Anon is a colonial golfer
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Posted by CategoryOdd5426@reddit | 4chan | View on Reddit | 161 comments
r3ddit_is_cancer@reddit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations
Ruby2312@reddit
Serious though, literally end time signs.
lobotominizer@reddit
But i hate bugs.
Except ladybug.
They are ladies.
itmillerboy@reddit
What if the bugs are just getting really good at dodging?
darvinvolt@reddit
my thoughts exactly, straight up forced darwinism, those that couldn't adapt(fly higher over the road or not fly across the road at all) die off, and those that did aren't stuck on your windshield
Paranoidd_@reddit
Getting hit by a man made car is not darwinism. We curved long ago from such things, people who are not meant to see teenage days, are alive because of vaccines and medical intervention. We re the gods of the earth now.
SockkPuppett@reddit
humanity (and their cars) is undoubtedly an evolutionary force on species
Wagosh@reddit
On could say we're driving change
OutrageousQuantity12@reddit
Insect generations are much shorter. There have been hundreds of generations since cars came around
ifunnywasaninsidejob@reddit
It’s called artificial selection and it’s fascinating. Look up vavilovian mimicry
SockkPuppett@reddit
sweep net studies of populations of adjacent non-road habitat seemed to correlate with decline represented in windshield insect deaths, just quickly looking at wiki article
LooseButtPlug@reddit
They got good at dodging nets too.
FIMD_@reddit
If you can dodge a car you can dodge a net
greystar07@reddit
Dawg the insect population is in the trillions, stop this redditspeak.
ParticularConcept548@reddit
Locust is end of time signs you dingus
pit_supervisor@reddit
good riddance
circlejerker2000@reddit
The bugs are much more important to the eco system than you and everyone around you
Skepsis93@reddit
Thankfully insects are usually some of the quicker species to recover because of their short lifespans... but first we need to actually give them that chance and I don't see that happening.
Captain-Turtle@reddit
God I wish the government we give money to and their jobs to would fix the earth instead of bomb kids
HitIerWasWrong@reddit
You're getting new world screw worms and we're injecting kids in Africa with Malaria to spite Bill Gates, then we'll import those same kids as cheap immigrant labor.
LooseButtPlug@reddit
But those kids are bad for the environment, they are helping the earth by bombing them.
Checkmate chud.
Lythieus@reddit
Israelis don't consider anyone who isn't Jewish and Israeli as people, so they don't see an issue with bombing Arab schools.
I thought it was just the leadership, but the genocidal streak is society wide.
Square-Society8010@reddit
But it's what Israel waaaants gaw
ImpendingTurnip@reddit
Bugtard
keeleon@reddit
I am definitely not experiencing this currently.
BarrelStrawberry@reddit
It's a shame when climate scientists ruin your theories.
Matt2580@reddit
-study from August 30, 2018
-wiki article cites a 2019 review of insect populations.
Almost like later studies can contradict previous results. Wild.
BarrelStrawberry@reddit
No, we do scientific consensus now. Release a study against the consensus and you are banished.
r3ddit_is_cancer@reddit
These theories are not mutually exclusive.
BarrelStrawberry@reddit
These theories are also very shitty science.
MengaMango@reddit
Smarter than Albert Epstein?
Lower_Preparation_83@reddit
Good. I am so happy.
George_H_W_Kush@reddit
It’s the aerodynamics of cars. I drove a boxy ass jeep wrangler across the country two summers ago and had to stop literally every hour or so to clean bugs off the windshield. I’m tired of this midwittery.
Varangus@reddit
Oh okay man, if you drove a jeep once, I guess that invalidates decades of scientific work by people with three times your IQ and education.
lue3099@reddit
What you just displayed is called "authority bias". Science is not fact, it's just a process for reproducible outcomes.
Varangus@reddit
Which is how facts are established, clown
lue3099@reddit
Not quite.
Facts are when the process is so reproducible that it is "pratically" deterministic.
