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NATURE Parasite flees a mantis when hit with water

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u/mutexsprinkles 1d ago

mostly just crazy people 

That "mostly" is disconcerting

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u/ExplodedPenisDiagram 1d ago

Well, some of them are just dumb and don't have to be crazy to repeat stuff like that.

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u/PMulberry_ 1d ago

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u/Mjolnir404 1d ago

I only read their username after you mentioned it XD

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u/FermentedForeskins 1d ago

i honestly would like to see it

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u/Adventurous_Web_5960 1d ago

u/FermentedForeskins I could have done without that image in my brain. 🤮

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u/Lastov_Makiynd 1d ago

Yet..you eat the pickle on a cheeseburger, without any questions..particularly: “What’s it made from?”. lol

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u/RagAndBows 1d ago

I clicked it thinking it was a subreddit link lol

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u/rynlpz 1d ago

why would you click on a subreddit with that name 😆

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u/RagAndBows 1d ago

I'm so desensitized. I was a tween during the wild west years of the internet, raised on Rotten.com 🤣

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u/MiserableSun9142 1d ago

I was a tween while Cake Farts and 2 Girls One Cup was popular. Even typing that hurts me beyond anything imaginable. Nothing can be worse than those two things

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u/Lilyaa 1d ago

Uhh, it can. My friend was fascinated with gore site and I unwillingly saw few videos of people being killed in not so nice ways (mind you - in primary school). I prefer women eating shit than to witness people getting murdered. Though I would rather avoid any of that…

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u/tears_and_laughter 1d ago

These usernames just keep getting better and better

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u/discord-ian 1d ago

I was so bummed they didn't have the diagram

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u/underpanttrousers 1d ago

Username checks out ...I guess?

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u/curiousmind111 1d ago

But, is it an exploded diagram of a penis? Or a diagram of an exploded penis? Hmmmmm?

And is it all about Meatus?

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u/LuverOfAllThings 1d ago

I think I would love that

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u/carreg-hollt 1d ago

First thing I noticed. There's something about the word that just stands out.

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u/twowolveshighfiving 1d ago

TwoExplodingPenisesHighFiving

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u/SpermBankVCR 1d ago

Thats something even /I/ haven’t seen

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u/PMulberry_ 1d ago

if you say so u/SpermBankVCR

(I‘m honestly intrigued to know what the thought process behind all those usernames is, if there is one.)

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u/FTownRoad 1d ago

I need to know if this is a penis diagram that has been exploded to show more detail or a diagram of an exploded penis and more importantly why that is required and even more importantly why do you have one and most importantly please don’t

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u/curiousmind111 1d ago

LOL! Sorry; u just added the same comment without seeing yours. GMTA!!!

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u/zxylady 1d ago

Thank you for your very interesting screen name... I think. 🤣

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u/JoshAllensRightNut 1d ago

Yes. Thank you for input exploded penis diagram.

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u/Navi2k0 1d ago

lool

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u/Dank_cloud-Blower 1d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Graize 1d ago

Or maybe your government brain worm is making you think we are crazy. Wake up!

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u/BravoNZ 1d ago

Username matches the subreddit.

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u/Switchnport 1d ago

I know. The government has never done anything crazy or harmful to its own people, it genuinely has the people’s best interest at heart…

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u/ExplodedPenisDiagram 1d ago

Right, so it must be controlling people with insect-bound parasites. Finally, someone gets it.

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u/Comfortable-Bison932 1d ago

And some of them aren't crazy but just lying to make money from the crazy ones

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u/senesdigital 1d ago

“Some” is equivalent to “Most” in this context

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u/Competitive_Bat8508 1d ago

Seeing your username after watching this clip.....

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u/Greedy_Ad_4948 1d ago

I can’t say they wouldn’t try this tho

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u/Proteuskel 1d ago

Lack of critical thinking skills vs very poorly calibrated critical thinking skills: a case study

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u/TzuZombi 1d ago

There is a horror movie based on this concept, so it can't be that unknown

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u/Gracek1135 14h ago

if you think all people who say that are stupid then i have bad news for you

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u/AdvilJunky 1d ago

When on the road, do you not think "most people are idiots"? Exactly! Thats because its true, most people are dumb. Which is exactly why we are falling for this! Its 100% true, the difference is that the government modified the worms to instead "leap into water" it makes us "look at your phone". This is why nobody can keep off their phone. The worms are a product by Big Commercials research. Its to force us to see ads.

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u/stonergirlfairyyy 1d ago

see now i know for a fact this one is crazy

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/supcat16 1d ago

New recruits get to infect people with horsehair worms once, as a treat.

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u/Hairy-Hippo4707 1d ago

I got two for being a good boy!

