• @einlander
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    2 months ago

    Look at these aristocrat birds with their winter homes.

    • @[email protected]
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      562 months ago

      Alternatively, they are homeless and have to keep moving to avoid the coppas. 🐦➡️👮

    • @Caesium
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      62 months ago

      bougie birds

    • @[email protected]
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      52 months ago

      The human versions also call themselves snowbirds. The rich ones mostly fly somewhere “nice”. Train kids and modern hobos hitch a ride to a more hospitable climate. The likes of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas travel in corporate-funded luxury RVs. The Sonora Desert is full of the same assholes fucking up Florida. They see “desert” and think it’s a wasteland, instead of a functioning ecosystem.

    • @SmoothOperator
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      642 months ago

      I think the bluer bird is younger, not knowing that summer ends, and being even more surprised that this involves immense journeys

    • @LordKitsuna
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      72 months ago

      Pretty sure it’s just supposed to be one of those how is it already this late in the year type things

    • @Donkter
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      72 months ago

      I think the joke is kind of like the talking muffin joke. One bird sees a leaf changing color and apparently has a pattern recognizing brain enough to identify that summer is ending and remembering from last year that that means they’ll have to fly south.

      The other bird is a bird and it’s a miracle he recognized that the leaf changed color from day to day. He probably doesn’t even remember what migration is, it’s all instinct.

  • @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    I remember when I was a kid and was waiting for the holidays to come. I couldn’t read a calendar and could barely tell the time, so I just went through this bored/depressive period every single day for what seemed like an eternity until suddenly the holidays came.

    I knew it existed, just had no concept of time.

  • @[email protected]
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    242 months ago

    This recalls a forgotten memory. Some adult/teacher was explaining that birds (in general) go north for the winter. We’re midway up somewhere in the northern hemisphere. I was maybe 6 and just couldn’t grasp why birds would go north in the winter toward colder weather. The adult went off on a condescending rant about having to repeat themself and migratory patterns and birds being birds. I still know very little about birds.

    • Gloomy
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      212 months ago

      It’s such a shame. Children have so much curiosity for the world.

      Adults should realy nourish that, not kill it.

      I’ve worked with children in that age range (6 and older) and it’s realy crazy what they come up if you give them a bit of room to experiment with their ideas.

    • @[email protected]
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      72 months ago

      “Birds fly south for the winter” was the second example I remember of my classmates having only learned things with northern hemisphere bias after moving to the northern hemisphere.

      The first was my classmates not grasping that while it was spring here, it was autumn back home.

  • @bamfic
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    122 months ago

    Say what one more time. I dare you. I double dare you.