• otacon239@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I think about this whenever I pick up a spider or similar on my car. I’m transporting them the equivalent of entire planets beyond their perspective. What new world will I bring them to?

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      3 months ago

      I was hiking recently and saw a massive caterpillar. I took a photo and asked our national biological office if they could ID it cos AI was doing a shit job (as usual).

      They identified it and said that it almost definitely arrived as a seed or smaller caterpillar attached to a car and managed to find its way into the forest. They mentioned that they normally return with holidayers in the summer and don’t make it through the cold winter’s, but this may shift due to climate change. This thing was about 18 cm (7 American toes) long.

      Crazy to see how much shit these critters can handle and still survive (for now…).

      • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 months ago

        Is that 7 toes lengthwise or side-by-side? And which American toes? Lady liberty, or a normal human adult, or a child? Perhaps a newborn?

        Man I hate our measuring system, it’s so complicated.

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          3 months ago

          Are you a transplant here or something? Those answers are all clearly side-by-side Liberty toes. Real Americans are born with that knowledge.

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            3 months ago

            See I mean that’s what I assume, too, but whomever starts their post with metric is clearly not used to the conversions into freedom units and so one must verify they did they math correctly. In case they are egregiously off the mark.

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      3 months ago

      Oh shit, we’ve added another Reddit feature, of people complaining about seeing the same post 100x despite it being upvoted by people who obviously never have! The “everything must only be posted ONCE!!1!!” feature, one of my favorites

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        3 months ago

        I’m chronically online most days and I haven’t seen this on Lemmy yet, nor at all for that matter.

        I hate when people whine about seeing stuff multiple times; at least this isn’t a depressing news article being shared in 63 different communities so you have to see the same thing dozens and dozens of times and be reminded how shit everything is…

        It’s just a fun little picture with no bad vibes at all. I’m ok with seeing that sort of thing repeatedly.