Oh man, someone start spreading fire ants as a cure for something. This administration would be all over it.
Can we leave US politics out of the science memes
I'd agree, but the joke was funny.
It would be funny it it wasn’t so sad.
Does this joke make you feel uncomfortable?
If so, can I recommend some ants?
If only bullet ants were a thing here, we could use those instead.
Fire ant venom boosts testosterone levels when applied to the scrotum, according to my dog
What administration?
this administration
Based on the other comment you mean the US government? Do you just assume everyone on the internet is American?
Although I kind of agree with you, I feel like everyone knows when someone refers to this administration as being US in relation to extremely dumb shit at this point
It's super annoying when the default country on Lemmy is the USA.
The default country for anything stupid, yes
There isn't even the "this is a US website" excuse anymore, like on Reddit
Do you know a dumber one?
Genuine question, do other countries refer to their current government as "this administration" or "the [leader] administration"?
In my exposure to non-US political discussions, there seems to be more reference to the majority parties or coalitions, where that's more important to politics than it is in the US with our far-too-powerful executive branch
"Without medication" while describing medication
anting*, not ant-eating
Get ready for RKF JR to introduce this as a new health policy in 3.. 2..
Instructions unclear, dick stuck in an ant hill
It is imperative that the cylinder not be damaged
Isn't that a jackdaw?
"It's a bird!"
Happy Bird Day!
They're the same thing
Uhm, no, not the same thing.
That's like saying "pasta" is the same as "spaghetti". Spaghetti is pasta, like jackdaw is a crow, but "crow" is contextual. Where I live, it means the European hooded crow, but in Australia, it wouldn't. Just like pasta can refer to spaghetti or macaroni.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow
A crow is a bird of the genus Corvus, or more broadly, a synonym for all of Corvus.
I can't tell if you do or don't know about Unidan on Reddit. Bravo.
Oh well. Read about it now, and realised you're right, I wasn't aware, but now that I recall, people have memed about him a lot to me because I'm a bit of a crow fanatic as well.
I've friend crows. They follow me around and I give them meatballs when I visit the store.
I call this one Muninn Blackbreast.
That's pretty sweet, I don't have any bird friends.
It'd be sweeter if I had a house and could arrange a spot to do it reliably. Now its just me relying on them spotting me. But it's kinda fun, as sometimes when I'm scooting/cycling to the store, Muninn will glide next to me a bit to remind me he's there and to get him something as well.
I don't always buy them meatballs and there's been plenty of bans for bird feeding.
In my last apartment I accidentally taught a squirrel to plunder aparments, because I fed the crows from my windowsill.
Then I got fed up with finding squirrel poop in my kitchen so one time I caught him in a large see through moving box and put him in time out for a few hours. (I made sure there were s few twigs, water and some food in the box.) I don't know whether he leaned his lesson, but the crows certainly learned and followed me despite the move. I only moved like 150 meters as the crow flies, hehe. So it was easy of them to still follow me while not needing to change where they nested.
I'm sort of coloured like a big black crow often, as well. Gray and black.
But sometimes it's kinda hard to know whether I'm imagining them having followed me and just looking at some random crows. As sometimes they follow me even when I take the bus.
But I go to supermarkets which are like 2-4km again as the crow flies (pun's getting old tho). So it's reasonable they do follow me. Especially in winter when it's hard for them to find food, not as much in the summer.
Also magpies and a blackbird, I think but less so. The magpies don't follow as far, but there's more of them and they're more nimble, so if I feed the crows near my house, the magpies might disturb them. Which is why I feel like they follow me to the stores a bit further away.
Idk it's not too empirical but I'm definitely karmically positive when it comes to crows.
My ultimate fantasy would be to train them well enough to perch on the sleeves. That would be rad, but I don't believe it's realistic.
Hugin and Munin Fly every day Over all the world; I worry for Hugin That he might not return, But I worry more for Munin
— From Grímnismál
That's really cool, you have your own little army of familiars following you around. Sounds like you need to be careful with the possible feeding bans. Hopefully you don't catch any trouble.
All I've heard about magpies is they're assholes though!
Well I'd say few friends then whole lot of trolls. Some other birds have begun taking notice, but I'm not going to feed the seagulls. (Although they're not as dumb as they look and can live several decades.)
Basically there was a nesting pair or crows on top of a building I lived next to, and I lived on the sixth floor. So I began to mimic their head movements, to line myself with the position of their beak. Mirroring, you know.
Then it took a while and I got them to come get some opportunistic foods from the windowsill and now they just remember me. They had a nestling at one point, definitely. There were three, imo.
Magpies there's loads can't keep track. One fat one though, he was a proper fatty boom batty one spring when I'd been leaving out basically whole bags of meatballs, like 400g a bit shy of a pound. I was sort of proud, he/she looked pretty healthy, despite the harsh winter.
I have the images in my old phone I see if I'll care enough to post some.
Idk if magpies are assholes, per se. Definitely eager, I would say. The crows are always having trouble with them. I have trouble not imagining it as WWII bombers (the crows) getting harassed by multiple smaller bogies (the magpies).
It'd be sweeter if I had a house and could arrange a spot to do it reliably.
My wife and I are buying a house, and one of the main things she's planning is The Unkindness Sanctuary, since there are a ton of ravens in our area.
She also named the raven that regularly came to our front door "Hugin," so I dig your crow bros name.
Fucking English collective nouns. :D
I actually had a raven once, I was so surprised. I was just being followed by Muninn, as normal, saw him, he glid a bit next to me while I was going to the store. Got them a bag full of balls, put it all out there on a field and stayed and watched.
I live in the outskirts of the city, so not too urban, but also not too unurban.. There's places within like 5km I know there's ravens. But usually they're not here.
Muninn saw me going to the store, glid aside me, I got them a bag.. Oh wait I wrote that earlier.
Anyway that's when I saw this
The scale isn't evident from this photo, sorry. But ravens are huge compared to hooded crows which are like twice the size of magpies. Ravens are like 80cm from beak to tail. So many while I was in the army. Gorgeous corvids.
Bonus photo
Here's the thing ...
Without medication
💊 🐦⬛ Just flying over to the ant drug store to get some fresh HCOOH.
This is super cool and I'd definitely tuck it away for later use if I weren't allergic to fire ant venom.
I mean they use 24 species of ants, I doubt all of them are fire ants if any at all
i don't think fire ants piss acid as a form of defense? the post is about ants that spray formic acid at scary things, not being stung.
Ah fuck. My bad
Prison school
Ayyy 👉👉
Sounds like total made up ai bullshit
This one's real https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anting_(behavior)
We Finns actually also practice it.
Not too common, but definitely not unheard of.
Ant hill = muurahaispesä , to sit = istuu/istua istu*
Look it up in YT I'm sure there's more than enough results
It was in Prison School so at least it's made up human bullshit
How do the crows avoid getting acid into their eyes?
The safe word
Wink wink
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