• i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    Are those the birds they wash with dish soap after oil spills? The ones that die anyway because they’ve ingested tons of petroleum contaminated shit that they can’t purge or digest?

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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      8 hours ago

      Came here to say something like this…

      “Wait why is the duck covered in black goo. Is that oil?”

      “Listen don’t worry about that, dawn soap cuts through all sorts of oil”

      “But don’t ducks need to have a thin coat of their natural oil on their feathers to protect them from the elements?”

      “Let’s change the subject, we have to dry this duck, and for that, we’ll turn to the Quicker Picker Upper…”

      • earphone843@sh.itjust.works
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        7 hours ago

        Ducks losing their natural oil isn’t the issue here. They can get that back pretty easily.

        It’s more that being completely covered in crude oil is very bad for you because it’s crude oil, and just washing it off doesn’t fix the issue.