A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
It sounds stupid but I really want to imagine China was behind all this as a test run of bio warfare via invasive species and there's just some random CCP agent going Rats! We've been foiled again. Start dumping more corn syrup into our honey exports!
America and its "wars against...."
America hasn't won any war since WWII, and that includes wars against drugs, countries, people, religions, etc. I highly doubt they won this one. I remember "mission accomplished"
armed conflicts
sucks that Canadians can't win wars either, eh?
We don't start or lose them either.
Tell that to generations of First Nations peoples.
Whew. Looks like the feds didn't find the colony of buzzy buddies I've been nurturing in the suburbs.
Can't wait for spring!
Supportive Emu noises
Yeah sure "murder hornets". Like "murder japs", "murder communists", "murder vietnamese", "murder gays", "murder blacks" or "murder arabs" before. I think I'll hold off celebrating until I know how much oil those hornets had in stock.
Hey man, I don't disagree with you.
However, I think if you take every article you read and turn it into, "meanwhile I am waiting for someone to fix the planer." You are not really doing much. All of us, including myself, want what you want but those are things that are irrelevant to this article and we should take to things that are relevant.
Fuck fascism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and anything else that is down right degrading to any human being who is just trying to be happy
In the same vain though, fuck hornets, fuck those little murderous monstrosities.
That was a joke about USA assigning threatening labels to anything it threatens or exploits to make public afraid of it instead of being supportive of it. As most jokes, it based on the subversion of expectations, which in this case was the suggestion that hornets are good and misunderstood. Comparing them and what they're doing to bees to gay or black people was intended as a sprinkle of dark humor, implying their (hornets!) destructive nature finds parrarels with the multitude of oppressed kinds of people.
Way to tell me I'm unfunny and my sense of humor sucks, man (jk)
That was a joke about USA assigning threatening labels to anything it threatens or exploits to make public afraid of it instead of being supportive of it. As most jokes, it based on the subversion of expectations, which in this case was the suggestion that hornets are good and misunderstood. Comparing them and what they're doing to bees to gay or black people was intended as a sprinkle of dark humor, implying their (hornets!) destructive nature finds parrarels with the multitude of oppressed kinds of people.
I think you might want to go back to some of your source material and rework it if you think it's funny.
Way to tell me I'm unfunny and my sense of humor sucks, man (jk)
2edgy4me maybe on 4chan it might do better
Funny, that's exactly a reply one would expect from a 4chan dweller. Is there a miniority or other group of people that USA demonized for profit that you're angry I've neglected to mention in this joke about imperialism and hornets, or was there something else that triggered you to go in swinging with insults? Apparently at least one other person found it funny, so I feel like the reason the joke didn't land with you might have to do with you not being the target audience, whatever it might be.
Is there a miniority or other group of people that USA demonized for profit that you're angry I've neglected to mention in this joke about imperialism and hornets, or was there something else that triggered you to go in swinging with insults?
no, I just found your commentary devoid of any real purpose. it lacked the thoughtfulness and effort of a good joke and took extreme liberties in joining the topic of murder hornets and American prejudices and imperialism.
Apparently at least one other person found it funny, so I feel like the reason the joke didn't land with you might have to do with you not being the target audience, whatever it might be.
you are correct, the joke didn't land with me, but not for the reasons you expressed. they didn't land with me because I failed to see the connection between the efforts taken by thousands of people to fight off an invasive species and imperialism.
so won't you please expound upon what the correlation between the two are for me? maybe then I might get the joke and I'll gladly apologize.
For what it's worth, I chuckled at your comment. :-)
I appreciate that, thank you.
why so mad bro? did a murder hornet kill your family and now you're pissed because the farmers of America didn't kill them faster?
Now you gotta send help to Australia. Those damned emus are a worthy adversary.
Who to help? Australia is run by emus. They won in war.
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Would have been solved much quicker if they where ceo killing hornets
LMAO. Its sad that this is so funny because its true.
Same kind of win as with the war in Afghanistan ?
(camera focuses on the news playing on a TV in a home in the countryside, slowly pulling back away from the monitor)
"...thanks to their efforts, experts have now stated with certainty that this threat has been eradicated..."
(the camera has pulled back enough that the screen is framed by an outside window with a tree trunk coming into frame from the right)
"...and many communities in the northwest united states can breathe easier knowing that these dreaded hornets are no longer found on our shores. Reporting from Seattle..."
(focus shifts to the tree bark. Buzzing is heard, getting louder and louder until a single murder hornet queen lands on the tree. Cut to black. Roll credits)
finally some good fucking food...
Anybody know where i can get some murder hornets from? (i jest, ofc)
shitposting aside, how rare is it that invasive species are eradicated before becoming a problem? Can't be that common.
Pretty uncommon but it has happened. Especially with agricultural pests where there is a large industry that can push for a proper response. I’m guessing beekeepers were the industry in question this time.
If it only affects nature and not industry then it’s usually ignored.
Never. Cause the definition of "Invasive species" includes it being a problem. Otherwise they're called "Introduced species".
Yeah they are probably lying. They can not know with 100% certainty that these giant asian hornets have all been eradicated in the us. They couldn't get rid of something as benign as the spotted lantern fly or the marmorated stink bug but sure lets believe they got rid of a hornet as big as a humming bird that has facial recognition capabilities and can unalive people with a swarm no larger than 50 to 100 of the fuckers
Right? Have we all forgotten about killer bees all of the sudden?
– Ladies and gentlemen, we got'em.
*breakcore starts blasting*
[✓] Small Pox
[✓] Murder Hornets
We're almost there, humanity!
