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[wierd]

A german roach? Or one outside?

[Reelya]

Here's a good one. A security researcher in the US decided to get personal license plate 'NULL'. All good so far.

Once he got his first citation for doing anything wrong however, and his details went into the database for the ticketing system, a flood of other tickets poured in, all for license plate 'NULL'. It turns out that was the sentinel value if an actual license plate number for an infringement couldn't be determined.

[Max™]

Yup, guilty of dereferencing 0 in an indexed lane.

[Iduno]

2. Some third party has the ability to block my IP without my knowledge, for unknown reasons.

If you're seeing it very often, you're probably part of a block of blacklisted IPs because somebody in that block is a prolific spammer/scammer. Guilt by association.

Trade wars, recessions, and cold wars...

Tell me again, when will the shadow of the McCarthy era finally dissolve?

When politicians decide they don't benefit from keeping the population cowed with fear, or we guillotine them all.

[Kagus]

When politicians decide they don't benefit from keeping the population cowed with fear, or we guillotine them all.

*Googles "how to build a guillotine"

Hey, that one looks pretty decent, lemme see what... Dammit.


*Googles "how to build a guillotine -pinterest"

[dragdeler]

A german roach? Or one outside?

A cockroach at all, at least in real... I like looking at insects but I don't feel like I missed out on anything in this case.

[wierd]

How fortunate for you.  I have seen at least 4 different species up close, and first hand.

In addition to the nasty and very difficult to eradicate german cockroach (*shudder*.. Service calls back in the day.. eewww...), I also got to experience the joy of the oriental cockroach, after a company I used to work for accidentally imported some in a shipment of computer chasis, as well as the mostly harmless american woods cockroach, which likes to hang out on windowscreens early in the spring, I have also had the .. pleasure.. of getting to see and handle some large hissing roaches.

[Kagus]

Only place I really remember having roaches was the house in Vegas. Nice fat American Cockroaches waddling around like they owned the place... And Nevada is Nevada, so of course they flew too.

Still, preferred them to the black widow infestations we had every so often...


The giant moth swarms in spring were honestly just kinda cool, never had much issue with them.

[feelotraveller]

This is a fallacy. Cockroaches won't survive without humans, they're dependent on our urban ecosystems.

This is so wrong, at least in Australia (but I'd be surprised if it wasn't global).

"Virtually all terrestrial habitats in Australia have native cockroaches present, including some caves which are host to specialised pale blind and wingless species of cockoaches."
"Native cockroaches feed in trees on pollen, bark and leaf material."
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/animals/insects/native-cockroaches/

[Max™]

Black widows are gorgeous up close, roaches... well, having had to deal with a house that was infested only to later have someone bring some pots over to our house and say "whoops" when a couple escaped... fucking bitch... let's just say I'm glad that niche is covered by palmetto bugs here. Look very similar, still reflexively sets off the "FUCKING NUKE IT ALL" instinct in me, but way less interested in living indoors.

Still doesn't help when you go to kill one over the toilet and it hops off the wall towards you, so you take a step back to discover what happens when the back of your knees hit the side of a tub.

Spoiler alert: you kinda rapidly sit down in the tub and gain a concussion!

Let's go take a nap after I kill this bug!

[Reelya]

This is a fallacy. Cockroaches won't survive without humans, they're dependent on our urban ecosystems.

This is so wrong, at least in Australia (but I'd be surprised if it wasn't global).

"Virtually all terrestrial habitats in Australia have native cockroaches present, including some caves which are host to specialised pale blind and wingless species of cockoaches."
"Native cockroaches feed in trees on pollen, bark and leaf material."
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/animals/insects/native-cockroaches/

Native cockroaches are nothing like the invasive urban ones. The ones people mean when they say cockroaches will survive a nuclear blast aren't "bush" roaches as we called them in country Australia, they're the 1-2 species of worldwide urban ones. The German Cockroach and other big city ones will nearly completely die out once humans are gone.

EDIT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockroach
There are 4600 cockroach species, but only 30 are found around human habitation, and only 4 of them are notable as being pest species, all of which are introduced species. Those species will all mostly die out when humans are gone, they are dependent on our ecosystem.

[scourge728]

You know what's annoying, my internet went out and now the icon google chrome uses for bay 12 is this stupid at&t logo, how do I fix this?

[Reelya]

Ctrl-F5 to reload the page?
Clear the cache / history?

[scourge728]

thank you

[feelotraveller]

Native cockroaches are nothing like the invasive urban ones. The ones people mean when they say cockroaches will survive a nuclear blast aren't "bush" roaches as we called them in country Australia, they're the 1-2 species of worldwide urban ones. The German Cockroach and other big city ones will nearly completely die out once humans are gone.

EDIT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockroach
There are 4600 cockroach species, but only 30 are found around human habitation, and only 4 of them are notable as being pest species, all of which are introduced species. Those species will all mostly die out when humans are gone, they are dependent on our ecosystem.

So cockroaches aren't cockroaches?  I'm not buying.  Bush roaches are cockroaches too!

The quotidian reason for thinking that cockroaches will take over the earth in the case of a catastrophic nuculear incident is their purported immunity to radioactivity, and although that contains a large degree of falsehood (as the wikipedia article you quote evidences) that was not the basis of your argument, which was expressly about their dependency on human urban ecosystems which is patently false.

(Even in the case of urban cockroaches I suspect that they are not 'dependent' on the urban environment but merely thrive under those conditions, hence the 'mostly' in your quoted statement - but this is beside the point...)

Making the argument that cockroaches aren't cockroaches is just hilarious.

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Separately a study currently in the news demonstrates some worrying information.  Microscopic plastic fibers (and shards and balls) have been repeatedly found in rainfall. Including in about half of the samples taken from a remote mountainous site.

The implications of the pervasiveness of the dispersal of plastic in the contemporary ecosystem are disturbing.

'It is raining plastic'
https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20191048