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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 132 points 1 day ago (24 children)

I feel so much more normal for just saying hello to my shower spider now.

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee -2 points 16 hours ago (11 children)

Why don't you people kill and dispose of spiders in your home?

[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

They're actually pretty beneficial (eating other more annoying bugs and all that) and usually not harmful to human residents in any way (except if you live in Australia). Killing them because "aah yuck spiders!" isn't a good enough reason to many

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Did our generation forget how caulk and netting works?

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

unless you hermetically seal your house, bugs will get in, if they want in.

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Some small bugs will get through fine mesh.

Open doors and windows let a lot of things in.

But fucked up gappy houses let everything in all the time. You've spent your whole life living in fucked up gappy houses, I'm guessing.

[–] scintilla@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah most new construction is terrible and a lot of older homes need extensive work that people can't afford.

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I'm calling it now, some dissertation in the future will be written on spiderbro's place in contemporary culture as an expression of acceptance of widespread low home quality.

Of course exacerbated by a generally low competency in home maintenance, and more importantly a huge renting class with feckless do-nothing-right landlords and limited/unclear permissions to take the issue in their own hands.

[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I didn't honestly even think about that. Being from the nordics means throwing them outside is the same as killing them most of the year and keeping them all out is kinda impossible, they'll find their way in because outside is cold

*(edit for managing to cut the text in half)

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