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[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 days ago

Please don't plant invasive plants in vulnerable ecosystems

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

So they're building data centers in vulnerable ecosystems and destroying their water sources?

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago

You underestimate their willingness to just blanket the surrounding area in herbicide. They don't actually need their water to be potable.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 199 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

What you REALLY REALLY REALLY SHOULDN'T DO is to introduce Pharaoh ants into or near data centers.

Because...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10340-018-1024-7

The also reproduce through clonal budding. The build very small colonies (a few hundreds to thousands of ants) and when stressed due to anything, they'll move their larvae and raise one of them into a new queen to form a new colony. This means Pharaoh ants are practically impossible to eradicate once they get established. They're also VERY QUICK to move into climate controlled environments. And YES they DO cause severe damage to electrical equipment, and for some GODFORSAKEN SATANIC REASON, they FUCKING LOVE ELECTRICITY and ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT!

Source, I had to get almost 10k in electrical work done because after hiring a shitty pest control company, their treatments weren't focused on the biology of pharaoh ants (they didn't even bother to ID them), and by stressing the population, the EXPLODED the population. The ants then decided that my electric panel and several outlets had become their SWORN enemy, to the point it became a real fire hazard as a seemingly endless series of ants came to die by burning up between some junctions.

[-] Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 55 points 3 days ago

Where can i purchase these ants?

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 57 points 3 days ago

Well they have basically a global distribution: https://urbanentomology.tamu.edu/urban-pests/ants/pharoah/

But if you need a quick fix, I know a guy who knows a guy.. hint hint nudge nudge...

[-] Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago

Can you cross breed them with fireants?

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

According to @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world, they turn into fire ants when they reach an electrical junction. While the exterminator was playing chess, the ants were playing checkers.

"Checker-mate"
- The fire ants formally known as Pharaoh

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[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

You can come to my house and take them all

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

Chaotic good post.

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[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Warning, don't plant bamboo underneath the restrained torsos of Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, O'Leary, etc. as they grow so quickly with hard rigid points that they can break through a human torso in 3 days.

[-] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago

Ah yes, grass, the natural enemy of the giant construction machines

[-] salvaria 102 points 3 days ago

Please don't plant bamboo in non-native areas. It's much better to find a protected native species and plant those instead :)

[-] mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago

Maybe black raspberry? Native to much of North America, edible for humans and wildlife, covered in thorns and spreads like a motherfucker.

Also seedy, but delicious.

[-] Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago

Clearly putting a small dent in shareholder value is a bigger priority than conserving obsolete and inefficient ecosystems that only survive due to protectionism and tree hugging eco-fundies.

[-] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I respect the omission of /s and that you're taking this firing squad of down votes like a champ.

The /s is cowardice.

[-] Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

Those who appreciate it make it all worthwhile :)

[-] Rooskie91@discuss.online 35 points 3 days ago

Lol, Bro doesn't know about biodiversity collapse and how it will effect them.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

To be fair once a data center is built there's probably not much biodiversity left to collapse.

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[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Not extreme enough for satire in 2026

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[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 61 points 3 days ago

Bamboo is invasive in north America. Don't

[-] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago
[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago

Two wrongs do not make a right.

Also let's be honest memes like these are simply Internet Warriors pretending to do shit but we all know they are doing nothing outside of online activity of posting memes and bitching on social media.

[-] 0tan0d@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Yeah but the bamboo is going to damage more than just the data center.

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[-] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago

Datacenter owners can find resources and expertise with their imaginary money.

General public, even under sane administration - probably don't.

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[-] sudo@programming.dev 12 points 2 days ago

Its a datacenter not a golf course. They're going to bulldoze the entire lot anyways.

[-] FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Bruh, this is just making things worse, bamboo is a invasive plant species

[-] mig@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Right? Release the giant asian hornets! Oh shit where did these murder wasps come from.

[-] EldenLord@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Bamboo is beginner shit, if you really want to cause trouble, try japanese knotweed. They will never be able to get rid of that!

[-] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Ik it's a PITA!!!!!! My yard has it. It's been observed growing in and surrounding volcanos. FUCKING VOLCANOS!!!!!! GAME FUCKING OVER!!!!!

[-] EldenLord@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Yup. It also quickly regenerates from the tiniest root fragment, so not even plowing and shredding the ground destroys it.

My condolences about your yard.

[-] httperror418@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

What are you, a British railway?

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[-] lime@feddit.nu 43 points 3 days ago

it also strangles basically any native plant it spreads close to, lowering local biodiversity and lowering soil quality. and it grows extremely quickly. not a good thing to plant more of, no matter how pure your motives.

*notices comm name*

uh... fuck you op...?

[-] Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Nah! *Fuck yo data centers!

[-] 4grams@awful.systems 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I mean, same can be said about datacenters..

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[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago

People, people, please. May I suggest a warm cocktail? It's always worked in the past.

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago

I've got my bamboo seeds on order. Best case scenario...wild vicious pandas show up and tear everything down in their search for more bamboo. /s

[-] zxqwas@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

Don't think planting possibly invasive species will solve any problems.

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[-] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

The government would hate it if you happened to lose a sizeable device capable of spontaneously combusting near a data center.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Find the tallest hemp plants, preferable tree size, and throw their seeds around the data centers.

[-] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Please for the love of God don’t do my stupid ideas. I don’t condone any of them.

Get a fucking gas powered pressure washer full of liquid culture of this shit ( https://www.ecurrent.com/food/meet-the-mushroom-stronger-than-sidewalks-banded-agaricus/ ) and spray the building from the back of a pick up truck while wearing a hazmat suit, cheaper than you'd think clean room suit with a skin tight Russian surplus gas mask retrofitted with a modern Honeywell filter using a gas mask adapter.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Only in the south. And only if you use the American species of bamboo.

[-] Okokimup@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Wow. In the novel Soft Apocalypse by Will McIntosh, eco terrorists develop a strain of bamboo that will grow through anything. They plant it to tear up buildings, roads, and the occasional human. Now we just need someone to create the Dr Happy pill.

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