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Ants are so crazy as animals, imagine fighting behemoths that are dozens or hundreds or millions of times your size and hauling massive cargo with just your jaws and joining your sisters on the battlefield in massive intercolony wars and. What the fuck

There is a very good reason why many animals mimic ants, you simply don’t mess with ants

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I'm reminded of the world of Human-B-Gone, where kaiju insects and humans in an alien world fight each other over a tragic misunderstanding where neither side understands the others are intelligent. And their common antagonist are the ants who rule over bug society with their unmatched power of communication. They're a real world species called yellow crazy ant (except giant), but they're just called the ants because a) bugs don't see the color yellow, b) no one would dare call them crazy and c) they exterminated or enslaved every other species that organize in colonies.

I think the kitty is indulging you in playing fetch for brief periods in between pets

Optimistically, we might call this a study in how much people prefer pressing shiny buttons to give their opinion over reading. But I'm still worried about the 13% gap between people who evidently read the instructions and people who evidently felt the need to lie to an anonymous poll about reading the instructions after proving they didn't. Can't imagine how goddamn fragile your ego has to be for that to make sense.

Optimistically, one might speculate that the people who do not read instructions before voting are also disinclined to click "read more" to see that a poll exists to be voted on, skewing the results in favour of people who read

There is that. I probably should have noted the much lower number of votes on poll #2. . .

if astrology was real it ought to be affected by anthropogenic space objects. imagine being like yeah this month has sucked for me bc the iss is in sagittarius

Other thought just occurred to me, if astrology was real we'd never have needed to invent telescopes. Why couldn't astrology predict the existence of Ceres? You should be able to say people born on this and that time and date are like this, that means there's a big ass dwarf planet around the asteroid belt. Like the Great Attractor was identified 40 years ago and that's when astrologers started thinking they should figure out what it does, they had absolutely no idea anything was going on.

Optimistically, we might call this a study in how much people prefer pressing shiny buttons to give their opinion over reading. But I'm still worried about the 13% gap between people who evidently read the instructions and people who evidently felt the need to lie to an anonymous poll about reading the instructions after proving they didn't. Can't imagine how goddamn fragile your ego has to be for that to make sense.

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

So actually if you really wanted to use your analysis skills you'd realize that what people are annoyed about is the implication that there's never a story or creative work they can create that can escape people like you attempting to assign political meaning to it when they just don't want that. That in fact people's presumptions about life are not, in fact, political (at best they are cultural, which is not an inherently facet of politics). And that by you people arrogantly pushing this idea you are intruding on the fact that a lot of people use fiction as escapism from politics and insisting that "urm no actually your favourite cartoon actually has politics cause no human being is 100% unbiased" is in fact, supremely fucking annoying

"I'm not doing politics right now" is a political stance. Escapism is a political action. Just cause you yourself don't feel the impact of your opinions or actions doesn't mean they are apolitical; it means you have the privilege of ignorance, the freedom to ignore the people who do feel it. Oh, how supremely fucking annoying to have people tell you that everything you do matters. Imagine being forced to live with that; to not have the option to just stay out of a conversation like this and save yourself from being annoyed any time you like.

It's also acceptable if they use funny units like "four quarter pounders tall" or "bigger than a sandwich press"

"One day everyone will have always been against this" is a statement with unfathomable depths of meaning and probably the greatest prophecy of the century

In this country, that's the lowest legal indoor temperature, as in, your landlord must ensure you are able to keep heat to at "least" 20°, if you can't that's considered a health hazard. When I moved into an apartment where it took a few days to get the heat working they gave me a space heater and also took about half off the month's rent. Dad sounds a bit cheap.

In some countries they only give you BORING insulin, but in AMERICA you have the CHOICE of cool ranch insulin or Carolina reaper spicy insulin for only 8000 dollars a week, because FREEDOM

rb and tag your favorite song that's not in english, japanese or korean

I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀

if you say women are intentionally nerfed from birth in 2026 people look at you like you’re insane and start condescendingly telling you about how women are just better at different things (but not during their periods haha) but this was a completely basic feminist talking point I grew up with like “girls can do it too! [shot of little girls climbing and running with boys]” nickelodeon commercial tier base level I hate it how is everyone suddenly dumber than the average 7 year old