• Ma10gan@slrpnk.net
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    1 day ago

    Wasps aren’t evil. They are important pollinators and they are literally just hanging out. I am sick and tired of the wasp hate.

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      10 hours ago

      And they are at the very least annoying af. Maybe not ‘all’ wasps but the ones you notice for sure.

      Just go eat my ice cream but quit buzzing around my head like an idiot.

      Believe me, I love nature and there are very few animals, even insects, I cannot abide, but wasps are one of the few.

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      14 hours ago

      Thank you for pointing this out. I was planning to do the same. Wasps are important for the ecosystem in many ways.

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        They are quite aggressive when there are no more flowers/nectar in the end of summer. They don’t store “food” like bees do, they just have nothing so they want your bologna

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          That’s not really the case. The adult wasps are vegetarian, they may drink your soda, but your bologna does nothing for them. They want your bologna for their carnivorous larvae - it’s for the children.

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    Wait until you hear about mushrooms. This one tastes great. This one will send you to a deep mind state for an afternoon. This one will melt your liver. They all look the same.

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      They definitely don’t all look the same haha. I’ve picked and eaten thousands of mushrooms without issue. Most people can learn how to do it in an afternoon with proper instruction (not on your own though, there is real danger if you don’t know what you’re doing).

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        Fun fact, most people who died from poisonous mushrooms thought they or the one they trusted knew what they were doing. Thinking you know what you’re doing doesn’t prevent mushroom poisoning, thinking you know what you’re doing is almost a prerequisite.

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          Well at a certain point you have to take responsibility for your own actions. I’m just saying it’s not hard to learn if you actually have the right instruction, either from someone who does know or from quality guides. The issue is as a beginner, you may not know what that looks like.

          By the way, most poisonings happen when people just eat random things without even attempting to identify them. So it’s not like they died from the deadly false button mushroom or something. They’re just morons.

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            By the way, most poisonings happen when people just eat random things without even attempting to identify them.

            lmao, nice

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              To be fair, a lot of them are children. But also some adults. It’s more common than you would think.

              Plus we now have a new category of dum-dums: “But the app said it was edible!”

              Again, I don’t want to imply that eating wild mushrooms is safe. Just that it’s not difficult to learn how to do it safely.

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    In the alley, the dragon in hand, he approached the blackened nest. It had broken open. Singed wasps wrenched and flipped on the asphalt.

    He saw the thing the shell of gray paper had concealed. Horror. The spiral birth factory, stepped terraces of the hatching cells, blind jaws of the unborn moving ceaselessly, the staged progress from egg to larva, near-wasp, wasp. In his mind’s eye, a kind of time-lapse photography took place, revealing the thing as the biological equivalent of a machine gun, hideous in its perfection. Alien. He pulled the trigger, forgetting to press the ignition, and fuel hissed over the bulging, writhing life at his feet.

    When he did hit the ignition, it exploded with a thump taking an eyebrow with it.

    Neuromancer, William Gibson

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    Wasps are pretty chill unless you’re being the asshole.

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      Drywall is pretty much the same, so yes, you can, and the typical US McMasion is pretty menacing in its environmental impact (and looks shit as well).

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          Badly insulated and huge open spaces that waste a lot of power if heated or cooled. In addition the entire concept of car dependent suburbs and sprawling development into the country side is an environmental disaster all on its own.

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      The bees would still overcome the wasp, assuming it’s a large hive. The wasp will have practical limitations on the amount of ammunition for the weapon (also the question of whether it can reload before getting swarmed) and the ceramic armour won’t help against the bees massing together to form a ball of bees around the wasp and overheating it until it dies.

      Edit: Apparently it depends on the type of bees as to whether they do the heat ball of death thing, so your mileage may vary.

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        10 hours ago

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