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[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 161 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

[✓] Small Pox

[✓] Murder Hornets

[ ] Twitter

We're almost there, humanity!

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 66 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Can't you just literally put an [X] for Twitter?

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[X] The App Formerly Known as Twitter

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

[Twitter] Twitter

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[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, the only three problems!

[–] NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh wait someone has started unchecking all the previously checked boxes

[–] socsa@piefed.social 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

IS THAT RFK WITH A FOLDING CHAIR?!

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[–] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if RFK Jr. Came out in favor of murder hornets

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[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Small pox won't be checked for long.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Declared extinct in the wild by the WHO in 1980.

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago

RFK will probably support reintroduction, so....

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[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Yeah, yeah, we’re totally eradicated. All is now fine, there’s nothing to worry about. Sleep well!” - Sneaky Murder Hornet.

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 19 points 1 year ago

“Somehow, the murder hornets have returned.”

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] kchr@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ladies and gentlemen, we got'em.

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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would have been solved much quicker if they where ceo killing hornets

[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

LMAO. Its sad that this is so funny because its true.

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Uhh, first win since WW2. Congrats.

[–] HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How about every fucking World Series there bucko? Nice try!

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[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

(camera focuses on the news playing on a TV in a home in the countryside, slowly pulling back away from the monitor)

"...thanks to their efforts, experts have now stated with certainty that this threat has been eradicated..."

(the camera has pulled back enough that the screen is framed by an outside window with a tree trunk coming into frame from the right)

"...and many communities in the northwest united states can breathe easier knowing that these dreaded hornets are no longer found on our shores. Reporting from Seattle..."

(focus shifts to the tree bark. Buzzing is heard, getting louder and louder until a single murder hornet queen lands on the tree. Cut to black. Roll credits)

[–] superkret@feddit.org 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Coming Soon...

MURDER H4NET

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Murd3r Horn3t: The Buzz3ning

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Snakes On A Plane 4: This Time It's Hornets- A film by Chat GPT

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Hey hey, the US actually won a war! Been a long time coming..

[–] voldage@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah sure "murder hornets". Like "murder japs", "murder communists", "murder vietnamese", "murder gays", "murder blacks" or "murder arabs" before. I think I'll hold off celebrating until I know how much oil those hornets had in stock.

[–] Prethoryn@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey man, I don't disagree with you.

However, I think if you take every article you read and turn it into, "meanwhile I am waiting for someone to fix the planer." You are not really doing much. All of us, including myself, want what you want but those are things that are irrelevant to this article and we should take to things that are relevant.

Fuck fascism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and anything else that is down right degrading to any human being who is just trying to be happy

In the same vain though, fuck hornets, fuck those little murderous monstrosities.

[–] voldage@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That was a joke about USA assigning threatening labels to anything it threatens or exploits to make public afraid of it instead of being supportive of it. As most jokes, it based on the subversion of expectations, which in this case was the suggestion that hornets are good and misunderstood. Comparing them and what they're doing to bees to gay or black people was intended as a sprinkle of dark humor, implying their (hornets!) destructive nature finds parrarels with the multitude of oppressed kinds of people.

Way to tell me I'm unfunny and my sense of humor sucks, man (jk)

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[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Until the next ones arrive on another ship

[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago (19 children)

America and its "wars against...."

America hasn't won any war since WWII, and that includes wars against drugs, countries, people, religions, etc. I highly doubt they won this one. I remember "mission accomplished"

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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

finally some good fucking food...

Anybody know where i can get some murder hornets from? (i jest, ofc)

shitposting aside, how rare is it that invasive species are eradicated before becoming a problem? Can't be that common.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never. Cause the definition of "Invasive species" includes it being a problem. Otherwise they're called "Introduced species".

[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah they are probably lying. They can not know with 100% certainty that these giant asian hornets have all been eradicated in the us. They couldn't get rid of something as benign as the spotted lantern fly or the marmorated stink bug but sure lets believe they got rid of a hornet as big as a humming bird that has facial recognition capabilities and can unalive people with a swarm no larger than 50 to 100 of the fuckers

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pretty uncommon but it has happened. Especially with agricultural pests where there is a large industry that can push for a proper response. I’m guessing beekeepers were the industry in question this time.

If it only affects nature and not industry then it’s usually ignored.

[–] ellen_musk_0x@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd just like to thank everyone for doing their part, posting, reposting, and fear mongering it.

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[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Now you gotta send help to Australia. Those damned emus are a worthy adversary.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Who to help? Australia is run by emus. They won in war.

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[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Whew. Looks like the feds didn't find the colony of buzzy buddies I've been nurturing in the suburbs.

Can't wait for spring!

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

They really didn't go with homicidal hornets? We actin' like fun alliterations just come around all the time now?

[–] Mystech@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

War against Murder CEOs remains unresolved.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It was wild seeing researchers bait them with Meat and tie flags to them, but the fact that this strategy actually worked longterm is beyond wild.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It sounds stupid but I really want to imagine China was behind all this as a test run of bio warfare via invasive species and there's just some random CCP agent going Rats! We've been foiled again. Start dumping more corn syrup into our honey exports!

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