naevaTheRat

naevaTheRat, 2 days ago

How often have you just read a headline? It’s not about creating cases that stand up to scrutiny, it’s about creating the impression of a movement.

Nudging people by making things appear more reasonable than they otherwise would be.

naevaTheRat, 6 days ago

serial cables lain

naevaTheRat, 8 days ago

Frankly anything that gets bloodmouths to wake up to how fucking cruel and unusual carnism is rocks.

naevaTheRat, 7 days ago

How liberating it must be to have no choices, a mere puppet dragged along by your whims.

The first vegan I know lived a few thousand years ago in a blind body racked by smallpox but do go on about your life is sooooooo impossibly hard you can’t behave with a modicum of decency.

naevaTheRat, 9 days ago

From vicious giant insects who have once again come back

naevaTheRat, 12 days ago

Oh can we stop this? we have no large land predators. Indeed Australia is so peaceful as to give rise to the quokka that fearlessly approaches humans.

Sure if you piss off a kangaroo or deliberately antagonise a spider you might get hurt but you’d have to really really try and odds are you would just get fixed up in hospital.

This land is peaceful, it’s inhabitants kind (well, except the humans, the English really did a number).

naevaTheRat, 12 days ago

I’m 3 rats in a trenchcoat

Come visit, if you come to the blue mountains hit me up and I’ll take you on some more local knowledge bushwalks.

I hate our culture but I love the land and its slowtime history

naevaTheRat, 12 days ago

Not anywhere near built up areas… there’s one, the brown snake. he’s a bit ornery but he’ll leave you be almost all the time if you make some noise while walking and fatalities are ~2 a year and mostly in highly remote areas… don’t walk in the tide pools without shoes on? you’ll cut your foot on oysters at the best of times silly… just leave random critters in tide pools alone? it’s not like they seek you out or attack you while you swim… yeah boxies are a nuance but only at the far north at certain times of year, you can swim when they’re not around… never heard of them so they can’t be that bad… what are you doing? naked bush bashing in FNQ? fucking relax, it’s a random poisoned tree in some of the most remote regions of australia. Not like you’ll get stung in any tourist region lmao… are you in the habit of disturbing bats? they fly up in the sky yo, just don’t try ambush some sleeping bats? are you afraid of licking pidgeons or something?.. white tails are not harmful …com.au/…/the-truth-about-white-tail-spiders/ and like all spiders you have to really really try to get bitten. You can handle them and they’ll leave you alone… again are you naked bush bashing in FNQ? haha do you think our major cities are plagued by jungle fevers you idiot…

naevaTheRat, 12 days ago

Please, I am begging you. Say something that hasn’t been prepackaged for you?

naevaTheRat, 12 days ago

You live in one of the most remote, populated places. Like obviously things are different.

Also redbacks aren’t generally lethal without an allergic reaction. Hurts like hell though!

naevaTheRat, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

I’m not mad, I just think it’s boring. LLMs already have regurgitated speech sounding garbage bereft of meaning covered. Humans can be so much more rich and interesting.

naevaTheRat, 12 days ago

Kingsford-Smith backs onto water, sometimes the planes are tired and they try land a little early…

naevaTheRat, 12 days ago

There have been funnelwebs in my yard at times. Know what I do? Don’t stick my fingers under logs/in suspicious funnel shaped webs in the yard and wear shoes. If I got bitten I’d just go to hospital and get the antivenom and have an unpleasant 2 days.

Taipans don’t live near me, brown snakes do. Almost stepped on one once, know what I did? not do that and walked backwards slowly. The horror!

naevaTheRat, 12 days ago

But all the best level design is here.

naevaTheRat, 12 days ago

rips will take you back to shore if you relax.

If you can stay afloat for a good while you’ll be right. They circle back to where waves are forming and the waves carry you back to shore. The key is not to panic and don’t exhaust yourself fighting them. Swim sideways and relax, you’ll get dragged out some but the waves will help you get back so it’s going to be ok once you’re out of it.

White tails are harmless, the victim of a libel campaign.

naevaTheRat, 12 days ago

My Canadian mate “So I was walking in the forest last night eh and I uh got stalked by a bit of a mountain lion. How aboot that? bit of a fright eh?”

me “I went for a bushwalk at night and walked into a spiderweb. It felt slightly icky”

naevaTheRat, 12 days ago

It’s just boring. There are so many genuinely funny things to say about Australia but this is played out. Like if everytime someone mentioned the usa people were like “Oh are you afraid of being shot? bet you have to constantly watch out for being shot huh? shot?” or if when the UK came up it was just “Queen and empire right haha bet you eat shit food huh?” (actually people do this and it’s also not funny especially when you can tease them for all the genuinely hilarious shit like the house of Lords and the London museum).

naevaTheRat, 12 days ago

We’ve been made. Scatter!

naevaTheRat, 12 days ago

I guess if you’re neurotic enough to think that’s a real risk you’re probs best to not come here.

naevaTheRat, 11 days ago

That sounds unpleasant, I’m sorry. Is it really that common outside of hotspots though?

naevaTheRat, 11 days ago

It’s not an issue of national pride, Australia is a dog shit nation. It’s about being funny and interesting.

Funny joke: “I was arriving at the airport and they asked if I had a criminal background, I didn’t realise that was still a requirement”.

Boring, played out, uncreative nonsense: “haha spiders upside down haha”

naevaTheRat, 11 days ago

Yeah you got it. Make fun of our stupid accents, our ridiculous infighting politics, the horrible racism, how every Aussie thinks we’re some rugged larrikin but we have fines and regulations for everything (welcome to Australia: fines apply on a sticker had me in stitches in an airport bathroom), the hilarious “this place was discovered in XXXX, by an expedition being guided by a local man to a sacred place” plaques, the sex pest tourism we inflict on our neighbours whatever.

I’m just so bored of people bagging on made up stuff about the wildlife. They’re cool and interesting, and there’s loads to crack jokes about.

naevaTheRat, 11 days ago

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides

read that page. You’re unlikely to come across it without trying. No confirmed deaths in Australia. You can find videos of people stinging themselves, it looks unpleasant but not that bad. Not even exclusive to Australia.

“Bad things can happen to you if you deep into the forest/jungle and don’t know what you’re doing” is hardly uniquely Australian.

naevaTheRat, 11 days ago

Fair fair. You’ll want to avoid bulldog ants if you’ve got allergies. I know the natural inclination is to get close because they’re so fascinating but they’re particularly known for provoking anaphylaxis :(

naevaTheRat, 11 days ago

I wasn’t joking about wanting to approach them, they’re fascinating. I object to people saying something is less evolved than something else as everything has been evolving and surviving the same amount of time, but they are primitive in the sense of preserving characteristics from an intermediate stage between wasps and ants. Really fascinating to see the solitary roaming/eyesight heavy foraging behaviours alongside eusocial grooming etc.

Gosh I love them, but I don’t know how many stings I have left in me as it’s starting to get extremely painful :p. They are just about the only animal aside from domestic cats that seem to go out of their way to do violence to you with very little provocation.

naevaTheRat, 10 days ago

Take it up with my Canadian friend, I’m only relaying what he told me.

naevaTheRat, 8 days ago

It’s not about right or wrong, it’s the only revenge we have against the first and second most evil empires to ever exist.

naevaTheRat, 14 days ago

nope, it’s a shining example of Basque awesomeness.

naevaTheRat, 16 days ago

I am no man

naevaTheRat, 16 days ago

Frankly I’m in favour of whatever keeps them harmlessly busy.

(you can’t be mad at me my mum is Polish)

naevaTheRat, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

Yeah, just like other kinds of animal abuse. I can’t stand anyone who speaks out against puppy mill, dog fighting, killing race horses, elephants in circuses, bear bile farming, the fur trade, poaching etc.

Like get a fucking life, they’re just there to be used. If you want to be some goody two shoes and give a shit about orangutans or whatever fine, be a stupid Puritan but don’t you dare try and stop me from setting up monkey knife fights.

Edit: wtf? aren’t we in agreement? You can’t criticise what someone does for pleasure or a living with animals. No ethical consumption anyway. Why the hell is my circus worse than your steakhouse? we’re both doing it for entertainment.

naevaTheRat, 17 days ago

I don’t think you’re evil. I think that like almost all vegans you were raised to be complicit in an evil system. You were fed propaganda, discouraged from questioning norms, had behaviours reenforced as wholesome and good from before you were even a conscious person.

