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Cake day: December 7th, 2023

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  • A disappointingly large proportion of the general population appears to be unable to tell the difference between centipedes and millipedes. Is it possible that the “centipedes” you saw were actually millipedes? If so, they may have been “fucking”, or at least the millipede equivalent of it.

    Additionally, it appears that this “fact” is actually wrong (big surprise, huh?). Many species of centipede do have courtship strategies that involve males and females meeting up. The sexes may even employ various forms of physical touch as part of the process. So, it’s certainly possible that the critters you saw where centipedes courting each other.










  • I’m the one who owns a copy of the theatrical releases.

    I bought them on a deep discount sale at a time in my life when that was literally a big purchase which I could hardly afford and I did it partially because I was hoping to watch it with a friend who was a big LOTR fan. I wanted to spend time together and see it through his eyes because as much as I liked the movies, I didn’t think they were A+ tier.

    When I mentioned watching the trilogy together sometime, his first question was “are they the extended versions?” When I said no, his response was “I’ll pass.”

    Soul crushing.





  • I’ve tried all the “quick chill” methods I’ve heard of, but none of them work as quickly or as well as the icecream maker method. Watered down ice with some table salt. Set your unopened beer into a slurry like that, and in about 20 - 30 minutes, it’s surpremely cold. None of the “5 minutes and it’s ice cold” methods work as well or as quickly to be honest. At least not in my climate and in my experience.






  • So, most assassin bugs are actually be beneficial insects. It’s a large group of true bugs, and most of them feed on other invertebrates.

    As a@athairmor pointed out there are some types that feed on human blood and spread potentially deadly diseases. But these are the exceptions.

    You should be concerned if you live in areas where the parasite carrying types live.

    And you should be concerned if you are harassing/handling other types of assassin bug because many of them have very painful “stings” (it’s not actually a sting it’s their version of a bite, since they have needle like mouths they can use to jab in defense). So long as you leave those types alone, you generally won’t end up on their list.