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 absolute damn fucker!”, 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!
When the seagull came back, I gave it something nice to eat, because, damn, flying rat or not, that was a cool move! And I happened to have something seagull compatible, not just some bread that will do more harm than good.
What was it? A plastic 6-pack ring?
Hopefully a good time instead. Seagulls love MDMA.
You need to do a children’s book inspired by those three paragraphs
i once saw some ducks with a bunch of midsized babies and some more tiny babies 💖☺️
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.
Commie birds
Someone on Lemmy is going to suggest exterminating the tankie ducks now.
More-ganser
magenser.
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.
I think you need to go outside and look at some wildlife or something.
But not ducks, clearly
I was going to comment that this comment is going to draw in antinatalist weirdos but I am beaten to the punch. Lemmy has a weird overgrown community of people who are exactly as hateful as the densest MAGA blockheads but in entirely different directions, it’s wild how easily hate seeps into people about the oddest things.
Hey, the world is beautiful, do what the other user suggested and go out and experience it.
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.
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 and immerse yourself in the world.
Also undead nightmare is unironically one of the more unique takes on zombies. Not necessarily because they do anything particularly interesting with the zombies themselves but moreso because the closest thing to zombie Western I know of is a bug in the PS3 version of Fallout: New Vegas where an infinitely spawn of ghouls can occur at the test site. Never been able to replicate it on PC and I don’t know if it was specific to me or not.
I can’t tell if you hate ducks or are simply a pro-natalist
That’s an impressively incorrect reading of the comment.
Can’t see any other point they were making then. Unless they are just trying to call hypocrisy towards folks thinking animals having lots of babies is cute while humans doing the same is bad. Because if that is the point that’s missing so much fucken context that if it was a physical object it’d be a fucken mountain range, mostly because most animal babies die pretty fucken often. From experience chicks alone have like a 60 percent mortality rating if humans aren’t directly involved in taking care of them, roosters apparently love to eat chicks.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding, because it looks like the duck had 1 baby, then adopted 20 others.
Obviously ducks are cuter than humans.
Not sure why you think someone hates ducks.
Because the way they wrote their comment is often times used to draw direct comparison and critique between two different things. It’s basically the meme of the two castles fighting each other with text like “our glorious leader” vs “their ignoble tyrant”. But then again I am very much in favor of death of the author so two different interpretations of a single work can exist once published, I think that can apply to a comment.
They’re saying that “more babies = more success” is a funny and cute idea when expressed by a cartoon duck, but is extremely harmful when expressed by humans in the real world. I honestly can’t imagine how you reached your interpretation of the comment because it seems to have very little in common with anything they said.
But if she found more baby rather than “make”, doesn’t that imply adoption?
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.
I think you are mistaken. People who want children often want their own children; people who want a lot of children want children theirs or others
