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2 months agoDon’t know if it’ll be much help but on my app (thunder) you go to the instance, press the little (i) and then block community. It will probably be something similar on most apps.
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Cake day: June 9th, 2023
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1·3 months agoI 100% agree they are the absolute worst. They drive me crazy and can put me in a bad mood faster than coming across any of the actually dangerous things. Absolutely ridiculous.
Kids mess with those ants when they’re 5 and are fine. Sure it hurts but not really different to a bee.
The only one I’d say the average Australian has above average exposure to is jellyfish, assuming they go to the beach even semi regularly. But I mean, they just float around, they aren’t coming for you on the attack.
Spiders there’s only 2-3 anyone actually worries about, they’re rarely seen and even more rarely bite anyone. Same for snakes. You also won’t die even if you do get bit unless you can’t make it to a hospital/contact help for a very long time.
Crocodiles are barely a concern outside select areas (eg think whether the average American would be concerned about alligators at all).
Kangaroos can theoretically attack but generally want to keep to themselves. But also to give you an idea how much of a non issue they are there are zoos that don’t even have them in pens, they just roam around with the people.
Edit: one thing I probably didn’t make clear, the average Australian probably does see a high amount of spiders, what I meant is the average Australian doesn’t typically see the actually dangerous spiders. I’ve seen them maybe 2-3 times in almost 40 years.
Do games count? I got scammed on runescape out of a 50mil item which was a lot at the time (this was sometime around 2003-2005). 50-100 hours of time for me to get it at an estimate. It was a stupid mistake that I thought I was smart enough to avoid, with what I now recognise as classic signs of a scam (slightly too good to be true, moving goal posts, slightly odd but not entirely unreasonable requests, time sensitive). But I can tell you I’m glad I got scammed young on a game, because it was a good lesson with very low actual harm (only time lost realistically) and made me WAY more wary of things.
Honestly I hope it’s not. Like I said in another reply, I’ve generally had negative reactions to it when I’ve mentioned it online before that lead me to question it.
No idea but it sure isn’t talked about, and any time I’ve mentioned it online people act like it’s weird and get grossed out. Just look at the only other reply I got so far.
Drank breast milk straight from the source as an adult. I highly recommend it if you get the opportunity though.
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.” -Seneca
When we complain about not having enough time, we think of ourselves as being passively allocated an insufficient resource. But maybe the problem isn’t that life is too short, but that we waste much of the time we’re given.
I think this is relevant in these modern times more than ever. How much of our time goes to mindless scrolling, worrying about things beyond our control, or pursuing goals that don’t truly align with our values? We should be thinking about the difference between being busy and spending time meaningfully.
And that’s not to say all time spent should be something “productive”. Leisure time can be meaningful. But I think it’s worth even thinking about that. Are you truly happy with how you choose to spend your leisure time when you watch 100 short videos you probably won’t even remember? Or when you sit there getting angry or depressed about article after article after article? I think it’s worth thinking about.
If it wasn’t, it wouldn’t be sold, moron.
I think more people should be concerned about their privacy, but I don’t really agree with this premise. It’s kind of like if there were diamonds in some peoples trash, so a company collected everyone’s trash so sift through it and take the diamonds to sell. The fact that some people’s trash is valuable enough for them to do this, doesn’t mean mine is.
That’s how these work, they hoover up everything and sell it in bulk. It doesn’t mean any given users data is valuable. And that’s why so many don’t care.
As far as scam calls go, I have a number I have never given to anyone outside immediate family, who I know haven’t shared it, and still received scam calls. They just call every number, even if you don’t answer. Pretty sure if it rings at all they flag it as potentially active. Sure spreading it around may increase the number, but there’s no true way to hide.
And those things mean they couldn’t have just had at least ONE of the 5 boy dogs as an additional girl? I don’t see what another show or the race of characters has to do with this.
I’ve always thought it was absolutely insane that the kids show paw patrol has 6 dogs with just ONE girl dog, along with the human lead being a boy.
17·5 months agoPerplexity already runs a US copy of it.
I agree but also you’d be surprised how many actually piggy backed off a friend. I know because in my circle of friends-acquaintances of about 60 people in high school only 1 other besides me was actually competent enough with technology to the point of trying to pirate. Everyone else just got burnt cds and usb sticks from us.
To this day when I meet other millennials there’s honestly more tech illiterate than not and I think it’s the small but vocal minority that exist on places like this and reddit that carry the stereotype that all millennials are good at technology.
In Australia they offer premium lite for $9 AUD a month that removes ads on normal YouTube but still has it on shorts and music.
Yeah I got my first mobile phone in 2004 and it was one of the Nokia’s, 3310 probably. We definitely still had a landline with speed dial and absolutely did not have streaming. Definitely still had VHS, probably got our first DVD player the year before but still used both.
It’s legit.