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[โ€“] frezik@midwest.social 23 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Wait until you hear about mushrooms. This one tastes great. This one will send you to a deep mind state for an afternoon. This one will melt your liver. They all look the same.

[โ€“] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Mmm...melted liver ๐Ÿคค

[โ€“] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ain't humans cute by projecting their morality on everything they lay their eyes on?

[โ€“] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 hours ago

Nah, wasps are wretched

[โ€“] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

you better bee leave it

[โ€“] Syd@lemm.ee 20 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Wasps are pretty chill unless you're being the asshole.

The main evil here are the humans who steal all the bees honey at a unfathomably larger scale than wasps.

[โ€“] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If being an asshole includes sitting on your porch and enjoying life, sure.

[โ€“] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I've got some wasps living in the railing of my balcony. They don't care that I'm sitting there at all...

[โ€“] FleetingTit@feddit.org 13 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Except some species target bee hives and kill all the fuzzballs to get to the honey.

[โ€“] xenoclast@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

This is actually my only problem with CERTAIN wasp species. Not all, mind you.

[โ€“] thericofactor@sh.itjust.works 10 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I wish I could build a menacing lair using only spit and wood pulp.

[โ€“] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Drywall is pretty much the same, so yes, you can, and the typical US McMasion is pretty menacing in its environmental impact (and looks shit as well).

[โ€“] Akasazh@feddit.nl 9 points 12 hours ago

Have you tried?

[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Been playing Disco Elysium again and seeing this makes me wonder if a wasp, given ceramic armor and an automatic weapon, would destroy a bee hive all by itself or if the bees would fuck up that wasp.

[โ€“] gnu@lemmy.zip 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

The bees would still overcome the wasp, assuming it's a large hive. The wasp will have practical limitations on the amount of ammunition for the weapon (also the question of whether it can reload before getting swarmed) and the ceramic armour won't help against the bees massing together to form a ball of bees around the wasp and overheating it until it dies.

Edit: Apparently it depends on the type of bees as to whether they do the heat ball of death thing, so your mileage may vary.

[โ€“] xenoclast@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

I've seen a few wasps completely destroy some backyard hives. It wasn't pretty.

[โ€“] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 4 points 18 hours ago

Buck Bumble would like to know your location. Best game on N64

[โ€“] gibmiser@lemmy.world 30 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Wasps are orcs. Bees are elves.

[โ€“] topherclay@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago (3 children)
[โ€“] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Termites probably fit Pech better than dwarfs

[โ€“] nouben@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 4 points 12 hours ago

Ants evolved from stinging wasps, so if wasps are orcs, ants would be something that evolved from orcs. Uruk-Hai aren't really an evolution of orc, but they are an advanced breed, so maybe they can suffice?

[โ€“] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago
[โ€“] GraniteM@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

In the alley, the dragon in hand, he approached the blackened nest. It had broken open. Singed wasps wrenched and flipped on the asphalt.

He saw the thing the shell of gray paper had concealed. Horror. The spiral birth factory, stepped terraces of the hatching cells, blind jaws of the unborn moving ceaselessly, the staged progress from egg to larva, near-wasp, wasp. In his mind's eye, a kind of time-lapse photography took place, revealing the thing as the biological equivalent of a machine gun, hideous in its perfection. Alien. He pulled the trigger, forgetting to press the ignition, and fuel hissed over the bulging, writhing life at his feet.

When he did hit the ignition, it exploded with a thump taking an eyebrow with it.

โ€”Neuromancer, William Gibson

[โ€“] frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Just read this for the first time a few weeks ago, so good.

[โ€“] Ma10gan@slrpnk.net 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Wasps aren't evil. They are important pollinators and they are literally just hanging out. I am sick and tired of the wasp hate.

[โ€“] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's not my fault they're dicks. ๐Ÿ˜ค

[โ€“] Rubanski@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

They are quite aggressive when there are no more flowers/nectar in the end of summer. They don't store "food" like bees do, they just have nothing so they want your bologna

[โ€“] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Someone is going to make a movie about this...

[โ€“] swab148@lemm.ee 5 points 11 hours ago

Bee Movie 2 gets really dark