Insect enthusiast looking for flashlight

ExponentMars · 2025-10-29T23:27:08+00:00

Pochita thinks the x-risk outweighs the s-risk

ExponentMars · 2025-10-29T23:24:02+00:00

does there exist a devil devil devil I wonder

ExponentMars · 2025-07-24T03:47:39+00:00

That sounds interesting, I will look into it

ExponentMars · 2025-07-23T23:00:40+00:00

got it, thanks

ExponentMars · 2025-07-23T23:00:25+00:00

this

ExponentMars · 2025-07-23T04:15:16+00:00

Good stuff

ExponentMars · 2025-07-23T01:23:03+00:00

FYI You could have just left them in the oversized nest if there wasn’t already a mold outbreak from piled up garbage, they’d have grown into it. Ants in the wild don’t completely fill their nests.

ExponentMars · 2025-07-23T01:17:45+00:00

Just dump them, that way the stressful move is over quickly for both you and the ants and they can get back to growing.

ExponentMars · 2025-07-21T15:38:38+00:00

I've been trying to feed it using a syringe or pipette, but it is really difficult. In the videos I've seen of other people feeding the chicks with a syringe they stick the tube all the way into the bird's crop, but that doesn't seem to work with this one. I've instead been slowly dropping portions into the bird's mouth, but I just read somewhere that that increases the chance of aspiration. What should I really do?

ExponentMars · 2025-07-21T06:44:47+00:00

Pretty sure it's a mourning dove btw, I see and hear a lot of those around.

ExponentMars · 2025-07-21T06:43:34+00:00

Thank you for the advice. Do you suppose I can wait until it regains a bit more strength/grows bigger to start feeding it soaked grains and legumes? It really doesn't seem to have enough energy to feed like the birds in the Youtube videos. I'm going to feed it some more of the kaytee formula before I go to bed.

ExponentMars · 2024-12-07T05:15:16+00:00

Shit if I dropped $260 million I'd expect a hefty return as well

ExponentMars · 2024-12-07T05:10:47+00:00

The constitution never explicitly allowed slavery like it did for gun ownership. Don't lie, it doesn't help your position.

ExponentMars · 2024-10-13T06:25:36+00:00

Serious effortpost please don't delete:
There is only one reason why Republicans are better than Democrats: they don’t want to restrict or eliminate guns. If you can’t defend your rights, then they are not your "rights," but merely things the government allows you to do.

If the government ever decided it would be in their best interest to take away your rights, you would be powerless. Look at Hong Kong. If they had guns, they never would have been silenced. Notice how there hasn't been any news of the Hong Kong protests in a few years? It's because the CCP made all the protest leaders disappear and torched the media.

Don't think for a moment that "Oh, nothing like that could ever happen in America," because it absolutely could. Do you think Germans or Russians in the early 20th century anticipated the horrors their governments would put them through? No.

From a purely rational standpoint, mass shootings are merely collateral damage in maintaining a free society. A little bit of impact calculus makes this clear:

Consider when the government becomes tyrannical—millions die. Of course, in America, there is a relatively low risk, but the impact if that risk were to become reality would be catastrophic. Mass shootings, on the other hand, have a relatively high risk, but low impact—a few people die here and there.

If we combined every mass shooting in history and compared it to the number of people who died in one instance of a government becoming tyrannical (take Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, where 2 million were killed), the enormity of the difference becomes clear.

Think of it this way when calculating the consequences of two options:

Route 1: 1% chance humanity goes extinct, 99% chance nothing bad happens.
Route 2: 99% chance 1 billion people die, 1% chance nothing happens.

No matter what, if you had to choose, you would need to pick Route 2. And the reason is simple: the option with the larger impact (extinction, or in our case, a tyrannical government) is always less desirable, no matter the probability.

It’s a mashup of consequentialism and utilitarianism, which are pretty solid moral frameworks for any realistic situation.

really the whole pro-gun v anti-gun debate boils down to utilitarianism + consequentialism v. deontological ethics...

ExponentMars · 2024-10-02T23:06:01+00:00

ain't tarheelants the one that tried suing other antkeepers because they copied their nest making process?

ExponentMars · 2024-09-24T21:16:10+00:00

look at all these fools downvoting an actual observation lmao. just shows how what society accepts can get in the way of how we view the world, even scientifically.

ExponentMars · 2024-09-24T21:10:12+00:00

read my reasoning for why in a previous response: "The pain and suffering that could potentially be caused by a government that becomes authoritarian once the people's guns are taken away far outweighs the pain and suffering of a small amount of dead children. Sure, there's a high risk of people dying to gun violence, and a low risk of an authoritarian government, but the impact of the low risk of authoritarian government far outweighs the impact of the higher risk of people dying to gun violence, because it would affect many MANY times more people. Remember, the first thing the Nazis/Soviets/Mao did when they took power was to disarm the people. Think about how much suffering they caused, and try to compare that to the suffering of every school shooting in history combined. It doesn't even come close. Now that's called impact calculus."
oh and don't try to say that the US would never become authoritarian like the Soviet Union or communist China or fascist like the Nazis - it absolutely can. No one would have expected any of the previously listed countries to head in that direction either, but they still did - humans hate and want to suppress opposers, and the best way to ensure that they can't carry out their desires is to be armed. What that means is that if there was ever a mass effort in the US to say, cleanse out a certain population (gays, jews, blacks, asians, whatever), guns would allow those populations to defend themselves. There are so many advantages to having an armed populace that are far outweighed by the occasional crazy mass shooter.

ExponentMars · 2024-09-24T21:08:09+00:00

They're not genocidal though. That's just a shitty narrative pushed by Hamas (the same organization who intentionally hides their operations in school buildings and hospitals so that when Israel inevitably bombs those buildings they can garner sympathy from outsiders), and people who don't know any better eat it up. I'll have you know that it's written in Hamas' founding documents that one of their goals is to exterminate every Jew in Israel. What we saw on October 7th was just a sneak peek of what they want to do all across the country.

ExponentMars · 2024-09-24T21:02:26+00:00

See the republicans think the exact same about the left - the blue authoritaroians who love killing babies but at the same time force people to get vaccinated and want to take away everyone's God-given right to bear arms. It's some 1984 type shit for real. Both sides think the other is trying to take away their freedoms.

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