• jaschen@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I got bitten by this hell spawn. I was sleeping and I guess I was stretching my leg and laid my leg on top of this thing.

    I have never felt so much pain in my life. It felt like my skin was melting and burning at the same time. For the next few weeks, the bite mark would randomly start to puss and random shots of pain.

    I’d rather have roaches. At least with roaches, they don’t bite.

  • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Makes me wonder if we ever do meet intelligent aliens will we instantly try to kill them not because we’re a tribe based war loving species, but if it’s simply because we’re so absolutely and deeply repulsed by something so different than us on an instinctual level.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 months ago

      nah, people work with deep sea creatures all day and just find them cool.

      it’d just make international relations with them extremely difficult, honestly district 9 is probably the most realistic take on how we’d treat aliens. We’d be sufficiently unable to empathize with them that we’d treat them like shit, but there’s no real reason to actively try to wipe them out.

  • 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    What kind of insect is that? I can’t think of anything with that many legs that eats cockroaches.

  • AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Creepy. And I learned something. Reminds me of another comic strip that cracked me up. The gist:

    God said to the insects “you may each pick three traits.” The millipede said, “I want legs!” The centipede agreed. God nodded. “And for your second trait?” The millipede smiled brightly and said “More legs!” The centipede request the same. God asked for their final request. “More legs!” The millipede shouted smiling even brighter The centipede gave a sinister grin and growled. “Teeth.”

  • LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    these mfs are usually a canary in a coal mine. if you start seeing these everywhere in your house, chances are you have roaches.