• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        Good job their industry doesn’t kill 217 per year guaranteeing its pathway to extinction then!

        Come on, it was fucking obvious the prior user was doing hyperbole why did you feel the need to do a smarmy correction? Extremely reddit behaviour.

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          Yes, correcting hyperbole with relevant information is bad, actually.

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            Yes? It’s a rhetorical technique, you don’t need to correct something everyone already knows is an exaggeration for effect. It’s socially inept comic book guy behaviour that is ridiculed in so many different ways.

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              You don’t need to correct something everyone already knows is an exaggeration (and I agree it doesn’t seem very socially aware to do so) but this is a political discussion on the internet, so

              1. Everyone does not know the original figure is an exaggeration, especially by how much
              2. Providing the actual information ads value to the conversation and in this context this is more important than whether the commenter comes off as smarmy or socially inept

              What if they said “Hey I know you’re being hyperbolic, but for anyone who’s interested, here’s the number estimated by experts…”?
              The only difference here is tone.
               

              I’m not sure why they only shared numbers for minke whales, as these don’t seem to be hunted anymore in Iceland in contrast to fin whales, whom the article was about.

              Global fin whale population was estimated in 2018 by IUCN to have been around 100000.
              https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/2478/50349982#population

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                Fuck me I am not reading that. Stop writing so much over a fucking exaggerated joke. Fuck off comic book guy. Please touch grass, smoke a joint, have sex, or just get some social relationships or something. Anything.

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          Well the prior user was implying that the purpose of whaling is to hunt them to extinction, which is a pretty strange policy to have for any nation. Is that actually Icelands purpose in the whale hunting, to make them extinct?

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            It’s mostly to sell to the Japanese market iirc. Not many in Iceland actually have a taste for whale. Huge waste of time and resources.

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              I’ve seen like a handful of places selling it in Iceland, and they’re all full of tourists who have it just to say they’ve had it.

              It’s not great meat by all accounts.

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        Ah. So just a couple of whale hunting seasons away from extinction.

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        Why do you guys keep talking about Minke whales?

        Read the fucking article. They’re hunting fin whales, which are considered Vulnerable.