Tarantula hawks are actually quite docile but only because with a sting that’s second highest on the Schmidt scale, they can afford to be. You don’t need to be aggressive when your sting “shuts down one’s ability to do anything except scream.” So needless to say I walked away very fast.
If you have never seen a tarantula hawk, imagine a wasp the size of your fist. Now imagine that wasp lays eggs inside its prey (which are fucking tarantulas, btw, this wasp kills tarantulas), eggs that will hatch and eat the host alive. Imagine it has a huge stinger that causes blindingly intense pain that no amount of mental discipline can overcome.
Sufficiently terrified? Good. Now imagine that creature lives on every continent except Antarctica and it’s only by luck that you haven’t encountered one before.
I actually really like to watch tarantula hawks. As I said, they’re quite docile. But only from a safe distance. Because they are proof that even if there is a god, it was the devil that made this earth.
as much as i love seeing orcas launching what appears to be intentional coordinated attacks on human ships it also makes me very sad because if it starts to become a genuine problem or even an extremely minor disruption to business people are going to just start killing them and i don’t know that the orcas really understand the power differential they’re dealing with here. that is why i am starting an organization whose mission will be to establish communication with the orca populace and provide them with equipment and training in order to level the playing field and empower them to take control of the seas, with the potential to open up trade and diplomatic relations on their own terms
“your rent should be a third of your income” well wouldn’t that be nice. wouldn’t it. lower the rent pussy
Casual observation from someone old enough to remember: in the year 2000 financial advice was that rent should be no more than ¼ of your income.
Until the mid 80s, the advice was that if you must rent instead of owning, then that 20% of your monthly income (oh yes, only 20%) should include all your utilities too.
After all, rent costs more than a mortgage, so it should offer more too.
This is fascinating and I love the part with the mushrooms and the worms if this really works but my favorite part is that we spent decades like “oh no….oil is soaking into fur and feathers….if only we had something that could soak up all this oil”
It is endlessly incredible to me the degree to which this man always has to go and add something extra. To anyone else — anyone else on earth — making a giant teddy bear sculpture out of chocolate is already a hugely ambitious task. Making it with as realistic as he does even more so.
And then. And THEN!
This madman decides that the teddy bear should also have a zipper with stuffing spilling out. The audacity. It’s so extra. I love it.
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