Myrmecology
Myrmecology
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Yeah, hearing about this technique for the first time was a ride. Like, yeah, it's kind of cool? But also, you're doing a genocide.
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you're doing a genocide
Yes, if you are dumb about it. Actual scientists doing this use abandoned colonies or move the colony first.
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They're more like a single superorganism.
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Fire ants deserve it. Fuck em.
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Hmm, would this work with any clear material so you could see the ants as they suffer? I mean, for uhhh... science?
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you can never see them "suffer"
"Ants are not subjected to feeling the same pain humans do. They can recognize damage and respond to it, but they don't genuinely feel pain the same way people do"
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Couldn't you apply that logic to literally all animals including humans? Pain is just a sensation to make us respond to damage, the suffering part is entierly subjective and no one can be sure any of the other humans even are capable of it, we just assume its the case based on personal experience and empathy.
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We found “strong evidence” for pain experiences in adults of two orders, Diptera (flies and mosquitoes) and Blattodea (cockroaches and termites). There was also “substantial evidence” in adult Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, ants, and sawflies), Orthoptera (crickets and grasshoppers), and Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) [...]
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0065280622000170
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What are you quoting?
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Could be worse. Could be the guy filling them with copper or whatever molten metal it was on YT.
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I would probably prefer getting almost instantly fried by molten hot metal than slowly suffucate in liquid cement
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I think I remember that setting concrete has an exothermic reaction going on so you could be cooked as you suffocate.
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I suspect the amount of the nest that gets affected is larger. (Technically, IIRC theyre mostly there to exterminate the ants, it’s just becoming art in the process.!
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Probably a different instance to the one you're thinking, but I have not forgotten that TechRax video of him pouring molten aluminum onto live hissing cockroaches. I don't even know why he added the cockroaches, the subject of the video was the iPhone 6 vs molten aluminum.
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Oh yea, I still remember that one, I hate cockroaches, but that video kinda disgusted me. Like... why torture other living things for nothing?
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That’s horrifying, what the actual fuck.
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I think I was These guys. Could be wrong, but part of what they’re doing is removing nests that are problematic to humans (or our cattle.)
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I wonder what kind of concrete you’d use because I feel like any type I can think of would be too brittle and would break apart during even the most careful excavation.
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The people that were doing this weren't using concrete...
They were using molten metal.
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I wouldn't think concrete is thin or viscous enough
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Additionally, thin pieces of concrete are very brittle. It is much more common to use molten aluminum.
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Believe they also look for hills that have been moved out of, but I'm sure that's not always true
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It's "what it looks like" or "how it looks", never "how it looks like". That's as dumb as "what it looks", which I'm sure most people understand isn't correct.
It's one thing to make that mistake in a random comment, but in your fucking web comic? Seriously?-
Calm down dude...
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(Writing this comment in the style it describes is self-referential and confusing, and I might get it wrong, but I'm going to give it a go.)
It's often good to start out with self-deprecation (if not self-reference). Something like "English can be a bit odd" or "English has traps for the unwary" and then gently segue into what's bugging you and what's right and what's wrong.
We've got to at least try to be nice, even if the natural instinct might be to be offended and direct.
There's a meme on my homepage at the moment that uses the template of Gordon Ramsay giving a hug versus calling someone a donkey. The underlying gag it's being used for isn't all that important. The point is most people would prefer the hug from the expert rather than the alternative.
It would be even better if we could give the scientific, linguistic reason as to why other than just "it sounds wrong", but, yes, that'd be really going the extra mile. Most of us have no idea (myself included), precious little idea on what exactly to go research, and the recipient might not be able to do much with that information anyway.
I will undoubtedly fail at following this advice myself at some point. Hopefully, this isn't it.
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Yeah, no one's ever made a mistake before. And everyones first language is English. Ya bonehead.
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Came here to say that. #noChildLeftBehind, right?
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