I don't think you do. See, you can sort your feed my "new comments" so I quite often see old threads pop up where two people suddenly started a conversation again. Sometimes I check it out and vote on it.

But you could actually literally just look up who downvoted you, then you'd actually know. Votes are public. Then again, you really should just stop caring.

2mo ago

Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight

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remon @ani.social 2mo ago

I was about to say, pretty sure he died when he suddenly stopped flying near the ground!

2mo ago

TIL jumping spiders are the largest family of spiders, making up 13% of all spider species

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remon @ani.social 2mo ago

You sure are. If that is the hill you want to die on, go ahead.

2mo ago

TIL jumping spiders are the largest family of spiders, making up 13% of all spider species

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remon @ani.social 2mo ago

That's cool. But this was a thread about jumping spiders before you brought all the shit into here.

2mo ago

TIL jumping spiders are the largest family of spiders, making up 13% of all spider species

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remon @ani.social 2mo ago

You don't. But your continued bickering with people brought this thread back up and brought to light some worthwhile comments. Replying to you was more of an after thought (also most "new comments" where located in your thread). But it seems obvious that you're quite feedback resistant. So you do you.

2mo ago

TIL jumping spiders are the largest family of spiders, making up 13% of all spider species

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remon @ani.social 2mo ago

Nah, kind of feel sorry for you.

2mo ago

TIL jumping spiders are the largest family of spiders, making up 13% of all spider species

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remon @ani.social 2mo ago

we can’t even talk about spiders without someone making jokes about how shitty women are.

Funny thing coming back to this thread and answering a few more replies about people's admiration for spiders, it kind of hit me that once you collapse your initial comment about the light-hearted joke, people can actually just talk about spiders. Like all the off topic talk was caused by you and no one else.

The initial joke is even biologically accurate.

The cute ones tend to have higher career salaries on average, so they are able to attract female spiders to mate with.

Not in all, but some (very prominently the "peacock spiders"), the males absolutely have to be cute and perform a literal dance ... with a high chance of getting eaten by the female if they don't live up to her standards.

So yeah, that joke is actually pretty good if you knew a fucking thing about spider biology. But you had to come here and inject your brand of self-righteous feminism into it. Great job.

2mo ago

TIL jumping spiders are the largest family of spiders, making up 13% of all spider species

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remon @ani.social 2mo ago

There are some jumping spider chonkers in the genus Phidippus, but generally the family is on the smaller side. North America is hogging all the big jumpers.

2mo ago

TIL jumping spiders are the largest family of spiders, making up 13% of all spider species

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remon @ani.social 2mo ago

It's actually both! Most spiders will extend their leg using "hydraulics" which is really just their blood (but called hemolymph). But the contraction is usually done by flexor muscles. That's also the reason dead spiders curl up. No more blood pressure means the muscles win.