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[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 67 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nice...now I'm going to have to look up "what did bed bugs do before beds?"

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 101 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

When you’re done, look up how humans losing our body hair split the species of lice living on us into head lice and pubic lice.

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 48 points 10 months ago

No thank you.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And how shaving, waxing etc has made pubic lice an endangered species

[–] Melt@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nice, how do we extinct bed bugs?

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 27 points 10 months ago

Shave and wax your bed, obviously

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

#NoPleaseDoNot

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are people volunteering to "house" pubic lice to keep them from going extinct.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't support all forms of biodiversity

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Same. An uncomfortable and embarrassing parasite that preys only on humans isn't exactly like wolves or the European Honey Bee.

Every species on earth except the lice themselves will be either better off or completely unaffected if they go extinct.

[–] MustrumR@kbin.social 23 points 10 months ago

The Lice nation lived in unity, until one day humanity suddenly changed and caused discord in the United Colonies.
Ever since that moment ,division only grew stronger. Unity is a thing of the past, Pubic nation envies the Hair resources, war is inevitable.

[–] ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm gonna go ahead and blame you for that whole thing.

[–] Thassodar@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Calm down there, Satan.

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago
[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Quick google search has conflicting info, 77,000 or 5,000+ years ago that we have evidence for beds.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

wdym, 77,000 is 5000+

[–] ItsAFake@lemmus.org 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So between 77,000 and 5,000 years, that narrows it down quite a lot.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In the grand scheme of things, it really does

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Wow! But the world is only 2024 years old… /s

[–] Afghaniscran 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm part of the beds before earth movement.

[–] Quoll_Strife@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Beds were put there by Satin pillowcovers to deceive you.

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Flowers have had beds for millions of years

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've had them in my shared apartment, but they never got into my bud. Felt so lucky, even though the situation overall was dogshit. The nastiest thing was that the recommendation is that if you get them, that you don't dump out your bed or even switch to sleeping somewhere else, so the bedbugs wouldn't start moving about and spread to other apartments. Makes sense, but nasty stuff.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Zipper up that mattress and build a moat with diatomaceous earth. Do not have your bed touching any wall for 6 months at least.

[–] Quoll_Strife@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The bed bugs cannot pass the diatomaceous earth without first counting every grain of it.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't say shit like that or you'll summon the Toymaker.

[–] Quoll_Strife@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Eh there's worse ways to go than turned into a ball during a spice girls dance routine by Neil Patrick Harris.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean I don't think they were actually dead... They seemed to be screaming inside the balls.

It's not the worst, I think the Family of Blood deserve that, but it is pretty high up there.

[–] Quoll_Strife@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

The Doctor says "they're dead, I'm so sorry" like 3 seconds after. So I'm gonna assume they're dead and that's some sort of replay of their last moments.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We obviously had professionals come in and that's what they did to the bed where the bedbugs were. For my bed (which was free of the buggers) they didn't put it in plastic, just gave us cups for the feet. But otherwise the same deal. Not touching walls, had the earth put in next to all the walls, no fabrics (bed stuff, clothes, anything) from the floor on the bed and so on. Also massive project of putting all the clothes to the wash and shit.

It was a massive hassle, but I'm very happy that the bugs hadn't spread to my bed.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 11 points 10 months ago

There's a microbe that eats silicon and is a bitch for CPU factories. At some point, it had a conversation just like this.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

"Fellas... we have just hit the Darwinian jackpot. Pack your things, 'cause we're going places!"

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 10 months ago

It's this the dad dad meme but they are bed bugs?