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It's actually a bunch of glands! The number depends on the species and sex of spider. The number of spinnerets used to pull the silk from the glands also varies by species. Silk has to be pulled out, it doesn't just flow out or fly out spiderman style. They can use their spinnerets, their legs, or simply anchoring the web and walking or jumping away to pull it out.

Every spider can create a bunch of different types of silk depending on what they're using it for, but it all starts as a liquid made from proteins and other stuff inside the glands. As it's pulled out, it undergoes some molecular changes to go from a liquid to a solid. Obviously, this happens very quickly. If you've ever seen a spider wrap up prey, it's insanely fast.

The different types of silk they can make include egg sac silk, dragline silk (which is not sticky and is used for structural anchor lines and spokes for webs, plus as a safety rope if they have to jump from a predator), prey-wrapping silk, sticky prey-catching web silk (think the spirals in orbweaver webs), ballooning silk, burrow/nest silk, and mating (sperm web) silk.

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Name: silly guy !!

Skill: violently ill!! It's terminal!!!

He did many things wrong, but I'll say a few of the bigger ones to set the tone for this rant:

He murdered his clanmates, and then the village. He didn't do this for ideological reasons, though he certainly could have. The narrative doesn't show his clanmates as having lived evil, or his clan as living at all except in his own hands; it seems to show him doing what he saw was the only possible thing to save the village from being destroyed.

He slaughtered an entire village full of people because he couldn't make a decision.

He was cruel and controlling. His "relationships" with women were generally abusive. Yes, the guy was probably in a bad situation and the series never really explains it, but it never really shows you that this was good for him either. As an abusive relationship, it was not one he made "better." It was a bad relationship for everyone, and while it had tragic consequences that weren't their fault (Naruto's parents, Sakura, etc.) in the end it was not a positive outcome for anyone involved. Sasuke was right about how good it would be to be free of that relationship, but I think he was wrong about the consequences. Even without getting to the point of killing the village, he made things worse. His relationship with Sakura was unhealthy and abusive, and his attitude toward Naruto was so cruel that Naruto never really knew how to navigate it. By the end Sasuke had become his own worst enemy, not to be confused with the original antagonist of the story. His whole character arc was one of unending cycles of abuse that he never seemed to get out of (though of course he tried).

All of this is bad enough, and there are plenty of bad things we hear about the guy without needing to "explain" to ourselves or the audience that he has a good side, because we already know this. The issue here is that the good side is not really ever shown. The characters and the story continually avoid showing us what it is that could make all of this good, or what it is that would make Sasuke's actions not horrible and unforgivable. The whole "story" with Sasuke keeps sidestepping the issue. (You could make an argument that the story is about making this clear, but it seems like a lot of the time the story is either ignoring it or simply not going there.)

What's really striking is that in the end, it doesn't even seem clear what's really going on with Sasuke that makes his actions understandable or even excusable. It's always the same: "my enemies are awful and terrible, but I'm different. I know they're awful and terrible but I'm so much better than them. I have to take them on and beat them up because I'm the greatest hero the world has ever seen." But, well, he never seems to get out of that dynamic? (The narrative never tries to convince us he's actually good, it's just there to give us the excuse that he has a good side)

It's like a story that's been written by a twelve year old whose main characters are, I dunno, SpongeBob and Patrick from the cartoon. The story has no good reason to be about Spongebob or Patrick, it's just a story about SpongeBob and Patrick. It never says why they're doing this or what makes them like that. Spongebob and Patrick do not have much to say, and the main conflict is one of the other characters deciding they're going to make sure Spongebob and Patrick don't do anything that'll harm their friendship. The rest of the time, the characters are having fun and things are going OK until Spongebob and Patrick make it not OK, and so the whole story is one of trying to explain how Spongebob and Patrick caused the tragedy.

In this sense, the Sasuke character is exactly like Spongebob or Patrick. (Except he's even more terrible. If I were the author of the original comic, I'd probably have to give Spongebob and Patrick a really sympathetic origin story, something where they're trapped in the same dynamic but are trying to break out.) The characters are given the excuse to act the way they do, with no real reason to be like that, and the story is one of them going back to trying to make the excuse work. The series is one of endless cycles of the characters and the story not really saying anything about how all of this actually makes sense.

I'd never seen Duggee before making this but it seems really cute!! I hope you like this!

German cockroaches I think are the ones that most commonly infest homes. Unlike other species, even others that can infest homes, they are found almost entirely in association with humans, in places like houses and restaurants and warehouses and not really in the wild unless they happen to wander out from inside.

So because of that, it's more difficult to talk about any positive effects on ecosystems they might have. I guess in terms of looking at them in a positive light, they are incredible survivors and adapters! They have very efficiently filled the niche of household scavenger. They don't really have predators indoors, although certainly if they happen to get outside things like birds and rats and frogs/toads will eat them. But they breed prolifically, are great at hiding in literally any available tiny space, and have evolved resistance to pesticides, so they are very hard to get rid of! We can definitely admire them for being so great at making more cockroaches, which is their goal! :)

Also...they are very cute.

They can absolutely be harmful if they’re infesting a home since, as you said, they can carry all kinds of disease-causing bacteria and pathogens and also it’s not uncommon for people to have severe allergic or asthmatic reactions to roaches. Not to mention how they can spoil food stores they get into.

I can’t speak for other people, but I will say I’ve noticed even entomologists are not immune to the negative feelings a lot of people have for certain bugs. Pest species like roaches definitely are included in that, or species that are vectors for serious diseases like mosquitoes and ticks. Heck, even wasps don’t seem to get enough love among scientists which is bizarre since they should know there are thousands and thousands of species that don’t sting. This of course does not apply to all entomologists so I’m not making any negative sweeping statements here. Lots of them love and appreciate even the “gross” species

Personally, I think all bugs including pest roaches are super interesting and I respect how well they’ve adapted for survival in a world dominated by humans, but at the same time, I do not want them in my home and I wouldn’t tolerate it if they were there. I’d definitely make every effort to get them out and keep them out. My health and comfort and the health and safety of my pets comes before my love for bugs. And absolutely you are allowed to be grossed out by them! It’s normal not to want bugs all over your kitchen or crawling on you when you sleep.

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Name: Wall•mart

Skill: works minimum wage. Why does a robot need money...?