When pavement ants (the little reddish brown ants you see in sidewalk cracks) have intra-species war they use the concept of a one-to-one correspondence to determine who has a larger army.
Ants pair off locking jaws with another ant of similar size.
Any leftover ants from the larger colony will gang up two on one against the other colony.
Then based on things only ants know either they all go home OR one colony overwhelms the other.
But most of the time only a few ants die.
#PleaseBoost this to help my new instance federate faster: https://gotosocial.plutar.ch/@plutarch/statuses/01KMM389HQJKMRWABGGTAMPSN5
Thank you.
EDIT: #PleaseBoost to help with federation. #Introduction #IntroductionPost #NewHere #NewInstance "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve"… or something. Hello, or hello again—if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything nice. If you think you know me by another name… I cannot argue with that… not even a little bit. New here, and by that I mean that this is a brand new instance. Single user GoToSocial instance, self-hosted on my own hardware; this is not my first. It's just like that scene from the Matrix with the Architect: we just keep torching it and starting over, and we're starting to get pretty damned good at torching it. I've had a WriteFreely instance before, and I think I might have another one here in the near future, honestly. GED in 2011 at 17; no qualifications otherwise, at least literally on paper. No human children; cat dad, though. NixOS diehard on desktop/server. The host machine for the VM for this server, as well as the VM itself, both run NixOS and always will. Currently using Niri on the host machine and loving it. GrapheneOS diehard on mobile. Love projects, especially the kind that are never finished because they're never supposed to be. Grew up in Oregon and moved to New Mexico with my family when they did. I ride a unicycle. Trying to learn violin. These things don't necessarily have anything to do with each other, I hope. ADHD and Tourette Syndrome, both professionally diagnosed for the first time when I was 20-something. My dad passed away last October. #ADHD #Cinemastodon #FediLab #FilmReview #GoToSocial #Memes #MovieReview #Movies #NM #NewMexico #Niri #NixOS #SelfHosted #TouretteSyndrome #Tourettes #Unicycle #WriteFreely
The interior spiral staircase of the Torre dei Lamberti in Verona, Italy 👁️
For those who have been hearing of a Fly Brain being uploaded, the work you've been hearing of is impressive, yet as always the pop science media has warped what happened a bit:
„The Fly Brain Breakthrough Is Real. The “First Brain Upload” Narrative Is Not.”
A good read.
The only permanent solution to toxic misogyny is to genetically engineer an apex race of "super gays" to rebalance the ecosystem.
I will NOT be elaborating on this plan of action. Thank you for the consideration.
RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/116144475981933021
Ok but are there any right answers?
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