• Ellen_musk_ox@lemm.eeEnglish
    19·
    20 hours ago

    I’d just like to thank everyone for doing their part, posting, reposting, and fear mongering it.

    • Comment105@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      10 hours ago

      Finally outright won a war, huh?

      Well done, please don’t get a taste for it. It’s usually a good thing that the American public can pull the American military out and kinda hold them back from covering little nations in fire and chemical weapons.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    19 hours ago

    It was wild seeing researchers bait them with Meat and tie flags to them, but the fact that this strategy actually worked longterm is beyond wild.

        • limelight79@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          This is great! I had no idea.

          I don’t want to be the guy on the internet that says “they should have done x” as though the scientists aren’t experts in their field, but I do wonder why they didn’t use a bright orange flag or something. The white flag worked well enough, though.

          • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            12 hours ago

            Yeah, one team tied a phone tag on them with dental floss to track a little easier or over longer distance. Another group used a BlueTooth device. It took about a year for scientists in the USA to track down a single nest in 2020-2021 when it first started. A public awareness campaign was able to provide samples and the government agencies and labs with the FDA and local agriculture were able to develop new baits for them which unfortunately had local species casualties as well. I’m not sure if a pesticide was ever developed specifically for them.

            Fun fact, multiple species of giant Asian hornets were discovered around the same time period in the Washington State region and Canada.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    266·
    1 day ago

    America and its “wars against…”

    America hasn’t won any war since WWII, and that includes wars against drugs, countries, people, religions, etc. I highly doubt they won this one. I remember “mission accomplished”

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    21 hours ago

    It sounds stupid but I really want to imagine China was behind all this as a test run of bio warfare via invasive species and there’s just some random CCP agent going Rats! We’ve been foiled again. Start dumping more corn syrup into our honey exports!

  • ZeffSyde@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    1 day ago

    Whew. Looks like the feds didn’t find the colony of buzzy buddies I’ve been nurturing in the suburbs.

    Can’t wait for spring!

  • voldage@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4211·
    1 day ago

    Yeah sure “murder hornets”. Like “murder japs”, “murder communists”, “murder vietnamese”, “murder gays”, “murder blacks” or “murder arabs” before. I think I’ll hold off celebrating until I know how much oil those hornets had in stock.

    • kreskin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      16 hours ago

      I hadnt heard “murder gays”. Not sure that one is very dangerous sounding. Statistically speaking, dangerous gay people must exist, I just have never met one personally. Odd.

      • voldage@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Well, check Jeffrey Dahmer media portrayal. It fed well into the “gay panic” of the times. Check this article from 1994: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-11-29-mn-2780-story.html Emphasis of the lust, homoeroticism etc. being the driving factor of the murders, while there are no mentions of diagnosed mental disorders. And yeah, “murder gay” sold far worse than, for example, “murder black” which is a timeless classic media go to each time any socioeconomic strife involving any black people happens. Seemingly the public was less receptive of the “murder gay” narrative so they eventually moved on.

    • Prethoryn Overmind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      203·
      1 day ago

      Hey man, I don’t disagree with you.

      However, I think if you take every article you read and turn it into, “meanwhile I am waiting for someone to fix the planer.” You are not really doing much. All of us, including myself, want what you want but those are things that are irrelevant to this article and we should take to things that are relevant.

      Fuck fascism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and anything else that is down right degrading to any human being who is just trying to be happy

      In the same vain though, fuck hornets, fuck those little murderous monstrosities.

      • voldage@lemmy.worldEnglish
        226·
        1 day ago

        That was a joke about USA assigning threatening labels to anything it threatens or exploits to make public afraid of it instead of being supportive of it. As most jokes, it based on the subversion of expectations, which in this case was the suggestion that hornets are good and misunderstood. Comparing them and what they’re doing to bees to gay or black people was intended as a sprinkle of dark humor, implying their (hornets!) destructive nature finds parrarels with the multitude of oppressed kinds of people.

        Way to tell me I’m unfunny and my sense of humor sucks, man (jk)

        • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15·
          21 hours ago

          That was a joke about USA assigning threatening labels to anything it threatens or exploits to make public afraid of it instead of being supportive of it. As most jokes, it based on the subversion of expectations, which in this case was the suggestion that hornets are good and misunderstood. Comparing them and what they’re doing to bees to gay or black people was intended as a sprinkle of dark humor, implying their (hornets!) destructive nature finds parrarels with the multitude of oppressed kinds of people.