But unless you have proof that the universe is deterministic, then no, science is not fact. Just a process of reproducible outcomes.
Varangus@reddit
And this pedantry is relevant and useful how?
lue3099@reddit
It isn't...
TraumaPerformer@reddit
Did the scientist drive a jeep?
Didn’t fucking think so.
Varangus@reddit
Yes, I imagine climatologists, geologists, park rangers, and all sorts of natural sciences people, drive jeeps, and in general do cooler things than you on a regular basis.
Misenum@reddit
Why are you such a Redditor?
Varangus@reddit
I'm not, the man was acting like a clown and needed attentioning
IAmALazyGamer@reddit
Whatcha mean? The comment said that his boxy car didn’t have the aerodynamic build that send air and small bugs around the car.
I’m pretty sure a car built like a cube would be less aerodynamic than one built like a needle.
HiTekLoLyfe@reddit
Having an analogy about getting more bugs on a windshield because you drive a less aerodynamic car doesn’t discount that the majorities of scientific observations and studies point to a decline in insect populations all around the world. They aren’t denying that his boxy car would hit more insects, they are saying that this has nothing to do with scientists finding an overall decrease in insect populations. It’s like if I claimed global warming isn’t real because it was cold yesterday. We don’t make observations based on one persons anecdote.
IAmALazyGamer@reddit
Ahhh gotcha. So like this person would be more right 20 years ago, but is still right now with more variables in the mix.
Thanks for being nice with your answer. Someone else is being a dick about the aerodynamic part.
Nighthawk700@reddit
You guys are conflating two different things. You can have a decline in overall insect population and also have more aerodynamic cars. There are still lots of bugs that can be smashed, just fewer than there used to be.
Varangus@reddit
We're not conflating anything, car aerodynamics is an insignificant factor so much that it's stupid to even mention it.
Nighthawk700@reddit
Not really understanding what you're trying to say. Nobody is saying car aero is leading to the decline of bugs but cars being more aerodynamic means bugs don't hit the windshield as much as they did. More of the air is slipping past the car rather than slamming into it, and the bugs follow suit.
The decline of bugs due to environmental factors and people seeing fewer bug guys on their windshields are independent but appear linked because they happened at the same time.
Varangus@reddit
You regards will seriously argue about anything, huh? The point was nobody cared about the moron's stupid point/anecdote with car aerodynamics.
toshineon2@reddit
You know there's ways to make the same point without sounding like a...
HiTekLoLyfe@reddit
I might have agreed with you if the first dude hadn’t ended his statement with that last sentence. Snark begets snark.
ShiftyCZ@reddit
I drive the same car for 10 years and my windshield is visibly cleaner.
rectal_expansion@reddit
Well SUVs make up most cars in America now so you would think the common opinion would be the opposite of this post then.
IAmALazyGamer@reddit
SUVs still have a more angular build than Jeeps built like a child stacking cardboard.
rectal_expansion@reddit
The reason for less bugs on your windshield is a radical and rapid decrease in insect biomass, not “aerodynamics” lmao
IAmALazyGamer@reddit
How come you put Aerodynamics in quotes like it’s a made up concept?
rectal_expansion@reddit
Because the idea that aerodynamics are improving in SUVs are laughable. Emission standards haven’t increased since the early 2000s and the average car size has been increasing continuously. So claiming “aerodynamics” is a fucking cope and I was mocking you for it.
IAmALazyGamer@reddit
Oh gotcha gotcha. You’re not trying to have a conversation and prove me wrong. You’re just trying to be rude.
rectal_expansion@reddit
What youre saying is stupid, you should already know you’re wrong. Insect biomass has declined over 50% since the 80s. I don’t come to r/4chan to have rational conversations, I come here to mock republicans that don’t understand climate change.
IAmALazyGamer@reddit
Where did the assumption that I’m republican come from?
