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Bug isn’t even a technical term. Lobsters are considered bugs!
That’s a great point you big dumb bitch.
Yeah I always assumed “bug” was like “vegetable” — it’s a colloquial, not taxonomic, term. But there are “true bugs” so maybe the analogy isn’t completely sound.
(And tomato is absolutely a vegetable.)
Agreed. In my mind “bug” has always meant arthropod. So it’s include insects, spiders, crustaceans, etc.
You wouldn’t say that if you ever tried those tomatoes https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2021/01/17/culture/foodTravel/tomango-tomato/20210117130800678.html
I’d even call them candy.
But they wanted to feel smugly superior! Poor fella can’t even be pedantic properly…
fewer beer
So close. Less beer, fewer beers. Both acceptable.
Jesus Christ someone get that dude a therapist.
But his username is mentally healthy so how could he need a therapist?
The number one rule for pedants is: if you’re going to be pedantic, you’d damn well better be correct.
Display Name: Mentally Healthy
Username: EAT_ROADKILL
Dude is at odds with himself.
Duality of man
I’m not a scientist, but I’m the kind of person to keep black widows as pets and create a website that catalogues all the spiders in my area. I’d allow spiders being called bugs, or even insects. Even poisonous is alright but it does hurt a little.
create a website that catalogues all the spiders in my area
You are a web developer looking for other web developers ;)
We’re going to need a link
It was a Google site (from years ago) so all that’s left is a random archive somewhere. I had all the local spiders+favorites, but the only original content were pictures of Latrodectus and Kukulkania Hibernalis. Beautiful spiders.
What’s your favourite?
Portia jumping spider! It’s such a crazy little machine.
What about you?
Smart little cats with 8 legs, and certaily the most lovely spiders, even for aracnophobics
You need to read read Children of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky then.
Popped to mind immediately upon seeing the word Portia
I also really liked his Shards of Earth series if you haven’t seen that one.
i like beetles in general. i have a special place in my heart for weevils but not because of memes, Otiorhynchus is my first ID.
Are some spiders poisonous? Are all animals that are venomous also poisonous? Also I’d like to say that there is no linguistic difference between the two in some languages. There is no distinction between the two in German for instance. It’s either giftig or it isn’t.
None that I know of. I think the OC was just mocking a bit on how some people can get so bent out of shape when the word is used colloquially.
It’s an unfortunate false friend that the German word Gift means poison in English.
Funnily there is also the word “Mitgift” (Dowry) that has nothing to do with poison at all and is closer to the english “gift”.
Same root though. In Dutch it wasn’t differentiated until recently so the same word has vastly different meanings between Afrikaans and Dutch. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/gifte#Middle_Low_German
Original meaning seems to be something that was given. So a snake would gift you Poison just like snot nosed brats would gift you a cold during Thanksgiving dinner.
Same meaning as dose in that sense. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/dosis#Latin
The word has been used as a euphemism for “poison” since Old High German, a semantic loan from Late Latin dosis (“dose”), from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “gift; dose of medicine”).
I wondered how the heck it got that meaning. Pretty strange to apply a term for giving something in general to poison specifically.
There is a distinction to make. For example some snake venom is not poisonous when traveling through your digestive system, and only becomes a problem when it enters the blood stream (usually from a bite).
I don’t think it matters in most contexts. When people are casually talking about it, venomous and poisonous are both stand-ins for “it has venom.” They’re not telling other people, “actually, don’t eat spiders.” I was just joking about the classic pedant line about spiders.
But it does make a difference on paper. I’m curious how you would express this in German: A black widow is venomous and in theory a healthy human can eat a dead black widow with no ill effects.
They eat spiders too.
They’re autonomous content scraping internet bots. Aka web crawlers.
You son-of-a-bitch! I’m in! Subscribe me to your facts.
Stupid science bitch couldn’t even understand the joke.
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Curses are probably replaced with “removed” for you.
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Talk to your instance or your client. I see it just fine.
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- there is no scientific definition of “bug”. the entire category is a social construct much like vegetables
- this person’s first sentence defined spiderd as insects and the second sentence said they weren’t
They are missing some punctuation where it was desperately needed but imagine a comma or period after " spiders are not bugs" and reread.
ah yes, thank you, my bad
All good my dude… It didn’t make sense to me on my first past either so I figured that it might have gotten you in the same spot too. Just glad to see the community is not throwing down votes at ya anymore, because your comment just felt like an honest misread. Cheers.
TIL, vegetables are a social construct.
This article illustrates this nicely:
https://athensscienceobserver.com/2019/09/30/vegetables-are-a-social-construct/Neither of those two sentences define the spider as either insect or non insect. Did you even read them?
*Edit: I understood wrong your comment is valid but phrased weirdly
And the first sentence literally describes the scientific definition of bug…
Oh I thought they were talking about the first guy’s sentences
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that bud is hops
Nobody would eat hops you big dumb bitch.
As long as you decarb it first, I don’t see an issue. Throw it on some peanut butter crackers and have a good time.
Who among us has not dined on their bud’s ass after a few beers? It’s just common courtesy.
It was said by a big dumb bitch
username doesn’t check out…
Anyone know what the first known case of ‘bug’ exclusively referring to Hemipterans/Heteropterans? The first use of bug being applied to arthropods was in the 1620s in reference to bedbugs (in Hemiptera but not Heteroptera) with the term ladybug (not in Hemiptera) first attested in the 1690s. Both predate Linnean taxonomy. So why and when did entomologists decide to coin this highly restrictive definition? It’s a very English-language term so it surely wasn’t when the taxon was created by Linnaeus.
Except…what do spiders eat? Hence, a bug-lite would fit perfectly with their favoured prey. Big-brain missed the obvious.
I’m guessing you missed where that was stated in the image.
That’s a typical case of someone who is so eager to sounds right in an argument that they will not bother double checking to see if they missed the original point or true meaning before replying.
There are a lot of people like that on Reddit. Well, I assume there still are I deleted my account a while ago. What a toxic place.
Uhm lmao
Neil Degrasse Tyson tier reply
