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[–] [email protected] 20 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I mean I can tell the jellyfish apart from the plastic bag in this example, so maybe those turtles just need glasses.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You're outside the water now. You have get inside the water then try to find the difference.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

glub glub glub glub

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago

I can tell the jellies are on the right and that they're in the genus Aurelia. Seems like a skill issue

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Instead of shooting up schools imagine if Americans shot up industrial sources of litter

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

We had one of those near Buffalo NY.

It was totally unrelated to litter, but...

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago

How do the turtles open the jars?

This is fucked up, the scientists ought to know turtles can’t operate jars.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

im all for getting rid of single use plastics and returning to sustainables like paper and glass. metals have their own issues like expense, and oxidation.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Thats alot of semen

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Save jellyfish by polluting the oceans with plastic

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Save the trees, eat the beavers!

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If I was a hungry sea turtle, I would simply eat the jellyfish instead of the plastic.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If I was a hungry sea turtle, I'd open the jars to check which one of them has jellyfish inside.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If I was a hungry sea turtle, I'd just order a pizza.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Cheating according to wh—oh, darn, shrink-wrap license strikes again

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Be a rebel by also doing your best to avoid the trash in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And most importantly, work to disassemble the systems that normalize and support the production of the wasteful and toxic materials we now call trash.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are you suggesting that we should burn down companies and factories? Cuz I'd never agree to meet you at a specific time and place so that we could disassemble the means of production and effectively delete entire toxic cogs of the economy.

In fact, tell me precisely where and when you plan on meeting so that I can definitely avoid you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

i would NEVER suggest burning down factories, as those can be quite easily reconfigured to produce useful things or simply be converted into quite nice neighbourhoods.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Reduce, reuse, recycle, revolt

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Save the turtles but fuck these jellyfish. we will just put them in a jar for our display.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

To be fair, we currently have an overpopulation of jellyfish due to both the decline of turtles and raising sea temperatures, so if anything, this is helping.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That would hurt tho

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep for some species it's their main food source

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

huh. live and learn.

i guess for other species it's pizza?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Only while they're adolescent.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

You need the calories for the growth spurt, also to keep up with the ninja training

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The answer seems obvious. Introduce the turtles to Kraft Mac and Cheese. Its better than jellyfish and still comes in a paperboard box.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mac and cheese? How do you not know turtles love pizza?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

The ones that moved to NYC, maybe. But no one likes soggy, salt-watered crust.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Instructions unclear, I'm crying uncontrollably

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Now imagine you're a hungry sea turtle.

I already do that every day. What's next?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

The soft calls of the quetzals wake you. You're finally free. The idea of ragebaiting and news of the American Election Cycle is nowhere to be found.

The warm Caribbean sun shines on your shell, maybe a bit too warmly. Time for a dip in the ocean and maybe a light snack.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

People that litter are human trash.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Wow that's gotta be a record for fastest evolutionary change in response to man made disasters. Good work jellyfish!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

It's really easy to tell the difference. The jellyfish is the one that hurts you immediately when you try to swallow it and the plastic bag is the one that causes problems in 1.5-3 minutes with catastrophic problems around 10 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Lets make bags out of jellyfish!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

bro if im hungry the last thing i want is a jellyfish

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

I know right. Imagine the horror: you are about to eat a tasty platic bag, but you realize it's actually a jellyfish

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Turtle is ging to szay hungry. It can open neither of them, because it's missing those precious opposable thumbs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those sickos bottle up the food for the sea turtles and now they're gonna starve!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

The point is that they'll sell the bottles to the turtles. The turtles are gonna have to work to earn it. For dozens of millions of years they've been freeloading, receiving handouts from the sea. They're finally gonna contribute to the economy.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 22 hours ago

I'm not as dumb as this dumb turtle suffocating in american

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Also imagine being in the water with all those jellyfish the turtle didn't eat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Easy. Replace the turtle with more plastic bags.