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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Mmm...melted liver 🤤

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They definitely don’t all look the same haha. I’ve picked and eaten thousands of mushrooms without issue. Most people can learn how to do it in an afternoon with proper instruction (not on your own though, there is real danger if you don’t know what you’re doing).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fun fact, most people who died from poisonous mushrooms thought they or the one they trusted knew what they were doing. Thinking you know what you're doing doesn't prevent mushroom poisoning, thinking you know what you're doing is almost a prerequisite.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Well at a certain point you have to take responsibility for your own actions. I’m just saying it’s not hard to learn if you actually have the right instruction, either from someone who does know or from quality guides. The issue is as a beginner, you may not know what that looks like.

By the way, most poisonings happen when people just eat random things without even attempting to identify them. So it’s not like they died from the deadly false button mushroom or something. They’re just morons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

By the way, most poisonings happen when people just eat random things without even attempting to identify them.

lmao, nice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

To be fair, a lot of them are children. But also some adults. It’s more common than you would think.

Plus we now have a new category of dum-dums: “But the app said it was edible!”

Again, I don’t want to imply that eating wild mushrooms is inherently safe. Just that it’s not difficult to learn how to do it safely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

A large category of dead mushroom hunters is people who know the mushrooms of where they are from, but find mushrooms elsewhere that look like a good one from home

In my city it's Chinese trained mushroomers thinking death caps are a good eating mushroom (it isn't)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah it's really important to know which mushrooms grow in your area. Then you know which mushrooms to avoid, and which have look alikes. Also just use mushroomexpert.com if you're unsure

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You would be better using a local field guide

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wasps are orcs. Bees are elves.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks 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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (4 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's not my fault they're dicks. 😤

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's not really the case. The adult wasps are vegetarian, they may drink your soda, but your bologna does nothing for them. They want your bologna for their carnivorous larvae - it's for the children.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Interesting, I would like to subscribe to more wasp facts please

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Many of them get drunk off fermenting fruit then go around and sting shit in a drunken stupor.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Most wasps are actually not aggressive at all. We just don’t notice those ones.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And they are at the very least annoying af. Maybe not 'all' wasps but the ones you notice for sure.

Just go eat my ice cream but quit buzzing around my head like an idiot.

Believe me, I love nature and there are very few animals, even insects, I cannot abide, but wasps are one of the few.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for pointing this out. I was planning to do the same. Wasps are important for the ecosystem in many ways.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I've never been stung by a wasp. I have been stung by multiple bees.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks 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...

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks 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.

Neuromancer, William Gibson

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Have you tried?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

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).

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Nah, wasps are wretched

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

you better bee leave it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Bee Movie 2 gets really dark

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

P-bubbs versus slime princess, yo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago
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