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[–] frezik@midwest.social 41 points 1 month ago (12 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.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Mmm...melted liver 🤤

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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wasps are orcs. Bees are elves.

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] nouben@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month 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?

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[–] Ma10gan@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 month 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.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's not my fault they're dicks. 😤

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Rubanski@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month 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

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month 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.

[–] Rubanski@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Hathaway@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] d3m0nr4v3r@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Syd@lemm.ee 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] FleetingTit 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month 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...

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

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month 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

[–] frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] thericofactor@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 12 points 1 month ago

Have you tried?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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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[–] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Nah, wasps are wretched

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] gnu@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

you better bee leave it

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

P-bubbs versus slime princess, yo.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Bee Movie 2 gets really dark

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
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