https://twitter.com/cons_owned/status/1331400049524436992
That the 30% of productive ants are weighed down by 70% of non-productive ones, or that a small minority of ants assumed to be more productive deserve most of the rewards. Randian/Fascist shit.
Everyone that whines about the so-called "holodomor" needs to read this and understand how this went from literal nazi propaganda to justify Operation Barbarosa (invasion of Soviet Union) and picked up by Ukrainian nationalists as a cudgel to beat Soviet Union and then Russia.
Aided and abetted by right wing propagandists in UK/US but specifically Canada
Village Voice: In Search of a Soviet Holocaust
Douglas Tottle wrote a book titled Fraud, Famine and Fascism in 1986
In this book he traced how the Holodomor rose from the fringes of far right propagandists and was escalated by the Hearst Press (run by fascist and friend of hitler William Randolph Hearst). How this was proved to the Americans as a hoax when the "journalist" who had claimed he was in Russia and Ukraine for 2 years actually only spent 2 weeks in Moscow and he ended up in court for another reason where all his shady journalistic activity became revealed.
When Ukrainian Nazis (as in literal nazis who were in SS divisions and collaborated with Hitler) fled Ukraine they immigrated to Canada. Canada welcomed them if they had nazi or SS tattoos as this was proof of their anticommunism cos it was 1945 and the Soviet Union had emerged as a giant. In the post war period they tirelessly propagated this propaganda until eventually this was picked up by British propagandist Robert Conquest (who worked in an anticommunist division of British intelligence).
How Canada emerged as a haven for Ukrainian Nazi collaborators
Canada police investigate vandalism of monument to Nazi troops as hate crime
Edit: Mods I notice there is not a emoji of burning Canadian flag. They are puppet state of US please apply one
I know the point of passive aggressive smileys are to make me mad, but got damn do they make me mad.
I need an add-on for firefox that replaces all smiley faces with the masked crying wojak now
Call me a lib for shilling Current Affairs, but they recently had a good article about ants.
The other thing missing from this analysis is that the excess capacity means the ant colony can better survive shocks. If, say, a pandemic disease wipes out a chunk of the population or makes them less able to work, the others can pick up the slack. They're not lazy, they're insurance.
Meanwhile, capitalism would have us shave any excess capacity down to nothing, in the name of "efficiency", and we can see how well that works in terms of ICU beds or PPE.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/727023679459950665/781035227349778442/the_socialist_ant.pdf
I remember hearing that of hive building insects, only termites have a more even sex distribution. Like wasps, ants, bees etc are almost all female, but termites for some reason skipped on that.
Termites aren't related to other social insects, they belong to different orders. They're an example of convergent evolution. Some of the nearest relatives of termites are... cockroaches. Termites are on the more disgusting side of insects - smellier and pestier than ants/bees/wasps.
You sent me down a rabbit hole about Termites and now I'm reading about Autothysis wherein certain species of Termite will rupture glands to produce a sticky substance to block tunnels when the colony is attacked.
Termites are rad. I mean us humans dislike them since they sometimes mistakenly eat our houses, but they have developed a lot of cool and surprisingly intricate survival strategies.
They totally are. I was just reading about how certain species have soldier termites that don't have mandibles they just spit toxic goo at enemies and rely on worker termites to feed them. Fascinating!
don’t they cross over 1 extra time making their genes like 75% similar instead of 50? could be bees
It’s both bees and ants. The reproductive strategy is called haplodiploidy. Males are born from unfertilized eggs (haploid) and females from fertilized eggs (diploid).
This means that all the female ‘sisters’ in a colony are 75% related to each other, and more related to their siblings than they would be to their own offspring (only 50%). The social organization is (ostensibly) predicated on maintaining highest possible genetic fitness by caring for siblings instead of passing genes on to offspring.
I remember hearing about how the notion of wolf hierarchies stemmed from flaws in research
Specifically, these dynamics emerged in captivity, and were never present in the wild.
This reminds me of Deleuze's (theoretically relevant but out of context weird and random) grudge against Freud, who denied the fact that wolves run in packs and argued via psychoanalytic overdeterminism that a dream about a whole pack of wolves is just about one wolf, who of course is your wolf daddy.
Hey Jordan, in case you didn't notice, WE AREN'T FUCKING ANTS. We literally fly around in spaceships and shit.
Yeah, there's even a scientific term for the difference. "Eusociality" referring to animals that live in colonies where each individual has one of several (morphological different) roles. It includes several types of insects (bees, wasps, ants, termites), as well as some more basal lifeforms like hydrozoa. The only eusocial mammal (and only vertebrate as well, I believe) is the Naked Mole rat.
His daughter wakes him up every few weeks and asks him his thoughts. Then publishes them as wisdom and puts him back on ice.
He was smarter when he was in the coma. At least he knew the importance of just shutting the fuck up.
