so I read the article and the story is both less and more insane than it sounds.
basically, there’s been an ants’ nest near a vent shaft of this abandoned Soviet bunker for decades. the nest spilled over into the bunker itself at some point once it was abandoned and there was no way for the ants to make their way back up to the nest, no queen but a constant supply of new colony members raining down from above, and no source of food in the bunker other than the corpses of their fellow ants.
fast forward to some scientists looking for bats that stumble on what’s basically a post-apocalyptic ant society. they go “holy fuck” start studying, and observe that, all things considered, the ants still pretty much act like regular ants doing regular ant things.
fast forward some more, and the scientists feel like they have enough data from observing the colony as-is, so they decide to try an experiment. they put a little walkway between the bunker colony and the og colony in the vent shaft so the bunker colony members have the option of leaving and rejoining the og colony.
spoiler alert: every single ant in the bunker immediately nopes the fuck back to the colony in the vent shaft. within days the bunker is completely empty. the scientists leave the walkway in place so when more ants inevitably fall back down the vent shaft they can just climb back up instead of starting up the cycle anew.
tl;dr it’s not “oh noes evil ants are on a rampage”, it’s “ants forced into a horrible situation to survive get to go home”
On this day, 28 July 1932, the US government sent in the army to attack World War I veterans and their families with tanks, fixed bayonets, teargas and sabres, killing three, when vets marched demanding wartime bonuses they were promised. The bonus payments were due to be paid in 1945 but when the great depression hit, leaving many veterans destitute, they decided to demand earlier payments. Up to 25,000 vets, black and white, formed a “Bonus Army” and set up camp in Washington DC. Major Patton, whose life had been saved by one of the protesters, advised his troops to stab protesters with bayonets, and kill a large number of veterans as “an object lesson”. General MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower were the other officers in charge of the operation which killed two veterans and an 11-week-old baby, partially blinded an 8-year-old boy and injured a thousand others.
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Perhaps the most predictable element of the manhunt for
Christopher Dorner was the LAPD’s characteristically ultraviolent
response.
By the fourth day of the manhunt, police were willing to
annihilate anything or person that so much as looked like Christopher
Dorner, and even a few things that didn’t. On the morning of February
7th, at least seven officers opened fire on what they claimed was a
suspicious vehicle. It was not quite fully explained how the group
managed to leave over 107 bullet holes in the vehicle before realizing
that a Blue Toyota Tacoma driven by two small elderly latinas did not
even slightly resemble a gray Nissan Titan, but luckily, the two women
survived the hail of bullets
Later that same morning, police managed to recall the color of the vehicle correctly, but not the color of the suspect, when they slammed a police cruiser into a Honda Ridgeline being driven by a white male on his way to work. Police then proceeded to fire into the vehicle, failing to actually hit their “suspect” even once.
Over the next few days, many people in LA who were either overweight black males or drivers of black trucks began to identify themselves as not being Christopher Dorner in the hopes of not being shot by the police, an irony that was apparently lost upon the police themselves.
Indeed, it became clear that though the police had no intention of taking Dorner in alive if they found him, they would have to beat him to death with their guns because they would have magdumped into everything but the guy they were trying to execute.
God cops are stupid as shit.
He was trying to expose cops. They murdered him by burning him alive in a house.
Cops sure do have a thing for resolving problems using arson, don’t they?
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