Immediately stomp an insect when they see one inside the house. It’s like a reflex or impulse and honestly it’s kinda scary seeing an otherwise nice person just stomp an insect or spider or whatever in cold blood almost instantaneously. There’s like no thought or contemplation, it’s just see the insect, and then immediately stomp it.

Like holy shit what did that little critter do to you? Just let it be.

EDIT: Holy fuck the responses. I guess many didn’t actually read what I wrote. I wrote that people who “immediately stomp” without “thought or contemplation” have fash tendencies and I get accused of fashjacketing. Ugh whatever. To those who had thoughtful responses (e.g. if you feel something stinging your skin and swat it with your hand, or if you have an infestation issue in your house, etc.), I gotta say those make sense and I hear you all the way (and even in those cases it’s not like there’s a kneejerk intentional kill response, it’s usually accidental or done after careful deliberation). But to the ones complaining about fashjacketing, maybe do some self crit for fuck’s sake. You sound exactly like the fucking man vs bear defender types or a white fragility type, Jesus… It makes me actually think you do have fash tendencies tbh.

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      Yeah, I mean, I’m sad about it but my cat’s wet food got found by an entire colony of ants once. I didn’t exactly have a choice, so I powdered the seams of my house with diatomaceous earth.

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      Why silverfish? Afaik they are pretty harmless i have them too, they just quietly live wherever in the bathroom and don’t bother anyone except cat who loves to hunt them. I mean unless you have an entire infestation probably not just a few like me (and i suspect those are the same ones all the time, since silverfish can live for 7 years).

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        They are pretty big and I find them revolting. I’m sorry, I’m not gonna feel bad about smashing one in my house.

        My cats will kill almost anything that sneaks into my house (including bourgeoisie) anyways though so I don’t really have to worry about much.

        My cat did wake me up last week by trying to eat a mouse on my bed though 🤢

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          Ok fair enough though those in my home aren’t even big, biggest ones i seen were like 10mmx3mm, and i didn’t even seen one that big for years.

          (including bourgeoisie)

          Based kitties

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            I have a traumatic memory of a silverfish. I had just set up my new room in my first house on my own. I sat down to play NBA Steeet volume 2 (I’m old) and this massive one slithered out from under my bed.