Remove if inappropriate. I’m not member of any other fitting community. 🫣
Wow, nice rack!!!
Thanks 🍈🍈
I actually did a little more in depth boasting here a month or two ago.
Indoctrinate the spider that it will catch many more bugs by using AI tools, and then let it pay.
I cannot be held responsible for when it eventually falls into spider AI psychosis.
Even more gain! Do you know what prozac does cost? Its family will need to pay the pharmacy bills if it doesn’t want their loved one ending up homeless.
You’re evil and I don’t hate it.
I love this thread
Me too. I have no earthly idea on how it “blew up” like this. 🤣🩷
Looks like you found yourself a network debugger
I was going to say web admin but yours is good too.
Came here to say this. Thank you for making my job easier!
OKAY. I thought all the funny responses were already exhausted xD <3
Its already a work in place of rent situation. I have tenants with similar contract in my kitchen window, my shower ceiling, the storage/work room window, and the one that doesn’t follow the rules in the front entrance arch who is likely to be evicted.
I see. But, all in all, a quite decent customer/tenant base! :D
It gets to keep 25% of the bugs he catches. You get to eat the other 75%.
Any changes to the web will void it’s deposit and you get to eat 500 of it’s bugs to repair any damage.
Utilities are not included. There will be a 5 bug charge for each droplet of water it drinks from the faucet. Even though it lives near WiFi, there is a hookup fee and monthly cost of 25 bugs.
If it is late on monthly bug payments for more that 1-week. You get to eat it’s web and all the bugs. The spider will be taken outside on a paper towel or in a cup and left on the nearest leaf.
Implement those and you’ll eat like a king!
I died xD
But…
I’m affraid he’ll try to circumvent my espionage with some spidey encryption… No idea how to counter that. :/
His pest removal services are worth nothing? You’re already bartering.
Shoot! I had completely forgotten about that! Well, I’m convinced. They can stay rent free! :D
By avoiding being a capitalist landlord, you have become a feudalist landlord.
Except this is entirely on the spider’s terms. Land is given but there’s no quota, no tax. The spider may come and go as he pleases and only needs to catch enough pests to feed himself.
rent? it’s keeping your house pest free… you owe it money
(also obligatory that’s not a spider THIS is a spider from australia)
I went here to tempt fate. Jesus Christ. If it’s any one of these living in my access point, I don’t know… Would a Norwegian reboot kill it?
The problem with the implicit size comparison in the Crocodile Dundee reference is that Australian spider size is inversely proportional to their actual danger.
True… I don’t know how to pay her though. PayPal? Ko-Fi?
ko-fly preferable to ko-squito… they’re both pests but those fees really sting
Okay okay OKAY. 🤣
Seems to be a hard working web developer, surely he can pay his rent
Developing the web and catching bugs, sounds like they’re earning their keep
No doubt! I should be thankful!
You’ve considered a capitalist solution, but have you considered
Restorative justice: the spider is a trespasser, but will likely not find enough prey to survive. Capture the spider and relocate it to a suitable habitat where it can thrive. Check on it occasionally to ensure it is doing well
Libertarian anarchism: leave it be. It will die, survive, or thrive on its own terms
Authoritarianism: tell the spider if it doesn’t remove itself it will be arrested, start ordering it to get on the ground, fire 13 rounds at it, preferably missing all shots but hitting a nearby toddler. Institute martial law against the “foreign threat”, citing the recent death of a toddler
House spiders generally don’t survive outdoors. They’re cave-dwelling species and they seek out indoor spaces by instinct.
This is a very good point. In rebuttal
A. I did say “a suitable habitat”
B. I was very clearly shitposting
Sure, though my comment wasn’t strictly a rebuttal to yours. It was as much an FYI to anyone who stumbled across our comments and has relocated spiders outside out of a desire to save them.
I’m glad you posted your original comment. I tend to be pretty tongue-in-cheek, both online and IRL. Sorry if it comes off as abrasive, in my mind it’s all in good fun. Love you and hope you have a fantastic day <3
No worries! People can be both amused and informed!
This little heartfelt, wholesome back and forth between you two was exactly the medicine that I needed to calm my nerves after I unintentionally started what seems to have become the shitstorm of the ages over at linux@lemmy.ml . May all the spiders of the universe have mercy on my soul.
SirSamuel, you enlightened bastard! You don’t know how much I needed this laugh.
Also, I decided to go the pre-Marxist socialist route: the spider is allowed to stay and to contribute according to its abilities and shall be compensated according to its contributions in the pest elimination field.
impose rent?
but…
it’s already working for you, setting up traps for flies.
bloody capitalists… always short-sightedly, myopically, trying to maximise wealth extraction.
Threaten it to call immigration if it doesn’t pay up.
That’s… low. Even for me. xD
Keeping the computer bugs at bay
True. Fully automated out of the box too! Like, no scripting, no broken config files, whathaveyou.
She’s just trying to crawl the web!
I’m afraid of what she might scrape while crawling.
am i crazy or is there no spider in this photo??
No, you are not crazy. Spider web is all there is. - akunohana 2026
