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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 147 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Dude that author should be ashamed of themselves. How could you report on the topic and NOT provide a pic? Geesh.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So they stretch it over their fin or what, how is it staying on

[–] mrunicornman@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago

Through sheer audacity

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking, perhaps by sucking through the blowhole, but I haven't looked it up yet so don't trust me

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Does the blowhole do in? Would that not make it a suckhole? I am admittedly ignorant in whale anatomy.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I thought the blowhole had reverse ?? like, this is what they breathe in through, isn't it ?

Apparently yes : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowhole_(anatomy)

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah it definitely must be, here I am thinking they're mouth breathers.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It can go from suck to blow.

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[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A jaunty chapeau! Perched just so!

[–] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

*Salmoned just so!

(perch are too freshwater for this trend)

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 6 points 6 months ago

In my experience, finding a relevant image in an online article is a 50-50

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago
[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

She had style! She had flair! She was there...

That's how she became- the Orca!

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 81 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Makes sense. Fashion is cyclical.

[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

Yeah, these young orcas today think they know it all. Always vandalizing yachts, and harassing the poor seals. I'm like just eat your food. Stop flinging it around.

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 38 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This for some reason made me think of Anya Taylor Joy

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

She could definitely pull of the look..

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 34 points 6 months ago
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's a sign. People are going to start planking again.

[–] heckypecky@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

Plot twist it was the salmon all the time

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 26 points 6 months ago

Only 80s orcas will understand it.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm almost certain orcas have near human level intelligence but because of their lack of suitable appendages, this is their only way to show it.

They are trying to talk to us and we are too stupid to listen.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 36 points 6 months ago

"near human level intelligence" well, they are smarter then the average US citizen, that's for sure. I prefer to wear a dead salmon as a hat a million times over voting for Trump. It's the smarter choice. Orca's are like dolphins:

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 18 points 6 months ago

"oh, so we stopped being weird and y'all still made anti planet governments in charge? okay. then we're going back to being weird and violent. fuck you"

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They’re trying to show us the destruction we’re causing

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Jailbreak from the factory farm. "Quick, no time to explain! Pretend you're my hat!"

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

The Pixar film nobody asked for, but really needed.

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 3 points 6 months ago

Skibidy Salmon dum! dum! dum! yes! yes!

[–] Pheral@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

'90's fashion is making a comeback here too, but damn... Didn't expect that to extend to the ocean

[–] tragicinfo@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Its called fashion, look it up.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's spelled "fission" and has nothing to do with salmon hats...

/s

[–] Juice@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You'll change your tune when orcas develop infinitely renewable cold fusion, and salmon hats are the direct precursor to this discovery

[–] Mim@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

So it's not just humans who are into the 80s…

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 4 points 6 months ago

It'll be the latest trend at the Orca's this year.

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

Fashion is cyclical, as they say.

[–] tragicinfo@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Its not a phase mom

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fish being cruel to eachother, it's the same everywhere.

[–] Blum0108@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well, they are technically fish. Just like we and all other tetrapods are

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's basically impossible to have a complete phylogenetic tree of bacteria and how they relate to eachother vs how they relate to common ancestors with the original eukaryotes let alone multicellular complex life. Prokaryotes as far as I know are seen as being a completely different branch more related to eachother than any eukaryotes so no, not really. Fish are a much more problematic group to exclude tetrapods from because bony fish like trouts, tuna etc are significantly more closely related to the tetrapods than either are to sharks and the other cartilagenous fish, all of which are more closely related to eachother than to the jawless fish like hagfish and lampreys.

Tldr, if both trout and sharks are fish then monophyletically people also fall under the category of "jawed fish"

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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Jesus christ, I've been hearing about these fuckin' salmon hats all week

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

This is big news!