macracanthorhynchus 11 months ago • 66%
Yes, the spelling would have given that away.
macracanthorhynchus 11 months ago • 100%
I though he was a defense attorney?
macracanthorhynchus 11 months ago • 100%
Carl Sagan wrote a book, The Demon Haunted World, which is all about why people get sucked into nonsense like ancient aliens, and how to deal with it.
macracanthorhynchus 11 months ago • 100%
A placebo with special effects during administration. Still effective, just not how some people expected.
macracanthorhynchus 12 months ago • 100%
Y chromosomes have very little information on them, and the DNA there is pretty highly conserved. You're not really keeping any secrets by hiding your Y chromosome away.
macracanthorhynchus 12 months ago • 100%
In a sense it very much is news. This speaks to something that people have recently been speculating about, namely: Has Gaetz pissed off enough Republicans that they will start dumping their dirt on him to thoroughly assasinate his character? The publication of this article is essentially a giant "YES" to that question of what the "moderate" Republicans are going to do in the midst of this new Speaker crisis.
macracanthorhynchus 12 months ago • 100%
Yes, but that led to my absolute favorite joke in Moby-Dick: the fart joke in chapter 1. (It's important to remember that the "Pythagorean Theorem" is A²+B²=C², but the "Pythagorean maxim" is 'Don't eat beans.')
"For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle."
macracanthorhynchus 12 months ago • 100%
What beauties! I was too slow this year and didn't establish a bed. Next year!
macracanthorhynchus 12 months ago • 100%
Gesundheit.
Or, if you prefer: "Yahweh bless you."
macracanthorhynchus 12 months ago • 100%
Every time a journalist refers to the company as "Twitter" and not "X", it makes me so happy.
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
How will this plan affect my real estate taxes?
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
Disagree. The movie is a mediocre adaptation of a fun and mediocre book into an un-fun and mediocre movie. The film was never going to be gold, but they spent an awful lot of CGI money to make a movie that wasn't as fun as just reading the original and imagining all of the nerdy stuff being described.
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
Let's see if I just succeeded in attaching a photo I took of some of his specimens...
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
Yes, and?
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 20%
Mid 30s, USA. I'm smart (Ivy League science doctorate) but I can't drive a standard transmission because my dad "couldn't teach me" because I "wouldn't learn right". It was just me asking him questions like "What does the inside of the clutch actually look like? " and him yelling "That doesn't matter, just ease out on the clutch while giving it some gas!" Apparently I can be taught a lot, but not how to drive a standard.
Weirdly, my engineer friend let me drive his standard transmission car once after giving me some basic instructions and I did okay going up and down the road alone, but that was just one day and I fear I've forgotten everything. But I must be mistakenly remembering that, because according to my father I "can't be taught!"
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 95%
That was the whole point of the "Q"! In fact, we could ditch the LGBT and just stick with a fully inclusive "Queer".
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
Barbarians. The world must treat them like it and shame them and their children until this stops.
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
If you get good at it and if you run enough hives each year, it does, eventually, start making money though! Which is almost more frustrating, because every dollar you spend on it could come back some day in honey sales... but will it?
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
It absolutely is. I live near the Berkshires, and just harvested about 20 pounds of them from a local tree. Dinner last night was excellent!
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" https://shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
This is the shortest comment here, and perhaps the most elegant answer I've seen. Instead of shooting all of the rioters to prevent them from causing harm, you trick them into turning on each other, devouring just one of their number, and then after their internal melee you round up the survivors and throw them in a paddy wagon.
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
Thank you for linking that. The anthem absolutely slaps. Now I wish I was Tuvan. Or, at the very least, I wish the Russian Federation would collapse so Tuva can participate in the Olympics under their own flag, and then I will cheer for them so I can hear this anthem.
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
You have linked directly to an image of a Ukrainian stomping on a swastika flag. You are not making the point you think you're making.
