Seeing a lot of people claim that Elon and Trump turning on each other is like Alien vs. Predator, and I’m sorry, but I simply can’t allow this kind of rhetoric to go unchallenged. While Alien is a horrific monstrosity driven only by an innate urge to destroy, Predator actually has a complex code of honor, and neither of them have any particular hatred for women, making this comparison a total non-starter. This situation is obviously like Freddy vs Jason. As you’ll no doubt recall, the plot of that movie was that Freddy thought that he could turn Jason into his mindless servant, but Jason started to steal the spotlight from Freddy, making him feel weak and impotent. Don’t cite the classics if you haven’t studied them!
pacific rim fucks severely for a lot of reasons but my favorite is that it opens with “the lizard aliens are unionizing so we built robots running on the power of love to fight them you got all that right” and before you have time to really process that concept bam gunshot body on the floor and the movie goes “now consider the vast power of grief in this setup” it never really stops considering
The relationship between ants and aphids or other sap- feeding insects is pretty widely known, but these ants (probably Lasiusclaviger) rear their root aphids inside their nest, farming them for both honeydew and meat. The ants are pale yellow because they almost never go aboveground, and considering that they’ve been known to eat the “excess” nymphs of their massive aphid herds, they probably don’t have much reason to leave their nest at all.
Root aphids like these aren’t normally found outside Lasius nests, and unlike freeliving aphids they have a special organ for holding honeydew until it’s ready to be milked by an ant.
I found this scene under a sheet of scrap metal, with the aphids left in loose piles with few or no roots available to drink sap from. I’m guessing that the ants moved them under the sun- warmed metal to heat them up and speed their growth and digestion between meals, a trick many ants practice on their larvae.
Wild that ants have been farming probably longer than humans have but we just don’t really bring it up much
