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funny how well this fits for both meanings
It’s kind of funny how cyclical the solution is here. Compute needs power. That power is driving climate change. Which kills the bugs which kills the humans which prevents any more bugs from being created.
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Bugs will outlast
The only caveat is that at some point we will likely start farming insects as a food source. They require way less resources to produce than animal protein, and are actually pretty healthy (and tasty if cooked right)
People might be grossed out, but shellfish is basically just ocean insects and many of us love that shit.
We’re working on it.
I upvoted this before I saw what community it was in. Now I wish I could upvote twice.
Upvoted you since I can’t upvote the post twice
Upvoting this whole chain because I can’t multi-upvote OP too
Gets mauled by a bear.
Northern Norway doesn’t have tics, snakes, or bears. Worst thing that could happen is getting gnawed on by a lemming.
… or a Norwegian
That does happen TBF.
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They do have mosquitos.
Regrettably. But it’s more of an unending torment situation than a life threatening situation. And they don’t harass you on the beach or on the mountains, just in the forest. And let’s face it, if you’re doing anything with your summer other than sitting in a boat with a fishing line, you’re doing it wrong.
The sea Sami had the right idea. Spend the summer fishing on the sea and spend the winter hunting in the forest. A lifestyle I intend to resurrect once I retire.
Me if ticks didn’t exist.
I used lay directly in the grass without a care in the world.
I wouldn’t mind them if they didn’t carry/transmit those awful diseases.
And allergies
My sinuses sealed shut from this picture.
I used to sleep on the grass before my jujutsu class. Got bit by some bugs once, but honestly, the worst problem was trying to find a spot without goose poop.
I enjoy and appreciate nature in nearly all its forms. Even mosquitos just tryna live, they’re born required to bite somebody 🤷♂️
Fuck the Canada goose.
Fuck em as a group, fuck their whole flocks, fuck a flying V of Canada geese. Fuck em as an entire grand, branching lineage of this strange fractal miracle we call life, get rid of the Canada goose and our timeline returns to the more harmonious path it had been on before everything stopped making sense.
Canada is cool, fuck that goose tho.
Please don’t fuck the geese
Nah fuck mosquitos, specifically the genus that sucks blood, which is a subsect. They don’t even add to an ecosystem and its been widely theorized they could be wiped out without environmental harm, but only benefit.
Death to biting mosquitos.
What a out ticks?
Sounds like a certain lake troll is agitating to improve his lake-dwelling experience, if ya ask me.
Ahahah why tho?
80% of our bugs will be replaced by AI by the year 2026
Don’t worry, AI will reintroduce those bugs into our software to live on there
I’d be fine if it was just biting mosquitoes that disappeared.
I get the importance of bugs, but why do they gotta be such annoying assholes.
If a deity exists, he probably says the same thing about humans. Both are annoying to a more advanced being for similar reasons.
They know they are important, so they be assholes knowing we can’t do anything about it
German has a word for it: Insektensterben
Image is accurate, since without bugs, the food chain collapses and takes society with it, and the survivors will have to migrate to rural areas that can support a hunter-gatherer lifrstyle.
If pollinators weren’t necessary, human food wouldn’t be affected too much. But given we eat plants (and the animals we eat eat plants) hunter-gathering would have the same problem as just continuing farming. Can’t gather if there are no plants, can’t hunt if the prey starved to death.
Eh, grass would be fine, and cows eat grass.
The snails would get out of hand probably tho
I already do this on occasion, there is usually just several inches of snow on the ground when I do.
I slept outside once as a kid and ended up with massive mosquito bites all over my body.
I itch just looking at these.
Yeah, sadly gras is still plenty itchy
