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The names Miranda and I'm sorry for this blog it's just trash lol She/her/they// 27 yrs old//lazy enthusiast of things//a severely questioning queer

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[incisedwound]

[tosety]

Bumps your ankle

Bumps your ankle

Bumps your ankle

Bumps your ankle

Bumps your ankle

[tockthewatchdog-deactivated2020]

i cant stop laughing

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

Trapped in the talkative cycle

[parakeet]

sip sip sip sip sip sip sip sip sip sip sip sip sip sip sip

[skels-pixel-art]

what if they just got to have fun flying on their birds without any of the bad stuff happening

[kragehund-est]

it actually is insane to me that it's a cultural norm for men to suck ass at getting their wives/gfs gifts. especially when they whine about how they have no idea what women like.

man, you're not getting a gift for Female Domestic Partner. you're getting a gift for Natalie, a person whom you have been married to for 7 years, whom has lived in the same home with you for a decade, whom speaks to you every day about her thoughts and interests, whom you presumably love, and whom you can directly or indirectly ask what she wants. it's not that you don't know what half the human population wants, that's irrelevant. you don't know what Natalie wants and that is inexcusable.

[1percentcharge]

my high school used to start at 7:30 and I lowkey think that was child abuse

[1percentcharge]

For 4 years I woke up at 6 am, at least (I took the bus and for a year or two it came between 6:40 and 6:50). Morning showerers, or people who put effort into their hair or makeup, probably had to wake up even earlier. Then we all went to school and sat in a health class where our gym teacher told us that teenagers are supposed to get 10 hours of sleep a night. Genuinely implying that we were supposed to go to sleep at 8pm if we cared about our health. The dissonance made my head spin. I haven’t been in high school for years and I’m still mad about it. Maybe even more mad

[jimmyhoffathecat]

Is jimmy still bald headed???

Yes😔

[emwheezie]

Salad

[paintedlight1]

✨👑

2D's back, baby!

[dankmemeuniversity]

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[busket]

sometimes I think about how rattlesnakes are starting to adapt to bite immediately instead of using their rattle as a warning, because this defense mechanism that says "im here! im frightened! don't come close or ill bite you" has instead ilicited a reaction of "oh fuck a rattlesnake, i should kill it"

so of course every snake that has the instinct to warn humans of its presence gets killed, and only the snakes that bite first and dont make themselves known get to survive. a human who's been bitten is too worried about his swelling ankle to decapitate a snake with a shovel.

it's a good example of how humans make the world more dangerous for ourselves by believing that we have mastery and ownership of it. we think we have the power and importance to control the life around us down to the snakes and insects, but every animal fights for life. and no animal thinks that any human is more important than it's own life.

[anonymusbosch]

this is not true, to the best of my ability to determine.

there just isn't evidence that I can find that suggests it's true. You can read about it in reddit threads or old Quora pages, but no one has ever determined it's true. There's discussion to the contrary.

It has always been the case that rattlers don't always rattle before they strike. If they are being imminently threatened - about to be grabbed or stepped on - or perceive themselves to be so, they commonly don't give warning. What good would it do?

A rattler does not want to strike in defense. Its primary defense is to not be seen; its secondary defense is to give a warning rattle if it can do so. Striking is its costly and dangerous third option. Often strikes occur when a snake is unseen (hiking boot placed carelessly) or antagonized (by a child, by a dog, by someone scared and trying to kill it, by some macho yahoo too deep into a six-pack [if it's visible, coiled, and hissing, it does not need to rattle to tell you what's up]). Over half of bites in the US are provoked. But:

The majority of times a human is within six feet of a rattler, the rattler is unaware.

The majority of times a human sees a rattler, the two part ways peacefully.

In a small fraction of cases, the encounter becomes a conflict, and unfortunately, yes, sometimes the human kills the snake. This is a vast minority of encounters. And if a human kills a rattler, it's sometimes after getting bitten. (1) Sometimes people believe they need to kill the snake to take it to the hospital to tell what kind of snake it is (you don't need to do this. Don't do this). (2) Sometimes the person was trying to kill the snake in the first place. (3) Sometimes the bite aggravates the human or provokes a fear response. And (4) - Rattler bites don't make your ankle explode immediately - it may take minutes or hours for swelling to occur (though danger is immediate especially if the person has an exacerbating condition). A bite may force a human away, but it's not guaranteed to. Biting a person is one of the most dangerous things a snake can do.

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I think it's absolutely not a good example of humans making the world more dangerous. It's not correct and I think it encourages people to think overly poorly of humans and overly fearfully of snakes. Yes, it's incredibly tragic that lots of snakes are killed by people every year. I hate it. But the way to combat that is not to reinforce the idea that rattlesnakes are becoming more likely to strike without warning. The way to combat that is to educate people on snake identification, to provide accurate information about snake ecology and behavior, and to point people towards safer removal/relocation services in their area if there are snakes nesting where humans or pets are likely to create conflict.

[kosmogrl]

firm believe that not everything happens for a reason, sometimes things are just cruel. and they shouldn’t have happened and it’s not supposed to be a lesson because we never deserved such thing.

[lainpsx]

[sirobvious]