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[-] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 150 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

[✓] Small Pox

[✓] Murder Hornets

[ ] Twitter

We're almost there, humanity!

Can't you just literally put an [X] for Twitter?

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 46 points 3 months ago
[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

[X] Twitter

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[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

[❌] Twitter

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[-] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 3 months ago

Yes, the only three problems!

[-] NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz 53 points 3 months ago

Oh wait someone has started unchecking all the previously checked boxes

[-] socsa@piefed.social 35 points 3 months ago

IS THAT RFK WITH A FOLDING CHAIR?!

[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago
[-] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if RFK Jr. Came out in favor of murder hornets

[-] NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz 4 points 3 months ago

He needs more carcasses for his falcon

[-] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 19 points 3 months ago

Small pox won't be checked for long.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 months ago

Declared extinct in the wild by the WHO in 1980.

[-] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 months ago

RFK will probably support reintroduction, so....

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[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 61 points 3 months ago

“Yeah, yeah, we’re totally eradicated. All is now fine, there’s nothing to worry about. Sleep well!” - Sneaky Murder Hornet.

[-] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 17 points 3 months ago

“Somehow, the murder hornets have returned.”

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 53 points 3 months ago
[-] kchr@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 months ago

Ladies and gentlemen, we got'em.

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[-] voldage@lemmy.world 43 points 3 months 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.

[-] Prethoryn@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months 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.world 22 points 3 months 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)

[-] kchr@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 months ago

For what it's worth, I chuckled at your comment. :-)

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[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 40 points 3 months ago

Uhh, first win since WW2. Congrats.

[-] HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 13 points 3 months ago

How about every fucking World Series there bucko? Nice try!

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago
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[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

(cough desert storm)

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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)

[-] superkret@feddit.org 11 points 3 months ago

Coming Soon...

MURDER H4NET

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Murd3r Horn3t: The Buzz3ning

[-] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Snakes On A Plane 4: This Time It's Hornets- A film by Chat GPT

[-] dellish@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

Hey hey, the US actually won a war! Been a long time coming..

[-] BreadOven@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago
[-] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

Supportive Emu noises

[-] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 3 months ago

Until the next ones arrive on another ship

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago
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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

finally some good fucking food...

Anybody know where i can get some murder hornets from? (i jest, ofc)

shitposting aside, how rare is it that invasive species are eradicated before becoming a problem? Can't be that common.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 15 points 3 months ago

Never. Cause the definition of "Invasive species" includes it being a problem. Otherwise they're called "Introduced species".

[-] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

Yeah they are probably lying. They can not know with 100% certainty that these giant asian hornets have all been eradicated in the us. They couldn't get rid of something as benign as the spotted lantern fly or the marmorated stink bug but sure lets believe they got rid of a hornet as big as a humming bird that has facial recognition capabilities and can unalive people with a swarm no larger than 50 to 100 of the fuckers

[-] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Right? Have we all forgotten about killer bees all of the sudden?

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Pretty uncommon but it has happened. Especially with agricultural pests where there is a large industry that can push for a proper response. I’m guessing beekeepers were the industry in question this time.

If it only affects nature and not industry then it’s usually ignored.

[-] ellen_musk_0x@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 15 points 3 months ago

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

[-] uis@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

Who to help? Australia is run by emus. They won in war.

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[-] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months 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!

[-] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago

They really didn't go with homicidal hornets? We actin' like fun alliterations just come around all the time now?

[-] Mystech@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

War against Murder CEOs remains unresolved.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months 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.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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!

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