naevaTheRat

naevaTheRat , 11 hours ago (edited 10 hours ago)

Benefits for cats: No FIV infections, no car injuries, safe temperatures, no fights, no parasites.

Benefits for wildlife: no murder, fewer vectors, no loss of habitat to cats

Benefits for community: no roaming cats triggering sensor lights/setting off other pets/damaging property with claws, no toxo transmission, no digging up poo while gardening/losing plants to cat piss

Cons to cats: Keepers must provide entertainment

Cons to keepers: Exercise the level of basic responsibility every other keeper of pets is expected to, or parent with children.

Issue: Controversial??????????

naevaTheRat , 6 hours ago

I guess you're not able to care for cats then?

why is their mood worth more than all the wildlife they kill or terrorise?

naevaTheRat , 6 hours ago

Balls vs literally thousands of wildlife. What a hard decision?

Letting a desexed cat roam is literally hatred for this land. Do you want more feral cats? desex pets, it's again basic responsibility.

naevaTheRat , 6 hours ago

well there you go, someone was wrong about what cats need to be happy.

You'd think a vet would be more worried about all the heal problems they pick up outside but I suppose it's more work for them if mr fluffypaws needs surgery or whatever.

naevaTheRat , 11 hours ago

Is that from the swan princess or something? I feel like I recognise that character from one of the films my little sis watched on repeat when like 8.

naevaTheRat , 3 days ago

Fuck the fucking fuckers. Swearing as much a part of human communication as cadence is.

Puritans can fuck themselves with a pineapple. It's as ridiculous as finding full stops offensive and insisting the rest of the world bow to them by using double commas or something.

naevaTheRat , 5 days ago

It makes me think of the awful time when Australian news became obsessed with "shirtfronted". Shit like this makes a little piece of my brain die every time I remember it.

naevaTheRat , 4 days ago

it's just such a pathetically juvenile way to describe politics. "mr big punches women in face man going to tackle mr hires assassins brutal dictator of maybe the third most powerful country in the world man". Uh huh, I bet he is. As we all know politics is about how much testosterone you can smear from your glands on each other while wrestling and not a largely redundant performing into being of relationships between people orchestrated by thousands.

naevaTheRat , 6 days ago

No. Like this ideology of putting yourself first is a bit stupid. you can't come up with univeral rules (at least ones that can be expressed in a small picture) for human interaction.

If you feel anxious but your family member needs a lift out of a sketchy party then yeah, you're a dick and should feel guilty for that. If you would have debilitating panic attacks while driving maybe not, but you're also shit if you don't call a taxi or something. We have obligations to each other. "we live in a society"

naevaTheRat , 6 days ago

Maybe my post is a joke. Maybe you're a joke.

naevaTheRat , 5 days ago

You from the usa?

naevaTheRat , 5 days ago

whack. I usually only see that opinion in usaians and teenaged to early twenties boys who've never been in trouble and needed help.

naevaTheRat , 5 days ago

The real jokes were the posts we made along the way.

naevaTheRat , 6 days ago

Italian nationalism around food had fascit roots. It's fictional and stupid. Grow up.

naevaTheRat , 10 days ago

I feel like the licensing in Australia is in generally pretty good (sometimes it's bonkers reactionary in terms of what gets banned).

Rifles you can get levers and bolt action. They fire plenty fast enough for whatever you want to do with them recreationally.

Handguns are licenceable but it's strict as fuck. Expensive club membership, regular training/competing events (community + keeping skills and culture good), 6 month probationary period with only supervised shooting, another 6 months before you can buy your own, have to have a rock solid safe bolted to the floor inspected initially and randomly (every few years realistically). Seems completely reasonable, handguns exist to put holes in paper and kill humans, plus they're highly concealable and much harder to use.

naevaTheRat , 9 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 , 10 days ago

It's kinda funny, I'm over here exercising for 1-2 hours every day, taking benzos about once a week, and ketamine infusions monthly just to not set myself on fire in a public square or something pointlessly melodramatic and people are like "Tut Tut, coffee is a serious vice"

naevaTheRat , 10 days ago

There have been some experimental trials run. As someone with an absolutely winning smile and lifelong depression I got in the program at one point.

Ran out of money though, very expensive. Of course first hand experience is an invaluable way to learn anything if you ask questions and watch carefully.

naevaTheRat , 11 days ago

Hi, I'm shit at brushing my teeth long enough/regularly enough. I am glad fluride is in the water.