FireBlazer27@reddit
Look at the windshield angle of a late model ford explorer or Toyota highlander compared to their late 90s/early 2000s counterparts. It’s a huge difference between the two
rectal_expansion@reddit
Probably less aerodynamic than sedans though right? Lmao don’t you think it’s more likely that the reason is the rapid decline of insect biomass?
FireBlazer27@reddit
I mean, when I’m driving my 91 f150 I get just as many bugs on the windshield as those trucks always have in my area so🤷♂️
sleepingjiva@reddit
Yeah but they're all designed to be super aerodynamic now, unlike, one would presume, the boxy Jeep in question
Alex_Flint_XIV@reddit
I was inclined to believe this until I looked at wikipedia and it says that modern, more aerodynamic vehicles have a slightly higher chance to hit bugs
johnny_tifosi@reddit
Yeah, because no one had figured out aerodynamics back in the stone age of the 90s.
syncdiedfornothing@reddit
Just cause they knew about it doesn't mean they implemented it.
You know pictures of cars exist and we can see the difference?
FireBlazer27@reddit
Yup, my 04 ranger and 91 f150 get their windshields absolutely covered in bugs during the summer. My work truck, a 2020 f150, and all my family members other late model cars don’t.
Captain_Nipples@reddit
Yea. I got a Range Rover and have to drive through Oklahoma and Arkansas sometimes for work. And it's so annoying having to constantly clean that shit off
GrandMoffTarkin66@reddit
Same thing with my santa fe. Just got back from weekend getaway and took three trips through the car wash to get all of em off the wind shield
PossibleIncident2945@reddit
I also get them on my motorcycle helmet
Robobble@reddit
Yeah I recently started driving a big boxy truck for work and there’s currently a shit load of dead bugs on the windshield.
no-pog@reddit
TL;DR on the research: insects are close to the bottom of the food chain and the bottom of the food chain is almost always the most sensitive to environmental changes. Glyphosate, climate change, urbanization, pesticides, industrial agriculture, deforestation, habitat destruction, pollution, failing biodiversity, mass use of DDT, and direct insect intervention methods are all interrelated factors in insect population decline.
Over the next 30 years we will see horrible environmental impacts from just insect population decline. Lots of birds and critters that eat a variety of insects will die of starvation. This means that insects that specifically target mammals (humans), like ticks and mosquitoes, will become more successful and more pesticide resistant. Your chances of getting gay aids from a mosquito or tick will only become more likely as time goes on.
We will also see massive plant death as the diversity of pollinating insects collapses.
UpvoteCircleJerk@reddit
Nothing. Will. Happen. :)
Famous_4nus@reddit
Pure truth that for some reason 90% of the world population refuses to accept/believe
DreamsServedSoft@reddit
I’ve been told since the 8th grade that all the ice caps would be gone in 3-5 years. I don’t deny the changes are real I deny that we’re all going to die because of it
Jozoz@reddit
No one serious was ever saying that. You are choosing to ignore an uncomfortable truth like a child.
Corollarytomyknees@reddit
This isn’t sole vague nebulous impossible to model threat like global warming. Animal populations are objective figures that can be tracked and measured. And climate change probably had next to nothing to do with insect decline. It’s all habitat loss and pollution
I fucking hate climate change advocacy for irreversibly damaging every other field of conservation
LukeJaywalker0@reddit
This time the global cooling climate warming change environmental alteration is ACTUALLY GOING TO MATTER I PROMISEEEEEEEEEEEEE NOOOOO IM NOT GONNA PUSH IT BACK ANOTHER FORTY YEARS DUDE ISLAND PEOPLE ARE HAVINF HALF A HURRICANE MORE PER 3 YEARS THEY CANT BUILD THEIR HUTS STRONG ENOUFH PLEEEEASE LET ME TAX YOU MORE PLEEEEEEASE
no-pog@reddit
I'm not some carbon tax Eurovision cuck, but I've seen the shift in seasons where I live in my lifetime. I live in ag america and growing seasons are extremely clear. When people shift from 112 day corn to 115 day corn that's a big deal. When spring calves are pushed back to the second week of march instead of the last week of February that's a big deal. When the redbuds pop during the first week of April instead of April 15th that's a big change. When we are down 12 inches of rainfall by May 1st and up 20 inches by June 30th and then low 25 inches again by October 1st, that is a huge deal. Things are changing. I don't know if it's from people or just normal planet things, and I don't really give a shit. I just know things are different over the last 15 years or so, in a noticable, measurable, and perceptible way.
