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[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago
[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 96 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is mammal propaganda!

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

of course it's attacked by avian propagandist without proof to the contrary

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 19 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Penguins don't force their children to fly.

Checkmate, atheists!

[–] starik@lemmy.zip 8 points 9 hours ago

Penguins are birds that are trying to evolve into mammals. Commendable.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

My atheist ways have proven to be wrong. I am now a firm believer in penguin Jesus

[–] protist@retrofed.com 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

When resources are scarce, birds will literally push the weakest chick out of the nest to increase the survival chance of the rest. They'll keep going too, and kill them all if they have to

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Loads of mammals will do that.

Bears, for example.

Hell. Some seals just leave their kids on the ice.

Possums are so smooth brained their kids fall off and mum just keeps the bus rolling. Tasmanian devils, too.

And hippos just forget their kiddos are even there and trample them.

And that’s not even mentioning the crazy shit humans get up to

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Cats famously do this to runts

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I have kittens on the way. I am... pretty stressed out

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 37 points 1 day ago (3 children)

h/t P D Eastman, whose books I have read like 16,000,000 times after having children

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How did the crocodile egg get in the nest?

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 21 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

A boy found the egg laying on a path. He was surrounded by turtles, alligators, and a bunch of other non-bird animals that also lay eggs. But he assumed it was a bird egg, found the nearest bird nest, put it in, and thought he had done a Good Deed.

What a maroon

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago

A macaroon, even!

[–] silver@das-eck.haus 9 points 23 hours ago

This book went hard when I was 4

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago

That's one hell of an egg

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Reptile: mom? Mom where are you!?

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 6 points 19 hours ago

Alligator mom: "Yurr ein my mouf, idiot"

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sharks, with hungry babies hatching inside them: “WELCOME TO THUNDERDOME!”

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

That’s racist.

[–] erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 30 points 23 hours ago

And these vicious sods, throwing their babies at predators. Look into the face of true evil.

[–] its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] muhyb@programming.dev 34 points 1 day ago

Tell that to giraffe

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

TIL my parents are birds

[–] Elilol@fedinsfw.app -1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

1-Europe
2-Asia
3-USA
4- South America

[–] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Isn't the US infamous for being one of the only countries where once you hit 18 your parents expect you to fuck off?

And if you don't, everyone belittles you for living in your parent's basement?

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

And if you don't, everyone belittles you for living in your parents' basement?

In more individualistic countries, that is the case. Living with parents and relatives is common in more family-oriented cultures. Even in Europe, the mostly Catholic countries still have people living with their parents. But for Protestant and individualistic European countries, they will judge you harshly for it.

I have to say though, I find that some people who expect anyone over 25 to even move out are a bit simple minded considering the cost of living crisis. You have to have a good job to afford to move out. It is unrealistic these days for many people to do so because of housing crisis. Heck, even with a good job and good pay, the current expensive economic situation mitigates all those advantages! I had a manager who still lives with her parents. My best friend still lives with his parents as well, long after he turned 18and working for many years now. And the more simple minded individuals expect the old ways to still be applicable, but those same individuals actually don't have savings, unlike people who still live with their parents.

Ideally people should move out of home because it is part of growing up and maturing, but the current exploitative system prevent most of us to fulfill our own potential.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Someone else already replied well, but I wanted to add that we're not entirely homogenous, either. Southern US culture still has multigenerational homes as a normal thing. It isn't the majority, but nobody really bats an eye in the South or Appalachia if you live in a home (or on piece of property with multiple dwellings) with your parents, grandparents, some cousins, an aunt or two, and that dude you brought over to dinner once that moved in at 14 when your parents found out his parents were shitty to him.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 20 hours ago

Yes they do lol

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 6 points 22 hours ago

Not as true as it used to be I don't think. But yes it has that reputation.

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

18 is when legal parental requirements end, but like … only shitty people do that.

Its prevalence in media belies how little that kind of thing actually happens IMO.

[–] Elilol@fedinsfw.app 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I get it for Americans, most go live at the college, and then they don't go back to their parents.

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

After college, which some people go away to, most kids end up back home unless they found a job or established a life elsewhere.

[–] Elilol@fedinsfw.app 0 points 7 hours ago

Is it so hard to find a job?

In Venezuela they just raised the montly minimun wage from 0.13$ to 240$ for the first time in YEARS and basic food for 2 adults and a child is like 800$ a month.

We are VERY unprepared.

[–] callyral@pawb.social 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

i'm brazilian and i don't think so, but it depends on the parents i guess

[–] Elilol@fedinsfw.app 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

At what age you move our parents house?

[–] prof_tincoa@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

Move out? Lol

Sometimes we build a new room in our parents house, which already look like an architectural jigsaw puzzle, and keep living there. É só fazer um puxadinho.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Looks like you triggered some people. Can you elaborate on South America? Is it from personal experiences?

[–] prof_tincoa@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

Less triggered and more annoyed at the inaccuracy. It's not uncommon for one kid to live with their parents until the end. Nothing like the last panel.

[–] Elilol@fedinsfw.app 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

We go out of our parents houses when we marry if we ever do, otherwise it's hard to rent or own unless someone's dies assuming they're home owners.. sometimes we live in the family homes all of our lives.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 20 hours ago

I don't see how that fits the meme.

I think 4 is the American system where a lot of parents expects kids to move out the moment they turn 18.