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myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)

WHO told me to read "Consider Her Ways" by Frederick Philip Grove? Someone on here told me about this book... This books is: * amazing * a little bonkers, can't believe it's real * hilarious ... wall to wall ant jokes Let me share a passage: "She went so far as to assert that, if nature had not given man to ants, ants would, at least in these parts, have had to invent or to breed something much resembling man in order to subsist in safety." 1/

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@Phosphenes

That's a different story. I'm talking about the book about ants by Frederick Philip Grove

It's nice to know that someone else who has watched ants has noticed that comport themself as if the planet were made for them and they have conquered it. They shape the landscape, farm, raise livestock, and organize all of their affairs and it really makes human people look... messy when you glace up from the anthill.

And yet! It's not like ants are peaceful or meek. They have their warlike moments, deceptions, and more.

So these things are not products of the human mind alone.

@FediThing

This book is much older than that book I wonder if it was an inspiration.

The book Phase IV is **terrible** please skip that one.

The fire ants LOVE humans and find us useful. Our narrator is less impressed.

"In the third place, it has been rumoured that man also keeps cattle; and from that fact it has been inferred by certain bold speculators that he must have reached a social and intellectual stage little below
that of certain ants, though not the most highly developed kinds."

The Author (A leaf-cutter) Musing about humans.

3/3

"But, of course, having created ants, the crown and supreme achievement of her work, nature could be trusted to provide for them; and so she had also created man."

-Solenopsis Invicta (invasive fire ant) Queen explaining why humans exist.

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WHO told me to read "Consider Her Ways" by Frederick Philip Grove? Someone on here told me about this book...

This books is:

* amazing
* a little bonkers, can't believe it's real
* hilarious ... wall to wall ant jokes

Let me share a passage:

"She went so far as to assert that, if nature had not given man to ants, ants would, at least in these parts, have had to invent or to breed something much resembling man in order to subsist in safety." 1/

@timtfj @Jestbill

they'd just bite all of the dots off and use them to build some ant thing.

I can't see the post this is replying to, can you link it? This happens from time to time on here and I don't know why exactly.

@dzedus

*brrrup*
*desperate scrambling*

@drmambobob @pthane

I think it's important to remember that you can know something is a bad idea even if you can't make sense of the motivations of the people trying to do it.

Because it's possible their motivations make no sense. No one can explain this to me sufficiently. It's a bad idea.

It's bad that it even is "an idea" it's not worth thinking about.

@EvilCartyen

"That said, the Greenlanders should decide who to associate with."

Absolutely.

@pthane

Do they think that far into the future?

They won't be alive then.

@EugestShirley

Everyone wants to be a little big man instead of actually doing amazing big things. The lack of imagination depresses me.

@naturepoker

I have a friend who used to work in commodities and he says the oil companies are not interested in Venezuela now. They were wary because of the government, but now they are MORE wary because it's less stable.

@depereo

Why can't they just do that now?

There is a theory that this move is designed to break up NATO.

I thought that was a little far fetched at first, NATO is really good for the US, it's like the birthday boy throwing a tantrum.

But some conservatives have a deep seated fear of "world government." So maybe that's it? Basically these are the guys who find it galling that there are notions like "international law" or "human rights" however unevenly applied.

Can someone explain to me what Trump and the US Government or companies would be able to do if they "had Greenland" that they can't do right now?

Like, what are we talking about? It's going to be cold Puerto Rico? I'd say "well they could set up a military base" ... but we have that already?

Is this about mineral or drilling rights or something?

It's of course offensive nonsense, but I don't even get the point. And no one asks them.

What do you get?

@HappytoBe

The tech was so cool. Flawed to a degree but still impressive.

But I am a sucker for a pair of big turbines.