Capitalists when they fucking destroy nature and there's nothing left to pillage:

:shocked-pikachu:.

There's a very strong possibility at least some of the snow crab population went further north + west into colder parts of the bering sea owned by Russia / Canada.

  • BoldTake [e/em/eir, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    most of the crabs could very much still be alive and actually just went further north / west into the colder parts of the bering sea owned by Russia and Canada.

    Any crabs that did stick around were likely killed as bycatch by trawler fisheries chasing larger fish that have also moved further north due to climate change.

    Americans literally climated changed themselves out of billions in crab murder money lol

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      most of the crabs could very much still be alive and actually just went further north / west into the colder parts of the bering sea owned by Russia and Canada

      :ooooooooooooooh: MY CRABS BEEN STOLED BY PUTLER

    • rubpoll [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      The TNO mod for HOI4 features America and Japan starting a nuclear holocaust over fishing rights to shrimp, funnily enough.

      • BoldTake [e/em/eir, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Unsurprised ghouls would lose it over which group or capitalists gets to pillage part of the earth.

        :agony-shivering:

      • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        HOI4 sounds like it has tons of cool shit and modding community. I really wish it was my type of game, I like hearing about it, but for the life of me I can't get into those types of games. I use to play regular RTS games a lot but I've also lost interest in then.

        Do you know of any good youtubers who do good HOI4 content? I'd probably watch some of that at least

        • barrbaric [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          TNO doesn't use the actual game mechanics much, depending on the nation you play. It's much more about reading the 9,000 text events, so you might still enjoy it.

        • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          if you wanna get into a paradox game and like dungeons and dragons I recommend looking into Anbennar because it's p. cool

    • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      crab murder

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      • BoldTake [e/em/eir, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        You are rolling your eyes at that phrasing in a thread about the ecological collapse caused by viewing other animals as disposable. okay.

        :vegan-liberation:

        • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          crabs literally do not even have a nervous system more complex than a simple ganglion so the take that it is "murder" is even more extreme than 99% of vegans' opinions, it is on the level of fucking Jains sweeping the path in front of them to not step on a bug. kill a roach? OMG MURDER. 🙄

          • BoldTake [e/em/eir, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            the ecological collapse of an entire species of animal because of human greed feels like a form of murder to me.

            there is also a big difference between a Jain sweeping the path in front of them and being against the mass trawling of industrial fishing fleets.

            It's unfortunate your hatred of vegans seems to be greater than your care for the environment.

            • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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              2 years ago

              you can be against trawling and be against eating crabs without calling it fucking "murder" and trying to characterize the death of a fucking crab as equitable to the death of a human, but okay :shrug-outta-hecks: believe whatever weird shit you want

              • BoldTake [e/em/eir, comrade/them]
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                2 years ago

                That's wonderful to hear you are against trawling and eating crabs. How do you feel those beliefs extend to the fishing industry as a whole?

                • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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                  2 years ago
                  1. I don't eat fish or any seafood shit tastes like ass

                  2. killing a fish still isn't murder

                  3. hate to break it to you but the oceans are gonna die anyway and then we're all dead too

          • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            If you start from a framework that sees ecological systems (including animals and populations) as inherently valuable, and proceed from there, you'll probably end up making better environmental decisions than if you ask "how many neurons does it have?" and moving from there.

            • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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              2 years ago

              if you start from a framework of not using whatever words you vibe with and understand how incredibly fucking annoying and insulting it is to see things like "crab fishing" compared to "the holocaust" you'd probably make better propaganda decisions for your cause

              • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                Definitely. Radicals get more mileage talking like normal people. I still take issue to the way your comment devalued crabs.

          • Mardoniush [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            Ganglion is kind of a misnomer when dealing with Arthropods, these are very complex structures and the Dorsal cluster is generally referred to as a brain.

            There is some good evidence that the neuronal structures responsible for subjective experience (as opposed to sapience) is pretty basal and at least some Arthropods have it. Certainly my own experience keeping insects has shown they have individual likes and preferences.

            I'm not vegan and I don't think overfishing of crabs is equivalent to killing "higher" vertebrates, but there does seem to be at least some moral value attached here.

            • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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              2 years ago

              you first

              I was gonna walk away from this shit but y'all sound real fucking eco fascist with this "killing a crab = killing a human" shit, fuck off

          • Yeat [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            a human purposely ending another living creature’s life isn’t murder?

            also crabs can absolutely feel pain

            • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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              No it's not fucking murder, there are a dozen words for killing something and choosing the one word used for killing a fucking person doesn't mean it's appropriate for a crab because you feel it is. Stop talking to me.

              Edit: I don't even eat crabs you fuck, disengage

              • Yeat [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                hence why they said “crab murder”

              • itsPina [he/him, she/her]
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                2 years ago

                :LIB:

                How'd you even find this site

                Imagine getting so worked up over your defense of treats

                • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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                  2 years ago

                  Oh my god will you people fuck off

                  "Defense of treats" I DON'T EVEN EAT CRAB AND SAYING IT ISN'T MURDER ISN'T THE DEFENSE OF EATING CRAB

                  FUCK OFF

                  DISENGAGE

              • Yeat [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                also i’ve never seen someone so bent out of shape over simple semantics. your response to someone talking about the MURDER of crabs is to have a meltdown on the hexagon bear website over the usage of what word they used to describe that MURDER and be like “um akshually they barely have a nervous system :so-true: “ in order to defend your treats is extremely reactionary. and using phrases like “x isn’t __ just because you feel like it is” really invokes that facts over feelings type bs so i really can’t tell if you’re a wrecker or someone so deep into their own carnist beliefs that they’ll go ballistic and and whine and cry in order to defend said MURDER.

                us humans share the world with other animals, we don’t rule them or dominate over them and aren’t “superior” to them. the premidated killing of another living creature is murder, simple as that. if i came to your home and murdered your pets (i feel like i should clarify i’m not this is a hypothetical) and planned it out before i executed it, and someone said “hey i’m sorry someone murdered your pets” would you really stop them and be like “um akshually it’s not murder :so-true: “ lmfao. and using the u.s. legal definition of murder is hilarious considering the u.s. legal definition of a black person used to be that of 3/5 a white person and the gop is working on changing the legal definition of a fetus to a person essentially, which is are extreme examples i know but cmon lmao not the best resource to draw from.

  • BoldTake [e/em/eir, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Additional twitter thread from someone else with a history of the Alaskan snow crab collapse:

    https://nitter.net/unpop_science/status/1581660239501283329

    TL;DR: It is likely also due to extensive fishing. The fishing industry destroyed itself and the ecosystem.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      You mean when you scoop up all the sea life there is no more sea life? :shocked-pikachu:

          • fox [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            The first movie was straight up caused by underpaying and overworking employees, and all the rest, idk, if you can build a novel dino genome maybe don't include the parthenogenesis genes in there

    • innocentlurker [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      You also mean when you warm all the oceans cold-water adapted animals perish and migrate to colder waters? :shocked-pikachu:

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    There’s a very strong possibility at least some of the snow crab population went further north + west into colder parts of the bering sea owned by Russia / Canada.

    Breaking news from the future

    2025 GOP President Ghoul declares war on Canada demanding an immediate surrender and that "They give us our crabs back!"

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Come on, the Democrats are ghouls, the GOP are liches. Except for Manchin who looks set to go demi lich and have his skull start flying around any day now.

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    red king crab distribution and productivity appear to be related to bottom temperature

    :bottom-speak:

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This is so incredibly black pilling for me. I grew up in the pacific north west. What's the point of saving the world if the world we save is dead?

    • BoldTake [e/em/eir, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      We can save the world before we lose more. Otherwise we're looking at even more mass die off events if capitalism goes unchallenged.

      It's a dark scenario, but there is a lot of bloomer energy to be found in the knowledge of how many we can save.

    • sexywheat [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      The Earth is going to be just fine. It will not be dead.

      Life on Earth has lived through 5 mass extinction events already. It will survive through more.

      What we need to worry about is the ecological systems that we humans depend on for life which are at risk.

      If you're up for new reads, this book I found to be very reassuring and gives me a lot of hope for the future.

  • 100th [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Russia stole em;!!

    Also this thread is on its way to a struggle session

  • anadyr [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This is the first of many to come right? :desolate: