naevaTheRat

naevaTheRat, 23 days ago (edited 22 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, 23 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, 23 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, 22 days ago

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

naevaTheRat, 22 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, 22 days ago (edited 21 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, 22 days ago

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

naevaTheRat, 22 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, 22 days ago

But all the best level design is here.

naevaTheRat, 22 days ago (edited 21 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, 22 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, 22 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, 22 days ago

We’ve been made. Scatter!

naevaTheRat, 22 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, 22 days ago

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

naevaTheRat, 23 days ago

I don’t follow sorry. Could you explain?

I was just making a silly joke and also trying to point out that genetic memory red in tooth and claw stuff is fucking weird.

naevaTheRat, 23 days ago

But they also became the noble greyhound

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/b430574e-552f-41af-93c4-1c5a09721bd3.jpeg

naevaTheRat, 22 days ago

You’re talking about my daughter here. Tread softly.

naevaTheRat, 23 days ago

But what we know for fact is that the human species is incompatible with communism

Sorry what? How on earth would such a thing even be established as fact? This is a very bold claim.

Communism has failed every time.

I’m always really interested in what people mean when they say this. Is it that no organisation that has tried has managed to realise the utopia Marx predicted? Is it that they tend to lose wars with the USA? Is it that great suffering has occurred?

What is a system that has not failed? Like it’s pretty apparent whatever we’re doing now isn’t working. We’re in a mass extinction, the climate is destabilising, homelessness and sickness exist alongside people that personally own jet aircraft.

Genuinely I would love to know what specifically you mean because I see this a lot and it confuses the hell out of me.

Hopeful aside btw. Lord of the flies basically happened once except the kids all banded together and helped each other because humans are actually extremely pro social. theguardian.com/…/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what…

naevaTheRat, 23 days ago

So there’s a very big difference between X hasn’t happened yet and X is factually impossible. Imagine standing there in 1750s and saying “we know for a fact that the human species is fundamentally incompatible with flight”. Very shortly you would look like the complete arse that making that statement made you.

I don’t dispute nobody has achieved the utopia Marx hypothesised, that is trivial to demonstrate, I’m asking how on earth you would establish fundamental incompatibility.

Actually the current prevailing theory is that primitive communism was the state humans lived in before the founding of the first proto states, so if anything your stance should be that evidence suggests humans are fundamentally compatible with communism, unless you mean to argue we have undergone some shift in our fundamental nature in which case I would again ask where your evidence is.

naevaTheRat, 23 days ago

Sorry, could you be a little more explicit in terms of how you’re answering my questions? I don’t really want to get drawn in to some aimless rambling bullshit.

I haven’t mentioned tribalism, I don’t even know what you’re referring to or why you’re bringing it up.

I don’t know what you mean by how society is these days. Are you saying society has changed fundamental human nature? what is the relevance please?

With an authority or controlling wealth, everything results in an elite of some form to try keep a system in place, and that’s the start of failure.

you’re talking to an anarchist so I have no disagreement there. I do wonder if you’ve ever read Marx though. Could you please honestly answer with what publications of his you’ve actually read? if none, what publications about Marxism have you read? if that list is exhaustive the three most recent?

If a village of 100 has just 1 asshole, things can be ruined. Scale up to global populations and you’ve got your answer. No ism can keep the psychopathic, narcissistic, or competitive nature of these people from ruining whatever ism it is you’d like to have.

???

naevaTheRat, 23 days ago

Yes, the system of electrifying houses is to enable widespread use of electrical devices at the cost of a few electrocutions and fires.

naevaTheRat, 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

The chair is to enable comfort at the cost of weakness, but not house fires.

you have appalling reading comprehension.

naevaTheRat, 23 days ago

I don’t know who we is here, by the blithe arrogance I’ll assume usa.

Presumably because people decided there were too many electrocutions and fires and so modified electrification of houses to reduce that? What do you think you’re point is? It’s not that people are gleefully throwing children into fires for their TVs, it’s just that stuff does what it does.

naevaTheRat, 23 days ago

You’re being stupid and trying to wiggle out from something so obvious as to be tautological …wikipedia.org/…/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_…