LukeJaywalker0@reddit
None of that matters in any way even remotely close to how severely we've been expected to care about global warming
Field_Of_View@reddit
jam boy izzat skyrocketing
Divisive_Ass@reddit
I remember fireflies in forest canopy. Didn't see one in many years.
MaxHubert@reddit
They all over in the city i live in.
UpvoteCircleJerk@reddit
how bout now
reddit_hater@reddit
I literally see them evesy summer
Initial-Masterpiece8@reddit
Depends how of a forested area you live in and how rich. If all the leaf litter is cleaned up, there goes the fireflies' reproduction. LEAVE THE LEAVES!
Kief_Bowl@reddit
I try to get my boomer MIL to leave atleast some leaves in the garden but she insists it "looks terrible" and is "not how it is done".
Initial-Masterpiece8@reddit
Tell her that she is emulating the French and the elite. "I can afford to have a lifeless display of grasses and ornamentals because I don't have to grow food on my land." Also goes directly against the Bible, ya know, being the steward of EVERY plant and animal.
Habhabs@reddit
Japenese gardens do it too? Just more rocks. Loads of cultures did this? Any links to the french literally inventing ornamental gardens?
Initial-Masterpiece8@reddit
No, but stupid Americans have been brainwashed to not like the French. We could save the Earth if we told them Democrats want them to eat red meat and litter.
S1mpinAintEZ@reddit
Dude the obsession with removing leaf litter in suburban areas is actually insane. Your grass will be absolutely fine unless you've got a whole canopy above your house.
Initial-Masterpiece8@reddit
100% agree. note: I do understand that some people live in areas where fires can happen and obviously a big pile of leaves next to your furnace outlet isn't a good idea. Use your brain, don't bag up leaves and trash them, don't burn them, just make a pile somewhere. I personally made a trench around my garden so they can collect in a spot the landlord's landscaper wouldn't clean up. (plus my garden beds)
CobandCoffee@reddit
Ditto and it's not like I'm in some untouched wilderness either. I live in the middle of a subdivision.
Corgasm_@reddit
You would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep
greystar07@reddit
How often are you going there compared to when you were a kid tho
Laserdollarz@reddit
Me too, but I moved to the desert and thats why I don't see them anymore
funkmon@reddit
Lousy with them here in the Detroit suburbs
Quirkybeaver@reddit
You would not believe your eyes
LwySafari@reddit
I've never seen one, they exist only in legends I fear
Lemak0@reddit
Me when moniculture, oesticides, environmental pollution and global warming have an effect on nature 🗿
DreamsServedSoft@reddit
natural selection is real right? if they can’t survive why should we care? we’ll engineer an answer
MechwolfMachina@reddit
Plot twist can’t engineer when hungry, can’t eat because plants and preds that we consume can’t eat bugs no more
Pipodedown@reddit
You will (not) eat ze bugs
Lemak0@reddit
Well natural selection implies natural changes.
Engineering a solution for the death of the world seems like a very preventable hassle when all we'd need to do is to USE this worlds natural processes and make it a win- win.
SteelCandles@reddit
Natural selection does not imply natural changes. It refers to the differential ability for organisms to survive and reproduce in an environment. It is called ‘natural’ because the selection process is not directed. Natural selection occurs whether we want it to or not; evolution in response to human environmental impact is not the goal, but a side effect.
Artificial selection occurs where there is an intent to influence the direction of evolution.
