Quote from: prime on Jul 24, 2026, 08:22 PM

QuoteWhen ant larvae of this species are fed woodpecker droppings, they can become infected with the tapeworm Anomotaenia brevis – and so begins an insidious cycle.

Infected ants start to change color, becoming pale yellow rather than their usual darker brown. They tend not to grow as big as their nest mates, and even start to smell different – in fact, they seem to emit pheromones that other ants interpret as being from a queen.

As such, the workers roll out the red carpet for the infected ants. They bring them food, carry them around, and groom them, to the detriment of the rest of the colony.

"At the molecular level, infected workers showed a profile that was partially queen-like."

These changes were linked to metabolism, the immune system, stress, and aging, which helps explain their longer lives and why other ants give them the royal treatment.

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-wild-parasite-makes-ants-live-longer-and-tricks-others-into-worshipping-them-scientists-finally-know-how

It's like a little French Revolution.

AntThrone 🐜 🐜 🐜

I don't care/killed 'em all/ sodomy

LaVey got some things really right, but most things wrong. In the end, he was a Christianized Jew, poor soul, and he tried to invert that but ended up on an equivalent to the Jesusite path.

Luciferianism gets past this by embracing the good/evil binary only in the sense that evil is logical, and "good" is human projection.

We will feast on their hearts and livers.

Levay is a wanker.

Quote from: prime on Mar 15, 2026, 08:50 PM

QuoteThe biggest unanswered question about Batiste, of course, is why he decided, seemingly without provocation, to carry out such a barbaric crime spree in the first place. Was it purely a matter of greed—or was there something else that drove him? Was it possible, for instance, that Batiste was seeking revenge against banks because they wouldn't loan him money due to his criminal record (or perhaps the color of his skin), thereby derailing his real estate ambitions? "You'll never understand the frustration that can build up in a young black man trying to make it in this society," Albert told me. "And yes, Red had that frustration, not getting loans."

Albert also made a point of telling me that Batiste had grown increasingly upset over the years at police officers who randomly pulled him over, patted him down, pushed him to the ground, and jammed their knees into his back—simply because he was a well-dressed black man driving a nice Jeep. "He said they treat black people worse than they treat a damn dog," Albert recalled.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/the-doting-father-who-robbed-armored-cars/

Equality creates false expectations about how reality operates. While I really want to say, "you will never be my equal", I'm sure this statement wouldn't be met with a sane, possibly obscure,understanding. As in: "even forsaking ability, we are wholly different".

And the diversity/equality expectations  start.

Maybe this man will always be a victim  flailing against the majority, and justifying his bad behavior.

Yes, this is a terrible tragedy that effects everyone, more or less.

Since their is no hope of a sane outlook for most people, followed by a gentleman's solution, removal by force is survival.

Quote from: prime on Jul 31, 2026, 10:14 AM

QuoteTaxable income includes both active income, such as employment and business income, as well as passive income, such as capital gains, rents and royalties, interest, dividends, certain insurance proceeds, pensions, scholarships, grants, prizes and lottery winnings, etc. This list is not exhaustive; consequently, any income derived by a resident individual not falling within the above categories is taxable, unless a tax exemption is available.

Most items of personal income are taxed on a gross basis, mainly through withholding at source, whereas business income and capital gains are taxed on a net basis subject to certain conditions.

https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/estonia/individual/taxes-on-personal-income

22% rate. Seems saner although it is probably cleaner to tax rents at net.

My brother says he's taxed at around 20%.

Why am I taxed at 45-50%?

Fun quotations, though I haven't been through half of it, oddly-not-odd, no mention of the voters. The voters' awareness extends no farther than the paunch of their bellies, preferably obscured by their own sheer rotundity. They "choose" representation like they choose their next meal. Then? They lose interest. Let's get them back to that "awareness" level.

I am also reminded that Boomers want to remind us how much harder they worked than us to fulfill the equality prophecy, yet they have the decency to not outright brag about the money they made and how much more valuable it used to be.

