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An Iowa man built his six-inch parakeet a miniature submarine so the bird could join him underwater in the Bahamas — the homemade capsule used a paintball air tank, safety valves and an oxygen monitor (spacedaily.com)
submitted 13 hours ago by to c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
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This entire article is gold:

  • The bird is called Bebe
  • Bebe was fine. He was there for 15 minutes, and there was a lot of practice, safety, and care. Bebe is also used to shenanigans of all sorts
  • The submarine is called the Bebosphere
  • 'Stephen Lawyer, who really is a lawyer'
  • His wife is called Cher
  • People do the most beautiful unhinged shit with paintball cylinders
  • Bebe answers phonecalls
  • Bebe's other hobbies include indoor cycling, outdoor cycling, and skydiving
  • Precisely none of this was AI

What a treasure to be the person writing this story, congratulations Mr. Moran

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[–] -2 points 2 hours ago

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    [–] [S] 71 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

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    • [–] 6 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    The poor bird looks so confused - i don't think his ancestors from the wild evolved to see all of this

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    • [–] -1 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    I bet that poor bird is terrified out of it's mind. I get that the owner surely ment well but the bird has no concept of what any of this means and this is just cruel.

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    • [–] 1 point 10 hours ago

    This is a recycled story from April, though.

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    [+] -36 points 12 hours ago (7 children)

    This is animal cruelty. Let the bird be a fucking bird.

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  • [–] 30 points 12 hours ago* (2 children)

    Birds are extremely curious. But go on and guess on its behalf of what it wants

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  • [–] 0 points 2 hours ago*

    I don't think any bird would volunteer for this... I would have preferred an experimental setup where it's demonstrated repetitively what would happen to the capsule with an identical capsule nearby, open for any wild bird to willingly--of their own volition--get into and seal the hatch behind themselves. How many birds would do it? I guess we'll never know.

    Regardless, continue enslaving animals for your own selfish entertainment.

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