• @TommySalami
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    237 months ago

    You know what, I’m here for it. Anytime I hear about the cicadas coming back it’s always over the top dread. People freak out, and there’s so much acting like seeing a cicada is going to grind life to a halt. Everyone seems to lean into the bit.

    The fact that the growing answer to the cicadas this year is a wildly different “fuck it, we’ll eat them and then they can’t get us” could not be more beautiful to me.

    • flicker
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      137 months ago

      Really, it’s the most believably apex predator behavior I’ve seen in humans.

    • @[email protected]
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      87 months ago

      Where are you seeing dread? Most of the cicada news I’ve seen falls between “this is a cool curiosity” and “this happens regularly and is perfectly fine”. Also plenty of articles about eating them.

      • @[email protected]
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        67 months ago

        The sound of an awoken brood looking to fuck is maddening and inescapable. I absolutely dread experiencing that again.

        • @[email protected]
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          27 months ago

          I also don’t enjoy being dive bombed walking through the parking lot of the grocery store, and finding a couple stuck to my shirt when I get home