For anyone wondering:

Take a paper towel, grip both ends, gently place paper towel over the stinkbug and close both ends keeping the length taut (not putting any pressure or touching where the stinkbug is, just letting the U-shaped fold in the center where you are not touching enclose the stinkbug). Gently twist to seal exits while not squeezing the stinkbug.

You are now holding a paper towel with a non-activated stinkbug. Do what you will with that stinkbug.

It's sad that I read this and the first thought was not about how similar we can be but more, "well...I suppose if you were gentle..."

Did… did you marry her?

100x this.

I don't know about everyone, but I find that these types of conversations can be stimulating/interesting

Normalize to just be quiet sometimes between loved ones.

What kind of theory? I'm not sure what that means to "think about theory."

Totally unrelated, but you helped me think of a fun fraction/percentage math question for my kid.

They extrude the rubber into a tube then melt the ends together and valve into the side.

This is an astoundingly perfect reference, bravo

I would have to leave out of fear... I don't think I know how to take care of an amoeba, and the last thing I want to do is accidentally breathe you in or something 😔

That's when you know she's a keeper.

Any chance I get to post this is a good one.

They're two tyred from work to be offended by random tweets

And also - yeah, it's usually dumb. There are rabbit holes EVERYWHERE.

Every meme woman owes those workers an apology.

That would imply that bacteria have souls which means that I'm committing genocide each time I'm cleaning my toilet. I always assumed that you could only reincarnate into creatures complex enough to actually have sentience.

Edit: Also a fun fact is that if you count all human beings that have ever lived in the entire human history it would still not be close enough to the number of bacteria that live in or on a single human being (roughly 117 billion humans compared to around 20 to 30 trillion bacteria).

Two things:

First, mathematically, It's sort of a moot concern. Reincarnation comes with the framework that lives are the universe experiencing itself. So There's no "loss" in going between species as "you" will actually incarnate as everything and everyone once in non-linear time on the backend making "time" immaterial. I am you and you are me. We are all one existence. So you have time.

Second, that reincarnation frameworks usually also include a structure where it's not random what you reincarnate as next time around. Karma doesn't usually boot people back down to bacterium right after human. It's usually more of a leveling up in order to experience deeper and more meaningful lifetimes. But YMMV.

Depends on the definition of "soul". Too small a vessel and stuff.

This is a tragedy to me, one of the many reasons I married my wife is because she's the only person who has ever been excited to hear my info dumps.

"a bowl of tapioca pudding managed to hallucinate so vividly it invented calculus" I love that post

Does that make a stoner a baked potato?

I'll see myself out.

Dragons or how quickly I'd die in event of a revolutionary/civil war.

How do they get the rubber out of the volcano?

And steel mesh.

When I try that, music starts playing in my head. There's never any quiet there.

I guess because a boy thought it