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Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language (www.vice.com)
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Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language::Researchers have identified new elements of whale vocalizations that they propose are analogous to human speech, including vowels and pitch.

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[–] 66 points 2 years ago (3 children)

We kill humans constantly too, and we probably obliterated the rest of the hominins also. I’m just saying we have a chequered track record.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are we the baddies?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    While I always love a Mitchell and Webb reference, I can say I don’t think so. I think the book Humanity by Rutger Bregman is a good reminder that we are mostly good.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    However take in context that it's written by a human. Of course we will say we're mostly good. If Pol Pot wrote a book about Pol Pot he'd probably say he was mostly good too.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well believe it or not the book isn’t one page whose entire contents read “We’re good”. It is a whole well reasoned length of prose supporting that with reason.

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