It’s a an old name that contains a deprecated and often insulting term for black folks: National Association for the Advancement of Colored people.

However, it’s not quite a slur. If you’re under the age of 70 and using it, you’re almost certainly using it as a slur. Plenty of old black and white folk in the south still use it as it was the polite term when they were kids.

Wow! That’s amazing, I’ve never heard of a blue bee. That’s just really cool. I bet it was confusing when you first saw it. I’ve heard of/seen solitary bees but didn’t think about it. Did a little beekeeping work as a kid.

We’ve got a couple weird ones on the other side of the pond that I’ve been around. (wasps, actually)

Cow killer/Red velvet ant it’s sting is in the top 10 for most painful. They’re beautiful.

Cicada Killers are huge, 5cm/2in long. I had one fall out of a tree with a cicada right next to me. I thought it was birds fighting.

Didn’t even think it about it not being a honey a bee. You’re right.

I like the “No Kings!” messaging, simple and pointed. We need a slogan that is short and sweet for the soldiers to use. Something that shows them they have agency in this.

Drones don’t have stingers. Queens and workers have stingers. Queens are from worker larva that are fed royal jelly that transforms them into a queen that is capable of reproduction. Workers are technically female but they’re closer to asexual.

So, that badass enby ace bee gave that motherfucker what for.

The whole Tankie thing. Just like MAGAts but on the other side. They’re authoritarian left with lots of Chinese and possibly Russian influence. Far left most of us support are on the opposite end of the authoritarian/individualistic axis from both Tankies and MAGAts.

Just wait until they start kindergarten.

Hopefully your toilet is close enough to the tub or sink so you can puke out of both ends.

Parenting is just wonderful.

Was looking up tracks in a field guide the other day and ran across this super cute rodent, The Mountain Beaver.

Jerboa has served well as the replacement for me.

Please. Please. Please. Come on boys, just read the Constitution, you didn’t sign up for this shit.

Very true, and more efficient.

For now, I can mute all that I’ve found, it also looks like the pump has crashed, which is fun.

It quits working, I may adopt your method.

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries. Enjoy your downvote and have a nice day.

No biggie. Caps tripped me up, also was tired.

Your analysis is spot on. (most of my career has been in aerospace)

I would also add that the training programs and apprenticeships that were developed have been gutted as they destroyed the unions.

The whole rebuilding American manufacturing through tariffs is a total pipe dream. I’m one of the few machinists that stuck through the great recession in my generation. There are no where near enough people like me to train kids and the guys that taught me are dead.

It takes minimum, four years, to grow a self-sufficent machinist on the job. Trade schools are pretty much worthless, kids come out of trade school and they’re fit to sweep floors or maybe punch a button if they’re real sharp.

It would take twenty years of consistent government and corporate support to rebuild and we all they are too greedy and short sighted for that.

I assume it is similar for a lot of other trades.

Time to program something nasty and tricky or tweaking in a tight part: put on the math metal and figure it out.

Why?

Yeah, I think both of mine were working at the time as well. They also are very rigid law and order types and at that time I hadn’t begun serious rebellion.

I actually saw a teacher allow kids to play with mercury when I was in highschool in the 90s. Teacher was ancient and the town was so backwards that it is still known as a sundown town to this day.

Totally buy the lead explanation for boomers. Saw an old man toss lead split weights in his mouth and put them on fishing line like tying a knot in a cherry stem.

About all those micro plastics disrupting our hormones…

Oh dang. Sorry to bitch at you, I misunderstood.

I researched the banana peel thing in middle shcool and decided it was bullshit. Tried the oregano thing and thought I was high. Didn’t try the nutmeg.

The crater makers made from empty CO2 cartridges were a lot of fun. I remember sealing them with wax and thinking about how dangerous it was having an open flame while holding something that could take off my forearm.

Never could get the iodine crystal explosive decomposition thing to work, too hard to get ahold of the precursors when I was a kid.

It’s a wonder I survived, thank jeebus I couldn’t get ahold of mercury.

Where the fuck were my parents?

That is completely reasonable and the person you’re screaming at is Canadian. 16 year olds are perfectly capable of being responsible with long guns like a .22 rifle. This depends on the kid and the parents.

If you are a vegan and a pacifist on ethical grounds, I get it. But, hunting is a like a basic human thing. View the gun as a neat but dangerous tool that requires training.

We’re talking about traditional patterns of rural gun use you even find all over Europe. These are not AR-15 killer sewing machines, they’re old school long guns with most of them not even being semi-automatic.