, 2024 09:01 am
https://www.adolphinpod.com/blog/the-fallacy-of-dolphin-sexual-assault
The fallacy of dolphin sexual assault
18 Aug
Five-minute read

About 10% of the time when I tell people I love dolphins they respond with something along the lines with ‘Aren’t dolphins rapists, though?’

Sigh.

I spoke about dolphin ‘rape’ in episode two of my documentary podcast A Dolphin Pod but if you haven’t heard it I can fill you in. We as humans require consent to have sexual contact with another person. Hopefully that’s not news to you.

Animals don’t communicate in the same way that we do, and sometimes their reproductive behaviour can look somewhat alarming to us. Red garter snakes, for example. Females are pursued at high speed by up to 100 males and end up at the centre of a ‘mating ball’ in which the males take turns on her. If that happened to a human woman it would make headlines around the world.

Dolphin reproduction has similar vibes to the pulsating ball of snakes, though with a much more manageable male to female ratio. Males chase a female and have their way with her, often slapping and biting her in the process. It sounds rough, but we can’t be sure if the female is in distress or if that’s all part of the mating ritual.

Rape is a human concept that we can’t really apply to animals without outright asking them what their deal is. But what about if at least one of the partners in intercourse is human? I’m not talking about the crime* of beastiality. What about if an animal comes on to a human?

Dolphins in captivity do sometimes show sexual behaviour towards the people with which they spend their time. Depending on your view of the ethics of keeping highly intelligent and sexual beings like dolphins captive, you might see the dolphins as more of the victim in that scenario. That’s my take on it, at least.

But do dolphins assault people in the wild? Are the rumours about dolphin rape caves true? According to a fake study by a fictional scientist at a dolphin research centre that doesn’t exist - yes! I haven’t read the original paper because - again - it isn’t real. But there are countless less-than-legit websites sporting the exact same copypasta.

“Researchers studying dolphin behavior have discovered rogue packs of adult male dolphin’s gang raping swimmers in open waters. Human decoys fitted with tracking devices have been dumped in open waters and observed form a helicopter.”

Please note the incorrect spelling, punctuation and unrealistic experimental setup. What kind of funding would it take to achieve all of that? Mannequins, trackers and helicopters? Whoever made this up clearly has no idea how little money there is in dolphin research. The real gold comes in the form of a direct quote from the non-existent researcher, Scott Randleson.

“In every case the decoy was set upon in a short time by groups of dolphins ranging from 8 to 10 young males. It seems there are gangs of dolphin predators roaming the open waters looking for humans to sexually assault. The dolphins in each case were observed circling the swimmer as one of the group grabbed the swimmer with their penis and dragged them under, then the others followed.”

Yes, you read that correctly. It says the dolphins grab the people with their penises. It’s the opposite of that thing Trump said. Dolphins do have a prehensile penis, that’s true. And yes, it’s around 50 cm long, which is a hefty 20 inches. But they can’t drag you under water with it, I can all but guarantee it.

Believe it or not, but it’s the last bit of Dr Scott’s little speech that’s the least believable to me.

“The decoys never resurfaced in any of the studies. We tracked on of the decoys to an underwater cave where is had been repeatedly raped and torn apart by the dolphins.”

In the scientific world, if a study claims to have a 100% success rate we call that perfect data. Studies with perfect data cannot be trusted because there is no such thing as perfect data. There’s so much variance in the world, especially when you’re studying wild animals. You’re unbelievably unlikely to get the exact same outcome every time you run a test. Don’t trust perfect data.

In conclusion, dolphins are not rapists and there are absolutely no such thing as dolphin rape caves. Dolphins in captivity might try and cop a feel or even mount an unsuspecting trainer or guest, but that’s because they are insanely sexual beings trapped in an unnatural environment against their will.

Finally, please remember, dolphins are big non-domesticated predators and should be treated with respect and a healthy dose of caution in any situation. You have been warned.

*Sadly, beastiality is not a crime in certain countries. If you want to know where, I’m not helping you. You’re on your own, freak.

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izzythepush
 
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Reply Sun 22 Sep, 2024 11:08 am
@edgarblythe,
Not tackled the point that groups of adolescent male dolphins sexually assault female dolphins.

If rape is a purely human concept then why is there so much guff about them being hyper intelligent, like little people?

You can't have it both ways, either they're feral animals or hyper intelligent fish people.

In either event it's hardly "meek."
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 22 Sep, 2024 11:42 am
@izzythepush,
They don't organize and murder by the millions. That puts them a step above us.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 23 Sep, 2024 04:07 am
Bill Mahr speaking to actor, Henry Winkler, who is Jewish (paraphrase)—
Mahr: Israel is trying not to kill civilians. It has not been deliberate.
Winkler: Are you watching the same footage I’m watching? The killing has been indiscriminate.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 23 Sep, 2024 04:12 am
/ Frank Herbert /
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"Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses."
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 23 Sep, 2024 05:58 am
“The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.”— C. S. Lewis
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 23 Sep, 2024 09:44 pm
Allen Ginsberg on the need for seeing through the hallucination - "I remember lying in bed trembling with the responsibility, realizing that America was completely nuts! That it was our job to make some change, you know, to break through the crust of habitual thinking and begin thinking, you know, what really.. where is our heart?" -
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 25 Sep, 2024 06:19 am
“Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?”
― James Thurber
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 25 Sep, 2024 03:56 pm
A post on X:
The reason why the state of Missouri is willing to execute an innocent man is because otherwise they’d have to pay him a settlement for the wrongful imprisonment and then spend a ton of money re examining all those cases that prosecutor touched.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Fri 27 Sep, 2024 07:22 am
Everything is a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works.
- Unknown
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 28 Sep, 2024 10:14 am
In individuals insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 28 Sep, 2024 04:50 pm
"For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own - for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to The Twilight Zone."
~Rod Serling
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 29 Sep, 2024 06:53 am
“When you hate, you generate a reciprocal hate. When individuals hate each other, the harm is finite; but when great groups of nations hate each other, the harm may be infinite and absolute. Do not fall back upon the thought that those whom you hate deserve to be hated. I do not know whether anybody deserves to be hated, but I do know that hatred of those whom we believe to be evil is not what will redeem mankind.”
— Bertrand Russell, Human Society in Ethics and Politics
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 29 Sep, 2024 07:10 am
“Perhaps you are thinking: 'But a tank costs several million dollars, not including floor mats. I don't have that kind of money.'
Don't be silly. You're a consumer, right? You have credit cards, right?
Perhaps you are thinking: 'Yes, but how am I going to pay the credit-card company?'
Don't be silly. You have a tank, right?”
― Dave Barry
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coluber2001
 
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Reply Mon 30 Sep, 2024 04:50 pm
"I'm a percussionist. Noise is my business."
--Dave Hurwitz, percussionist and classical music critic on YouTube

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