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[–] yesman 74 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The problem isn't that we pet birds, it's that we eat them. Or more specifically we gather them in huge, unsanitary populations in close contact with humans as they are raised and slaughtered.

This reminds me of how people think AIDS spread from other primates through bestiality, when bushmeat was the correct answer. I guess it's easier to imagine bestiality than the consequences of carnism.

*not vegan, Just finding it harder and harder to dismiss them.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago

I guess it’s easier to imagine bestiality than the consequences of carnism.

It’s because we spread HIV within our own population more commonly with sex than cannibalism

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

But domesticated birds are not good carriers of influenza, specifically. Unlime wild birds, they do get sick. Otherwise, I totally agree.

[–] Zehzin 32 points 3 days ago (6 children)

What wild birds out there letting you pet them?

[–] too_high_for_this 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The elites don't want you to know this but the ducks at the park are free you can take them home I have 458 ducks

[–] Cort 1 points 2 days ago

It's a shame passenger pigeon nets have fallen out of style. I imagine you could catch a lot of ducks with one of those

[–] Tabula_stercore 5 points 2 days ago

There are no wild birds, because there are no birds at all. You can pet the drone once the battery has run out

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You got some bread? Then many.

[–] Zehzin 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's how you get bit by a duck

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How about something more beginner friendly, like a goose or a swan?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Fucking goose

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It’s fledgling season in the northern hemisphere, and lots of fledglings don’t naturally have a ton of fear of humans. Adult birds might also ‘let’ people pet them after a window strike; they don’t always look like a bloody mess so people don’t always realize how injured they are.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Usually the ones that let you approach are the sick or injured ones

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Seen plenty on YouTube. Like crows.

[–] superduperpirate 19 points 3 days ago

Let’s just hope Randy Marsh doesn’t go fuck a pangolin again

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are you implying that pandemics are created by the government and spread by governmental drones?

[–] Opisek 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They can be enemy drones, too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Actually, foreign espionage is illegal so it cannot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

When I'm talking about the government, I'm not talking about some shadow government like the Bundesregierung of German or the president of the US. I'm talking about the deep state government

[–] hakunawazo 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Krieger! Not again!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Isn't the problem more that it's now in cows and people in the US are refusing to stop buying it? Even worse, they are buying it on purpose?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I think there it's more the ~~over~~use of antibiotics to speed up growth. Idk, I just ripped the info from a lecture. xD

[–] Iheartcheese 9 points 3 days ago

Yeah but bird.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

That's why I always give them a gentle smooch on the beak instead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Does petting corpses then, by any chance, start a …

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Depends. Did the corpse exhibit signs of motility?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sir, please stay where you are. This is the SCP. Remain calm. You will be harmed. Not. Not be harmed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Never heard of the SCP Foundation before … thanks!

*Stands still as a dead corpse*

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Thanks! I was looking for the instructions on how to start a pandemic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

isn't influenza the common cold, or am i stupid?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Here you go:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/coldflu.htm#:~:text=Influenza%20(flu)%20and%20the%20common,%2C%20parainfluenza%2C%20and%20seasonal%20coronaviruses.

You're not stupid, just incorrectly informed. And smart enough to question that. That makes you waaaay smarter than the average person.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Neither. Influenza is the flu. The common cold is caused by a variety of viruses, iirc.