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@fandomstookovermylife
"Me when I lie" is such a funny pseudo-diplomatic response to anything. Like just going "see I'm not saying that you would ever lie, but I tend to be a liar, and that would be the exact kind of thing that would come out of my mouth when I'm lying" sounds like the exact kind of quip that someone who was just described as 'too clever for their own good' would get stabbed over.
vegans make peace with honey
no shut up do it
vegans will pretend not to hear when natives tell them their agave products are unsustainable because they have whimsical feelings about, and i cannot stress this enough, the freedom of hive insects
Prove it.
I have not seen any evidence tonsugges they are harmed or die in the process of production. They do regurgitate the nectar as part of the process to concentrate it into honey (an interesting process) but they do not suffer any injury during this process. If they did, the cost to produce honey, which is done naturally as a measure to survive over winter and through times of lower availability, would outweigh the benefits. If you kill several bees to produce enough honey to make one more bee, It makes no sense. Any animal that did that would die, even with human intervention.
Do you have any sources which suggest otherwise? Iâd be interested to hear of this (relatively publicly available) information was false or misunderstood.
Bee farmers use whats called a honey maker. Itâs a crude devices. It similar to a meat grinder. They force the bees in and grind them up. What comes out is a paste. That paste is later filtered into what we know as honey
This is the funniest thing Iâve ever read
@zoologicallyobsessed please show us pics of your bee grinder
they might be falsely thinking about a honey extractor machine. but all these do is you place the beehive frames inside and a motor rotates it at a speed that removes the honey, which is then tapped through a tap at the bottom.Â
âŠdo they think they put bees in that and spin them around until they vomitâŠ?
bee carnival
bad and naughty bees get put into the b e e c e n t r i f u g e to extract their honey
Vegans coming after beekeepers is one of my major teeth grinding annoyances. For many reasons, because thereâs so many lies. And to go one step further because itâs such a waste. You see, the strongest vegan argument is that they donât want to exploit animals or take from them without their consent.
⊠but⊠Bees consent. NO. IâM NOT KIDDING.
How? Bee hives arenât kept on leashes. Theyâre outside, the bees can travel miles every day. They follow their queen. Who is also outside, not on a leash, and can travel miles every day. If she doesnât like the hive for any reason - for example: it got too hot, too cold, too messy, too filled with sugary stuff and they need more space⊠then the queen leaves. And with her the hive.
The queen stays in the hive because the hive is the best place to live. Period. Done. End of. If the hive is staying with the beekeeper itâs because the keeper is doing their job correctly and keeping them happy because the bees can, and do, leave bad beekeepers.
Of all the animals we have domesticated as livestock, bees are the ones you can most easily argue are consenting participants in their keeping.
Here it is. The bee post is back
I feel compelled to explain the misconception part for anyone who doesnât know anything about beekeeping and finds any of this confusing. This might be a little redundant, but Iâm scratching an itch.
Harvesting honey does not murder bees.
The device pictured above does not mash up bees or their hives.
Thereâs no ethical concern when it comes to eating honey, itâs totally ethical as food is concerned.
Bees manufacture honey using pollen. They store it in the cells of their hive, where itâs used as food for the colony, particularly the larvae growing into the next generation of bees.
When you harvest honey, you remove parts of the hive that are being used to store the honey, without taking any bees along for the ride. Those parts of the hive are then put into a device, like the centrifugal extractor shown above by gemstone-gynoid, where the parts are spun really fast to pull extract the honey. The honey gets collected on the walls of the extractor, drips down, and can then be filtered and bottled for human use.
So.
It turns out that bees love making honey and can make more of it than theyâd ever need. It also turns out that beekeepers taking care of hives and harvesting their honey keeps bees healthy and thriving, more so than theyâd normally accomplish on their own. And we really need bees healthy and thriving because they help us grow an astonishing amount of food by pollinating plants.
Like, thereâs no need to have a conversation about this, anyone who claims that harvesting honey requires that you kill bees is lying. Either they donât know anything about beekeeping and are just repeating a lie someone else told them, or they know that theyâre lying and theyâre just straight up trying to deceive people. Neither is a good look.
