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Mogensthegreat

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    Mogensthegreat reacted to Toxn in Post Election Thread: Democracy Dies In Darkness And You Can Help   
    Forwarding "We will fight until the last American" as the new NATO motto.
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    Mogensthegreat reacted to Collimatrix in Post Election Thread: Democracy Dies In Darkness And You Can Help   
    If The King in Orange wants to gaslight the Republican Party, I'm fine with that.  Fuck those people too.  Honestly, the back and forth in this thread seems to break down like so:



    A:"Guys, I'm worried that Trump appears to be exhibiting a repeated pattern of trying to damage institutions and traditions, embarrass officials, and glibly dismissing any criticism with a series of baffling and nonsensical one-liners that he clearly improvised."
     
    B:"FUCK YES THAT'S WHAT I VOTED FOR!  IA IA, TRUMP FHTAGN!  HAIL THE ALL-CONSUMING MADNESS AND MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
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    Mogensthegreat got a reaction from AdmiralTheisman in The Hippie Hate Thread   
    Sidebar ads from a hippie site:
     






    "Harnessing Energy Lines and Geocosmos in Ancient and Modern Quito"

    "Alchemy and Generating Lifeforce —Global Temples Made in the Shape of Lingams: Shaivite Bull Cult Part II"
     
    I came here for info about kurgans and this is what I find?
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    Mogensthegreat got a reaction from Lord_James in The Bee Thread   
    Lately I've been reading a book on beekeeping, and the first thing it goes into is the physiology of bees, their developmental cycle, as well as the "castes" of bees and what each does, which might be the most interesting thing about them. 
     
    The queen bee is born from a grotesque, alien cell that juts out from the bottom of the normal brood cells:

     
    Once a queen is born, if she isn't killed at once by a resident queen, she takes a nuptial flight and goes to one of several DCA's (drone congregating areas - areas where drones from all the hives in the area go) and mates with about 20 drones. After that, she is mated for life and does nothing else for the rest of her life except lay eggs and kill rival queens.
     
    The drones are the only male bees, and they do nothing else but mate once with a queen and then die (the drone's package is actually basically the same as a worker's stinger, and it is ripped out of their bodies after one use) The drones in the hive just break open honey cells when they need to eat, as they are incapable of foraging from plants.
     
    The workers do literally everything else, and they are by far the most interesting caste. The workers are actually the smallest bees. When they are born, the first thing they do is clean out their cell to prepare it for another egg. Then they become nurse bees, feeding larvae and sometimes the queen as well. Some nurse bees serve the function of incubators, generating heat for brood cells when the temperature is not hot enough. In certain bee races, the nurse bees also clear out dead or diseased larvae, a very highly sought-after, but unfortunately recessive trait. Next, after a week or so, they become guard bees, defending the hive from raider bees or other animals. After another week or so, they become foragers. The first thing foragers do is take an orientation flight to familiarize themselves with local landmarks. The foraging bees bring back pollen to become bee bread and nectar to become honey, as well as water. They also communicate the location of good sources of resources to other foragers via dances. Strangely, the dances are different for each bee race. Some races have 3 distinct dances and others just have 2. The different dances communicate that the food lies within various distance ranges. For long-distance sources, the bees "waggle" different number of times during the "figure-eight" or "waggle" dance for more specific communication.
    all bee dances are done in the same spot in the hive, called the "dance floor"
    Observing bees pick up on the visual dance as well as the scent of whatever the dancer is trying to communicate and then a few bees join together and exploit that resource for all they can. The foraging stage is hard on a bee, and this life stage degrades them physically. Very old bees become scout bees, and if they take part in a swarm (basically bee colonialism), they look for good new hive locations and then argue with other scouts about the best location (no joke, they do their dances repeatedly until all but one shuts up, and that's the hive location they choose.)
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    Mogensthegreat got a reaction from Xlucine in The Bee Thread   
    Lately I've been reading a book on beekeeping, and the first thing it goes into is the physiology of bees, their developmental cycle, as well as the "castes" of bees and what each does, which might be the most interesting thing about them. 
     
    The queen bee is born from a grotesque, alien cell that juts out from the bottom of the normal brood cells:

     
    Once a queen is born, if she isn't killed at once by a resident queen, she takes a nuptial flight and goes to one of several DCA's (drone congregating areas - areas where drones from all the hives in the area go) and mates with about 20 drones. After that, she is mated for life and does nothing else for the rest of her life except lay eggs and kill rival queens.
     
    The drones are the only male bees, and they do nothing else but mate once with a queen and then die (the drone's package is actually basically the same as a worker's stinger, and it is ripped out of their bodies after one use) The drones in the hive just break open honey cells when they need to eat, as they are incapable of foraging from plants.
     
    The workers do literally everything else, and they are by far the most interesting caste. The workers are actually the smallest bees. When they are born, the first thing they do is clean out their cell to prepare it for another egg. Then they become nurse bees, feeding larvae and sometimes the queen as well. Some nurse bees serve the function of incubators, generating heat for brood cells when the temperature is not hot enough. In certain bee races, the nurse bees also clear out dead or diseased larvae, a very highly sought-after, but unfortunately recessive trait. Next, after a week or so, they become guard bees, defending the hive from raider bees or other animals. After another week or so, they become foragers. The first thing foragers do is take an orientation flight to familiarize themselves with local landmarks. The foraging bees bring back pollen to become bee bread and nectar to become honey, as well as water. They also communicate the location of good sources of resources to other foragers via dances. Strangely, the dances are different for each bee race. Some races have 3 distinct dances and others just have 2. The different dances communicate that the food lies within various distance ranges. For long-distance sources, the bees "waggle" different number of times during the "figure-eight" or "waggle" dance for more specific communication.
    all bee dances are done in the same spot in the hive, called the "dance floor"
    Observing bees pick up on the visual dance as well as the scent of whatever the dancer is trying to communicate and then a few bees join together and exploit that resource for all they can. The foraging stage is hard on a bee, and this life stage degrades them physically. Very old bees become scout bees, and if they take part in a swarm (basically bee colonialism), they look for good new hive locations and then argue with other scouts about the best location (no joke, they do their dances repeatedly until all but one shuts up, and that's the hive location they choose.)
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    Mogensthegreat got a reaction from Donward in I Learned Something Today   
    Rules of competition:
    It's strictly forbidden to try to influence the number by coming to Finland and drown or drown other people. If the winner has drowned in Finland or stands suspected for drowning someone in Finland, we'll select another. Self-drowning or drowning somebody in some other country does not affect the outcome. Edit: I hope this rule was added because someone tried it.
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    Mogensthegreat got a reaction from Scolopax in The Bee Thread   
    Lately I've been reading a book on beekeeping, and the first thing it goes into is the physiology of bees, their developmental cycle, as well as the "castes" of bees and what each does, which might be the most interesting thing about them. 
     
    The queen bee is born from a grotesque, alien cell that juts out from the bottom of the normal brood cells:

     
    Once a queen is born, if she isn't killed at once by a resident queen, she takes a nuptial flight and goes to one of several DCA's (drone congregating areas - areas where drones from all the hives in the area go) and mates with about 20 drones. After that, she is mated for life and does nothing else for the rest of her life except lay eggs and kill rival queens.
     
    The drones are the only male bees, and they do nothing else but mate once with a queen and then die (the drone's package is actually basically the same as a worker's stinger, and it is ripped out of their bodies after one use) The drones in the hive just break open honey cells when they need to eat, as they are incapable of foraging from plants.
     