          I think you might want to go back to some of your source material and rework it if you think it’s funny.

          Way to tell me I’m unfunny and my sense of humor sucks, man (jk)

          2edgy4me maybe on 4chan it might do better

          • voldage@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            21 hours ago

            Funny, that’s exactly a reply one would expect from a 4chan dweller. Is there a miniority or other group of people that USA demonized for profit that you’re angry I’ve neglected to mention in this joke about imperialism and hornets, or was there something else that triggered you to go in swinging with insults? Apparently at least one other person found it funny, so I feel like the reason the joke didn’t land with you might have to do with you not being the target audience, whatever it might be.

            • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              20 hours ago

              Is there a miniority or other group of people that USA demonized for profit that you’re angry I’ve neglected to mention in this joke about imperialism and hornets, or was there something else that triggered you to go in swinging with insults?

              no, I just found your commentary devoid of any real purpose. it lacked the thoughtfulness and effort of a good joke and took extreme liberties in joining the topic of murder hornets and American prejudices and imperialism.

              Apparently at least one other person found it funny, so I feel like the reason the joke didn’t land with you might have to do with you not being the target audience, whatever it might be.

              you are correct, the joke didn’t land with me, but not for the reasons you expressed. they didn’t land with me because I failed to see the connection between the efforts taken by thousands of people to fight off an invasive species and imperialism.

              so won’t you please expound upon what the correlation between the two are for me? maybe then I might get the joke and I’ll gladly apologize.

              • voldage@lemmy.worldEnglish
                21·
                19 hours ago

                You seem to misunderstand humor. It is humorous specifically because there is no link between murder hornets and the aformentioned groups of people that USA “waged wars against”. The fact that you’re stressing that the joke “took extreme liberties” is kind of absurd - that is the point, to subvert expectations. Which is a part I already explained in the comment in which I explained the joke once. Let me go in for a deeper dive.

                The language of “USA waging wars on XYZ” is often used by media to fabricate distorted view on reality, in which a group of people is presented as threatening to the country despite the opposite being the case. That language is well known and it is well estabilished as a useful propaganda tool. Reaction to usage of that language in cases that warrant outrage (as in, for example, for groups of people I’ve mentioned in my first comment) would often be one full of sympathy towards the victims and, at the very least, distrust towards the media outlet that used it. All of that sits well within the expectations of the reader.

                The aptly named murder hornets however murder bees, which almost everyone knows is a bad thing for the world in general. There isn’t much things that would make people in general think “that’s bad”. They do not have a good reputation and none reedeming qualities.

                They’re not what you would expect one to defend, you would not accuse USA of a psy op to smear their name, and you would not think that they perhaps have a stockpile of oil that that old, dastardly United States of A wanted to steal. And that’s the subversion of expectation, portraying the murder hornets as victims of USA propaganda and comparing them to unjustly prosecuted people. That’s the humorous part. Do you get it now?

                You’re trying to somehow tie it to the work of people that pulled this off, but you only could go for calling that disrespectful if you believed any disrespect was meant, and that would require you to believe my (already explained) joke was meant as serious defence of the hornets. And I’m sorry, but that’s just dumb. I don’t feel like you misunderstood the joke, but rather that you’re trolling for the sake of rage baiting. I’d appreciate it if you stopped.

                And if you understood all that and still feel like my joke wasn’t funny, I’m sorry, it does seem you aren’t a part of audience that this joke was meant for, and my frivolous joke-comment written while morning-pooping did not brighten your day. I’m sure something else will, as long as you put effort to find it. Good luck!

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      24 hours ago

      why so mad bro? did a murder hornet kill your family and now you’re pissed because the farmers of America didn’t kill them faster?

  • Slovene@feddit.nlEnglish
    15·
    1 day ago

    Now you gotta send help to Australia. Those damned emus are a worthy adversary.

  • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    351·
    2 days ago

    (camera focuses on the news playing on a TV in a home in the countryside, slowly pulling back away from the monitor)

    “…thanks to their efforts, experts have now stated with certainty that this threat has been eradicated…”

    (the camera has pulled back enough that the screen is framed by an outside window with a tree trunk coming into frame from the right)

    “…and many communities in the northwest united states can breathe easier knowing that these dreaded hornets are no longer found on our shores. Reporting from Seattle…”

    (focus shifts to the tree bark. Buzzing is heard, getting louder and louder until a single murder hornet queen lands on the tree. Cut to black. Roll credits)