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bleunt t1_jbs8lr6 wrote

Reply to comment by BTBAM797 in Kiska, sometimes know as the world’s loneliest orca, has died at Marineland by waitingforthesun92

Reading 1979 gave me so much fucking anxiety I want to cry. I was born in 1984, so she had been there all my life plus more.

Just to offer perspective, she was there before Jimmy Carter left office. They caught her the same year Alien and Apocalypse Now came out. Hell, it was only 10 years since we walked on the moon. And she died NOW. That's such an extended torture my mind can barely grasp it.

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ArrrGaming t1_jbs3a80 wrote

Reply to comment by cthulhus_tax_return in Dow sheds 300 points as Friday’s key jobs report looms ahead: Live updates by OMG__Ponies

> Unemployment will be low so the Fed will raise rates. Ridiculous.

If only. Many large tech companies have laid of a few hundred thousand highly paid workers, which is weird because most of those companies recorded profits, just not as much growth year after year (the horror!)

If the report this week doesn't reflect it, wait a month or two when everybody from January-March runs out of their "non-working period" and begins to collect unemployment if they haven't found a new job by then.

Unemployment isn't down. It's just not.

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EmotionalSuportPenis t1_jbs1hoh wrote

Reply to comment by Quix_Optic in Kiska, sometimes know as the world’s loneliest orca, has died at Marineland by waitingforthesun92

There are some wildlife education programs where an animal is temporarily captured from the wild, provided with highly nutritious food and extensive veterinary care, kept for a finite amount of time (usually a season or 1-2 years) to be an "animal ambassador" where people have a chance to see them, and then released back into the wild in a much stronger, healthier state than they would have otherwise been without human intervention. I think that's about the only ethical way to do something like this, but that kind of program is usually done with smallish animals like owls and rabbits, not a whole-ass pod of orcas.

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calm_chowder t1_jbrrxud wrote

Reply to comment by scout_jem in Kiska, sometimes know as the world’s loneliest orca, has died at Marineland by waitingforthesun92

2 minor pedantic notes: orcas are dolphinidea, a member of the dolphin family - not a member of what people generally are referring to when they say whales, which in common parlance refers to cetaceans with baleen (no true teeth). And they're not domesticated, which is a genetic level change over generations to make a species more amenable to humans. These animals are at best tame, which is aclimating an individual animal to humans.

On another note many people and even several countries class these animals as sentient beings and therefore most instances of their captivity is considered gross cruelty and even a crime. Even by the most lenient standards most of these animals in theme parks live in conditions which constitute torture. Many dolphinidea literally commit suicide (by willful self-induced suffocation) when forced to live in these conditions. Others go insane and may turn in to murders against their captors (such as Tilikum - who despite killing several people was clearly the victim, who very understandably snapped after years of psychological torture).

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