Notices by Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social), page 15

@PresGas That's actually another interesting possibility: naming. in German, we talk about wasps, bee, bumblebees and ants as being the eusocial insects. As most people don't know much about the non-state building insects, all wasps are "yellow jackets" for us. But perhaps they aren't and we wouldn't know because we use different words? But that would only explain a difference between the US and EU, not CH and UK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowjacket#Notable_species
@griffinkate

@ersatzmaus I just wonder what Swiss and Spanish wasps seem to be doing different;y.
@GwenfarsGarden @griffinkate

@jofazepa Yeah, the situations seem to indicate that your parents should have done more insect-related education. 😅 @griffinkate

@unlofl my impression was that without yellow jackets this poll makes no sense. @griffinkate

@GwenfarsGarden Hahaha! Having been to Australia recently, I'd say that with sharks and spiders and poisonous jellyfish and squid… wasps are OK? @griffinkate

@jofazepa And where was this? Were you super clumsy as a kid or did you have a wasp nest near the house, or do you think wasps are very aggressive?
@griffinkate

@Wolf480pl I don't think you can get stung and not notice it. Unless you're immune against their poison in which case... I don't know? Report to the X-Mansion or something. 😃

@WagonStar @griffinkate Ouch!

@anne Hah! they do eat meat, so I guess they felt like perhaps you were the biggest snack they'd ever carry back. 😃
@griffinkate

@GwenfarsGarden That's what @griffinkate has been telling me and I felt like we were living in two different worlds. How can it be that wasps are "very aggressive" in the UK and not elsewhere? That's what I'm still puzzled by.

@fool Sounds like a valid approach to me! I'm not just interested in people who are not afraid of wasps! After all, I don't even know whether friends and family and co-workers are afraid of wasps or not. Perhaps that also tells you something: I don't know anybody who has let it be known that they are afraid of wasps. Just, slightly uncomfortable such that other people might feel like saying: "just don't make any sudden moves" or "don't swallow it!" (when they're sitting on food)
@griffinkate

@griffinkate Now I want to know! I don't think I have many followers in the UK and polls are quite limited, I'm just interested in seeing whether respondents are closer to 0% (my impression), 100% (your impression), or 62% (your result in that Twitter poll). Thank you for running that poll.

Hey, we have polls! I care about wasps. @griffinkate talked about running a poll here. We have polls on Mastodon!
So: Have you been stung by a wasp, ever?

[ ] I have been stung.
[ ] I have never been stung.
[ ] I never go outside.
[ ] What is a wasp?

@craigmaloney sure – that last example was LaTeX based, with Tufte template. But it looks like you’re pretty much set to go with the Nipajin template. And Markus Leupold-Löwenthal of Ludus Leonis was very nice when I met him back in 2011.

@craigmaloney a long time ago I wrote the following Fate game:
https://alexschroeder.ch/pdfs/Der%20Geist%20Mesopotamiens.pdf
Repository: https://alexschroeder.ch/cgit/geist-mesopotamiens/about/
I got pretty far without images of Fudge dice. 😅
@clacke @klaatu

@gcupc I’m going to uncheck “Enable advanced web interface” and see how well it works.
@ekaitz_zarraga

@ekaitz_zarraga I don't know. If we're interested in usability testing we should be asking people who are new, not people who have been here for years, that's the only thing I know. 😃