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What is this thing?

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It’s about 2-3mm in length. Central European location.

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[–] dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've had a few in my apartment. I sprinkled dichotomous Earth where I saw them and haven't seen any more for a while.

[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

dichotomous Earth

Sounds like a cool book title or band name.

I think autocorrect screwed you and you meant diatomaceous?

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds like a cool book title or band name.

But not both!

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Inclusive or

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ha, a dichotomy is XOR by definition.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Jointly exhaustive then

[–] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe it's just a very tasty book and they haven't come back because they're so full.