And just one more point of clarification â âcells of the hiveâ doesnât mean the anatomical cells of the beesâ bodies, it means the little holes in the honeycomb of the physical structure of the hives, which they build using beeswax. Think of it like a bee pantry. They put their honey in the pantry, but since theyâre working hard every day, they often make wayyyyyy too much of it. So the beekeepers come along and take the extra honeycomb that the bees donât need and arenât going to use, but they leave plenty behind for the bees to eat. Additionally, if anything happens to the hiveâs honey supplies in the winter, the beekeepers can supplement their food by either giving some honey back or giving them sugar water. Also, fun fact! When beekeepers extract the honey from the comb, they often leave all their equipment out afterwards so the bees can come along and clean up, re-collecting any traces of honey or wax left behind, which get put back into the hive and recycled. Any leftover waste (dirt and grime from old comb, for example, or bees that died natural deaths of old age) makes great fertilizer for the plants that produce the pollen the bees make next year. No waste!
Vegans, the bees are not going to stop making honey if theyâre left to their own devices in the wild. The bees are just doing a thing that bees do. Eating honey is not exploitation, itâs sustainability. That said, if youâre still worried about the ethics, Iâd recommend looking up some local beekeepers/honey farms in your area and reaching out to them for more education! Iâve known a lot of beekeepers that are really excited about doing education and outreach to teach people about the importance of pollinators, the partnership between bees and beekeepers, and the process of how honey is collected. Some honey farms will even give you a tour of their process so you can see in person how itâs made and that itâs not a harmful or exploitative process for the bees at all! (and of course eating local honey gives you an amazing connection to your local environment, both spiritually and physically?? like apparently eating local honey can help with seasonal allergies??? itâs really cool)
Hello Mr. Gaiman, long time listener, first time caller. Are you ever going to make the old men fuck, nasty style?
Iâm never sure how to respond to you Shadwell/Job shippers. Perhaps you should expend your energies on AO3.
my friend who works in theatre just pointed out to me that WICKED is still showing tonight and the first line of that musical is "GOOD NEWS! SHE'S DEAD!" i really don't know how they're gonna work around that one
Important update
âItâs rather chilling to consider that one of the most indelible images in the Star Wars saga is its heroine silenced, stripped down, and in chains. I know a lot of men have positive feelings about this particular costume â in fact thereâs an entire episode of the popular sitcom Friends thatâs devoted to it â which is why itâs kind of hilariously ironic that Han Solo was blind during these scenes. That is, the one man who is romantically attached to Leia is the one man who never saw her in the golden bikini. Which means Han Solo is more attracted to a mouthy space age shield maiden than he is to a tight female body on display. In fact, if I could be so bold, I would suggest that Han Solo would be more turned on hearing about how Leia strangled Jabba the Hutt to death â using nothing but the chain that enslaved her â than he would be hearing about how his sworn enemy turned the woman he loved into a tawdry plaything.â
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HAN SOLO: WAS THE âSTAR WARSâ HERO A NOT-SO-SECRET FEMINIST? (via laurenbacal)
#the time heâs moved to breathily declare that he loves her on screen? #sheâs about to shoot some dudes and wearing a huge Skywalker Ponchoâą
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I mean, the first time he says heâs starting to like her, sheâs wearing a dress that covers her from chin to ankles and has spent the entire time heâs known her stealing guns, yelling at him about how sucky of a rescuer he is, and trash-talking his ship.
Of course I want a relationship. However. How the fuck am I supposed to find a guy that makes me feel the way You and I by Anarbor does???????
sorry i didnât text you back i was having floor time
Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022) // The mandalorian (2019 -)
#Being a space dad isnât easyÂ
who is doing it like him
me, helping a little girl pick out a locket at the shop: do you usually like to wear goldtone or silvertone?
little girl: I like silver because of Artemis, the goddess of the moon and the hunt and also sheâs a warrior and she never got married.
me, internally: never let the world change you
btw this was only a partial listing of the many Artemis facts imparted to me by this very good small child. I told her Athena was always my favorite so she also told me some Athena facts.Â
her dad gave me a look like âthank u for being patientâ and I tried to convey with mostly eyebrow moments âoh please I WAS this kid, only for ancient Egypt and also Marguerite Henry booksâ but iâm not sure it got across
I just blocked at least three people in the notes on this for being snidely superior calling it fake.
