Seeing a lot of posts like “umm why does everyone love bees and hate wasps, bees are bastards and they sting you why are they the only insect anyone actually cares about, why does everyone hate wasps when they’re the same as bees”
Well you see, everyone ALSO used to hate bees. Like. You guys are just too young to remember when everyone who wasn’t an apiarist or a gardener or an ecologist was militantly aggressive towards bees Because They Sting You. People would burn their hives and kill them all when they were found, not call a bee guy to relocate them, they’d stomp bees in the clover if they saw them. They actively hunted down and destroyed hives.
The reason “everyone loves bees” isnt an arbitrary whimsical choice because they’re cuter than wasps. It’s because bee lovers made a HUGE effort to encourage people to see bees as valuable pollinators and friendly little guys that just want to defend their hive. They taught people to see bees as cute and fluffy! There were awareness campaigns about the value of bees, there were advertisements, there were little documentaries and articles teaching people how to readjust their views on bees so that the hatred of them didn’t cause complete ecological and agricultural collapse.
Bee lovers used to be in the exact same position that everyone who loves other insects is - you say that you like this creature and everyone in a 10km radius comes crawling over to tell you all the ways they personally would kill them.
The fact that it’s so common now for people to think bees are cute fun little guys doing an important job is a fucking monumental victory and it was hard won, and it’s as recent as in the last 20 years. When I was a kid in the 90s, everyone hated bees except ecologists and bug guys.
If you want this for wasps too (which i also want) you gotta put the work in to change people’s perceptions.
Have you guys noticed how much the internet/technology just does not listen to you anymore? I click “don’t show this artist” on Spotify and I get recommended a music video by them on the front page. I click “skip this update” on a pop up every time I open a file organization app and it’s right back there every time. I click unsubscribe on a newsletter and it keeps showing up in my inbox!! I click “delete my account” and the next time I open the website they suggest I “reactivate”.
1) Every person who runs for president has to spin a big wheel and if it lands on a certain space you’re just immediately shot to death and your worldly possessions stripped and divided amongst your constituency. This will ensure only those willing to give their lives for the people will run, and would be personally funny to me, Jules
2) What is the opposite of a dynasty. If anyone in your family ever ended up president nobody else in the bloodline can run for like 6 generations. And if someone ever even accidentally implies they’ll be good president because great grandpappy Thomas was president, that person also gets shot to death. This has the benefit of me not needing to hear about political dynastic families and also would be funny to me, Jules
exiting a uquiz halfway through when it becomes clear the creator’s narrow and immature world view and cultural knowledge leaves them totally unequipped to tell me which peanuts character i am with any degree of accuracy or insight
Cemeteries are not wastes of space. Historical cemeteries ESPECIALLY are not wastes of space. The fact developers are continuously foaming at the mouth to destroy them and put a strip mall up in their place should make you even more determined to help maintain them. In urban areas, they are a haven for wildlife. They are a green space. If you are too afraid of death to utilize them for that purpose, that is on you.
i think it’s really important to try to make the world a better place and help people who need it and if you think that’s ‘not your job’ you should just explode idk
individualist society and collectivist society are both flawed and we need to work towards a happy medium that values peoples wishes and autonomy and individuality while still understanding people are interdependent and obligated to do what they can for others and no one should be left behind and if someone is, no matter who they are to you, and you had what it took to help them, you are culpable