Lemak0@reddit
My statement was inaccurate, but that other dude's statement is still retarded
djaqk@reddit
Chama
forward_only@reddit
Unironically it's glyphosate
mosebeast@reddit
It's not the glyphosate's fault, it's our irresponsible use of it
manecasp@reddit
Wtf does this even mean lmao
mosebeast@reddit
It means that overuse of pesticides has greatly affected insect populations
MagmaShark@reddit
Then you have people commenting "cars are more aerodynamic now" as if insect's natural habitat is the highway
soapy5@reddit
Fascinating, literally nothing in your statement makes sense
MagmaShark@reddit
Reading comprehension is hard for the retarded
AlphaMassDeBeta@reddit
Cars are more aerodynamic now.
johnny_tifosi@reddit
Yeah, because no one had figured out aerodynamics back in the stone age of the 90s. FFS.
magiclong@reddit
If you simply look at a car from the 90s (which are more like 80s and 70s cars) you can literally see they haven’t figured it out yet compared to a modern car
FuckRedditIsLame@reddit
Aerodynamics were understood then of course, they just weren't all that important a factor in the design of family cars at that time - it was perhaps more the domain of sports cars and such. It probably explains to some extent the reduced bug splats, but honestly the surroundings of modern motorways aren't very wildlife friendly anymore and that goes a long way also to explaining things too.
LooseButtPlug@reddit
You keep repeating this, and they literally didn't have it figured out yet.
AlphaMassDeBeta@reddit
A lot of cars back then were from the 70s and 80s.
ShiftyCZ@reddit
Again, that's bollocks, I drive the same car for 10 years and it's visibly cleaner
rectal_expansion@reddit
No they’re not lmao SUVs have grown consistently in popularity since the 90s and currently make up the majority of new cars sold. The reason bugs aren’t as big of a problem is because there are less bugs because of sprawling cities and monoculture farming practices. Insect biomass has fallen by orders of magnitudes since the 80s/90s.
fist_of_mediocrity@reddit
It can be both less bugs and also lower windshield angles. Look at a 1999 Chevy Tahoe vs a 2009 Tahoe vs a 2019. In every generation they are raking the windshield back further to meet fuel efficiency standards.
There are definitely more SUVs, but the SUVs of today are much lower windshield angle than many cars of 25 years ago.
rectal_expansion@reddit
25 years ago most cars were sedans meaning they had even lower windshield angles lol. It’s definitely not both, windshield angle wouldn’t account for bugs building up on the grill of your car. It’s moronic to think this has anything to do with “aerodynamics” as if highways are an insect’s natural habitat.
LooseButtPlug@reddit
The aerodynamics of the windshield isn't what stops the bugs from hitting the windshield.
TheEpicManatee@reddit
And because cars are more aerodynamic now
waterkip@reddit
pesticides ... :(
Dark_Pestilence@reddit
Pesticides :)
SpecterOfState@reddit
Where do some of you live where you aren’t frequently seeing insects ? I’m in northeast US and see them everywhere and my windshields always covered with dead bugs after a drive
TheThalmorEmbassy@reddit
These people don't drive
h1pp1e_cru5her@reddit
This isnt an issue here in southern Louisiana. Yall can have some of ours
MechwolfMachina@reddit
Population control probably. This will affect us up the chain
victor4700@reddit
Are jam boys like coin boys
original_dick_kickem@reddit
Its a consequence of not listening to Uncle Ted
Ars_Lunar@reddit
See, the issue with jacking off with most guys is that at the end of the day they don't really know how to jack off efficiently. All they do is stroke the shaft, which yknow, makes sense and all, you want to cum you gotta pump it, right? But the thing is it's pretty inefficient for a variety of reasons, your grip on it affects the performance and buildup, your skin could be dry and at the end of the day you're just repeating the same motion over and over for like, 30 seconds best until you release. That's not fun, if I wanted a quick high I'd have eaten some trail mix (I love trail mix).