Start with "Manna":

https://web.archive.org/web/20251122182823/https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

Quote from: prime on Feb 22, 2026, 02:34 PMThere are three potential reasons for incarceration:

1. Punishment
2. Deterrence
3. Isolation

To this liberals add another one:

4. Rehabilitation

I separate punishment from deterrence because there is a sense among people that some things should have responsibility with them, namely if you cause pain you feel pain, and not necessarily as a deterrent so much as righting order.

To my mind, only #3 is viable. Revenge is futile, deterrence is proportionate to likelihood of getting caught, and they never rehabilitate except in a few isolated and quirky cases (the college student literally selling drugs to fund school because he has no time for a second job).

Under liberal influence from the 1960s through early 1980s, a lot of judges were lenient on crime, which gave criminals an extended vacation in prison to learn from other criminals. They often became more ruthless when they got out, including executing victims in order to avoid having testimony against them.

QuoteA neighbor of Singleton's recognized the police sketch crafted from Mary's account and wasted no time contacting law enforcement. Nine days after the attack, Singleton was arrested and charged with attempted murder, rape, and a slew of other sexual offenses against Mary.

Despite being found guilty, he received a shockingly short sentence of only 14 years, and as he left the courtroom, he had some chilling words for Mary: "If it's the last thing I do, I'll finish the job," he whispered menacingly as he was dragged away.

Singleton was released just eight years later for 'good behavior.' Tragically, Singleton would go on to murder Roxanne Hayes, a mother of three, in 1997. When police arrived at the scene after a neighbor's call, they found him blood-stained.

https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/chilling-case-woman-who-left-947876

The rehabilitation part is probably to make you fear retribution if you don't obey the ideology.

This causes continued isolation, and defeatism. Or when his eyes are open, self-destruction/total sacrificial suicide.

Hi, I'll just be in the corner, observing corruption and decline, with a thumb up my ass.

Just kidding, I still haven't given up. My wife told me. You can write it on my bonestone, if needed.

Let us try one we can demonstrate:

QuoteWorking at several medical clinics in and around San Antonio, Texas, nurse Genene Jones practiced possibly the most heinous life-and-death games in American history, injecting innumerable babies with life-threatening drugs. Jones seemed to thrill in putting the small children in mortal peril and thrusting herself into the role of hero when the children pulled through. Unfortunately, many did not.

Her total kills will never be known for sure, but it has been speculated that Jones may have murdered almost 50 helpless infants dating back to the beginning of her nursing career in 1977.

An accurate number may never be known, in part because after her conviction on one count of murder and one count of attempted murder, hospital officials throughout Texas shredded records of her employment and activities, preventing further trials and embarrassment.

https://murderpedia.org/female.J/j/jones-genene.htm

QuoteEvidence critical to the prosecution of convicted baby murderer Genene Jones was destroyed as part of an alleged cover-up 30 years ago by the Bexar County Hospital.

Reporter Peter Elkind covered the Jones story for Texas Monthly and later wrote a book about it called "The Death Shift: Nurse Genene Jones and the Texas Baby Murders." He said the hospital was engaged in a cover up.

"They had every reason to notify the authorities and failed to do so. In fact even when the news broke in Kerrville and another child had been harmed under her care. That the pattern had resumed. The pattern they knew about. They had a hospital meeting with top level doctors and they were discussing what to do about this and I have the notes about this in my book and they have this one internal memo of this sort and there's a whole litany of this behavior – and the notes will say and this is January 1983 before she's been charged and they decided not to come forward with what they knew."

Also the Bexar County Hospital destroyed medical records which could show how Jones may have caused the deaths of the children under her care. Literally tons of paper work was shredded while it was under a court order to be preserved.

https://www.tpr.org/news/2017-07-12/evidence-destroyed-in-hospital-cover-up-needed-in-genene-jones-prosecution