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Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m tired of microblog screenshots that self-censor 😕

    Also that’s cool. I’m pretty sure I cannot smell ants. But it’s also possible there are ants everywhere I go, so I can’t discern what part of the background smells are the ants.

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    • LorIps@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      FUCK

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      • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        FUCK

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    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was watching “deep dives” on Youtube yesterday and was getting confused by all the censoring. Even the word “sex” was censored, and like… what? Not just SA (which I understand censoring), but sex itself? In a video ostensibly designed for an adult (or at least teenage) audience?

      It’s hard to follow a story when words get censored that you don’t expect to get censored. In my mind I think something much worse is being said, and have to pause and rewind to ensure I understood correctly. The best part is, the creator wasn’t even from the US, land of the puritans. I expect Europeans not to be afraid of sex, but I guess this is what Youtube is doing to the world.

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      • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That degree of censorship usually implies the content is dual posted to TikTok in my experience

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    • ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      People complaining about the censorship is significantly more annoying than the actual tiny little blue on one single letter in one single word.

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      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Still not as annoying as the people who complain about the complaints.

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    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No smell has ever elevated when I near an ant colony, and I see wild ant colonies all the time. So I’m pretty sure I can’t.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Whatever, keep your ant-smelling superpower, I’m not jealous. At least cilantro doesn’t taste like soap to me! :P

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    • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We need a study on if that’s the divide. If you can smell ants you also think cilantro tastes like soap

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      • lengau@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Cilantro: tastes like soap

        Can smell ants: no

        Sorry, I’m a counterpoint. I got the worst of both.

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      • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I can’t smell ants, and cilantro tastes soapy. However, I do have dry earwax and my armpits don’t smell. (Which is just spurious information to your hypothesis.)

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      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Can smell ants, love cilantro, can’t smell stinkbugs.

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      • Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Exactly! Cilantro tastes like soap to me, but my kids love it. That is so weird. Ant smell and probably snake smell are the same I bet. I have heard old people say they can smell a snake around.

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      • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I can smell ants strongly and have an aversion to them, and cilantro tastes wonderful to me.

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I had no idea it was a genetic thing that not everyone has. It’s pretty awesome that after fifty years slogging through life, I still run across cool new shit like this

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    • Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Your part of the ten thousand…

      xkcd.com/1053/

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  • bitwolf@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s the most useless censoring of the word “Fuck” I have ever seen 😅

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    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image

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      • mysticalone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Why did you censor a small mushroom?

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      • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What’cha got there, m8?

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    • Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It looked like it was originally meant to censore word much smalller

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      • TomAwsm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What is this, censoring for ants!?

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  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wow that’s really weird because i thought ants were supposed to be everywhere - at least in summertime when you go outside. If they smell that bad then it must be unbearable just walking around places in the city.

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    • starik@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can only smell them if I sniff a crushed one up close. It’s been a long time - I don’t step on bugs on purpose.

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  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    STOP FUCKING POSTING CENSORED SHIT

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    • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, right? As if they were censoring only the victims’ personal info

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think I can hear ants. People probably think I’m crazy. Like if you bend down and get your face really close to their trail. It’s like a buzzing sound. Like static on an old TV. Creepy as fuck.

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    • 9blb@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Could it just be the reflections of ambient noise you also get when you hold your ear close to any surface? The old “If you hold a seashell to your ear, you can hear the ocean” kind of thing.

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    • Loui@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I usually can’t but when hiking in fall we came to a big anthill and you could hear the leaves rustling below their little legs.

      I was so exited as I had never heard that before.

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    • swelter_spark@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ants definitely produce sound when they walk. And why wouldn’t they?

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    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re the first person I’ve ever heard say you can hear buzzing sound of ants. I don’t doubt you, because why would you lie about something like that, but I would like to hear more people agree they can hear this and I want to read a scientific study.

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      • BoosBeau@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That person is a liar!! I listen to ants all the time and the only sound they make is smooth jazz.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m also terrified of having insects inside of the house. So it’s possible this is some kind of psychological reaction (?) rather than actually hearing them? But to me it “sounds” as I describe in the above post. Maybe someone can find something more scientific, like a study, I too would be curious.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is it the formic acid?

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    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Has to be, it’s got that same “bite” that other acids have, only a little more earthy

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      • j5906@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I cant smell ants but I can “smell” formic acid. Even diluted formic acid is so much more pungent and terrible then vinegar, so I doubt its that…

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    • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah

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    • AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Depends. With North American formica ants, it’s formic acid, but with Canadian odorous house ants, it’s a methyl ketone that smells a lot like blue cheese.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        smells a lot like blue cheese

        Oh, so stinky feet smell?

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  • childOfMagenta@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are we talking formic acid from crushed ants or just there is an ant around and they can smell it?

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    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not just crushed ants, I smell it when they’re scared and running as well. Calm ants though, they don’t smell to me.