Now, if you want to up your jacking game you gotta be open to exploring yourself some more. A lot of guys poke fun at uncircumcised men, but they have an advantage over guys that still have their coat. See, the head of the cock also has a lot of sensitivity. If you are a regular jacker offer you know that if you rub the tip right after you cum you will have a lot of sensitivity there. Where I'm trying to get at, is you gotta experiment some more. Instead of just grabbing the shaft and choking your hog why not pet the head a lil?
Anyways, when I was a kid I used to eat snails. I don't remember any of it ofc but my parents say that I used to do it as a kid so ig it's true
gravitydood@reddit
I wholeheartedly agree with the general sentiment but, as an uncut man, I can just pull back on the foreskin and massage the glans after I came, I do it once in a while as a treat and it's great every time.
As for trail mix, fellow lover here. Protein, fiber and a reasonable amount of natural sugar in a single snack? Sign me the fuck up.
CommieRemovalCrew@reddit
Did you also eat snails as a kid?
SirMrSkippy@reddit
Ars_Lunar@reddit
I don't see the snails anymore, neither the pillbugs. Rocks don't have critters under them anymore. When I was young I would make little houses for pillbugs out of discarded Tupperware pots with little stick furniture. At night at my grandpa's place I'd go outside just to see the fireflies out in the night on the soccer field in his rural property. Those are no longer there and family infighting destroyed the property where so many childhood memories of mine took place.
How strange is it to reminisce about a world that no longer exists when I'm only 22 years old?
Eric_Clappin@reddit
Damn, I think this is original
D00m_Guy_@reddit
">reverse image search
>0 results" - ass comment (but for real if this is original it's the funniest shit I've read today)
Eric_Clappin@reddit
This isn't an image
Dark_Army_1337@reddit
...what?
givemeausernameplzz@reddit
He is using a metaphor. The uncircumcised penis is the aerodynamic car. The “guys poking fun” are insects, but they’re unable to penetrate due to the “coat”. The “choking” speaks to societal degradation. The “sensitivity” of the tip is a call to action.
Ars_Lunar@reddit
Yeah!
FoulfrogBsc@reddit
Apparantly, rfk jr has a reddit account.
SkeetonherValentine@reddit
Avg Frog
One_Key1694@reddit
the fuel changed, glyphosate rich bio fuels were added, im just surmising so please eco warriors dont shoot me down x
Croiyx@reddit
The rural midwest remains unaffected
Bill__Furry@reddit
Yeah idk what these guys are on about, I’m crushing bugs all summer. It’s fucking annoying tbh
Justcoolstuff@reddit
We keep spraying Insecticide on everything and then wonder where all the bugs go. I remember during Zika my town had planes spray overhead at night. Then they did it just in general to keep the mosquitoes down in the summer. Now there’s hardly any bugs at all, as well as tree frogs and geckos and other lizards and amphibians. Hell I used to find salamanders man. Can’t tell you the last time I’ve even seen a regular lizard. Genuinely we spray so much poison on crops and in the streets and in our homes and yards etc etc etc that the only bugs really hanging around anymore are roaches.
MortarionSix@reddit
I’m on a super crowded bus and the mention of the jam boys made me chuckle
gamepasscore@reddit
Pesticides
lulululul666@reddit
I thought it would be the opposite tbh. Remember going out as a kid all day sweating, playing, cut the grass etc. with no bug bites. Now I go outside to cut the grass and have 5 bites, flies all around, gnats and all that shit.
JDH@reddit
Jam Boy lore
Coelachantiform@reddit
I am utterly shocked at this information being known since the 70's is coming to fruition. Flabbergasted, even.
schofield101@reddit
We're even kind enough to let them take the jam home after.
Demonweed@reddit
Our simulation has become less useful to its operators since the fall of the U.S.S.R. Obviously they dialed way back on the processor power dedicated to maintaining this charade.
FREEHELlCOPTERRlDES@reddit
Parallel declines in abundance of insects and insectivorous birds in Denmark over 22 years