    The workers do literally everything else, and they are by far the most interesting caste. The workers are actually the smallest bees. When they are born, the first thing they do is clean out their cell to prepare it for another egg. Then they become nurse bees, feeding larvae and sometimes the queen as well. Some nurse bees serve the function of incubators, generating heat for brood cells when the temperature is not hot enough. In certain bee races, the nurse bees also clear out dead or diseased larvae, a very highly sought-after, but unfortunately recessive trait. Next, after a week or so, they become guard bees, defending the hive from raider bees or other animals. After another week or so, they become foragers. The first thing foragers do is take an orientation flight to familiarize themselves with local landmarks. The foraging bees bring back pollen to become bee bread and nectar to become honey, as well as water. They also communicate the location of good sources of resources to other foragers via dances. Strangely, the dances are different for each bee race. Some races have 3 distinct dances and others just have 2. The different dances communicate that the food lies within various distance ranges. For long-distance sources, the bees "waggle" different number of times during the "figure-eight" or "waggle" dance for more specific communication.
    all bee dances are done in the same spot in the hive, called the "dance floor"
    Observing bees pick up on the visual dance as well as the scent of whatever the dancer is trying to communicate and then a few bees join together and exploit that resource for all they can. The foraging stage is hard on a bee, and this life stage degrades them physically. Very old bees become scout bees, and if they take part in a swarm (basically bee colonialism), they look for good new hive locations and then argue with other scouts about the best location (no joke, they do their dances repeatedly until all but one shuts up, and that's the hive location they choose.)
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    Mogensthegreat got a reaction from Collimatrix in Art Appreciation Thread   
    The Reds didn't have any bishops, but they were able to take the White King and Queen, which basically cost the Whites the game. From then on, the Reds played without a king, queen or bishops but with double the normal number of pawns.
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    Mogensthegreat got a reaction from Donward in Art Appreciation Thread   
    Art?
     

     
    Human Chess Game in Tsarist  Soviet Russia, 1924.
     
    Edit: unfortunately, the re-education programs failed to impress upon me the fact that the glorious patriotic Bolshevik revolution ended in 1922, and this chess game would have been Soviet.
     
    Somehow, it's better as a  Soviet human chess game than a Tsarist one.
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    Mogensthegreat got a reaction from Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect in I Learned Something Today   
    Name of the company that does the pictures at my school.
     

     
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    Mogensthegreat got a reaction from AdmiralTheisman in Education and throwing away your life.   
    Clearly we just need to know whether the students can understand Rick and Morty to determine if they are part if the underclass.
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    Mogensthegreat reacted to Sturgeon in Lets talk about languages   
    We speak the bigliest, yugest English. Americanglish.
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    Mogensthegreat got a reaction from ShamefurDispray in Education and throwing away your life.   
    Clearly we just need to know whether the students can understand Rick and Morty to determine if they are part if the underclass.
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    Mogensthegreat got a reaction from Sturgeon in Education and throwing away your life.   
    Clearly we just need to know whether the students can understand Rick and Morty to determine if they are part if the underclass.
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    Mogensthegreat reacted to SergeantMatt in Saudi Arabia vs Iran thread.   
    I'm rooting for the chaos of the war to cause the Saoshyant to emerge, lead a Zoroastrian Revolution, and restore the Sasanian Empire.
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    Mogensthegreat got a reaction from Sgt.Squarehead in Youtube general?   
    Worst Star Wars remake I've ever seen.
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    Mogensthegreat got a reaction from Sgt.Squarehead in The General Purpose Archaeology Thread   
    Damn.
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    Mogensthegreat got a reaction from LostCosmonaut in Aerospace Pictures and Art Thread   
    My grandfather's F-86 Sabre that he flew in Korea and shot down a Mig-15 in, his was #881, in the front of the picture.
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    Mogensthegreat got a reaction from Jeeps_Guns_Tanks in Aerospace Pictures and Art Thread   
    My grandfather's F-86 Sabre that he flew in Korea and shot down a Mig-15 in, his was #881, in the front of the picture.
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