We're told: "The ant world is filled with Machiavellian dramas.... Now experts have identified a kind of regicide that has never been documented before.... 'It’s like a story out of "Game of Thrones,"' said Daniel Kronauer, an evolutionary biologist.... The discovery was made by an ant enthusiast... not a scientist...."
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Where’s Trump in this story? And Epstein.
The subtext is the analogy to white colonialism.
An "ant enthusiast" is not a scientist? Is scientist a particular credential? Richard Feynman was also an ant enthusiast who performed many interesting ant experiments in his dorm room.
For Begley: Epstein didn’t kill himself. It was done by someone under the influence of Trump cologne.
Nature is absolutely packed with opportunism, exploitation, predation, parasitism, manipulation, death, and destruction. This happens at every level in the animal world, and let's not forget the poisonous and spiky plants too.
I wonder if these ant queens got the idea from their DEI intersectionality training courses?
A kid with a magnifying glass gets to be the fire breathing dragon in this ‘Game of Thrones.’
Like the python sketch about mollusks
And kinsey was a butterfly expert who got in over his skis
Hillary herself.
"...ant enthusiast..."
He hasn't been dabbling in teleportation, has he?
"This just crawled onto the front page of the NYT"
Nice! Sometimes I just come for the humor.
Also futurama and whale biologists
Guilty of that as a youngin', Wince.
An "ant enthusiast" is not a scientist? Is scientist a particular credential?
Well spotted!
I mean, I suppose it's possible that this "ant enthusiast" is actually enthusiastic only about dressing ants in tiny costumes and taking pictures of them, or putting them into dioramas doing human activities like golfing, but it seems a lot more likely to me that this person is engaging in Science Without A Degree - possibly also Without A Grant, which is an additional if lesser offense.
This didn't work for Hillary.
Well hes an evolutionary biologist so hes credentialed
The discovery was made by an ant enthusiast... not a scientist
A scientist is someone who does science and I don't see any reason why that can't include ant enthusiasts.
Interesting article. As for the "not a scientist" mini-controversy, the ellipses are doing a lot of work. The story say he's an ant enthusiast, and then in the next paragraph it says he's not a scientist by training.
What’s an ant enthusiast? A guy that realizes jo mama is just too fat, so he moves on to your auntie! CC, JSM
Trivia from Holland
Ant fucker
When you bother a Dutch person with endless remarks about the minutest of details, they might call you an ‘ant fucker’ (mierenneuker)
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But now I see John mosby has another meaning in mind
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Classic short story about man vs ants. Spoiler ants almost win but man finally triumphs
Lenigren vs the ants
https://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lvta.html
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The ant enthusiast was probably just trying to get some ants to fight so he could watch, but they were lovers, not fighters...like Michael.
Parasitic Queen
Now we're sharing the same dream
And our brains, they think as one
An Ant Farm on the run
h/t Billy Ocean
All queens are parasites.
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