One boat has been sunk and a second damaged by a pod of orcas (killer whales) off the coast of…
  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
    8·
    4 months ago

    1. Orca are dolphins.

    2. ‘So long and thanks for the fish’ was angry sarcasm as they watch us kill the works for building bypasses. So close, but,

    3. The only swimmers leaving the planet are Elons and Dons (on paper).

  • toynbee@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 months ago

    Misread that as “orcs,” prepared to change my world view, then had it roughly yanked back.

    • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
      7·
      4 months ago

      It looks like the boat belonged to some sort of sailing cooperative meant for people who can’t afford their own boat.

      At least that’s what comes up when you search for the owners of the boat that are referenced in the article.

        • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
          10·
          4 months ago

          There’s a big difference between rich and being middle class, and if you have to pay into a cooperative to afford the experience of sailing, you’re not rich.

          Do you think anyone earning above poverty wages deserves bad things to happen?

          I take it, you have no empathy then for construction workers or unionized skilled laborers.

            • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
              3·
              4 months ago

              Union construction workers and skilled laborers/tradesmen e.g. electricians, plumbers, etc., in America regularly make six figures, I imagine it’s not too different in Western Europe.

              And how many blue collar workers like that do you know? Because the ones that I know all have what you apparently consider exclusively wealthy hobbies, such as boating.

              You just looked at the picture, didn’t read the article, much less follow up on details in the article, and now you’re spinning your wheels trying to paint middle class workers in sailing cooperative as ultra wealthy.

                • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
                  3·
                  4 months ago

                  You labeled these them as being rich assholes who deserve whatever bad things that happened to them.

                  My electrician and construction worker friends will be so elated to hear that they’ve joined the ranks of Elon Musk, and every asshole hedge fund manager.

                  Would you mind creating a list of class-appropriate hobbies that they can partake in?

                  I want to make sure that if they get injured or killed doing one of their hobbies, that they won’t posthumously smeared as class traitors who deserved it.

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    Makes me wonder what the boaters were up to. Orca attacks are rare if at all and there has never been a death of a human by orca attack so far.

    Makes one wonder if they were provoked?