I don't find tarantulas yucky and have had one as a pet.

They aren't smart. They aren't like dogs. You can't teach them anything. The most you can get out of them is that they will learn you're not gonna squish or eat them and be cool with you.

You can look this up "on the internet". They aren't even as smart as jumping spiders.

So yeah. He right on calling bullshit. Because it is bullshit.

I skipped on the other videos, but got sucked in by the crazy eyes comment. What a ride!

This is a 100% lie and literally anyone here with a single minute to spare could fact check and learn they aren't very intelligent at all. Nowhere remotely close to a dog or cat, and aren't even known to be the smartest types of spiders. It's kind of sad that 28 people straight just blindly up voted this comment without a single one of them knowing it wasn't true and didn't bother to check.

They're super cool, but they're still dumb.

Not as dumb as some dogs.

They aren't. They're pretty dumb. Way dumber than a dog or cat. Learning you aren't a threat to them is about as advanced as a tarantula can get. They aren't even the smartest spiders.

Well I happen to know some pretty fucking dumb dogs.

the Hennepin County workhouse

the what now?

Yeah, jumping spiders is where it's at when it comes to intelligence in spiders, and even then only in highly specific ways (i.e., hunting, and calculating jumps), and a significant portion of their apparent intelligence is just them having very good eyesight for a spider; dogs, cats, birds, rats, and even probably bees are still much more intelligent than them.

Tarantulas on the other hand aren't much smarter than your average politician or CEO.

How the heck did you come up with that?

dead as doll eyes.

if it was a venomous spider that can seriously harm people, it wouldve assault with a weapon.

a karen in its feral state.

For a politician it's probably the first contact with real work.

This is so much worse than "neighbor".

Also, how fun:

Simonetti "intercepted" groceries ordered by the individual and refused to return them until officers told her to do so

some places never really had that veneer that slavery ended.

yeah, i like to go visit the local sheepdog trials. it's always hilarious when the sheep outsmart the dog. or shepherd, really not sure.

if all of my encounters with them (and all the stories i got from my second boss, who fled a sheep farm for the city) were consistent with normal sheep behavior, sheep are godsdamned idiots. even more stupid than ducks.

That was fucking insane, like, Jesus christ, don't let this bitch control ANYTHING!

And yet 17 years too old for Trump to molest.

Attempted murder.. yikes

Facts buncha actual welfare queens

It's Minnesota, so maybe they're just choosing to be honest about it?

Ohhh is that what those "we buy homes" signs are all about?

That seems.... Unworkable in the wild? Are they a purely captive species at this point?

Give it three weeks before she's got an official position at the White House

It's just one of the downsides to having an exoskeleton while being so large. They're a big bag of spider soup with a thin, fragile shell, and any cracks in their exoskeleton are permanent until their next molt.

Even a tiny wound has a high chance of them bleeding to death, and since they move through hydrostatic pressure, bloodloss also essentially paralyzes them.

So do they exist in the wild? How?

By sticking on the ground, mostly. They don't climb and make webs like other spiders, they crawl and actively hunt or ambush prey.

The forest floor (with its thick layer of detritus) is also a much better cushion than concrete or rock, so they can more easily weather small falls in nature.

Gotcha

But it was a tarantula.

Change society. We need to stop letting these people continue their paths of destruction.

Things like this should prevent you from ever being able to hold a job again. We just need stronger laws against this kind. A new country would fix this shit so fast. I'd rather be in a place where we celebrate each other and kick out those who choose to oppress others.

In my country, this would be cause for deportation. Send the monsters to an island. Idc.

It may sound harsh, but our only currency is time and these people continue to rob us of our time. We all have to work to support a system that allows people like this to carry on with a slap on the wrist.

You know, I think headlines like these might be getting to the point where they don't even qualify as onion-like. The Onion headlines are at least clever jokes that make sense when you think about them. This is more like someone playing "yes and" with a bunch of crazy people.

Hey I love tarantulas (we keep over 60 of them currently) and think they deserve our appreciation and respect. However there isn't any evidence that they are particularly intelligent, and certainly no indication that they are "smart dog intelligent."

One could make an argument for jumping spiders tho: https://youtu.be/_QF6kaOAuYg

She was illegally subletting the basement, too. There was an ordinance against hosting temp rentals like AirBnB, iirc.

There is zero chance a spider is as smart as even the most mediocre dog. Stop it.

The changes that I would like to see

• Obligatory psychology tests for those wanting to enter politics. Narcissists and psychopaths should be automatically disqualified, sorry.

• wealth caps (would have to he world wide for it yo work) where each person can only own or control up to (for example) 5 million dollars. Once you hit that net worth, your income (any income) tax bracket goes to 100%. This way nobody will have crazy amounts of mo ey of power ever again

• re-create the UN (Uited Nations), and give it teeth this time. Remove any and all veto powers. Allow it to intervene only in any country that is at war to stop the war (if invaded to remove and destroy the invader,if invading to destroy the regime attacking), or is not a democracy ( to topple the dictatorial regime). This could stop every war in the world right now.

• allow only parliamentary democracies, preferably without allowing political parties as those always end in corruption and friends politics

• make voting obligatory world wide, anyone 18 and up. Teach politics in all schools world wide

Unfortunately I doubt it is. Tarantulas are surprisingly fragile; a throw like that would most likely kill one :(

From what i saw of her cop-slop episode it wasn't even her property. She was illegally subletting it.

Both by the terms of her rental contract and that short term lets were illegal in the city.

Holy fuck! You guys were not lying, what a wild ride!

It's a tarantula. They're like 8 legged dogs. They want nothing more than to eat small game and cuddle up somewhere warm and safe. As a kid in a day program at a zoo, the handlers would sometimes let us hold them.

That poor spider.

video she posted of herself confronting a Girl Scout and the child’s mother

She thought that was a winning interaction to post of herself?

Hate to break it to you but slavery did not end in the United States, it outlaws it's use except in the case of lawful detention. Ie. The state and the feds can own people but you nor I cannot.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Is that why they're not in real girl scout uniforms? And those boxes make no sense. Oy.

Look up the word veneer maybe

Well it wouldn't have the veneer of something that never happened.