“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
I just found out there is a crab that looks like a pancake and now the world seems brighter.
I’m actually gonna cry over these crabs…..
In case anyone was curious what they looked like!
Thought these were completely made up but apparently they’re probably juvenile Atergatis integerrimus crabs or a related species. Also most members of Atergatis are toxic because of symbiotic bacteria that produce a tetrodotoxin-like poison. Tetrodotoxin is the reason that improperly prepared pufferfish will kill you. These are deadly pancakes.
It’s wild the number of posts I come across where people act like voting for or supporting Harris and Walz in the election is tantamount to implicitly supporting genocide. You know what actually helps genocide? Doing nothing while pretending you have the moral high ground. America is deeply tied to Israel and there will be no candidate who is as critical of their actions as we want them to be. We as private citizens do not have the power to make the USA suddenly cease all activity with Israel and demand an uncompromising ceasefire deal. Instead, we have to get our hands dirty and decide what path forward will mitigate as much harm as possible. You have one presidential candidate saying Israel needs to finish the job and another saying that we can’t ignore the tragedies in Gaza while vocally supporting a temporary ceasefire. These are your two picks. Thinking any third party candidate has a shot when none have any wide-reaching name recognition less than 100 days before the election is a fever dream.
The question then becomes, are you willing to say you voted “correctly” by voting for someone who has no shot of winning but is most closely aligned to you? Or are you going to vote for who will do the least harm? The idea that voting for a president involves liking them is a fairy tale. The establishment will always be the enemy of civil rights and safety. You’re voting for which opponent you want in office. The writing is on the wall about which candidate will be less of an uphill battle to fight against, and sidestepping the responsibility of making that decision by throwing away a vote isn’t moral or intellectually groundbreaking - it’s cowardly.
Basically, this. Harris-Walz isn’t the “lesser of two evils.” The ticket represents a lot of values and policies that “progressive” voters support, even as it needs to work on improving its position on a few issues, primarily, Israel-Palestine, which has been an intractable issue for any U.S. president since 1949.
To think that abstaining or casting a quixotic third-party vote is somehow “purer” or “more principled” is a bald self-deception. It just means you have the privilege and power to escape the horrors that a second Trump term would inflict.
All you “I won’t vote for Kamala because of Gaza” people: HEADS UP!
You’ve got a wannabe dictator speaking to another wannabe dictator every fucking day to PREVENT A CEASEFIRE versus a candidate calling for a ceasefire.
Vote accordingly or I swear to gods you’ll wake up one day and look back wishing you could change that one little decision.
It’s been reported multiple times that Trump is out there encouraging Netanyahu to keep up the bombing while Harris and Biden are working to end it and yet some people dare to say they aren’t going to try to get Harris elected and act like that won’t directly result in more deaths and violence in this conflict. Shame on you.
Palestinians are literally out there right now saying Trump winning - which is what will happen if everyone doesn’t get out there and vote for Harris - would be a worst case scenario for them (x). Don’t you dare appropriate their struggle to try to justify your failure to do everything in your power to stop the Fascist GOP from getting into office.
Vote Blue all the way down the ballot. Lives are on the line. And if the GOP gets in you may not get a chance to vote again.
You 🤝 me: having names that are a common noun that people have no problem pronouncing in normal contexts but make it a name and they completely forget how to speak their native language. My first name is an herb and in the context of herbs and herbal medicine people pronounce it just fine but in the context of a name they fuck it up 75% of the time. And then the people I congratulate for getting it right are like “… it’s pronounced how it’s spelled.” And I’m like “THANK YOU”
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One time I got a reminder phone call for an appointment and I answered it and the lady said “hello this is [name] from [doctor’s office]. I’m calling for” and then she saw my name, PANICKED, and straight up did not pronounce a single vowel in a name that’s 50% vowels. It was SO funny and you know what it helped me a lot cuz now when people get it wrong (a lot of people add or subtract letters) I’m like “well at least there were vowels in that attempt” instead of getting mad like I used to. It was so so so funny. Lives rent free in my head.
Friendly reminder that almost half of the states in the U.S. have same day registration! This means you can go to the polling center for your location, register there, and cast your vote same day. So if you are over 18, are a U.S. citizen, and live in one of the states listed below, it is not too late to register and vote! I’m going to put notes for some of the states where voting is extra important due to the political climate of the state.
California
Colorado
Connecticut
D.C.
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Iowa - recent polls indicate state could flip from red to blue
Maine
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
Montana
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina - swing state! Could go red or blue
North Dakota - voter registration not required
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin - swing state! Could go red or blue
Wyoming
You can go here for more info on voter registration
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