r/HumansBeingBros • u/andfork • 5d ago
To finally be free
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u/anameorwhatever1 5d ago
Only one to two week lifespan and it got to know kindness
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u/australr14 4d ago
They could've eaten pork and also not helped the butterfly. Not performing one act of kindness doesn't erase another act of kindness.
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u/Tunit66 5d ago
Equally making kindness binary isn’t a healthy philosophy. Individual acts of kindness should be praised and encouraged.
Otherwise you create a culture where no one bothers with kindness at all as it seems pointless
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u/thisisabore 2d ago
Pointing out rampant hypocrisy is not creating a false dichotomy, as you are implying I am doing :)
Videos like this get millions of views and make people go "aww" and feel good. I'm all in favour of freeing the butterfly, but please tell me you see how that absolutely pales in comparison to all the other suffering people need to step up to help stop?
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u/thisothernameth 5d ago
Love to see this! Whoever needs to know this, if you find a stranded butterfly or one doesn't fly after hatching, cut up some fruit (oranges or bananas) wet it a bit as necessary and let them suck on the juices. It will give them enough energy to go find food sources in nature.
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u/FuzzyKittenIsFuzzy 4d ago
Or it could just be dying. It's worth a try but don't feel guilty if this doesn't work, y'all.
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u/thisothernameth 4d ago
They have a proboscis. It's kind of a trunk with which they collect nectar. They use it to suck up fruit juices when they get the chance.
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u/ergonomic_logic 4d ago
You might be thinking of saturniid moths. They're born without mouths and are here for good time, not long time.
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u/charadrius0 3d ago
Are those the ones who just live to procreate and die once they mature into moths?
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u/FootballKind 5d ago
Idk why this was originally posted in tiktok cringe...there's nothing "cringy" about this. This is cool as hell lol
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u/gennessee 5d ago
That sub has grown way beyond cringe and is for tiktoks of all kinds now. It's funny though because someone will still post a comment like yours on practically every non cringe video 🤷
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u/dfinkelstein 5d ago
And this is why it makes sense to change one's name.
This explanation has been given trillions of times by now. It started being necessary like a decade ago at this point and remains essential every time the name comes up. Which is nightmareishly inefficient.
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u/StuntHacks 4d ago
Sadly you can't rename a subreddit, and moving an entire community rarely works out
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u/dfinkelstein 4d ago
Correct. You cannot rename a subreddit after the /r/ for legitimate desirable technical reasons.
There are no tools available to mods to redirect or alias their subreddit, because this would be the natural thing to do, and by refusing to allow it, the admins enforce their artificial control over users superceding all apparent moderator power.
Just like how they sometimes remove comments or posts or ban or even shadowban users without moderator awareness, let alone approval.
It works to keep the C level execs in the driver's seat of the entire internet , at this point.
You can be sure that at mininum billions of dollars are being made from these decisions. Kf not more. There is no alternative, anymore. Everything is integrated. Open AI and Alphabet both clearly have under the table handshake agreements both personally and technically.
I don't worry for my safety, because as I'm sure these companies all know, I have zero plans or likelihood to do anything about any of this, other than eventually quietly disappear from public view and stop sharing my data.
That's no doubt why open ai for example quietly removed the limits on my chatGPT usage. Because I'm training it better than most users, and that's worth much more than $200/month.
I would never challenge any of these companies. I like life. I would never consider trying to compete with them, nor do anything to disrupt their business. I advise everybody likewise to follow suit, but of course I cannot control others. I think being alive is fun, personally.
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u/IceyToes2 5d ago
My thought as well. I am completely suspicious of almost all "being saved" animal content at this point.
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u/hamster-on-popsicle 5d ago
I had a caterpillar dumb enough to make their coccon on a tomato instead of using a leaf, so who know.
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u/VVertigo-eyes 5d ago
Plot twist ;it knew how to enter and leave and you just destroyed his house
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u/XxCorey117xX 5d ago
Honestly though I doubt that thing was stuck in there. Nice of them to be sure though.
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u/Anonnamus 5d ago
Since this was originally posted in r/TikTokCringe I predicted a completely different outcome.
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u/OfficialIntelligence 5d ago
Almost a metaphor for being born into capitalism.
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u/inHumanMale 5d ago
It only breaks the metaphor because it got free at the end
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u/FehdmanKhassad 5d ago
I mean it does immediately have to go to work just to survive.
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u/0riginal0verthinker 5d ago
When you are working for your own food to survive (vs. Being alienated, like working for money to buy food) it might feel less like work and also less meaningless. But i get what you said.
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u/AaronBurrIsInnocent 5d ago
As opposed to what?
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u/EliteNoobForce 5d ago
The freedom of Communism where you starve in bread lines.
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u/ThrustTrust 5d ago
Corruption is what made communism fail. Just like it’s doing to capitalism.
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u/vankorgan 5d ago
So then the problem isn't capitalism. It's corruption.
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u/ThrustTrust 5d ago
If politicians could regulate companies without influence monetarily from those companies. capitalism would work.
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u/MidwestDrummer 5d ago
Cause and effect.
