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Pulsarcat posted:What if the rat is also wearing pants and shoes, what then huh!?! I will kick Mickey’s head clean off.
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If the rat and I both had swords then the rat is taking me down.
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May 15, 2021 15:16
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Reepicheep doesn’t gently caress around. That’s true.
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Captain Monkey posted:I will kick Mickey’s head clean off. We don't say the M word around here
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DACK FAYDEN posted:How unarmed is "unarmed"? Like I don't even know if I could take a rat if I'm naked, but if I get pants and shoes it's loving on. As someone who took care of rats for a living: pants will not save you
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Pulsarcat posted:What if the rat is also wearing pants and shoes, what then huh!?! If a rat wore pants, how would it wear them?
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May 15, 2021 16:20
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learnincurve posted:Mosquitoes have killed over 52 billion humans, which is more that half of all humans who ever lived Sounds like mosquitos are getting blamed for something disease is doing, this propaganda about the noble mosquito is disgusting
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May 15, 2021 16:25
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RatHat posted:I guess people don't realize how loving huge Polar bears are because they'd absolutely trash a Grizzly. Size ain't everything polar bears run away from grizzlies all the time because they are COWARD animals. I bet I could scare a polar bear just by laying on the horn in my Jetta and doing donuts.
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May 15, 2021 16:36
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I thought I'd heard that mosquitoes are actually loving useless and the only reason we haven't made them extinct is because we can't. Like all they do is spread disease and their spot could just be taken by less lovely insects in the ecosystem.
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May 15, 2021 16:37
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Piell posted:Sounds like mosquitos are getting blamed for something disease is doing, this propaganda about the noble mosquito is disgusting I think this is an important difference really, Mosquitos do not intend to kill us so blaming them for so many deaths is very misleading. When Hippos kill people its absolutely intentional so that should count for more.
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Grimdude posted:I thought I'd heard that mosquitoes are actually loving useless and the only reason we haven't made them extinct is because we can't. I mean we believe this because they kill so many people. But removing anything from an ecosystem is generally a bad idea.
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Yeh they are like Daddy Longlegs in that they are massive but contain very little nutrients, so your average fish or frog would spend a lot of energy consuming them and then be full when a nice juicy grasshopper comes along.
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Danaru posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8cDfnQD0ws ... Mongo?
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Male mosquitoes are strict nectivores and as such, serve an important role as pollinators for many flowers. Larvae are aquatic and are an important food source for small fish, as well as eating a lot of algae and small creatures themselves. Ecology is a complicated set of relationships, and it's almost impossible to properly predict what would happen if you remove a species entirely. "There are other pollinators" is true, but the balance would be thrown off, and it could mean less flowers that rely on mosquitoes, or more of another type of insect, and that difference is going to have other repurcussions. There are, however, mosquito species that carry disease and mosquito species that don't, and eliminating the dangerous species in favour of ones that don't is probably okay? And this is what most research is looking into these days. But again, ecology is complicated.
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May 15, 2021 16:56
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Grimdude posted:I thought I'd heard that mosquitoes are actually loving useless and the only reason we haven't made them extinct is because we can't. They're essential food for other animals. Some species of mosquito are pollinators. It's not possible to extinguish multiple species from an ecosystem without it impacting said ecosystem in some, usually very terrible way.
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May 15, 2021 16:58
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There are no animals that survive purely on mosquitos but in the same way there are no humans who consume only tomatoes and yet it’s a good common potassium source
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We don't really have a stellar record for wiping out animals we don't like consequence free.
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Grimdude posted:I thought I'd heard that mosquitoes are actually loving useless and the only reason we haven't made them extinct is because we can't.
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Grimdude posted:I thought I'd heard that mosquitoes are actually loving useless and the only reason we haven't made them extinct is because we can't. IIRC this specifically refers to the specie of mosquito that can carry malaria. Mosquitos in general have an important role in the ecosystem but the specific ones that gently caress with us aren’t important
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A single species of mosquito is probably easily replaceable yeah, the problem is just fears they either we've overlooked something important. Also that any genetic methods will possibly cause poo poo we couldn't have predicted.
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when you say 'useless' what do you mean? Does nothing else eat them? Do they not keep anything else in check? Ecosystems are a series of balances, do they really not influence anything?
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I admit to following a certain amount of celeb gossip, but I can't imagine caring this much about celebrity relationships. When I find out about a celebrity relationship I generally either think "Oh Good for them" or "Oh, that's probably gonna end poorly and that's it. https://twitter.com/ThatJakePC/status/1393275901199228929?s=20
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Regarde Aduck posted:when you say 'useless' what do you mean? Does nothing else eat them? Do they not keep anything else in check? I think in this context useless would mean the species in question has no unique role in the ecosystem and could be replaced by any other species expanding to take it's role as a prey animal for larger insects/birds.
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ChaseSP posted:I think in this context useless would mean the species in question has no unique role in the ecosystem and could be replaced by any other species expanding to take it's role as a prey animal for larger insects/birds. This, yeah. I'm not saying it's accurate at all I just thought I'd heard it in passing during a science-y video of some kind. Like someone said though, it may have just meant one type of mosquito. The idea being that we removed them from the equation and that just allows other insects without malaria to pollinate, feed other animals, etc.
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Idiot fight idiot fight idiot fight!
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https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606/ Really applies to either of them.
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I thought I had seen the worst possible takes of the current military actions done by Israel, and then this loving gem popped up. https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/1393656994574258178?s=20
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Who are the associated press at war with in this analogy?
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OwlFancier posted:Who are the associated press at war with in this analogy? I don't think it's intended to be an analogy, he actually believes AP is at war with Israel. Or believes it enough to fit his narrative anyway.
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Skwirl posted:I thought I had seen the worst possible takes of the current military actions done by Israel, and then this loving gem popped up. https://twitter.com/arya_kidding_me/status/1393647163259904000
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OwlFancier posted:Idiot fight idiot fight idiot fight! Please tell me more of you have some idiot fight content. I don’t even care if it’s old idiot fights, drat I’m jonesing for more now.
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Just loving amazing levels of projection.
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RoboRodent posted:Male mosquitoes are strict nectivores and as such, serve an important role as pollinators for many flowers. Larvae are aquatic and are an important food source for small fish, as well as eating a lot of algae and small creatures themselves. Ecology is a complicated set of relationships, and it's almost impossible to properly predict what would happen if you remove a species entirely. "There are other pollinators" is true, but the balance would be thrown off, and it could mean less flowers that rely on mosquitoes, or more of another type of insect, and that difference is going to have other repurcussions. Up yours mosquito lover
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If God didn't want us to reshape nature to our will, he would stop us. No, I don't know anything rise in global temperature averages, sounds like some pinko commie bullshit. *sprays Agent Orange over the entirety of the Amazon Rainforest*
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1stGear posted:*sprays Agent Orange over the entirety of the Amazon Rainforest* I don't think Jeff Bezos would like that.
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Fame Douglas posted:I don't think Jeff Bezos would like that. Pretty sure he would
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Push El Burrito posted:Size ain't everything polar bears run away from grizzlies all the time because they are COWARD animals. I bet I could scare a polar bear just by laying on the horn in my Jetta and doing donuts. If cats have taught me anything it’s that you can scare off animals ten times your size, you just need to make the first move and by god you need to commit to it.
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Platystemon posted:The most dangerous animal is Mycobacterium tuberculosis. I'm hunting the most dangerous prey. *Fires shotgun into petri dish*
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