REALLY? Really?
Itâs that fucking difficult to believe âa child who was interested in Greek Mythology talked about it enthusiastically with an adult who was paying attention to herâ? And then the parent appreciated that the other adult was nice to his kid?
THATâS your cut-off for unbelievable?
Do you know zero children, or are you just being a dick on purpose? Or were you just a boring-ass kid? OR are you just a dick to children who try to engage with you?
My husband teases me because I will unintentionally make friends with children in public ALL THE TIME. LITERALLY all it takes is if a kid says something to you, even of you already know about it, you go âwow, really?â And smile and nod while they excitedly gibber away.
Most kids arenât used to adults listening to them. If you show (or feign) genuine interest with what a kid is talking about, letting them feel smart and knowledable for a few minutes, you have won them over FOREVER.
That sounds really damn creepy. Not gonna lie. Youâre an adult you have no right talking to strange children.
I donât really know how to explain to you that not every interaction between adults and children is inherently predatory? Like, for example, standing in line next to a family in Disney World and having a kid talk to you about Oswalt the Rabbit while their mother stands next to him isnât âreally creepy.â Itâs a normal human interaction, particularly if you view kids as, likeâŠpeople? Sometimes kids will try to talk to you, even if they donât know you, and there are appropriate and normal ways to respond to kids when they do.Â
But, if YOU feel like YOU canât interact with children without being creepy, then by all means, please avoid doing so.Â
in JUST Disney World I would just GIVE kids Trading Pins that I bought in bulk on line. Like, in line to meet Phineas and Ferb two kiddos were eyeing me and my SOâs lanyards and we traded pins (they wouldnât let me just give them pins). There was a kiddo who was in front of us for the rivers of Pandora ride who was legit freaking out. Her parents were just screaming at her to be calm. I knelt and asked who her favorite Disney character was (it was goofy and I said she had good taste) and I told her Iâd give her a pin, any except the like two Iâd gotten that day that I was VERY attached to, if she promised to be brave and ride the ride with us. she rode, she was brave, she got a pin, and she didnât scream or cry anymore.
Most kids get talked to like they are dumb. If you treat kids like they arenât complete dummies they become so fulfilled! I was that kid. I was MILES smarter than other people I knew, and my mom to this day tells her friends that â[I] has a fun fact for everythingâ. Sharing and learning things are so important and treating kiddos like what they say matters is even moreso.
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As a parent too can I just say this is a fucking godsend. An adult who engages with your child when youâre operating on half an hourâs sleep for the past six weeks and have only been able to manage monosyllables to the person you love most in the world (your kid) because of that when someone treats them kindly, when someone gives them some attention that isnât a tired âyes honey?â It can make that kidâs day and by knock on make the day a thousand times better for their parent too.Â
For fuckâs sake. Smile at babies in supermarket trollies, you might manage to postpone the tantrum they were about to throw by a few seconds and mean mum or dad will get home without a migraine. There are parents out there that would give OP a thousand bucks because of the joy they gave that kid, that kid will talk about the ânice person in the shopâ for WEEKS, they will also probably remember them for life.
Children deserve to interact with people of all ages positively. Some of the people in these comments should not be allowed to have them.
if you think itâs creepy for adults to talk to children just on the basis of them being adults and children then please never have or be near children.
i love cheating on exams i love abortion i love autism i love âunhealthyâ food i love vaccines and ugly clothes and sex changes amen
i love not giving half a shit about calorie counts i love fucked up fashion choices and super bright socks i love permanently altering my body in irreversible ways because i feel like it i love adhd i love wearing masks even when nobody else is i love fucking over the education system. amen.
