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RPG GM: MoSh, Black Hack, AiME/5e, whatever.

British ex-pat in Ottawa, Canada

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Some ants spin silk cocoons for their pupae, others do not— some ants will use cocoons when the colony is small and then switch to “naked pupae” when they have the numbers to better maintain ideal humidity.

The pupae is still, frozen— but very much alive— her body is in the midst of the most violent stage of metamorphosis— Slowly crystallizing from formless larvae into the highly structured and purposeful form of an adult ant. 🐜

tinheadned ,
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@futurebird this is reminding me of one of Alan Dean Foster's books set in his human-thranx commonwealth that's only from the point of view of the insect thranx. Metamorphosis sounds terrifying to live through even if you're designed for it!

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    tinheadned ,
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    @vampiress I remember being astonished how fast everything felt. As a kid I thought it was good but I don't trust my judgement at all!

    pluralistic , to random
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    I wuz robbed.

    More specifically, I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be from my bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+ worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened. And then he tried to do it again, a week later!

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    If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/#swiss-cheese-security

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    tinheadned ,
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    @pluralistic this is an excellent writeup, thank you

    tinheadned , to random
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    Why won't this pizza cook faster?

    tinheadned OP ,
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    @SJohnRoss it was a frozen one and I think the taste haunted for a bit. Next year I will get back into making my own 😬 🍕

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