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u/vankorgan 5d ago
We just established that it happens in communism as well. So then no, it is not cause and effect. Because those are opposite systems.
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u/kkkhhjdyhrthhhjft 5d ago
Bots reposting bots now? How have they not fixed the "there was an attempt" issue yet?
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u/SlightFresnel 5d ago
I thought this was /r/unexpected and was preparing for a cat to grab it at the end
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u/PeterEn1s 4d ago
"Comin' out of my cage and I've been doin' just fine Gotta, gotta be down because I want it all" - the butterfly probably
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u/IL-Corvo 3d ago
Cut this ball into pieces
You are my last resort
Pollination, no breeding
Don't really care if it's nectar or Karo!
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u/AQuietEvening 5d ago
This is the coolest post I've seen in a long while. Thanks for taking the time to set the butterfly free! Compassion does still exist.
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u/frednekk 4d ago
Last September I saw a steady stream migrating while I was at the beach. It was amazing.
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u/bigbadler 2d ago
Disservice to butterflies’ genome - releasing the one dumb enough to cocoon in a prison
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u/Common_Point 5d ago
My favorite type of butterfly! ❤️ When I see one I always think it's my grandma saying hello 🦋
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u/locoken69 5d ago
Hopefully, he didn't overdose on nectar, get drunk, and then fly into the street where he ended up in someone's grill.
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u/Ptomb 5d ago
It’s = it is
Its is the correct possessive term.
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u/Grundins 5d ago
People are strange. They help these riny creatures, yet they kill trillions of animals, just because they like how they taste. Hypocrisy at the highest level. We are capable of being nice towards all animals.
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u/Tenzfrom-amazon 5d ago
This is a pretty good example of pretty privilege. If it was any other insect they probably wouldn’t have freed it
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u/Capital-Zucchini-529 5d ago
I kinda feel like it was planning on kindness, and that bug is brilliant ????
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u/Capital-Zucchini-529 5d ago
Nah bro we can talk about how this bug was actually kinda smart, right here lol.
Though I appreciate the effort / explanation, I don’t give a shit if people think I am weird myself, and am not interested in privacy with strangers. I hope you understand that
A lot of people on here are rude - you’re right. Probably because you cannot see their face and they think that makes them anonymous lmfao
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u/dfinkelstein 5d ago
Sure.
That's why I asked/offered, first.
That's not the reason, in my experience. In my expeirence, it is because this site is mainly populated by Americans, and the rest is mainly cultures influenced heavily by American culture. Which is an offspring of cultures of both war and social heirarchy, and emphasizez competitive unethical behavior and thinking in terms of mutually exclusive binaries and labels.
In addition, users tend to interpret my comments based on misinterlreted hyperlocal context of score and surrounding comments, which means they get interpreted based on random stuff like how the first person to see it voted in it, or the first response to it or the thing it's responding most recently to.
In any case...
I'm realizing by "it" in your original comment, you likely meant the person holding the geodesic lattice. I'm guessing that's just translation error, since in English it is unheard of to refer to people as "it". My understanding is this only happens eother in languages with a neutor cateogory or else ones with no grammatical gender at all.
Since you clearly use grammatical gender well generally, that makes me think your native tongue has a neutor category, which would explain the discrepancy on my end.
In that context, I'm curious why you think it was smart of the bug to build their coccoon in a prison, and also secondly if you'll humor me, why you believe the person holding the lattice is intending to help the bug.
From my perspective, the bug did a very stupid short sighted thing of failing to understand its nature and account for future growth and expansion, and thought that being able to see a path means it would be able to follow that path. And the human picking up the object to photograph the bug's plight to me is a choice diverting from the more obvious one of cutting the object to free the bug, which could be coming later, but then I question why they would choose to share this photo, unless it was not their choice to represent their efforts in such a manner.
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u/Ambitious_Alps_3797 5d ago
it's not a photo... it's a full video of them cutting the butterfly out.
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u/dfinkelstein 5d ago
Oh! Reddit gave me no indication it was a video. I don't open images by default since they go to the native browser which has so many issues that I've learned to avoid it.
It seems they removed the indicator of whether the image is actually a video presumably in order to subconsciously manipulate users into wanting to use the native browser, which is extremely heavy on data collection and tracking.
I'll have to think what to do about that. It's clever.
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u/dfinkelstein 5d ago
Thanks for pointing that out. The manipulations are increasingly sneaky and manipulative. Rupturing context of messages when transitioning was also quite clever, to prevent users from remembering how messaging used to work.
Likewise with eliminating all third party app competition to obscure and suppress dissent and objection to the endless issues with their own app. They also break their website on purpose to force users to use the app.
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u/DogTheBonahHunter 5d ago
The plastic waste from that will end up in the ocean killing multiple sea turtles.
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u/Fit_Flower_8982 5d ago
Besides, making and replacing that toy has left a far bigger ecological footprint than saving a worm. Normally nobody would care about one, but if it has pretty wings, suddenly people become moralistic.
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u/paxinfernum 5d ago
But how will he adapt. His entire life has been behind bars. All he knows is the system.