LostGhost

I mean yeah but all species of horseshoe crabs only live in three places on earth. I can only speak for limulus polyphemus, which only lives on the East Coast of the US (from the Gulf of Mexico to Maine), but I’m not sure how much other species are even bled. Actually to be honest I’m not even sure they have the same extra cellular protein that is collected from the blood… Possibly should look into that. Maybe I could get some funding to travel to Indonesia for blood samples.

I’m not sure it is unfortunate in all ways. There are more protections for horseshoe crabs now then there was before we had a medical need for them. While it would be nice to not bleed them at all anymore I worry that all their protection would be removed once we don’t “need” them. Ecologically they are very important to migrating birds but I don’t see the current people in power caring about that. At least since they are needed they are somewhat protected.

That is not all from one crab and they generally try not to kill the crabs. There is some debate on how many actually die with the companies bleeding them claiming almost none and some other people saying up to 60%, so the truth is probably in the middle in there.

As far as keeping them alive in a tank it’s not to hard. I have been working with them for a few years now and we have some at work. They mostly eat shrimp here not fish food. We have raised them from eggs. One of the big issues with raising them in captivity for the long term is we still are not sure how large chunks of their lifecycle works. For example while we have some ideas we do not have definitive proof of how they develop their sex. We think there are genetic factors but if I remember correctly there was a paper published a year or so ago that said there might be a temperature Factor, somewhat like turtles.

Fun fact, they will not eat micro plastics. We had an undergrad doing an experiment to see if they would eat micro plastics and how it would pass through their system but we were never able to get them to even ingest any.

Please be true.

Straight up magic

oh god please no

Why are we not burning everything down?

You think he pays taxes at the same rate as the rest of us losers?

I sort of feel the same way but still wish I could leave. With a disabled kid that needs care and not much money I’m not sure how I could leave at this point.

I get what you and cobysev are saying but it seems to me that restraint didn’t work out so well for Germany. We do live in a different time though, where the atrocities and violence by the government is easy to see. Everyone has a phone and access (until they end that too) to the videos. I think part of what matters is if the military would side with Trump. Which is why I wonder if quicker action is better before Trump finishes purging the military. Hitler had the support of the military at first so it made it easy for him to do many of the things he did, it was only later that the German military leaders opposed him (not all of them).

I guess what it comes down to is how many people are we willing to watch die/be maimed before something happens. I am personally not sure that even if the Dems win the midterms anything will change. They seem mostly spinless to me and far more about saying they are anti Trump than being anti Trump, again not all of them. I have been at to many protests where Dem reps will be on the mic saying things like “are we going to let him get away with this” or something similar and people are yelling and cheering. All I keep thinking is he is getting away with it and has been getting away with it and you are not really doing anything.

Mostly I guess if I am being honest I am frustrated and worried and do not see a way any of this ends well.

Serious question here not trying to be a troll/dick. It feels like a one sided war already. ICE has killed or wounded multiple people now and nothing has been done about it. In fact those in power have said nothing will be done about it. The police force seems to be on the side of ICE (please correct me if I’m wrong I’m not in MN) At what point do we draw a line and say enough is enough, take one of ours we take one of yours. I’m asking because I don’t know, it just feels like we are all yelling and marching and not much is changing.

Frey said. “We cannot be at a place right now in America where we have two governmental entities that are literally fighting one another.”

Really, the state and city government are not fighting anyone. They are complaining to a federal government who does not give a shit about them or the people they represent. If they were actually fighting the feds we would see police siding with the people, power cut off to ICE facilities, and local arrests of federal agents who are assulting people. What they are doing is loudly complaining while doing nothing to protect people who are rightfully defending themselves and their neighbors.