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
I've been playing little bits of Aven Colony, a straightforward and fun space-colony-themed city manager. However, mostly I've been watching my wife play Baldur's Gate 3 and thinking "We should really buy another beefy gaming PC before Starfield launches so we can both play games simultaneously... "
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
"And then things got worse..."
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
Brawndo. It's got what I crave.
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
Black & White 3. Just more Black & White, slightly updated and improved since technology is better, but it doesn't have to be much better. Just a little bit. But basically more of the same.
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
Sure, but in the case of a show dealing with the question of what would happen if the general public could download celebrities despite the non-consent of the celebrities involved, literally Futurama did it.
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
You'll take what you can get, and you'll like it!
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 95%
I once overheard a pair of utility workers talking, and as I walked past I only overheard a snippet of conversation. The older one yelled up the cherrypicker to the younger one and said, in a heavy Boston accent:
"If only you could use your powers for good, instead of for useless..."
That sentence is seared into my brain.
What do folks make of this news? I know a lot of U.S. (and some Canadian) beekeepers have really enjoyed the Hive Life conference in the past.
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
See "outlawry" or "homo sacer" for this concept from centuries and millenia ago.
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
Pete, I do not need you to innovate. I just need you to make Black and White 3.
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
Cries in Medieval Engineers
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
Your instance has cookies!? Mine just has stupid science and nature themed communities...
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
I think you've done most of what I recommend to new beekeepers: Read beforehand, join clubs beforehand, and get some in-hive experience beforehand. Success in beekeeping is all about learning, learning, and more learning.
How have you enjoyed keeping the Megachile? I've thought about giving that a try.
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
Ignore that jerk. You're great, and your detergent videos explained, in exhaustive detail, (as all of your videos do, because that's literally the whole shtick,) the nuance and context that you were aiming for. Anyone who missed that just wasn't paying attention.
Also your snarkiness in your videos is amazing and never stop being you.
This article has been circulating for a while, summarizing the latest BIP data on colony losses. Thought this forum might allow some beekeeper discussion of it. Do we think this annual "doom and gloom" reporting on BIP's colony loss survey data is useful, or does it sow pointless confusion among non-beekeepers?
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
Honey bee population counts are sometimes hard to interpret, since many colonies are split in half in the spring, with a new queen inserted into the queenless half to create new colonies. Thus, the number of colonies can be high, then low after lots of winter deaths, then high again after new colonies are created, then low again after the following winter, etc. Peering through those fluxtuations, it's clear that (1) honey bees aren't anywhere close to going extinct, but (2) it's still a lot harder to keep a bee colony alive than it was decades ago. New parasites, new pesticides, lower food availability due to habitat loss and/or climate change, etc. Commercial beekeepers who manage thousands of hives also have very different pressures and their bees have different stressors than people who keep a few (or a few dozen) bee colonies. This report that more colonies died than in previous years means that beekeepers' practices have a lot of room for improvement, but the bees won't all be gone by this time next year.
If anyone is interested in further discussion about bees and beekeeping, you're welcome over at !beekeeping@mander.xyz
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
undefined> they can start another community.
That's the beauty of Lemmy: Don't like a community? Make it again somewhere else. DO like a community? Make it again somewhere else anyway! Sub to duplicates of the communities you like: You'll be reading comments by the same people across different instances, and a single mod issue or instance server crash can't take you down!
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 83%
If all people who like cat photos converge to one community on one instance about cat photos, it means that a server crash or one goofball mod can ruin everything. If all those cat photo lovers are subscribed to 10 different cat photo communities on 10 different instances... then they'll always be connected to share cat photos, will see all the content, and no one hardware pr human problem will crash the whole community of humans who just want to share cat photos.
macracanthorhynchus 1 year ago • 100%
I realized I didn't answer! I'm a scientist who works with honey bees, so I've got my "work bees" at work, and then a few hives of my "personal bees" at home.
Or do you hope to keep bees? Or just think bees are neat?
This article was published recently and it seems like the method described could be useful or may just interrupt broodrearing so much that a colony wouldn't ever be able to thrive after being subjected to it. Who has tried any queen caging method like this before? Did it work for you?