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He probably loves his mother-in-law.

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I found a salamander in Walmart while shopping once. I picked it up and carried it around with me for a bit until I could get out of the store, walk over to the retention pond, and let him go near the water. The poor thing was drying out, I have no idea how long he'd been in the store.

Weird shit happens in Walmart.

That’s exactly what I was thinking. Most people would just think it’s a odd bug and move a long thinking nothing of it

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You have no good car ideas!

It's not Brundle-fly, but I did have a mental picture of a locust the size of a cocker spaniel! 🤣🤣

I’m not saying TikTok is good for kids or anything, but I’m interested to see if this impacts their user base. Regardless of opinions, it’s a fact that tons of minors use TikTok.

It’s about 2.5 bananas

Giant in this context is relative.

Lacewings are quite small, 25mm. Giant lacewings are up to 65mm or so. Over twice the size of other lacewings. That’s giant. 😁

I find it hilarious to imagine a man grabbing a big outside a Walmart and carrying it around with him while shopping.

It’s also fascinating how coincidental this was. Makes me wonder how many scientific discoveries we walk by every day, but don’t realize because we don’t all have that same knowledge to identify something as specific as this.

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Lacking a banana for scale: "A giant lacewing has a wingspan of roughly 50 millimeters, which is quite large for an insect."

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Well, if it was going to be in the US, it was going to be in the south.

Or yellowstone, I suppose.

Giant...but they don't offer a description of their size.

I bet it won't be much different from the current generation entering the political sphere. After all, most of the people entering politics now are living after the end of the fairness doctrine and the realities in people's media spheres started really looking different. And frankly, it's not anything that's happened over and over again before that. All American entertainment and media follows the same profit generation algorithm, it's just computers driving it now instead of people. My only expectation is that they're either drowning by the media's noise or grow up used to it and can drown it out. Of course by the time gen alpha gets to politics we'll be worrying about the next generation of kids growing up on or with tech that you and I honestly can't even dream up yet. It's all kinda cyclic with technology and society's relationship with it.

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Good thing I was born on 1901-01-01!