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A spider web unlike any seen before
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Re: A spider web unlike any seen before
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not "we", it's the billionaires.
They produce the goods that we consume. We are the ones working in their marketing department, building their online stores, streamlining consumption. Then we go home and buy stuff we don't need.
The productive capacity for the goods we consume was built by average people. Billionaires only exist to skim off the top, and are not a required component of the process.
Re: A spider web unlike any seen before
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a rule with the spiders where if they get too bold they get the vacuum. I don't mind them lurking in the corners but I don't want them crawling across my desk. I think most of them understand the arrangement by now. Only occasional enforcement is necessary.
I tried this with a yellowjacket and a screamer of a Shop Vac that has a six-foot hose. I was sure it would have suffocated from the dust inside the vacuum bag clogging its spiracles. Next morning, the wasp (now with tattered wings) was sitting in the corner of a window. I have no idea how it made it out.
Use glass and a paper sheet, much easier and less harsh on the "bugs".
Re: A spider web unlike any seen before
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah same, we do not bother spiders in the house unless they jump into bed or on food or whatever, and then we just take them outside. With spiders and cats in the house we never see any flies or other insects.
I've never really understood the "spiders protect you from pests" argument. Yeah, sure they eat flies. But I'd much rather have a fly buzz past me and get stuck to some fly paper than have a spider drop from the door frame on an invisible silk thread and slam into my face, or run across my pillow. Maybe I have arachnophobia, but they're freaky little creatures that I don't want in my living space.
Mosquitos and flies are much more harmful than spiders.
Re: A spider web unlike any seen before
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aren't spider webs kind of like glue traps
I saw a butterfly get stuck to a web once. It immediately started hurling itself violently away, trying to shake itself free. The spider was not immediately in evidence. I managed to take the web off it, but not without tearing off the part of the wing that made contact. I assume that in the butterfly's best-case scenario, that would have happened anyway. It was able to fly afterwards.
Now try to save a butterfly from a glue trap.
Re: A spider web unlike any seen before
#116Re: A spider web unlike any seen before
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah same, we do not bother spiders in the house unless they jump into bed or on food or whatever, and then we just take them outside. With spiders and cats in the house we never see any flies or other insects.
I have a rule with the spiders where if they get too bold they get the vacuum. I don't mind them lurking in the corners but I don't want them crawling across my desk. I think most of them understand the arrangement by now. Only occasional enforcement is necessary.
This was my exact arrangement with them when I used to live in a basement suite that was crawling with them.
Re: A spider web unlike any seen before
#118I’d be careful - this spider web may be a gateway to Upside Down. Let’s just cement the whole cave just in case.
Re: A spider web unlike any seen before
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
They produce the goods that we consume. We are the ones working in their marketing department, building their online stores, streamlining consumption. Then we go home and buy stuff we don't need.
The productive capacity for the goods we consume was built by average people. Billionaires only exist to skim off the top, and are not a required component of the process.
What does this have to do with the discussion?
Re: A spider web unlike any seen before
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah same, we do not bother spiders in the house unless they jump into bed or on food or whatever, and then we just take them outside. With spiders and cats in the house we never see any flies or other insects.
We have a lot of spiders and yet they don't seem to do much about the silverfish. :( They do hunt millipedes and then drag the corpses back to their lair to form a millipede graveyard.
Silverfish are one of the few insects grosser than any spider, even the way they scuttle is revolting.