I usually get these little dudes in the summer. I let them be when I can stomach it, but I have this one lamp at my desk pointed up at the wall to give me some indirect light. Occasionally a house centipede will crawl along in front of the light and cast a really long shadow to freak me the hell out.

Ominous

The niche being food for fish that share their ecosystem in larval stages, and birds/bats/frogs that share their ecosystem in their adult stage.

If we were to somehow magically remove mosquitos from existence in an instant, we’d better hope something fills their ecological niche quickly

Known in Australia as Billabongs

I understand what you’re saying here, but the set of people killed by “every disease ever” includes the entire set of people killed by mosquito-borne diseases. Mosquitoes can’t have killed more people than every disease ever because mosquitoes’ kill count is part of every disease ever.

“I don’t have to change my behavior” is the most trivially easy thing for anyone to convince themself.

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Not a fruit i know, but if you like pineapple on pizza you might also like pickled onions on pizza

Tasty tasty plant snot

Call me crazy but I wear gloves when cleaning toilets

Some sink plungers have a collapsible flange hidden inside

Songbirds in general can be unexpectedly vicious

And this is the magical part where we recognize that both can exist

Interesting in concept i guess, but orders of magnitude less efficient than a train.

In order for everyone to just freaking go, their cars would have to be attached somehow.

I wonder if anyone’s ever thought of linking a bunch of cars together so they can all stop and go simultaneously. And hey, since the cars are attached and all need to go to the same place, we can build a track instead of using high maintenance rubber on pavement and-

oop, we invented trains

add a hard hat and you’re in

Literally asking for it, how dare you attempt to enjoy a delicious seasonal fruit

When I said “emulsified with garlic” I was trying to convey the idea that the garlic is the emulsifier. “Oil emulsified by egg with garlic added for flavor” is not an aioli by its rigid definition, but it does fit the american colloqual use

Aioli is “garlic and oil” by translation. By definition aioli is a spread made from oil emulsified with garlic, which mixing garlic into mayonnaise does not achieve. That said, the colloquial use of aioli to refer to just about any thick smooth spread is well on its way to changing that. Pedants like me can fight it all we want, but languages evolve. It’s just what they do.