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    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I smell it either way but it’s stronger when they’re crushed.

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      • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s true of most animals

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      • SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sometimes science do be cruel like that

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  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It smells so weird and strong. I’m surprised not everyone can smell this. I wonder how common this is?

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    • BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Now I need to know what I’m missing out on… I know the smell of formic acid, and can smell it if andts are really pissed off - but do they just smell?

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      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I usually only smell it after they are agitated. I assume that’s what they meant? But usually when I’m smelling ants they are agitated.

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    • notthebees@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not exactly sure. My sense of smell has been shot since I got covid. It feels so weird. Some smells don’t exist, some are much stronger, some remained the same.

      One good example is burning anything while cooking.

      I can just feel it though. If I’m itchy while in my kitchen, 9/10 it’s ants (ground floor old apartment)

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    • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Omg the ants are so smelly

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  • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I never knew about this. Is this the same gene which makes people like/dislike bitter foods?

    Years ago at a place I worked at, food manufacturers, the R&D team did a taste workshop. 5 cups of flavours, salt, bitter, water, umami, sweet. The bitter one just tasted of water to me. They called it “bitter blind”

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    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Probably makes you easier to poison. I will keep that in mind.

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    • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can smell ants and it’s a pretty weird smell, but I don’t get any of the bitter food problems that some people have with certain vegetables.

      With the exception of mushrooms. For some reason mushrooms spark that same sensitivity to ant scents, it’s the same sickly scent and makes me think of decay and loamy undergrowth and is very unappetizing so I’ve never enjoyed mushrooms.

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    • Klairabelle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s a couple different chemical compounds that can activate your bitter receptors (caffeine for instance) but there are a few bitter chemicals like Phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) or N-Propylthiouracil (PROP) that have been linked to variations in a specific gene (TAS2R38). Where I used to work we used PROP strips you’d just put on your tongue to categorize participants into tasters, non-tasters, and potential super-tasters. If it tasted like nothing, you didn’t have the genetic variant. If it tasted like bitterness, it could either be not that bad or, for example in my experience, it’s really really terrible and takes some effort to remove from the tongue.

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  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is this like how some people can smell if a dude jorked it that day?

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    • radiouser@crazypeople.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      no wonder why people avoid me.

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    • HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I know I should quit vaping, but I’m also so glad my nose isn’t sensitive enough to smell that from random guys walking by anymore. It was constant tmi

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      jorked. ok

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    • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t think that’s real, like the “clogged showers” urban legend that won’t die.

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      • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The threads I’ve seen have a lot of replies of people who say they can smell it. One replied to me here. I suppose I tend to believe them because it would be a pointless thing to lie about and also the say it smells like sex so it seems plausible.

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  • tamal3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Does everyone agree that ladybugs smell terrible??!

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    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, beetles in general don’t smell great to me. They leave a fecal-like scent on my fingers when I hold them (Which I’ve always assumed is some sort of musk and not actual feces). I can smell ants too, but it’s only when they’re scared: They seem to release a chemical that smells to me like Windex the moment they realize they’re possibly in danger. I didn’t know that made me special, but I do know that others might not be able to smell it as I’ve had conversations about this with people who didn’t know wtf I was talking about. I’ve heard that it might be formic acid? Not sure.

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes! I’m not super sensitive to them, but one time in school I had one land on me and curiosity got the better of me. Never again!

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  • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    some ants when attacked do produce a small (probably by spraying chemicals that is supposed to paralyses/repel other small insects). that I can smell but I can’t smell an ant peacefully walking around.

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Some people can smell ants. Some people can smell Parkinson’s disease.

    I don’t think I can smell either of those but I can smell B.O.

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  • tomjuggler@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ll bet you CAN taste ants though

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  • bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can smell earthworms when it rains. It’s gross.

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  • Omnipitaph@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    TIL I’m a mutant. X-men watch out!

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  • JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, how do you know it isn’t just the smell of the enviroment? I always smell a distinctive smell around ants in the forest, but I don’t know if that’s actually just the smell of their hill (is it actually called a hill) or of ants.

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not surprised to learn this, given that there are certain tastes that are generic. The “cilantro tastes like soap” mutation, and the “bitter vegetables are good actually” mutation come to mind.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Called evolution. Yes, it’s still ongoing in humans. Btw, this is the reason that smaller populations have less survival chances.

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  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is a type of ant that smells like rotten coconut when squished. Is that what they’re talking about?

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  • texture@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i can smell fruit flies and i wish i couldnt

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  • anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Homo Orycteropus.

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ants will creep in. You will attempt your triumphant self sufficient middle of nowhere meal of rocks and soil. When your fire fails, Youll rip open your last remaining stash of nutritiuous gruel and stuff a handful in your mouth, and taste that acid.

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  • notthebees@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can’t smell it but I can feel it. I just get really itchy.

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  • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When an idea gets to tiktok, the lines are as written as any script.

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