I think you’re wrong, I think what you do is deeply harmful, I don’t have any respect for hiding from the truth, refusing to engage, and bad faith replies but I don’t think you’re evil.

Was every man who denied women votes evil? everyone involved in every war of aggression? every slaver that ever was? every bureaucrat of empire? They were wrong, selfish, engaged in motivate reasoning, and harmful. Some were probably evil, most were probably a little lazy or a little stupid. Unfortunately that’s all atrocity takes.

naevaTheRat, 20 days ago

I know your dirty little secret about the source op

naevaTheRat, 23 days ago

Refers to women as females, keeps them locked in the attic away from people, artificially stunts their frame while causing growth of absurdly proportioned parts he considers desirable.

Ultimate neckbeard fantasy is growing weed confirmed.

naevaTheRat, 23 days ago

What did I fucking say about handing out acid to lemurs!

naevaTheRat, 23 days ago

Psh, don’t look for your reflection in the eyes of strangers. Friend’s eyes are the best mirrors.

naevaTheRat, 23 days ago

What happens once your age out of being a tomboy but you’re too much of a disaster to be a power mommy?

I’m whatever that is? a spinster? I’m married but. Well sort of, the government forms can get fucked we’re wives to everyone who knows us. A cool aunt?? I’ll go with cool aunt.

naevaTheRat, 25 days ago

Hate yourself less, Garfield is funny, that’s why it’s popular.

naevaTheRat, 27 days ago

Took me a bit but when you see it it’s pretty hilarious.You gotta unfocus your eyes a bit and sorta fuzz the image, idk if that makes sense.

naevaTheRat, 28 days ago

Idk if anyone will take anything useful from this but I tried smoking and loved it. Did it for years, thought it was great. Slept like crap, was stressed all the time, couldn’t be athletic. It was so awesome.

I finally quit nicotine completely 5 years ago and all that stuff I thought it helped with? Yeah that was just withdrawal. Now I’m stuck with cravings I don’t think will fade any time soon and elevated cancer risk.

Just don’t smoke, it’s not worth it. Do fun drugs that are easier to quit instead.

naevaTheRat, 28 days ago

I started at 16, switched to vaping about 23? quit at 27. I smoked about 1-2 packs a day, and when I switched to vaping did it constantly.

I don’t think cravings this long are usual and suspect it’s a result of how intense my addiction was/was the reason my addiction was so intense. There is limited medical literature on persistent cravings but it seems to happen to some people.

Deadset I found quitting morphine trivial compared to nicotine. Just fucking fuck idiot lonely teenaged me who found a way to make some friends. I don’t blame that stupid goose barely hanging on but also fucking fuck them.

naevaTheRat, 28 days ago

It defs has lessened but like relaxing in an afternoon? craving. Break in the park? craving. Cool sunny morning? craving. Programming? craving.

Also seeing anyone smoke it still smells appealing.

Kinda sucks, brains R poop. Wish we did more for keeping smokes outta stupid kids hands than shame and harrass them.

naevaTheRat, 28 days ago

It’s not the crawling up the wall tear your skin off craving of withdrawal. But the same feeling that makes you want an icecream at the beach, a hot coffee on a cold day, a chocolate when you’re bored.

Except I reenforced it a shitload more than any of those things. Obviously I don’t want to smoke again or I would, but it’s still a craving.

naevaTheRat, 29 days ago

Back in 2014 my graduating physics class was split down the middle between dudebros who wanted to be him and people who thought he was a con artist due to the utterly ridiculous physics statements that he’d make.

So basically this decal identifies the owner as the sort of silly person who thinks settling other planets isn’t the punchline of a joke.

naevaTheRat, 28 days ago

Ironically >:3

/chaos

naevaTheRat, 28 days ago

You ever think there’s a reason nobody puts cool in the same sentence as physics :p

naevaTheRat, 28 days ago

you have no idea what they do or do not experience. You’re straight up making shit up. Nobody has any way to tell

naevaTheRat, 28 days ago

you still have 0 idea what it is like to be one. Don’t make me explain the hard problem of consciousness, just admit you’re making this up.