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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • That sounds awful. I dunno. I mean, at the heart of it all, on some level you’re allowing him to continue this behavior by going to him each time. If you don’t go, he has to either keep calling until you give in, or if you don’t give in, he can get pouty about it, yell about it, or eventually come and actually find you.

    If you stand your ground and refuse, eventually he has to change his behavior. But, getting to that point will be very uncomfortable. So the question is, how much do you want things to change? Are you willing to go through that discomfort to get your needs met?








  • For the curious:

    Speaking to MailOnline, Willot confirmed this ‘was indeed a tricky procedure. They are very reactive and won’t stop struggling once caught, preventing any shaving attempt if not anaesthetised.’

    This was done by exposing the ants for a few seconds to carbon dioxide, then strapping them down firmly.

    Hairs were removed using a high-power binocular telescope and a very sharp blade.

    ‘It’s the same as shaving your own chin: the scalpel blade has to move in the opposite direction of the hair’s growth. It has to be a delicate and gentle motion,’ said Willot.

    After practising on large soldier ants, he found that a smaller worker ant could be entirely shaved in an hour of delicate work.

    He estimates around 40 ants were shaved altogether to produce seven good examples for the experiments.

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  • I find myself making fun of the engineering, but I think it’s a defense mechanism. I’ve had a pretty strong interest in the Titanic since I was a kid, and if I were offered the opportunity to see it, I think I’d be more likely to go. And it’s scary to think I’d end up on a vessel that wasn’t designed to do the thing it advertised it can.

    How much did the people who went actually know about the sub they were on? How common is it to sign a waiver about dying to go on a commercial sub?

    It’s easy to laugh with hindsight, but it’s scary to think what could have happened if I were in the position to choose to go.



  • That’s my theory too. He’s acting like a cornered animal and needs to drive traffic back to reddit. What better way to do that than to break the website power users have been migrating to and advertising on Reddit?

    Then June 30 the straggling migrants still holding out til the end will come over to a broken website.

    I think spez hopes that their broken spirit and desperation will help drive people back to reddit, but a bot influx this huge, he must be legitimately worried.

    It could also be spez bootlickers, but I would be shocked if someone who had the same knowhow to build a bot army was simultaneously stupid enough to not see the bigger picture happening at corporate.