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A spider web unlike any seen before

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Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by basscomm »

_qua wrote: post #46
colordrops wrote: post #25

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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.

My house has a problem with little black ants that pest control services never could quite take care of. Spiders kept trying to set up shop near a window, but I would always knock the web down. Once I relented and let the spiders do their thing my ant problem went away. All I need to do is clean up a few ant corpses in the fall, which is a tradeoff I'm willing to make.

Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by treyd »

nicbou wrote: post #119
treyd wrote: post #112

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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?

Refusing the above claim that billionaires produce the "goods that we consume".

Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by shadowpho »

voidfunc wrote: post #102
bob1029 wrote: post #45

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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'm sure putting it outside makes you feel better but it's a death sentence regardless for most house spiders to be put into the outdoors.

Why?

Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by _qua »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #81
_qua wrote: post #46

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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.

> I'd much rather have a fly buzz past me Ever wonder where those flies have been? Maybe on some nice smelly garbage, and then on your food or your dishes. Flies carry diseases, man. > and get stuck to some fly paper Glue traps are cruel.

This is the first anti-fly paper take I've ever seen on the basis of morality.

Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by hashstring »

nicbou wrote: post #50
functionmouse wrote: post #38

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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.

Honey, wake up, we’re living in the finance capitalism era. Also in this part of history, the majority of the goods you consume are NOT produced by your overlords. The goods are produced by labour. Not by speculation or by private ownership of the means of production.

Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

_qua wrote: post #144
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #81

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> I'd much rather have a fly buzz past me Ever wonder where those flies have been? Maybe on some nice smelly garbage, and then on your food or your dishes. Flies carry diseases, man. > and get stuck to some fly paper Glue traps are cruel.

This is the first anti-fly paper take I've ever seen on the basis of morality.

I said glue traps in general are cruel. Google it.

https://www.peta.org/issues/wildlife/wildlife-factsheets/glu...

Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by goopypoop »

sheepscreek wrote: post #110
ysavir wrote: post #83

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For what it's worth, it happens to me about 5 times each summer. But I also welcome spiders as pest control, so it's not a surprise, and I forget all about it 5 seconds later.

You should make friends with Canadian spiders then. They are very polite. I don’t remember the last time I got bit :)

beware the canadian amnesia spider

Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by thaumasiotes »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #120
thaumasiotes wrote: post #42

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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.

I'm more offended by the fact that they eat books and bookbinding glue.

Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by nicbou »

hashstring wrote: post #145
nicbou wrote: post #50

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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.

Honey, wake up, we’re living in the finance capitalism era. Also in this part of history, the majority of the goods you consume are NOT produced by your overlords. The goods are produced by labour. Not by speculation or by private ownership of the means of production.

Starting a comment with honey does not prime the reader for polite conversation. Mind the HN guidelines.
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