• Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      Bees (and relatives) do it too. If you need to deal with a wasp nest or something like that, do it at night and their defense will be much less enthusiastic.

      When I last dealt with some, knocking down the (small) nests would have a guard harass me until I moved about 10m away from the nest during the day. At night, it would just buzz me a bit before settling back down to rest without me even moving.

      Note that I’m not saying it’s safe to harass a nest/hive at night, just safer than doing it during the day. The ones I dealt with were small enough that I only ever saw a single guard plus one worker, and even during the day, sometimes I’d just fight the one guard instead of running, since it’s hard for a single wasp to sting you if you can track it decently and manage any fear. Trying to deal with a large nest could still be fatal at night.

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    10·
    9 hours ago

    And yet when I give myself auto-brewery syndrome to keep myself permanently drunk people insist I have some kind of “serious medical problem”.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 hours ago

      You can live in a symbiotic relationship with your company’s break-room policy, but you can’t become a host for workers of your own. It’s really unfair.

    • RedAggroBest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      Next? Plantoids have been a thing for ages. And yea you can even be photosynthetic, makes your pops consume less food for more energy

  • mayorchid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    192·
    23 hours ago

    “Stealing”? Am I “stealing” fat from the food I eat? Since when is retaining some components of what you consume equivalent to theft?

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      I’d say, yes, you are literally consuming your food to take anything of value that your body can extract from it, often at the cost of everything for the thing you’re eating (but definitely at the cost of the parts you eat). Like I’m a bit baffled as to how you can consider it not a form of theft. Hell, I’d even argue it is the purest form of theft there is and quite likely the original theft that only scavengers, photosynthesizers, and other life forms that survive on non-biological sources of energy aren’t thieves in that manner.

    • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      19 hours ago

      It uses the chloroplast as the algae uses them. It doesn’t really it them it uses them to photosynthesize. If you took the wing off the chicken and used it to fly you could say that was stealing its wing

    • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipEnglish
      131·
      22 hours ago

      I assume chloroplast is much more complex than fat and we do actually have fat within our body, while the slug doesn’t naturally grow chloroplast.

              • Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
                72·
                19 hours ago

                Digestion begins before you swallow. I expect if I chewed up some salad, opened my mouth and aimed it at the sun, some percentage of what I’d just chewed on would have access to co2, h2o and 600nm EMR, and synthesize a glucose molecule two.

                Since the genesis of this conversation was purely semantic (“why is eating a chrolorplast theft if eating anything else isn’t?”) I think it’s pretty fair game to point out that yes, technically I also can reap the benefits of photosynthesis in a very limited way for something im actively digesting.

                Not really a point in getting into a semantic argument if you’re just gonna come out swinging about being anti-science.

                • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipEnglish
                  32·
                  17 hours ago

                  To put it simply, that slug basically absorb and keep the chloroplast in their own body and let it continue to photosynthesis, hence stealing the ability of the plant they feed, while in your example we basically digest it whole, leaving none of the chloroplast cell to photosynthesis.

                  That’s a huge difference between this two organism, kinda silly to bring it up as an example, no? And technically, it’s still the salad that does the photosynthesis in your example. You do know what’s up, so not anti-science but trolling? Sealioning? Idk. But overall silly.

  • jimmux@programming.devEnglish
    36·
    1 day ago

    I recently saw a vid about these things. Another interesting thing they can do is voluntary decapitation. The head can survive and grow new organs, possibly because photosynthesis gives them the energy to keep going and growing.

  • ch00f@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    1 day ago

    I think the creators of Bioshock were correct to base the plot on seaslugs.