Flyberius [comrade/them] @ Flyberius @hexbear.net

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Piss ships on fire off the

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That's a strong look. Those dungarees underneath the jacket?

I guess a common factor is they are both being operated by a shitty US airline that probably cut every corner conceivable to save on costs.

Watch as he continues to fail upwards. It's like no-one remembers Trump.

Yeah, you are right I should.

I really really really hate people who write code in chats as if they are demonstrating some incredibly amazing skill. Doubly so because they so often fuck it up.

Iain (M) Banks

China Mieville

Two of my faves

How incredibly lame.

Yes. Fuck em.

Fucking hell.

My neighbour has been protesting this bullshit every Wednesday and Saturday for years and years and years. He went down super early today for this announcement. And once again they are just kicking the can down the road. This is incredibly illegal, and fucking outrageous. The man has been illegally detained in Belmarsh for 5 fucking years! He spent 7 years in an embassy. This is nothing short of torture. They are even offering him plea deals now so that they can claim a moral victory and not be sued in return.

Fuck everything about the west. Stop killing Julian Assange.

It's been tried.

Mono sodium glutamate

Scatistics

Just get rid of all the shitty private firms and make a national company to handle the repairs cheaply and efficiently! This robot will solve nothing! I've never heard something so stupid!

Do you have sources? That would make this a lot punchier when I send it off to my lib mates. Otherwise they'll just say I made this all up

I guess they are all in the same family. But I don't think true ants are descended from wasps

I was going to post the nothing to hide nothing to fear comment. Glad to see it popped into other people's minds

It probably did, you are right. Also, what about internal stuff. Who is to say that their plumbing hasn't evolved considerably over the eons?

They swarm as part of their natural cycle of colony reproduction. They do it a lot. The hive will be producing a bunch of new queens, and when one of them is ready to hatch the incumbent queen leaves with about half the worker bees in search of a new home.

The new queen is born a day or two later and becomes the head of the old hive. She will go on mating flights for the next two weeks or so and will start laying after about 3 weeks.

HOWEVER! Bees dont just lay one new queen cell. They lay loads. So that new queen does one of two things, it either goes around the hive and actively kills the other unhatched queens be stinging them (Queens don't die when they sing), OR she decides to do a swarm of her own, taking half the bees of the already halved hive with her. In some cases this can become a bit of a chain reaction, with multiple swarms happening day after day (this happened to me last summer with one hive). The result is that the original hive becomes unviable and dies due to a lack of workers and no laying queen to replenish the work force.

As for bees leaving voluntarily, I believe it does happen if conditions in the hive are bad enough (i.e. Exposure). Though they will stay put through a lot of shit, to the point of the hive dying.