• Death_EquityEnglish
    51·
    2 个月前

    Don’t worry, atmospheric oxygen is too low to make gigantic spiders possible.

      • kautauEnglish
        9·
        2 个月前

        Only if you went through the trial of the grasses. Those things would be crazy fast

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      8·
      2 个月前

      but warming is helping certain organisms of the sea to bloom. Jellyfish are actually increasing despite the increase in temperature and pollution.

    • xylogxEnglish
      4·
      2 个月前

      Oh great, so the giant spiders will have oxygen tanks?

      • Death_EquityEnglish
        3·
        2 个月前

        Only if we give them supplemental oxygen as they lack the ability to manufacture and have little to no engineering education.

          • KlairabelleEnglish
            3·
            2 个月前

            If you are so inspired, you can follow Nightvale’s example and begin an after-school volunteer ‘Teach a Spider to Read, Stop the Madness’ campaign.

            • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
              3·
              2 个月前

              Thank you! I have been “volunteering” there - two days each week - since the City Council thoughtfully invited me to.

          • Death_EquityEnglish
            1·
            2 个月前

            We should be fine so long as we don’t let the woke liberal leftists communists socialist colleges let spiders in under DEI with funding from Soros.

    • MadMadBunny@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      2 个月前

      You’ll need Kern’s nanovirus for that; the virus will facilitate the genetic transfer of knowledge and “Understanding” from one generation to the next.

      • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
        5·
        2 个月前

        Anybody want this computer made of bees? It stinks and is as loud as a jet engine, but it can do 5 Megaflops a second. There might also be a woman in there undergoing some kind of mental breakdown. Just ignore that.

    • PsythikEnglish
      4·
      2 个月前

      I’ve noticed the opposite problem: spiders are disappearing.

      Last summer my balcony was covered them. This year… well if they’re around, they’re hiding pretty damn well. I can’t find a single web this time around.

      • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        2 个月前

        I’ve found 2 big ones this last week - one in the bath, and one under the electrics

  • Sterile_TechniqueEnglish
    182·
    2 个月前

    Counterargument: the big ones are much easier to notice and squash. It’s the tiny fucker that just slipped under the collar of your shirt without alerting you that you need to worry about.

    I’m sure that itch you just felt was all in your head.

      • portugaEnglish
        7·
        2 个月前

        I let good spiders roam around my house and kill the annoying blood-sucking bzzzs and other nuisances I don’t live in Australia though

      • halvar@lemy.lolEnglish
        4·
        2 个月前

        I always just catch them with a box and let them out outside. Our family always did. I’m always stunned at people killing them.

    • Nikls94English
      9·
      2 个月前

      looking at Huntsman Spiders 🕷️

      You don’t know what you’re talking about mate

    • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      2 个月前

      I’m with you on this. But I wonder at what point you draw the line. A spider the size of a watch? A spider the size of a car? At what point do we prefer the smaller spider?

      • Naz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        2 个月前

        I’ve read dinner plate is the metric when shoes no longer work and so that’s the standard

        • portugaEnglish
          1·
          2 个月前

          I heard bananas. Maybe banana-sized leg is where we draw the line?

      • kameecodingEnglish
        2·
        2 个月前

        At what point? At all the fucking points, what the fuck is wrong with you people in this thread?

      • Sterile_TechniqueEnglish
        2·
        2 个月前

        With increased size comes a reduction in mobility, increased difficulty in reproduction and maintenance of life. And an increased perception in them being a threat.

        A car sized spider would be pretty much immobile, and by that size, a tactical target that would be fairly easy to hunt to extinction.

        The bigger the better.

        • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          2 个月前

          Yeah but not in video game or movie physics, which I assume is what we are talking about in this theoretical scenario.

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zipEnglish
    21·
    2 个月前

    How dare you swear in my Christian household! We don’t say the dreaded “s” word in this house!

    /S

    Jokes aside, I wish we could completely get rid of all bugs and insects without harming the planet, especially spiders.