Could it have been multiple spiders moving into the same burrow after the first one died?
from the first reference in the article:
There is a high level of certainty that #16 lived for 43 years. Neither males nor females re-use the defunct burrow of another spider. Adult spiders do not relocate if their burrow is damaged, but repair their existing burrow.
@bookstodon My #review of Archangel's Lineage (Guild Hunter #16) by Nalini Singh is now live! Nothing remarkable plotwise, but there's plenty of interesting new developments here that'll hopefully be expounded upon in the next books in the series.
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I’m not a fan of #12, as civil servants should be paid differently depending on factors other than simply whether or not they have a family. Also not a fan of #16 since it sounds to me like forced labour for the poor, but maybe I don’t understand what a “national workshop” is.
Otherwise I agree with at least the sentiment of all of these if not the way they’re worded. Obviously it could use a lot of updating for the modern era, but the basic premise is mostly fine.
Also not a fan of #16 since it sounds to me like forced labour for the poor
That is how actually that worked in some (if not all) communist countries. No unemployment, but people (mostly those 'undesirable' for various reasons) would be sent to hard work in bad conditions, which would often cost their health or life. The other side of the coin was: everybody had a job and little fear of losing it, so people rarely treated the work seriously enough. There were factories full of workers, but so inefficient, that nothing was produced in sufficient demand. People had money, but little to buy with it.
Book review #16 for 2024 Colin Dexter's Service of All the Dead. Another Dexter novel of twists and turns that are made straight in the concluding chapters of the book. I still cannot listen to this series without hearing the voices of the late John Thaw CBE and Kevin Whatley as Morse and Lewis. Well narrated.
☕☕☕☕ review #morse#crimefiction#books@bookstodon@books
Anything utilizing Dutch crunch bread is going to be damn good, I used to love a Togo’s #16 (Italian) on that with mayo back when they still had it as a bread option.
TIL about spider number 16, the longest lived spider on record, and the decades long study by researcher Barbara York Main (en.wikipedia.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/21700185...
What do you think of these 17 political policies?
The whole of Germany shall be declared a united, indivisible republic....
What's the best sandwich in the world?
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