Stairmaster posted:

https://twitter.com/gundamcel/status/1464329147661139976?s=20

Some Guy TT posted:

JesusIsTehCool posted:

Does anyone know any good documentaries about the IRA, like a history of group and its members? Sorry if this is the wrong thread to ask this in.

i say swears online posted:

lol that he would lose the election ten months later

i say swears online posted:

lol that he would lose the election ten months later

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

Or they wish it was.

Tankbuster posted:

My parents.

Some Guy TT posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1477393899886940166

Suplex Liberace posted:

Is he posting that as a good thing and not a war crime?

Weka posted:

Yeah I don't think a human can set off a naval mine, at least not easily.

Platystemon posted:

Yo momma could set off a naval mine.

Weka posted:

Despite her immense mass she could not, as naval mines typically have magnetic triggers. Unless you refer to your dick as a naval mine (explodes in the wet).

quote:

One thing that makes studying honeybees so enjoyable is the way that what is
learned through curiosity-driven research often turns out, unexpectedly, to have
real practical value. My best example of this phenomenon is the way that
knowing something about the defecation habits of Asian honeybees helped
defuse tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union back in the
1980s. This story starts in the late 1970s when I had finished graduate school
and was keen to travel overseas and learn about the marvelous species of
honeybees that live in the Asian tropics: the Asian hive honeybee (Apis cerana),
the dwarf honeybee (Apis florea), and the giant honeybee (Apis dorsata). With
support from the National Geographic Society, my wife Robin and I undertook a
10-month study of the colony defense strategies of the three Asian honeybee
species living in Thailand. We set up camp in the pristine mountain forests of the
vast Khao Yai National Park in northeast Thailand, where one can still enjoy the
sight of hornbills wing ing their way between towering dipterocarp trees, the
eerie smell of Asian tiger urine deposited along a trail, the whooping calls of
white-faced gibbons shortly after sunrise, and the mysterious biology of the
Asian honeybees. Gradually we assembled a picture of each honeybee species’
fascinatingly complex array of colony defenses against such enemies as giant
hornets, weaver ants, honey buzzards, tree shrews, rhesus monkeys, and honey
bears. This was field biology done for biology’s sake, and it was a wonderful
adventure for two newlyweds. Sometimes I wonder, though, if even half a dozen
biologists worldwide have read closely the beautifully detailed, 21 page report
on the Asian honeybees that we published in the scientific journal Ecological
Monographs.

A few years later, however, and to my amazement, the knowledge that we’d
gained about the Asian honeybees proved important to a large international
audience. In 1981, the secretary of state in the Reagan administration, Alexander
M. Haig, alleged that the Soviet Union was waging or abetting chemical warfare
against opponents of the communist governments in two countries bordering
Thailand: Laos and Kampuchea. If true, this was a violation of two international
arms-control treaties, the 1925 Geneva Protocol and the 1972 Biological
Weapons Convention. The main evidence cited by Haig was a material called
“yellow rain,” that is, yellow spots less than 6 millimeters (one-quarter inch) in
diameter that were found on vegetation at alleged attack sites and that
supposedly contained fungal toxins. I realized, however, that the yellow spots
that U.S. officials called yellow rain were indistinguishable from the yellow
spots I called honeybee feces. They were identical in size, shape, and color.
Further work revealed that both contained bee hairs and were laden with pollen
grains from which the protein had been digested. Eventually, I was able to help
Matthew Meselson, a professor of molecular genetics at Harvard and an expert
on chemical and biological weapons, show conclusively that yellow rain was
indeed honeybee feces, not chemical warfare. One wag said we had uncovered
the work of “KGBs.” Shortly after yellow rain was proven to be bee poop, in
1984, officials of the U.S. State Department, without fanfare, ceased accusing
the Soviets of violating the two arms-control treaties on chemical and biological
weapons.

Weka posted:

Despite her immense mass she could not, as naval mines typically have magnetic triggers. Unless you refer to your dick as a naval mine (explodes in the wet).