wax_worm_futures [comrade/them]

We need to keep in mind how much of the scientific framing (and thus our understanding of the matter) is shaped by Anglo ideology.

“Colony” and “queen” and “worker” are three such examples.

More revolving-door presidential cabinets! MORE!

Jam is a dessert food. It doesn’t belong as a central part of a meal.

Yet Americans will eat it with sweetened peanut butter and sweetened bread and call the resulting creation, whether in its squishiness or its sogginess, a full meal.

Chevre or Havarti or even Gouda would make a good addition. Parmesan or Cheddar would not. Cheez Whiz would be the cursed option.

Ranch only works as an alternate pizza sauce, anything else is

You don’t need passive income to be able to do what you want. Mostly you just need to get past the barrier of housing cost.

Where I am, I could pay down a mortgage on a good house in 4-5 years of working fulltime. With another two similarly-committed comrades to share the house with, we could easily pull it off in 2 years. After that, baseline cost of living would be 6000 a year for 3 people.

After working fulltime for 2 years I quit my job and the 18 months since I’ve averaged less than 10 hours a week of zero-hour type gigs or odd jobs. I’ve been on like 12 overnight-away-from-home trips in that time, totaling over 3 months. I could probably retire on 300k, including the cost of a house. I’m going to have to start working again soon but I’ve been in total vacation mode for a year and a half.

This is a very tenuous alliance.

At the capitalist bug farm, mice were always getting into our waxworms, because they buildings were poorly built, they used poorly-sealed kitty litter boxes to grow the waxworms in, and the racks easily allowed the mice to climb up (partly because of escaped-worm cocoons on them).

We’d see them running across the main floor all the time. It was very common to open up a box after 6 weeks and see a litter of baby mice inside, and barely any waxworms. Maybe one out of every 50 was like that.

little pressure and POP out comes a little beetle of ear wax.

All the commercial ear drops are based on either vinegar, alcohol, or hydrogen peroxide. And a list of antibiotics that steadily gets longer as resistance disseminates.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/24654-ear-drops

I went by the farmers’ market the other day and a stall had duck eggs for $8-10 a dozen. Buying 36-packs from Walmart is maybe about $1 a dozen. I don’t see it going much lower than that, or higher than $20, though.

For a while now I’ve been fairly convinced that everyday expenditures scale logarithmically with income. The increase is pretty smooth, and tapers off pretty smoothly too.

Buddy, do I have just the financial instrument for you!

Physically quite dirty but ethically clean.

if you have chickens I will send you worms very close to at-cost

Did someone say the magic word?

Busco compradores para mis gusanos

trying not to get bugs in my rug as i count them to track the survivability of my starter mealworm population

Couldn’t be me, I would have sent you the ants in cardboard boxes.

I spend all day in a conference room with Satan, telling him what good ideas he has and how epic his memes are.

So you know how insects have no lungs, just a series of tubes throughout their body that let oxygen in as they enlarge their body cavity?

It’s a similar thing in the taint, the piss just diffuses through.

Piss is smart, it knows where to go.