• chetradley@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 years ago

    The number one rule for pedants is: if you’re going to be pedantic, you’d damn well better be correct.

  • mhague@lemmy.worldEnglish
    281·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Endmaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      create a website that catalogues all the spiders in my area

      You are a web developer looking for other web developers ;)

      • mhague@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        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.

            • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
              3·
              2 years ago

              Thanks, I didn’t realize the server instance I log in with, could do seamless censorship on the fly like that for content it doesn’t even host. Does that mean there is lemmy content I’m just not seeing ? That’s unacceptable.

              • joenforcer@midwest.socialEnglish
                2·
                2 years ago

                Yep. If your instance defederates from certain instances that others don’t defederate from, you won’t see comments from those defederated servers that others might still be able to see and interact with. This is the curse of a decentralized system where every node can make up their own rules.

                • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  2·
                  2 years ago

                  Can I just run my own single user lemmy server instead ? Why do I even need a third party to manipulate my digital world view ? Will I get autobanned from everywhere for being too small ?

  • Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    A retort in three parts;

    1. It’s bugs (colloquial), not Bugs (texanomic),

    2. There’s being pedantic and then there’s being a jackass - that’s you, jackass, and

    3. @eat_roadkill should embrace their name and go chow down on a three-day-dead skunk.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, I’m pretty sure taxonomy is in latin because actual scientists got tired of dealing with pedantic dipshits.

      “Bug” is an english word so it’s the domain of an etymologist not a biolgist. My lookup of the word indicates applying “bug” to arachnids is perfectly cromulent.

  • azi@mander.xyzEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Timbo1970@lemmy.worldEnglish
    85·
    2 years ago

    Except…what do spiders eat? Hence, a bug-lite would fit perfectly with their favoured prey. Big-brain missed the obvious.

    • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      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.