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Eliminated an earwig and this creature emerged from it.
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That’s a horsehair worm. It’s a parasite. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematomorpha
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Fun thing about horsehair worms. They take over their host’s brains and when they’re ready to mate they force the host to find pools of standing water and drown themselves in it. Then the horsehair worms crawls out of the carcass and swims around looking for other horsehair worms that have done likewise to their own hosts. Then they FUCK 👉🏻👌🏻
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How do I unlearn what I just read
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Simple: you ingest a horsehair worm then wait for it to eat the memories in your brain. Bonus: You won’t even remember it happened
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Ah yes, the RFK Jr. method. Timeless.
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I was going to ask if anyone’s seen him go into water lately but then I remembered that thing when he went swimming in that river contaminated with sewage a few weeks back
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I hope his worm got lucky
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I like the idea but it’s also horrifying that it’s trained
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Suddenly that explains why he always sounds like he’s drowning.
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Holy shit its true
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That’s why he sounds like a corpse! or It’s like the MiB character and the worm is driving a giant human simalcrum-bot with permanent voice control issues. (Why does he sound worse than a 2 pack a day smoker?)
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Give me sugar! In water!
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No, I meant [the one driving a giant robot.](https://youtu.be/CKxAIbKfNfI?si=Q1LDiC3pU439ucXK)
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Oh ok, not the giant bug in human skin. That would be a terrible analogy for a parasite 😅
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I hate to break it to you, but that was months ago
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This is one of those moments when I remember why I love Reddit.
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They may need to pay for kids that aren’t even theirs though…
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And, apparently you get to go swimming afterwards
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And you get to go swimming, afterward!
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I’ll be waiting by the pool.
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3 glass of whiskey
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Or is that just a horsehair worm trying to convince you to drown your problems in alcohol? After all it is easier to get humans to pass out near each other than get several to drown in the same pool of liquid.
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Fucking genius
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One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
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I want to unlearn that other things can carry these period. I’d only ever seen one type of bug host them…
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What’s with all the worm-shaming in here?
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How the hell does a worm manipulate a brain to the point where it force it to find water?
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i think it’s just evolution – I don’t think it’s actually manipulating the brain with purpose – it releases chemicals that cause the hosts brain to seek water.
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[This article explains how they do it.](https://www.businessinsider.com/how-hairworms-control-brain-of-mantis-host-scientists-discover-2023-11) From what I get, the horsehair worm uses chemicals to make copies of the host’s DNA and then produces chemicals that can mimic messages to the host’s brain or some shit. I’ll be honest, it sounds complicated.
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Evolution is absolutely wild.
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This shit is more WTF than the image.
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That’s truly insane. The explanation is crazier than the image itself
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How I met your mother’s parasite
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Man that’s pretty hot
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Can I go back 20 minutes and unread this
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It took you 20 minutes to read that? You may have a parasite…
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Instructions unclear – headed towards water…
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Goddamn, 20 minutes to read 4 sentences?? (/s)
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(/US)
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As a former U.S. English teacher…. Yep.
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As a french, can confirm.
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Fun?
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I miss 3 minutes ago when I didn’t know this.
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Maybe ten years ago. They use an app now.
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So they’re not just gross, but they’re fucking assholes too?
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The full package.
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Aw that sounds so romantic!
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Any danger to humans?
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Kinky
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How do they actually control the brains?
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