Well, the constant outages where bad enough, now that dbzer0.com was defederated it’s time to leave this instance behind.

Because for some reason, hollywood can’t make proper villians anymore. Everyone has to be some kind if anti-hero or have a tragic backstory.

One of the reasons all these superhero movies suck. It’s just poor writing.

Urticating hair jave nothing to do with toxins or poison. Another example of you spreading misinformation.

The hairs are basically little harpoons with hooks and they get embedded into soft tissue an cause irriration and itching, even inflamation. But they are not poisonous/venemous.

But that doesn’t make sense. Yes, the dose makes the poison. But by that standard everything is poisounus, even freaking water.

You are stretching the word beyond it’s meaning. You could easily eat an entire bowl of common spiders around your house with no ill effects. Not sure what happens if you eat a bowl of Atrax robustus, but apperently no one was yet stupid enough to try it, so we don’t know.

So stop spreading shit that isn’t true. Please.

you’re going to hear it from me every time the topic of eating spiders is going to be brought

I’m ok with that. It’s a very, very … very weird hill to die on, but till next time I guess?

You do realise I’m also against eating spiders? I just don’t think we need to tell people they are poisonous to do so. I’ve interviewed a few people and they are very much pro not eating spiders. I don’t think we have to lie about them being poisonous at all!

I don’t need help. But I would urge you to not spread misinformation about spiders, I like them. Well actually you told people not to eat them … I support that. But you did it for the wrong reasons.

I can direct you to the entry in Wikipedia, that lists mere 15 edible species of spiders, instead of saying “pretty much each and everyone is edible”:

I’m well aware that people eat spiders. One of the spiders in this wiki is Trichonephila edulis, with “edulis” literally meaning “edible”.

But there is no mention of posion of any ill effect at all.

Now, I assume you’re thinking “I can swallow a spider and it won’t kill me, therefore they can’t be considered poisonous”. This isn’t true

Why not? The definition of “poisonous” I looked up is:

(of a substance or plant) causing or capable of causing death or illness if taken into the body.

That seems to fix exactly!

You may even not suffer much problems because of that, like stomach irritation, or diarrhea, but that’s because the poison they contain isn’t powerful enough to seriously harm you.

By that definition a taco is poisonous as well.

Ok, here is my counterpoint, I actually already made it in another comment. Spiders are a very popular prey. Lizards, rodents, birds … everyone eats spiders. Yet, they don’t die. My cat probably ate a spider today, I can’t find it anymore. It was a rather big Zoropsis spinimana. Yet, my cat probably will live. And they are so much smaller than a human.

Or was it snake’s venom?

I also mentioned that in the other comment. While ingested venom can be dangerous, spiders don’t have as potant venoms and are much smaller. So you’d really have to eat an unrealistic amount of spiders to feel any kind of effect from posion.

That’s a bit like eating enough bananas to die of radiation sickness …

I did and there is no source for that claim.

And no, the pestcontrol website doesn’t count. It doesn’t cite any sources and pest control companies have a self interesst in exaggerating claims about the dangers of all kinds of bugs.

It’s also most likley wrong. I don’t know where this guys get this information but I was unable to find any source to back that up.

And common sense would suggest, they are infact not poisonous.

For example, spiders are a really, really popular prey and get eaten from reptiles, mammal, birds and other athropods and they don’t die of poisonous as a result.

And while I can’t find any souce and tests with spider venom, snake venom has been tested when ingested. And while it can indeed cause harm, the dose required is vastly higher. As spiders venom is usually less potatent than snake venom and they are usually smaller, you’d need to eat a lot of spiders to feel any kind of posioning effect.

Spiders only have two body segments. So if you remove the “head” (cephalothorax) and the “butt” (abdomen), all you have left is the legs.

Spiders ARE poisonous. Plenty, if nost the most of them, really.

Can you provide a source for that?

But subjectively in the last 48 hours things seem to be great

Except for when the site was down again a few hours ago.

But how can you go out and hire people to help you knowing there’s a 25% chance they’ll be giving their lives for you?

I mean, they want to be hired. That’s how a lot of people there make a living. They are aware of the risks.

Where do you even get a phone with such a bad resolution?

Well, let me start by saying we haven’t lost a single American in this war,

But that is not correct. Several U.S. citizen have died fighting in Ukraine.

That would increase performance though.

Because that’s not fundamental human behaviour anywhere I’ve ever been.

Right, at least on the blackmarket they always put the “careful: addictive” warning labels on it so people would know. And how will people know it’s dangerous when you can’t even go for prison for it anymore?

Stupid legal weed.

Again, it’s not 1995.

Keep saying that a few more times and maybe you can wish your imaginary battery technology into existance.

Ryan George is tight!