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

FUCK

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?

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.

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

Your part of the ten thousand...

https://xkcd.com/1053/

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

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.

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

Not just crushed ants, I smell it when they're scared and running, but undamaged, as well. Calm ants though, they don't smell to me. I always assumed it was a warning chemical to other ants, or a deterrent for predators with more sensitive sniffers than I.

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

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?

I don't know. This is the first time in my life I have ever heard about people smelling ants. I have a really good sense of smell normally, but I have never smelled ants. Never heard anybody say they could smell them either. So, I think it might be quite common.

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)

Omg the ants are so smelly

Has to be, it's got that same "bite" that other acids have, only a little more earthy

Yeah

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.