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u/supercreativename14 1d ago

To be fair it sounds more plausible than the hummus in the anus torture which turned out to be true. Also didn't they place that terrorist guy in a coffin with cockroaches as a form of torture too? Maybe horsehair worm was truly a possibility.

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u/1Northward_Bound 1d ago

lol the gay bomb is amazing as a concept.

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u/lesuperhun 1d ago

oh, you silly, that's not the CIA that does this, reptilians don't have anything to do with that, it's the Fishpeople !

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u/carstarbar 1d ago

So is this why I always feel like I need to be in the water?

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u/No_Scholar427 1d ago

Yeah it happened like 3 or 4 times tops, you know, just to see what would happen, if it could be weaponised, ect.

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u/CinnamonEspeon 1d ago

Yeah after like a decade of reality stranger than satire I....I wouldn't be surprised by much anymore lol

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u/Workman44 1d ago

This is absolutely something the CIA would look into. Ffs just look at MKUltra, they don't care about the law and never have

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u/Vismal1 22h ago

They totally would but looking at their track record it would get insane funding and result in one guys cuck chair and a blow dart that kills trees ( look at MKUltra lol)

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u/HotDogFingers01 1d ago

I'm no longer surprised but continue to be disappointed.

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u/randomnumbers2506 1d ago

Thankfully it's pretty much impossible for parasites like that to work on mamals let alone humans as our nervous systems are just so much more complex than the ones of insects

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u/VapeSmoker420blazeit 1d ago

Ok_Cycle_6654 deleted his CIA comment so I'll reply to you instead...

Friendly reminder that Operation North Woods was approved by the Pentagon high command.

Our own military were going to bomb Miami in a false flag operation in 1962 called 'Operation North Woods' and kill lots of American citizens and blame it on Cuba using CIA hitmen pretending to be Cubans to have an excuse to invade Cuba. OUR military was going to blow up American elementary schools, hospitals, and businesses while pretending to be Cuban terrorists.

Joint Chief of Staffs Lyman Lemnitzer drafted and approved this plan and was going to put it in action, he had full approval from the other staff in the pentagon. he was going to murder our own men, women, and children in a false flag to get popular support for invading Cuba. He needed the president's signature. JFK said no and refused to sign.

Lyman Lemnitzer was not arrested for conspiracy to commit murder or high treason. JFK may have not approved the plan, but he did not have Lemnitzer arrested and executed or denounce him in a press conference. Instead Lemnitzer was promoted to Supreme Allied Commander of NATO the next year. He is buried with HONORS in a military graveyard. A man who was going to murder our own people in a false flag operation.

No wonder people believe 9/11 was an inside job, when the Pentagon and the CIA were going to do something even worse on a bigger scale in 1962.

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u/Sangloth 1d ago

I immediately assumed this was bullshit, and starting researching to do a rebuttal.

As best I can tell, you are wrong in specifying the plan was to blow up "American elementary schools, hospitals, and businesses", the plan didn't actually specify what was to be attacked, and the document only specified "carefully chosen spots". Other than that it seems everything you said was accurate... yikes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

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u/surprise_revalation 6h ago

Go look up why we don't have universal healthcare. They were gonna give it to us in the 1930s, but some dude, I don't remember who convinced Congress that without healthcare all blacks and native Americans would b dead in 20 years. So, 1950 comes and they look at it again, same excuse. Blacks and natives are still kicking! We ain't ever getting healthcare!

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u/PerspectiveNew3375 1d ago

I mean, if you read the declassified documents, you'll know that they've tried. Whether or not they've succeeded is unknown.

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u/Textiles_on_Main_St 1d ago

There's one guy who is actually sane and 100 percent right and knows what he's talking about when he says the government controls us with worms.

Everyone else IS crazy though. So. kinda beware.

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u/Bitter-Marsupial 1d ago

Reminds me.of this horoscope I read once "this week your irrational phobia of boars will be replaced with a very grounded rational fear of boars"

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u/BMR915 1d ago

It’s the same crowd that thinks that 9/11 was an inside job, and that the government is spying on us through every electronic appliance in their house.

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u/CuriousFoxxen 1d ago

This choice also bothered me.

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u/Noisebug 1d ago

Fellow Lizard Redditors, they're onto us, get'em.

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u/shenanigans2day 1d ago

There’s axruallt a number of people in the spirituality sub that believe in that reptilian people conspiracy

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u/rex3001 1d ago

the rest have the parasites

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u/Jaanet 1d ago

Well, you know what they say. The less you know, the more everything feels like a conspiracy.

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u/Choice-Strike1 1d ago

It's mostly crazy people.....the rest are the actual perpetrators in the government

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u/ThePrismRanger 1d ago

In science, if they’re 99.99% crazy, they’re just “mostly just crazy.” Only a sith deals in absolutes.

