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Parasite grants ants "eternal youth" – but there's a dark side
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| May 19, 2021
| By Michael Irving
Posted on 05/21/2021 12:17:30 PM PDT by Red Badger
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[[Parasite grants ants “eternal youth” – but there’s a dark side]]
They have to live with their spouse for forever-
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posted on
05/21/2021 12:18:28 PM PDT
by
Bob434
To: Red Badger
“And the deal gets even cushier. Infected ants were far less active than usual, never leaving the nest or chipping in to help with any of the usual tasks. Instead, they lazed around the nest while their uninfected colony-mates fed them, groomed them and even carried them around. In some cases, they were attracting more attention than the queen herself.” Sounds like much of today's youth.
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posted on
05/21/2021 12:21:25 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Red Badger
Sounds a lot like the Great Society promises.
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posted on
05/21/2021 12:26:10 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
To: ConservativeMind
Make that woke teens with a handful of babies with unknown daddies and collecting gov. freebies.
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posted on
05/21/2021 12:27:49 PM PDT
by
bgill
To: Bob434
So now I’m praying for the end of time
To hurry up and arrive
‘Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you
I don’t think that I can really survive
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posted on
05/21/2021 12:28:19 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: Red Badger
Drawback is they can then only come out at night, and they drink their brethren’s blood to sustain themselves.
To: Red Badger
"And that’s where the dark downside creeps in. It seems like a pretty sweet gig for the individual infected insects, but the colonies as a whole began to suffer. Uninfected ants appeared to be more stressed out and were dying younger than they might have if the parasites didn’t show up at all."
The vision the oligarchs have for the USA
To: Larry Lucido
🎵'Cause I'd rather spend eternity
Eating shards of broken glass,
Then spend one more minute,
With you🎵
CC
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posted on
05/21/2021 12:46:50 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
To: RetiredTexasVet
I thought this was about Fauxi
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posted on
05/21/2021 12:47:27 PM PDT
by
Pollard
To: Bob434
...get man buns, and become Dem zombie voters.
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posted on
05/21/2021 12:47:29 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
05/21/2021 12:49:27 PM PDT
by
fidelis
(Defeatism and despair are like poison to men's souls. If you can't be positive, at least be quiet.)
To: Larry Lucido
It’s like the old man at the end of Ponce de Leon...
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posted on
05/21/2021 12:49:47 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Red Badger
And the deal gets even cushier. Infected ants were far less active than usual, never leaving the nest or chipping in to help with any of the usual tasks. Instead, they lazed around the nest while their uninfected colony-mates fed them, groomed them and even carried them around. In some cases, they were attracting more attention than the queen herself.
And that’s where the dark downside creeps in. It seems like a pretty sweet gig for the individual infected insects, but the colonies as a whole began to suffer. Uninfected ants appeared to be more stressed out and were dying younger than they might have if the parasites didn’t show up at all.
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Sounds like an analog of the FedGov stimmy checks.
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posted on
05/21/2021 12:57:51 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
To: Red Badger
Gee, this sounds like Bernie Sanders and AOC supporters and how they’d like to be treated by us working stiffs.
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posted on
05/21/2021 1:02:50 PM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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posted on
05/21/2021 1:07:52 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
("Okay. As long as the paperwork is clean, you boys can do what you like out there." -Fifi)
To: Red Badger
They call this parasitic infection, the “Welfare Infection”
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posted on
05/21/2021 1:23:40 PM PDT
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: Red Badger
I was wondering why I just saw some federal bureaucrats trying to shove SNAP cards into an anthill
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posted on
05/21/2021 1:23:49 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Police should refuse duty at NBA venues. Let them wallow in their desired chaos without police.)
To: Red Badger; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks Red Badger. I wonder how in the hill this happened?
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posted on
05/21/2021 1:34:38 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Red Badger
Progressives are parasites.
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posted on
05/21/2021 1:45:08 PM PDT
by
polymuser
(A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.d)
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