Remember_the_tooth
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- Comment on Spidey Senses 2 days ago:
If it helps, some models are showing it level off. If we advance climate science and use it to inform policy, we might be able to slowly contract our population while avoiding a “Children of Men” style collapse. I assume it would take a few thousand years to reach an equilibrium that allows us to maintain a habitable environment while still developing space-faring technology. The bonus is that the time it would take might change our practices into something a little more worthy of spreading to other planets if that ever becomes possible. I think with our current energy and pollution situation, we’ve guaranteed ourselves future hardships for many generations, but I don’t think it’s hopeless yet.
Regardless, other life has done similar stuff before. It resulted in mass extinction, but life moved on in some form. I hope the earth will be great with us in it, but if not, it will probably be fine without us, too.
- Comment on Spidey Senses 2 days ago:
Good to know. I definitely don’t want that. I should just go see a migration and enjoy them from a safe distance.
- Comment on Spidey Senses 2 days ago:
For me, it was the fireflies. I grew up in suburbs at the edge of a city, where the rural land started, just about as far as city water and sewer reached. It grew pretty quickly, and by the time I turned 18, I was about as close to the city center as I was to the outskirts. In that process, every summer, there were fewer and fewer of them until one year they were just gone. I was busy, so I didn’t think much of it at the time, but looking back, I regret not making an attempt to make a habitat for them in our garden.
- Comment on Spidey Senses 2 days ago:
It’s prob mimicking a puppy or something.
Why would you put that uncensored comment out here for us to see? Now I’m going to have nightmares as if directed by John Capenter about spiders that look exactly like puppies to humans until they attack.
They are most dangerous on Halloween, by the way:
Stay vigilant. Do not become a statisic.
- Comment on Spidey Senses 2 days ago:
Hmm. I do think I’d make a good, unusually benevolent, eldrich god. On the other hand, I still miss my beta fish that died 5 years ago. No telling how I’d react to the rise and fall of a spider family line, dozens of generations in length.
Tarantulas are cool, but I’d worry about dropping it. I know they typically don’t bite, and that their bites aren’t dangerous. Still, I don’t know if I could relate to it positively after that. It’s not rational. I’ve gotten mild dog bites and cat scratches from pets playing too rough, and those are much more dangerous. Tarantulas still pas the cuteness test, but I think the spider bias affects them more than jumping spiders.
I don’t think I’ve ever been uncomfortable having a jumping spider on me unexpectedly. It’s fun to watch them hunt. Watching the retinas in their big eyes move to track things is fun. It makes them seem more like adorable cartoon characters.
- Comment on Spidey Senses 3 days ago:
Thanks for the suggestion. I just might do that. They’re very cute.
- Comment on Morning break out of my pond for a butt and a coffee 3 days ago:
Plot twist: it’s tea made with the pour-over method, using extra tea leaves to keep the flavor strong. This croc is downing 200mg of caffeine in one go.
- Comment on Morning break out of my pond for a butt and a coffee 3 days ago:
I don’t know that we should be caffeinating crocodillians.
- Comment on Spidey Senses 6 days ago:
No problem!
That’s very accurate. I don’t mind handling tarantulas or furry jumping spiders, but shiny spiders of any kind creep me out. Bonus point for terror if there’s webbing involved. Hobo spiders are probably the worst. They’re so fast and aggressive. I still catch them and take them outside, but it still feels awful. The only exception to the mercy rule is the shower. Shower spiders go down the drain immediately.
- Comment on Spidey Senses 6 days ago:
I think so, too. They all seem to have eight legs, more than two eyes, which don’t look like compound eyes, a cephalothorax/two body segments rather than three, a lack of antennae, etc. It would probably be easier to tell looking at them head-on so we could see their chelicerae.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 6 days ago:
Yeah, that’s what I was trying to express. Taco Bell is vaguely Spanish, but doesn’t have anything to do with Spain (or Mexico, for that matter).
It would be like an O’Brien’s restaurant that primarily sells sushi.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 6 days ago:
Still, that’s really cool! There’s something particularly funny about a McDonald’s in Scotland. It feels like a Taco Bell in Spain.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 week ago:
Not me. I only post shit shitposts so no matter why people hate it, they’re right.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 week ago:
I have to know where this is. What resources do you require to find it?
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 week ago:
Love your imagination. Tell me what the McDonald’s employees are doing to the customer’s arms.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 week ago:
Al-Beefda
We transitioned from the war on crime to the war on terrorism.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 week ago:
I don’t like the sound of that. Can we call it a “freedom launcher?”
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 week ago:
Respectfully, I must disagree. I feel like children need a place where they can be free to unwind after their 16-hour factory shifts and maybe grab a beer.
Dystopian? The flag that waved over this?
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 week ago:
Or worse, a McDonald’s in 1860s Mississippi.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 week ago:
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 week ago:
For me, it was just a silly metaphor, but you might be onto something:
“Fasting is eating. Refusing is ordering. Salad is burger.” ~ George Orwell
“I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we’re advanced in every way except in our burgers.” ~ Bryce Dallas Howard
“Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future burger might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future burger.” ~ Lauren Oliver
“Who controls the past controls the burger. Who controls the present controls the past.” ~ George Orwell
- Comment on FIRE(et) IN THE HOLE 1 week ago:
[Angry ferret noises] as it sails through the air to its unfortunate target: the enemy’s unprotected pant leg opening. The devastation will be swift and severe. Many humanitarians argue it should be considered a war crime, but few if any superpowers are willing to risk total ferret weapon disarmament fearing it may upset the tenuous balance of power established by mutually assured nethers destruction.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 week ago:
Long live the Crowvelution!
- Comment on A slightly different experience 1 week ago:
Ha! You think some kid can afford a luxurious staircase studio on minimum wage? That’s prime real estate!
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 week ago:
You have set me back financially by at least a month, but thank you.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 week ago:
Going to a French McDonalds must be like going to a dietician, but they’re just chain-smokimg throughout the appointment.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 week ago:
I will never recover from that. You have my begrudging admiration. If you need me, I’ll be in the burn ward.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 week ago:
Wheels within wheels within wheels…
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 week ago:
Hooters is gone. This isn’t off the table.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 week ago:
Those were the days. Don’t look at how the size changed over time. It’ll make you too sad.
