because apparently it has to be said
dni if you ship Dracula/Mina, Dracula/Lucy, Dracula/Renfield, or any other inherently abusive and/or manipulative ship. if you ship these and somehow already follow me without my notice, then the unfollow button is over there, use it
addition: Dracula/Jonathan. stop that.
Unfortunately, like factory farmers, many beekeepers take inhumane steps to ensure personal safety and reach production quotas. It’s not unusual for larger honey producers to cut off the queen bee’s wings so that she can’t leave the colony or to have her artificially inseminated on a bee-sized version of the factory farm “rape rack.” When the keeper wants to move a queen to a new colony, she is carried with “bodyguard” bees, all of whom—if they survive transport—will be killed by bees in the new colony. Bees may be killed or have their wings and legs torn off by haphazard handling.
According to the Cook-DuPage Beekeepers Association, humans have been using honey since about 15,000 B.C., but it wasn’t until the 20th century that people turned bees into factory-farmed animals. Happily, many sweeteners are made without killing bees: Rice syrup, molasses, sorghum, Sucanat, barley malt, maple syrup, organic cane sugar, and dried fruit or fruit concentrates can replace honey in recipes. Using these will keep your diet bee-free.
There’s so much to unpack here I don’t even know where to start.
First of all, no, farmers do not call AI pens “rape racks”. That isn’t a colloquialism anyone uses. I don’t know what complete weirdo farmer you dug up who called it that, but AI is not rape nor do farmers consider it as such.
You cannot rape a queen bee, an animal that literally only exists to reproduce constantly as the only fertile female in the population. The anatomy of a queen bee allows her to select which eggs she fertilizes at will, determining whether or not she produces workers or drones. Whether you use AI or not, the queen will continue to lay eggs constantly after mating, which she would do as soon as possible if she were able. Additionally, AI will only occur once in any queen’s 5-7 year life.
Mated queen bees (the sort that would have bodyguards) will not be moved to new hives because they will be killed just as immediately as the theoretical body guards. Virgin queens are introduced to new swarms because they are generally not recognized as a stranger and will be more likely to be accepted as a new queen. This is done during swarming and would happen naturally, the only artificial aspect is keepers selecting where the virgin queen can take refuge and conquer.
Wing clipping has long been considered controversial in apiaries because in truth it does not prevent swarming and the queen rarely knows she cannot fly meaning she falls to the ground and dies in most of these cases. It has been losing popularity in the practice for some time now. If the workers notice the queen missing wings or legs, they will kill her and create a new queen. Clipping is impractical for several reasons which is why it is losing favor and will likely fade from beekeeping in a few generations.
I also hate to break it to you, but if you are on a vegan diet you absolutely rely on beekeeping. Captive honeybees account for the pollination of our crops. Native bees to the Americas tend to take little interest in crops, and feral honeybees are both invasive and unreliable in many parts of the world. If we lose apiaries, we lose honeybees, and we lose our food. That’s why we domesticated them to begin with.
elon musk is literally like a parody. like he cant genuinely fucking be like this like bro is on some satirical depiction of a spoiled rich kid type shit. like hes a cartoon evil rich guy. throwing tantrums bc someone criticized him or said they didnt like him. spending billions of dollars to buy an app and then changing the app every time someone uses a feature of the app to insult him or hurt his feefees. dude straight up does the cartoon steam blowing out of ears train whistle shit irl every time someone says anything mean to him or is transgender but whats terrifying is he has enough money to do anything he wants and millions of chuds who would gladly no homo suck his cock every night before he goes to bed. like. how has someone come to be like this. why has this been allowed to happen why was he created
i think most rich guys are actually more like elon than they aren't, they all have simpering fanclubs online but enough haters to keep them up at night. i've seen a good half-dozen "richest man in X country" instagram accounts litigating their personal beef with some obscure shitposter who won't stop trolling them. they run the world but everyone doesn't love them so they're not happy
this is the richest guy in africa and his mortal enemy, a bored brazilian man
Pensions sound so fake as a zillennial. You work for one place for decades (already sounds fake) and then afterwards you leave and they just. keep paying you. the same amount of money. to do nothing. for the rest of your life. if i wasn't already aware that this was something that readily and commonly existed during my grandparent's days then it would sound like some kind of socialist pipe dream
401(k)s became available in 1978, and that signaled the death of pensions pretty much everywhere that they weren’t part of a union contract. Workers who still have pension plans today are almost universally unionized and that benefit has been a holdover from contracts of the past.
The thing about pensions is that they are deferred compensation. You take a slightly smaller salary than your role should have, and the difference is being invested and paid out to you in retirement. But when 401(k)s became a thing and companies dropped pension plans, compensation never rose enough to offset the difference, and employer contributions to 401(k) plans is lower than what they had to invest in pensions. They got to have their cake and eat it too, and workers got screwed.
And now we’re into a third generation of workers who don’t foresee actually having enough money to ever fully retire.
people will use “animal impulses” to describe mankinds pension for committing acts of violence unto the other but why. my animal impulse is to eat a lot of warm food and sleep whenever there is a storm, or i have had a particularly bad day, and also for the majority of the winter season. also to roll in grass
Had to include this tags cause i also catched people not getting the issues and this person explained it best
Oh holy shit they found Silphium alive and growing in the wild.
Like now that I am awake I need to reiterate how huge this is. It was presumed harvested to extinction by the Romans. It was a favorite flavoring and according to historians one of the best contraceptives ever known. True or not it would be fantastic to study that but it being extinct made that impossible.
This is such a huge deal! I hope they get it figured how to grow it.
Also I was looking at 2021 in paleontology and apparently this year we discovered this awful shark that is wider than it is long
why
I love this thing
can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like stupid sharks?
I could really use a fish right now
actually i think young women should be forced to read the literary canon at gunpoint. i will become the monster they named me
chasing the booktok girlies (who i’ve told to be grateful for bc at least they’re reading something) around with a machete bc they couldn’t tell me the themes of their favourite novel
forget about touching grass, i need to touch THE SEA I NEED TO GO INTO THE WATER I NEED TO DIVE INTO THE SEA!!!!!!!!!!!!
I NEED TO GO IN THERE ⬇️⬇️⬇️‼️‼️‼️
Lol. Everyone in the notes freaking out like 'I live by the sea, don't jump in, it dangerous'.
Like, guys, guys, listen, you don't understand. They don't mean... They want to be... Listen, ok, I grew up on the sea, I've been through hurricanes on trawlers and gale force 9 storms crewing tallships. I've seen enormous waves absolutely destroy boats. I've been caught in riptides while scuba diving and felt the complete powerlessness of it. The sea will absolutely annihilate you, consume you, never give up your body, and not even notice.
I know the power of the sea better than most, however, I know exactly what they mean. Sometimes you see it churning with unfathomable power and all you want is to just get in the sea and have it absolutely fuckin blast you clean. Like sandblast your fuckin soul. Fuckin powerwash your bones clean. Ya know?
Can confirm, getting beat up by the ocean is a religious experience.
