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That's great, but if I ever see a jumping spider in my house then I will not hesitate to murder it in cold blood.
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Anyone who's ever interacted with any kind of animal knows how they are intelligent. The lack of science on this matter is not the reason we still consume meat and more science won't change anything. We've always found ways to justify/accept our need for meat and wel'll continue doing this as long as science doesn't find an equally nutritious alternative that can be produced at scale.
I’m not making any kind of statement as to why we consume meat or whether we should, just making an observation
I forget who said this or exactly what they said, but someone has pointed out that the more research humans conduct the more we find that animals and even plants are more complex, more intelligent and more sophisticated than we thought. It is worth keeping this in mind the next time someone tells you a small creature (perhaps a crustacean) cannot feel or think or do something that would mean we ought to be less cruel…
Humans are also found to be more complex/intelligent/sophisticated than was thought, given AI goalpost moving.
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That's great, but if I ever see a jumping spider in my house then I will not hesitate to murder it in cold blood.
They're not what you think, they're less than 1 mm lol
Regardless of the size I quite like them, many are quite pretty and fascinating to watch.
I saw a bold jumper [1] a few months ago and it was truly beautiful. It was quite large, black and white, and had iridescent mouthparts. It really felt like coming across a shiny Pokemon IRL. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phidippus_audax
They are fairly common in the SF Bay Area. Not only are they cute (the have a fuzzy look about them) but they tend to eat the stuff we hate. I tend to have one or two in my back yard almost every summer. I could do with out the black widows
I played Grounded and I swear that game fucked me up.
The first time I ran into one of these cute little jumping spiders was in a backyard while I was reading a book. I felt something on my chair and moved and I saw something jump across to the small table next to me. I noticed that it was a spider. I didn't know spiders could jump like that. I was very surprised when it turned around and looked at me. Scrutinizing me. It literally was moving its head looking at me tryi…
They make decent pets, or so TikTok has convinced me.
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I'll second that they are cute and fun to interact with. They are about as innocuous as an inchworm crawling on you. Except they exterminate bugs for you as a free service.
Yes but as the majority of hobbyist exterminators must be aware, most of them steal their extermination service. Who cares if the people who exterminate for a living get paid?
Is this fair? One thing you don't do by stealing extermination services is get back at Terminix for some problem you may have had...
One of the craziest things to me when looking at a jumping spider is the unbelievable size and mass difference between us. An 80kg person is ~6,000,000x heavier than the average jumping spider. Whereas a blue whale is only like 2,000-3,000x heavier than that 80kg person (if I'm doing my math right). They are obviously tiny, but I wouldn't have imagined what titans we must be from their perspective.
It'd take entire nations years of effort to build a gun or rocket that could even hurt something that much bigger than us.