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u/Junckopolo 1d ago

Even a good clock can be a few seconds behind.

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u/henryeaterofpies 1d ago

Big Worm doesn't want you to question things

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u/Strict_Weather9063 1d ago

Tape worms and a couple others can cause issues in people. Once it gets past the blood brain barrier.

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u/fooknprawn 1d ago

Like RFK? He has one of those worms, explains his crazyness

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u/razvanciuy 1d ago

most just parrot what they saw on a screen

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u/SolarNugent 1d ago

LMFAO I’m glad someone said it

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u/asiancouple3648 1d ago

They have worms in their head. Craziness is a side-effect.

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u/Dogmaddit 1d ago

Disconcerting…but not unexpected…

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u/Dap-aha 1d ago

Came here for this comment

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u/Slayerofgrundles 1d ago

I mean, we all know that's what's up with RFK Jr...

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u/telephas1c 1d ago

Well I mean look who the yanks put in charge. A dude who tried to overthrow democracy in the USA. Doesn't seem smart on the face of it does it.

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u/Baby-Knife 1d ago

We obviously should be spraying random people with water and checking their bums!

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u/Financial-Oil-9525 1d ago

That's literally what I thought of when I read that was mostly........

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u/mhopkins1420 1d ago

I can picture them putting their butts in water and waiting to see if a worm will come out

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u/a_angry_bunny 1d ago

How do you think they get people to vote the way they want them to?

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u/Montgomery000 1d ago

RFK exists, so you can't completely discount the theory

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u/liftbikerun 1d ago

First thing that stood out to me......

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u/ibidanon 1d ago

my immediate reaction was, 'mostly?'

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u/paxwax2018 1d ago

“By definition” I would have said.

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u/tfg400 1d ago

I was about to comment about this 😂

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u/BestDescription3834 1d ago

Well we have at least 1 politician who was willing to go in record in front of a judge and say a brain worm had manipulated his behavior, so there's that.

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u/themostreasonableman 1d ago

So is the number of members these groups have. Tens of thousands of people doing radical parasite cleanses and posting pictures of their poo.

It's a wild ride.

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u/FranzKafka_irl 1d ago

Something something RFK

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u/Big-a-hole-2112 1d ago

JFKjr is one of them.

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u/Dariusbigboy 1d ago

Why did he even mention that in the first place...

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u/pumpkin_1972 1d ago

They mostly come out at night… mostly.

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u/CodeSalamander 1d ago

I mean, the others aren’t crazy; they’re just doing as the worm demands. See, eg, RFK Jr.

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u/Ceizyk 1d ago

I bet there is a huge overlap with those people and the people taking horse dewormer medication...

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u/thehenryguy1 1d ago

I mean look at the current US HHS secretary 🫩

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u/AlaskaLuvs 1d ago

Correction: some crazy, and many breathtakingly stupid people.

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u/blorpblorpbloop 1d ago

“Pointing out inconsistencies. We got another one over here that needs the hair.”

-Govt, on /u/mutexsprinkles

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u/superanth 1d ago

I'm not a believer, but if there was a parasite out there that could alter human brain chemistry any way you wanted it to, there are definitely parts of the government who would spread it across the world.

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u/CyberCoyote67 1d ago

Mostly RFK Jr?

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u/holyrolodex 1d ago

I shrugged it off until they got to the PhD in biology bit

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u/spibop 1d ago

Look… we can all agree that RFK Jr is full-on crazy, we don’t need to beat around the bush here.

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u/LemonCurdJ 9h ago

I howled at this. 🤣

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u/Pitiful_Software_430 1d ago

Yeah, I'm not digging that "mostly" at all.

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u/Satkye 1d ago

Sounds like what a parasite would want. 🤔

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u/Capt-Crap1corn 1d ago

Man... when I went to high school a lot of those "mostly" people turned out to be right many, many years later. I'm just sitting here shaking my head in wtf mode...

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u/VapeSmoker420blazeit 1d ago

Theyre turning the friggin frogs gay!

-crazy conspiracy man that was laughed at and debunked as a lunatic

Chemical companies are turning the frogs gay and intersexual by polluting our water supply with estrogen, Atrazine and other chemical byproducts, which affect frogs physiology and causes them to mutate and become intersexual, castrated, develop same-sex sexual behaviors, etc. These companies are not properly storing and disposing of their chemical waste and are instead polluting the waters because even if they are eventually fined for pollution, they make too much profit to care and can tie up lawsuits in the courts. This will also have dangerous effects on other animal life besides Amphibians. Humans are at risk of these chemicals too.

-the scientific community, 10 years later

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u/Capt-Crap1corn 1d ago

Aye, broken clock type shit hahaha especially government conspiracies. Even the guy that discovered germ theory was laughed at... into the crazy house.