Kylo

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[Marie🌸 @ma_fe79]

Max: “He estado conduciendo distintos tipos de autos, y el fin de semana pasado (Nürburgring) me recordó lo puro y grandioso que el automovilismo puede ser, y luego regresas a F1… Incluso si nos dieras un auto rentado les daríamos un gran show, no es eso. Para mí es confuso, no es lo que F1 debería ser, es muy complicado, que está permitido, cuando estás adelante o atrás, en la vuelta de formación… todo eso es una pena que tengamos que lidiar con eso. F1 debería ser más pura. Y espero que los cambios que hagan el año siguiente sean lo mínimo necesario para volverlo más natural.”

GRÍTALO MAX

#CanadaGP

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history.

An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose.

The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life.

In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food.

Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch.

In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable.

I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

[Kylo @itz_Kylo]

@eddllllll This entire comment section is retarded.

[Ryanair @Ryanair]

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[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Solar eclipse from the cockpit of a jet plane ✈️

Truly a once in a lifetime experience.

[Kylo @itz_Kylo]

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[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

Goalkeeper Brent Stevens making his debut the same week his father died 😢

[Kylo @itz_Kylo]

@vikingslegacy22 @pepe96245360283 @1Groyper4Christ @elonmusk @grok Again… 😂😂😂😂😂

[Kylo @itz_Kylo]

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[Kylo @itz_Kylo]

@Digita1N @NioRooch We found the bot that got melted by Nio while stream sniping.

[Kylo @itz_Kylo]

@ImKniightt @NioRooch @BadBoyBeaman Oooo scary…

[Steady @DeanoGorton]

🤔👋OH look here's my Best mate

[Soph✨ @TinkerCunt_]

This is fucking class 🤩

[𝙇𝘽𝙕  @losblancoszone]

Henry with an interesting take. https://t.co/1M3YCsKbpV

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

This old timer is a comedic genius 🤣 😂

[mari🏎️ @f1brekkdown]

lewis passing the mercedes cars this year

[Frank J. Fleming @IMAO_]

Twitter needs a button that's "bring back that tweet I was just starting to read before you automatically refreshed."

[vids that go hard @vidsthatgohard]

Not gonna lie, this broke my brain for a second 😭😭😭