Closing loopholes is worthwhile, even if they’re not being abused yet. You say “if you see this happening, then you’ll have to vote”, but that thing that may happen is people being denied the right to vote. So if this starts to happen, it may be impossible to undo with voting.

This can only read as hypocrisy when you portray “everyone who plays video games” as a single character

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

There’s at least one instance on futurama where a space ship is flown through a drive-through that’s just out in the vacuum of space

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

“Anything that isn’t nothing”

Helps me push through when executive dysfunction hits. Getting outside for even just a little bit is a whole lot better than staying inside while telling myself I’m going to run 3 miles, for example

The Sandlot for me

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.