Prometheus. New liver same eagles

Also helps to think of the word “definitely” as meaning “by definition”

Studying for the PE exam. It’s back, lads.

And even then, there’s a significant safety margin worked into the advice that you shouldn’t swallow toothpaste. You’d need to eat several tubes of prescription strength toothpaste to get sick from fluoride.

Still rinse and spit though

I usually get these little dudes in the summer. I let them be when I can stomach it, but I have this one lamp at my desk pointed up at the wall to give me some indirect light. Occasionally a house centipede will crawl along in front of the light and cast a really long shadow to freak me the hell out.

Ominous

The niche being food for fish that share their ecosystem in larval stages, and birds/bats/frogs that share their ecosystem in their adult stage.

If we were to somehow magically remove mosquitos from existence in an instant, we’d better hope something fills their ecological niche quickly

Known in Australia as Billabongs

I understand what you’re saying here, but the set of people killed by “every disease ever” includes the entire set of people killed by mosquito-borne diseases. Mosquitoes can’t have killed more people than every disease ever because mosquitoes’ kill count is part of every disease ever.

Not a fruit i know, but if you like pineapple on pizza you might also like pickled onions on pizza

Tasty tasty plant snot

Songbirds in general can be unexpectedly vicious

Literally asking for it, how dare you attempt to enjoy a delicious seasonal fruit

When I said “emulsified with garlic” I was trying to convey the idea that the garlic is the emulsifier. “Oil emulsified by egg with garlic added for flavor” is not an aioli by its rigid definition, but it does fit the american colloqual use

Aioli is “garlic and oil” by translation. By definition aioli is a spread made from oil emulsified with garlic, which mixing garlic into mayonnaise does not achieve. That said, the colloquial use of aioli to refer to just about any thick smooth spread is well on its way to changing that. Pedants like me can fight it all we want, but languages evolve. It’s just what they do.

I too vomit while standing up at my full height.

Not heresy, apostasy. A heretic worships god wrong. An apostate worships the wrong god. (“wrong” as defined by the church, of course)

The reasoned par of my brain wholeheartedly agrees with you, and when I can convince myself to do so, I let them vibe. Unfortunately the reasoned part of my brain is powerless to stop the fight or flight response that happens when [spindly-legged creature] crosses my field of view. It simply happens.

If reasoning alone could overcome an otherwise unreasonable physiological response, then allergies wouldn’t exist.

For scale, 20,000 leagues is almost 9 times the diameter of the Earth