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[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

People gonna see this and move to Antarctica, only to find out you can't pet the penguins. We're here just to suffer.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

You can absolutely pet the penguins. Just, don't. As far as king and emperor penguins go, anyway, the adult ones have no land predators so they're pretty much completely unfussed about people approaching them.

Another thing, though. People see an African penguin or an Adelie or similar at a zoo and they think all penguins are little cuddly football sized waddlers. I imagine most people would be completely unprepared for the sheer scale of an adult emperor penguin:

And if you mess with the penguins, you're messing with me.

[-] hoch@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

MEGA PENGUIN

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

You probably shouldn't, but you definitely can. Law enforcement is pretty sparse. As long as you don't bring witnesses or record your crime, you can pet penguins at will. Again, you shouldn't, because it's not good for the penguins.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Hopefully the Venn diagram of people who want to pet penguins and people who care that it hurts the penguins is a circle.

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I hope so, too, and there's a good chance of it. It's not very common to accidentally wander into Antarctica. I believe it's population has the highest percentage of PhDs of any continent, most of them in science. While I realize that doesn't guarantee beneficence, I feel like it goes a long way.

[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 months ago

Add a circle for people who cant (or wont) atop that too, just to be sure.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

You shouldn't, but you can

Don't tell the wealthy.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Oh, for sure. Do tell the wealthy they can pet the emperor penguins as long as they are completely alone with them.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery 10 points 2 months ago

Penguins are real?
I thought that was just the Linux continent.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Actually, Linux isn't real, it's just a fictional part of the penguin lore

[-] Evil_Shrubbery 1 points 2 months ago

Nooo!!!

My Hannah Montana penguin is just a product of by imagination!!

[-] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 months ago

Shouldnt pedophiles include Florida???

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

I, too, have my doubts about the validity of this map. As a narcotrafficking penguin, I feel like these borders should be more like gradients.

[-] AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

Hey give OP a break, it’s hard to draw accurate lines on a phone

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 17 points 2 months ago

Is New Zealand part of the mutilations and genocide? I think it's been a while since we've done that at scale.

[-] Baggie@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

Look mate you can be in hell with us if you really want

[-] AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

I mean the Māori wars may be over a century old but you could count that towards both mutilations and genocide

You guys also were the main set for multiple scenes in LOTR which has depictions of mutilations.

Personally I feel like creating a new circle for Aotearoa and labelling it “Prehistoric” would be fitting since many living things on the islands are species that died out everywhere else after the continents split.

A more humorous label to fit with the others could be “Weird birds” since the avian diversity on the islands includes the Kakapo, the Kiwi, and the Kea parrot, all of which are birds that show up in memes

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 months ago

I mean the Māori wars may be over a century old but you could count that towards both mutilations and genocide

That's why I had the qualifier of "recently" haha, we are a colony after all.

Personally I feel like creating a new circle for Aotearoa and labelling it “Prehistoric”

That's pretty fitting. People can decide if it applies to our dinosaurs, our scenery, our fauna, our flora, or our government.

[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I feel like it's objectively more correct to either include Aotearoa under "penguins" (given that a couple species of penguin basically only exist on the islands), or to include Antarctica under "weird birds",

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 months ago
[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

Yes I'll have a ticket to Linux Land please.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Thank you for your careful drawing putting me in narcotrafico

[-] Masterkraft0r@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

As a Linux user, there's only one right answer. Cold be damned.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Ok but isn't New Zealand heaven?

[-] gustofwind@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

How much does that depend on being white and having money?

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

How much does that depend on ~~being white and~~ having money?

Most of it, everywhere, all the time.

[-] gustofwind@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

yeah but if you’re Māori is it even worse?

[-] how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

yeah but if you’re Māori is it even worse?

In NZ if you ain't Maori it's worse.

I've never meet a single NZ, irrespective of their ability to absorb or reflect UV, that didn't claim a percentage of Maori ancestry.

Although 50-60 plus years ago shit was bad.

Now everyone is equally discriminated against in NZ if you don't have money

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Being white is better in most places.

[-] gustofwind@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I guess until it’s not we shouldn’t cross that out

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 months ago

Pretty much the same as everywhere else unfortunately.

We might be slightly better about it now, but the legacy remains.

[-] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It's a slice of Heaven.

IYKYK

[-] Bazell@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

Penguins are the most evil of all of these! /j

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Oh yeah the hellish dictatorship that is SK, Japan, and Taiwan. So scary.

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Can Canada and Greenland not belong to Pedofhiles(sp)?

[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 months ago

what would you have instead?

that time the canadian parliament celebrated a nazi

?

[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 months ago

penguins

and secret ufo bases

this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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