I think corvids are poised to become a fine replacement

I usually get these little dudes in the summer. I let them be when I can stomach it, but I have this one lamp at my desk pointed up at the wall to give me some indirect light. Occasionally a house centipede will crawl along in front of the light and cast a really long shadow to freak me the hell out.

Ominous

The niche being food for fish that share their ecosystem in larval stages, and birds/bats/frogs that share their ecosystem in their adult stage.

If we were to somehow magically remove mosquitos from existence in an instant, we’d better hope something fills their ecological niche quickly

Known in Australia as Billabongs

I understand what you’re saying here, but the set of people killed by “every disease ever” includes the entire set of people killed by mosquito-borne diseases. Mosquitoes can’t have killed more people than every disease ever because mosquitoes’ kill count is part of every disease ever.

Songbirds in general can be unexpectedly vicious

Literally asking for it, how dare you attempt to enjoy a delicious seasonal fruit

Everything is in place to do the thing, but you keep getting filibustered

I didn’t come up with it myself, spread the good word lmao

Tampon Tim will stop the Red Wave \o/

Great movie all around but that scene really stuck with me. The world may come to a fiery end, but they’ll be damned if they let that stop them from being good to each other.

I too vomit while standing up at my full height.

When people are talked down to, they often dig in their heels due to an emotion called psychological reactance. The reactionary ape that still exists in every human feels challenged and that ape will not allow reason to stop it.

If you see such a reaction and allow yourself to believe “well that person was just an immature child”, you risk giving yourself license to keep talking down to people. Repeat ad nauseum.

It doesn’t matter that you’re objectively correct about the effect meat has on the biosphere if you just keep going around that circle, creating 0 new vegans every lap

Not heresy, apostasy. A heretic worships god wrong. An apostate worships the wrong god. (“wrong” as defined by the church, of course)

The reasoned par of my brain wholeheartedly agrees with you, and when I can convince myself to do so, I let them vibe. Unfortunately the reasoned part of my brain is powerless to stop the fight or flight response that happens when [spindly-legged creature] crosses my field of view. It simply happens.

If reasoning alone could overcome an otherwise unreasonable physiological response, then allergies wouldn’t exist.

I think this commenter is trying to say that the nominal size of a 2x2 is 2" by 2" (and it looks like they typo’d nominal to “normal”)

The actual size of a 2x2 is 1.5" by 1.5", and OP incorrectly calls these dimensions nominal

Good on the devs for getting the balance in check ahead of the 1.0 release

For scale, 20,000 leagues is almost 9 times the diameter of the Earth