Ahab: "What did he call me?!"
Starbuck: "It's not worth it man, let it go!"
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We’re whalers on the moon, we carry a harpoon, but there ain’t no whales so we tell tall tales and sing this whaling tune.
While the number of actual whalers in the world has declined to just a handful of shitty people, we need to talk about what we're doing to sharks and octopuses. To say nothing of the newest research and discoveries of how complex fish broadly actually are, with complicated social structures, even languages and the capacity to feel and experience pain.
We need lab-grown proteins and need to put an end to farming sentient creatures in hellish conditions to slaughter and consume them.
Unfortunately, the chances of that becoming normal in the next several centuries is pretty slim. If our solution to the Fermi-Paradox is quarantine, we're not being let out any time soon.
For me it's about conservation of species. Many whales are still endangered and "a handful of shitty people" is all it takes to kill them unfortunately.
While animal cruelty in farms is a real issue, conservation of wildlife is infinitely more important IMO.
That being said, there are also sharks and cephalopods that are endangered :(
It’s actually really easy to just not eat meat. Just don’t. That’s all you have to do.
There are over 8 billion people on Earth, and most of them are not living near grocery stories that have protein alternatives and they view meat-eating as culture, as family connection, as celebration and deep roots through community so you're not going to change them. I would love if our world went vegan and we all became bean-eating human beans, but that day is sadly a long, long way off so I advocate for cultured meat because our species is nowhere close to what we hope it could be.
Realistically, we're going to be eating every last bug and sea cucumber and coral polyp when we've eaten everything else we can before we switch to alternatives.
Not a single vegan eats "protein alternatives". We just eat protein.
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SPLIT YOUR LUNGS WITH BLOOD AND THUNDER
WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITE WHALE
BREAK YOUR BACKS AND CRACK YOUR OARS MEN
IF YOU WISH TO PREVAIL!
THIS IVORY LEG IS WHAT PROPELS ME
HARPOONS THRUST IN THE SKY
WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITE WHALE
Shame on Japan and Denmark.
Ahab? Is that a biblical character?
Call me Fishmail.
~~In one of the later books, yeah, but its inclusion as part of the bible is a matter of some contention.~~
(Doesn't make sense the way I intended. Thanks a lot, 1 Kings 16:29, you ruin everything.)
All whale harpooners are whale bastards
Hopefully we won't need a giant space cylinder to sort things out.
Now I need to watch the Star Trek The Motion Picture, Star Trek The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek The Search for Spock, Star Trek The Voyage Home and Star Trek The Undiscovered Country all over again. It's only been like four or five months since last time. Can't be helped.
Especially Carl. But luckily for whales, Carl is a bastard because he shot a harpoon in the captain's face.
All Whale Harpooners Are Whale Bastards
AWHAB
One of them should be a sperm whale.