• otacon239@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 day ago

    I hear the argument that people hate pigeons with a passion due to things like disease, but I don’t give a fuck. It’s not like they asked for it and it’s not like they’re aware of it. They’re just hanging out being birds. Let them be!

  • blarth@thelemmy.club
    1·
    21 hours ago

    Truly, if you’re feeling miserable and even suicidal - I know this sounds cliche, but please try going for a walk outside, ideally in a wooded area.

    I understand this sounds like “touch grass”, but seriously, try it out.

  • sCrUM_MASTER@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    1 day ago

    Beautiful birds with an incredible history, heartbreaking how they were completely abandoned when faster communication was invented

    • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      1 day ago

      Given the fact that they mainly were a food source instead of noble mail carriers, perhaps having been abandoned in reality has not been that bad a fate…

    • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Exactly.

      They’re my favorite birds, personally. I’ve never quite experienced a calm like when feeding a bunch of pigeons in the middle of a city and they were just grateful, content, and friendly.

      Plus the way they bob their heads when they walk is cute lol.

    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      1 day ago

      So that’s why they live on the street, I see.
      Due to AI this might be our fate soon. Let’s see who feeds us bread crumbles and who doesn’t

    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      1 day ago

      So you believe state propaganda that birds aren’t spying drones but in fact rats (which are mammals btw)?
      Seriously?

      • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        1 day ago

        Well, more metaphorically and limited to densely populated areas. I mean, rural pigeons are great!
        But their city dwelling cousins are mostly poor beasts, malnutritioned, disease plaqued, often invalid: half blind, missing leg, barely enough feathers to fly even short distances.
        On top of that a public health issue. So the rat comparison mostly holds, I am afraid…

        And if we are talking about other birds than pigeons - totally different topic!

      • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
        4·
        1 day ago

        No, I am the guy that just a few weeks ago got told that he can’t open the window of the joint staircases anymore to let out the stale summer heat, because then the pigeons would fly in.
        I am the guy that can’t use the easternmost quarter of his balcony any more because it is constantly covered under shit from the pigeon-meeting-place above.
        I am the guy whose car is covered in off-colour smudges because the pidgeon-piss from the tree above has corroded the paint.

        I am pretty sure that most of the people here that like pidgeons would think completely different when they had to live with them in close quarters and have their quality of live noticeably reduced.

        Other birds are great, though! We have sparrows, tits, blackbirds, dozens of other types. All great!
        Occasionally a pair of crows is visiting. Those are impressive birds! Intelligent as fuck, don’t give a shit but stay out of your way if you don’t want to interact. And, double Bingo: the pigeons don’t like them!