Things That Come to Mind

Current Year minus 1999 years old

[boringkate]

It's not too late to suppress all of your wants and desires and to die unfulfilled and afraid without anyone ever having really known you.

[dogpuppy]

[xenostalgic]

This newly discovered ballista spider catapults ants into a deadly trap

Scientists have discovered a “ballista spider” that builds a spring-powered silk trap designed specifically to catch aggressive green tree a

kinda wild. spiders usually don't predate ants because they fight back and also summon endless reinforcements with pheromone trails. so this spider builds a web far away from the ant trails, then builds spring traps to yank the ants off the ground through the air and into the web

[philippesaner]

The ballista spider's snare is bioengineered to store elastic energy in the silk and rapidly release it, giving it incredible instantaneous power density -- greater than any other specialized silk-based biological catapults

There are others?

[xenostalgic]

yes! the paper cites the slingshot spider for example, whose web launches the spider at its prey rather than the reverse. I think what's supposed to be unique about the ballista spider is that the prey trigger the trap themselves; the authors speculate that the spider puts a pheromone on it that induces the ants to attack the snare, which catches them and triggers the spring

[hisuizorua]

they call it amtrak because the trains am on the trak

[1sadtrombone]

It's a shame Korean culture is so anti-weed because they have some real great stoner food

[ask-pacman]

Man Im sorry for snapping at you , uts just that I only got 8 hours of sleep last night and I only had like, two pandcakes with strawberrys and whipped cream and like three premium sausags for breakfast

[stillnaomi]

"the cruelty is the point"

*looks inside*

it's material interests and the dominant ideology that emerges from them shaping actions

[creature-adjacent]

Carnivorous plants doin this is so funny to me

They don't wanna eat their pollinators :(

[theweight]

[eightyonekilograms]

I got a “mental health for men” ad on the Matt Levine podcast in between all the wealth management and CRM software companies. Which feels like a positive development— something something toxic masculinity— although I wonder if the sort of people who listen to Matt Levine might become less efficacious at their jobs if they get mentally healthy. Like, you don’t want the guys on your trading floor becoming mindful and renouncing their desire for wealth to instead spend more time with their families, right?

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

i have frequently had the thought that a lot of what white collar promotions select for is someone with an unhealthy portion of their identity wrapped up in their job

[1sadtrombone]

Maybe why degrees are so valued?

It's like vocational awe directed selfwards.

[1sadtrombone]

Sorry what was that? Couldn't hear you over my honking and shooing.

[1sadtrombone]

I think the Tomodachi Miis should be able to write music about their crushes

[1sadtrombone]

When you've eaten the glub root and Grom switches up the beat in drum circle

[txttletale]

whoever coined "there are no stupid questions"; clearly didn't anticipate mark rosewater's blog

[txttletale]

for non mtg players imagine if the head Flavor Scientist at pepsi cola had a blog and people kept going on it to ask like "do you think you'll make a pepsi that tastes like sewage? why haven't you ever made a pepsi with a drowned rat in it? i notice that the pepsi is always on the inside of the can and not the other way round, is there a reason for that?"

[0x4468c7a6a728]

git reset --hard $(git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD) && rm -r * && git add . && git commit --amend --allow-empty -m "all better" && git push origin main --force

[dawatcher]

[1sadtrombone]

Influencer Michael Pollan: consume whatever content you want, as long as you make it yourself