Haha don’t worry kid, there’s like 5 of them left, we already won that war.
Nah, a plague of tigers would be nice. Instead they’re indangered and declining
One of the things I’m going to do when I’m one of the billionaires is to have cartels release a shitload of komodo dragons in the Florida swamps. Humanity would get a much needed reality check when we’re being hunted by apex predators.
Please no, Florida has enough exotic herps causing terror already
And a fair number of common derps
Look up what’s going on with Pablo Escobar’s cocaine hippos these days.
“huge flood of cicadas”? when and where was that?
Many parts of the eastern US had the Brood X cicada emerge in 2021.
It is a LOUD and constant droning that you get used to and then forget all about a year later.
I fucking love the sound. Its the sound of summer for me. But…yeah. gonna be a lot worse this year.
Apparently this year the great southern brood and the northern brood are emerging at the same time.
Which my understanding has the potential to create a new brood as well. Neat.
That sweet sweet sound of the impending apocalypse:-P.
apocalypse:-P
Because apocalypses A-O weren’t enough?!
You read my freaking mind!
Okay so no, you were so creative that such a thought never entered my head, but still I can appreciate it afterwards! (Especially if we’re all about to die, now from apocalypse:-Q)
If there is a god, north america must have been cursed by them.
I mean, they don’t bite, they live underground and the wildlife feasts the years they emerge and the forest blooms like crazy for a few years following.
It’s not terrible honestly, it’s not like the locusts you hear about in old stories.
From a practical standpoint, they don’t bite or sting.
But, I have actually been “bitten” by a cicada! I guess it’s my claim to fame. Now before anybody gets all pedantic, of course it wasn’t a bite. They have needle like mouth parts, which can actually pierce skin but they can’t chomp down like a wasp or beetle.
I found this out awhile back when a cicada landed on my hand/finger while I was outside. I felt like the most wonderful Disney princess ever. I let it chill on my finger while I went about my business.
But eventually I felt a jab. Nothing serious or particularly painful. Then I watched as the bug repeatedly lifted up and tried to ram its mouth parts into my skin. It had apparently confused me for a tree and it was trying to feed – at least that’s my best guess. And yes, it did draw blood.
In all my years of life on this Earth, handling these critters every year since early childhood, that was the first and only time it happened.
Nah, I think Australia can take that one. They probably have human sized cicadas down there.
I don’t see why there can’t be multiple cursed lands!
Maybe God can multitask.
Maybe cursing a land is a one-time action and doesn’t need any more input afterwards.
Maybe there’s more than one god!I do like the pantheon of cursed lands! I’ll start sending some cicadas over to Deutschland so you can join us. ;)
We already have both floods and droughts : /
If there is a god, north america must have been cursed by them.
I can’t possibly imagine why…
I have a few ideas!
Good thing we didn’t build civilization on a native American burial ground.
Yeah, cursed with vast natural resources
We did this to ourselves. Don’t blame some phantasm, we need to take responsibility.
This year’s supposed to be even worse I hear
Depending on where you are, yeah there are two broods emerging at the same time this year. Not on the east coast though.
I’ve heard this every year of my life, and you’re likely right statistically speaking.
Don’t worry. This year two floods are coming at the same time. Will make previous years’ look like a puddle!
Every 11 years for the past 50 million years or so.
I’m pretty sure we’re beginning the Year of the Wood Dragon, in 2024 at the new moon in a couple days.
The lockdowns were 2020, based on other comments the cicadas were on 2021 and the year of the tiger was 2022 so we are not reading the screenshot from last week here. Still humorous tho, albeit on the darker side. Poor little sod, resigned to the life of continuous catastrophes
Good point! TY! And hopefully all us poor little sods have lots more good than bad times to look forward to, in this life. Cheers!!
Like the saying goes, “better to have always thought things suck and be pleasantly surprised than get lulled and watch the wheels fall off the world when you’re a geezer.”
“naw I’m just kidding kid… It’s the year of the dragon.”
Year of the prion, sounds like it’s going to show up during this kids lifetime… maybe even mine.