• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Basically every kind of spider is venomous.

    They can’t swallow solids very well so instead, their venom liquifies their food and they slurp the juices.

    Most spiders aren’t venomous enough to seriously harm a human, but a tarantula bite is gonna hurt.

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      5 months ago

      They also have sharp hairs they can stick in you if they don’t like you like one of those awful cacti that have the little tiny needles you can barely see. I had a friend with one as a pet.

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        5 months ago

        Honestly, spiders are pretty cool roommates.

        I mean? They respect boundaries, they’re fairly clean and tidy, they help deal with pests. And they’re quiet.

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          I like spiders, but I don’t think I’d keep one as a pet.

          Way back when Windows XP came out, back when you had to buy the new OS, there was a special bundle offer I saw with one of those newfangled digital cameras which had been way too expensive before, so I got it. I then spent weeks working on what would be an Instagram page or something these days, documenting the jumping spider who lived in my office. I called him Mr. Jibbles because he kept his home in the hole at the bottom of my JBL 4311 monitors (speakers in non-pro audio talk), until he sadly died one day. I have no idea what the hole was for, but they have this big hole at the bottom. Anyway, I had a lot of fun taking your picture, Mr. Jibbles. Sorry if I misgendered you. You may live on somewhere on the Internet Archive, but I don’t remember the URL.

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            Iirc, the hole does 2 things. The first is it acts like a sound hole in a guitar or violin and alters the tonal qualities of the speaker (the enclosure acts like a resonate chamber.)

            Also, iirc, drivers have to work harder to move the membrane of the enclosure is totally sealed, since it’d have to compress the air inside/behind the membrane.

            Of course, cheap speakers probably did it because they saw JBL and others do it on the expensive studio monitors.

            As for spiders…. I think they’re cool, but only if they stay over …. There…. Jumping spiders can even be cute. But at a distance.

            Same goes for the centipede with the creepy legs. I respect that they eat things I’m happy not deal with… just don’t come over here.

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              This would be the latter. Interesting explanation, thanks.

              Modern studio monitors don’t usually have those in my experience, but I got those years ago in a trade and they really capture a flat monitor sound in a way that modern monitors don’t. I’m sure in part because they’re massive. Anyway, they were perfect for my audio work at the time.