- RBG ( @RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ) English92•1 month ago
- nossaquesapao ( @nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ) English46•1 month ago
Felt sad for that last crab who ended with a shell worse than the original :(
- MicrowavedTea ( @MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub ) English38•1 month ago
Wow didn’t expect them to actually make a queue
- protist ( @protist@mander.xyz ) English37•1 month ago
They’re all trying to move up one shell size, so they position themselves as close to the shell they want as possible. If they weren’t in order, the chance they’d end up shell-less increases dramatically
- Atelopus-zeteki ( @Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run ) 9•1 month ago
There oughta be a law!
Also one can help them in this process:
https://www.hermitcrabanswers.com/finding-shells-for-hermit-crabs/
I saw a post a few weeks back about a guy who found replacement shells for hermit crabs that had adopted bottle caps and other plastic trash. Truly superheroic!
- OpenStars ( @OpenStars@discuss.online ) English39•1 month ago
B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-but tHiNk Of AlL tHe LoSt ShArEhOlDeR vAlUe ThO!?
- Asafum ( @Asafum@feddit.nl ) English18•1 month ago
Seriously though, if crabs used currency this would never happen. There would be one crab with all the shells and the other crabs would have to bring food offerings or whatever their currency would be in order to get one.
- PhlubbaDubba ( @PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ) English4•1 month ago
Mr. Krabs
- MarcomachtKuchen ( @MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org ) English15•1 month ago
Shellholder value
- qjkxbmwvz ( @qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ) English31•1 month ago
Seems more analogous to clothes than housing — clothes can be “too big” in the sense that the extra size is detrimental to the function, which is somewhat different from houses.
And it’s pretty common to have buy-nothing groups in cities or even at large companies. Got a loooot of hand-me-down clothes for my toddler from friends, family, and randos in the neighborhood.
- SkyNTP ( @SkyNTP@lemmy.ml ) English20•1 month ago
Yes and no. I’m sure there is an argument to be made that a house can be too big. Bigger houses require more maintenance, cleaning, higher taxes. Downsizing a house is also a retirement strategy.
- leisesprecher ( @leisesprecher@feddit.org ) English5•1 month ago
Also, sometimes you just want a tight fit house to show what you got.
- Hirom ( @Hirom@beehaw.org ) English7•1 month ago
Yes, that’s a better analogy.
Actually swapping house like a hermit crab swap shell would leave very little time to move furniture, put some fresh paint on walls, have the owner review the house to return the security deposit, etc
- lennivelkant ( @lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ) English5•1 month ago
Pretty sure hermit crabs (like most animals) aren’t renting. The previous owner of that shell has abandoned it, so they’d be squatters or, lacking any concept of private property, simply inhabitants. Point is they wouldn’t need any owner to return security deposits they never made.
Moving furniture and personal belongings is a good point though, they don’t have any of that. Most houses aren’t too mobile either. Clothes just fit better.
- halvar ( @halvar@lemm.ee ) English22•1 month ago
An animal named a hermit crab has better social relationships than humans I’m so pissed.
- solsangraal ( @solsangraal@lemmy.zip ) English13•1 month ago
as a hermit human i can confirm: less human interaction = more mental health
- SaharaMaleikuhm ( @SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ) English3•1 month ago
Setup a commune, escape the system, free yourselves
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English11•1 month ago
This makes the plot of Another Crab’s Treasure even zanier. (It’s about a hermit crab whose shell is repossessed by the local king)
- SSJMarx ( @SSJMarx@lemm.ee ) English7•1 month ago
The Soviets had an “apartment swap” system for people who wanted to move around filled-to-capacity neighborhoods. You would get on the list with where you currently lived and put in where you wanted to move and would get informed when there was a match. Sometimes matches would be arranged in triangles or other more complex shapes, but since everybody involved needed to get on the same page this was rare. The wait to move depended on how lucky you were - sometimes you’d get a match right away, sometimes you’d forget about it until ten years later when you would get a letter asking if you were still interested.
This was all in the 60s and 70s when things were generally more chill.
- BobQuixote ( @BobQuixote@discuss.online ) English1•1 month ago
Sometimes matches would be arranged in triangles or other more complex shapes, but since everybody involved needed to get on the same page this was rare.
A web service could handle this neatly. You could commit to being ready for a match within the next 2 weeks. If the server can find a way to move any number of people between equivalent apartments, everyone gets notified and confirms receipt.
- boatsnhos615 ( @boatsnhos615@lemmings.world ) English5•1 month ago
They kill/eat their dead, weak and handicapped as well. Heard they also get half off fries at Wendy’s too no cap…Sounds pretty sweet op
- Aradina [She/They] ( @Aradina@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 month ago
Humans could have this too if enough of us just started doing it
- Comment105 ( @Comment105@lemm.ee ) English2•1 month ago
If you found a house that was too expensive and tried camping outside it with your average wage in sharpie on a cardboard sign, nobody else would join in and reveal their earnings so nakedly. Nor would they reveal it in an online sorting list with their current house listed beside it…
Besides, you’d likely object to moving to their previous humble residence in Alberta where the older couple earned the retirement that affords them this house.
- glaber ( @glaber@lemm.ee ) English1•1 month ago
That’s similar to how it works in Singapore, where housing is fully public