Hi I'm someone who has concerns about animal testing and is sensitive to SLS causing mouth ulcers/generally ruining taste for a while, unfortunately hippy toothpaste often lacks fluride for insane reasons. I am glad fluride is in the water.

Hi I'm a kid with horrible parents that neglect my dental care. I am glad fluride is in the water.

"Just let people hurt themselves" is never that easy.

naevaTheRat , 11 days ago

Could you be a little less online about stuff. If you're lile 15 and just coming out of indoctrination with limited support around I forgive you, otherwise Jesus christ mate get a grip.

naevaTheRat , 11 days ago

Do you talk to people like this in real life?

naevaTheRat , 12 days ago

Keep in mind our categories are pretty arbitrary. We have stuff like semimetals and so on. All bonding has multiple characteristics outside of extremes, e.g. covalent bonds with dipole character.

Metals are just our name for the broad category of bonding between extremes at conditions we usually find on earth where we live. They are soft squashy bonds that are kinda slutty because they're just sort of average.

Actually within the metals we see some pretty different characteristics, especially with D orbital chemistry stuff but because of inertia we just keep these things all in the same category of metals because shiny squishy was a lot more obvious than fucky wucky complexing when people named them.

naevaTheRat , 12 days ago

Yep, totally evil authoritarianism. No excuses, this is a clear act of tyranny.

naevaTheRat , 14 days ago

I think more people do but it's genuinely quite hard to know. If you walk into a shopping centre, you need to buy some pants. There are 8 stores that sell pants, in each store there's some price range from low to high with some overlap, maybe the range for the cost is 5 dollars to 300 across the whole shopping center.

Which pants were made by slaves? There's no label, the 300 dollar pants are still mass produced cotton and polyester crap probably made from cotton picked by literal child slaves. How do you decide? Ever company puts up signs about responsibility and ethical supply chains but there's no enforcement so it means nothing.

There are some specialty sellers online but they're often extremely expensive and not widely available. Is that the real cost? are they honest? Buying the 5 dollar pants is probably terrible, are the 50 dollar pants 5 dollar pants with a 1000% mark up? If so you're even worse for buying those :/

naevaTheRat , 14 days ago

lmfao people have been vegan thousands of years ago e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ma%27arri

beans and rice are poverty foods, not luxury. Meat is a luxury food.

naevaTheRat , 14 days ago

It challenges something people have been indoctrinated with and causes them to question their moral character.

naevaTheRat , 14 days ago

serial cables lain

naevaTheRat , 15 days ago

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

naevaTheRat , 14 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 , 18 days ago

If you actually need privacy you should use something like tor, or a box which you have access to that can't or wont be traced to you (e.g. you have access to someone else's by covert means, you bought a server with cash in the mail, you bought a server in a nation that will never cooperate with the nation you're antagonising) which you tunnel to and use as a proxy.

A VPN is not necessarily very secure and doesn't mitigate the most serious threats like phone home programs that will ID you over the clearnet later. Trusting a VPN is extremely dicey and should absolutely not be relied upon to keep you out of gaol. It's better than nothing, but shouldn't be over emphasised.

naevaTheRat , 18 days ago

Assuming the government defs doesn't care and wont cooperate with lawsuits.

Yes and no. Knowing your IP is sort of like knowing a PO box you rent. It can be used to try and transmit stuff to you, it can also be crudely geolocated, or if the person you're buying it from gives you up it can be traced directly to you as a person.

If someone wanted to, and you had terrible safety practices (such as opening mail you aren't expecting, the digital equivalent would be having software listening to ports) they could send you something harmful but this is probably not very likely unless you are pissing powerful people off (e.g. you're using that IP to distribute anti mossad documentaries or something :P). Your biggest threat is that somebody finds out who you are by going to your ISP and making them give you up.

If you are confident that this is very high effort and you are a small fish it's not much of a risk.

naevaTheRat , 18 days ago

Using a condom doesn't require trusting a third party to keep you out of gaol, and has lots of regulatory industry around it guaranteeing quality.

VPN companies are not ideological projects, they are businesses bound by the laws in the countries they operate in optimising for profit. They will abuse your trust if it makes them money or frees them from criminal liability.

naevaTheRat , 18 days ago

People read this stuff, get mislead, and get fucked up for the crime of wanting to watch a film from 60 years ago.

naevaTheRat , 17 days ago

From vicious giant insects who have once again come back

naevaTheRat , 19 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 , 19 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 , 19 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 , 19 days ago

We've been made. Scatter!

naevaTheRat , 19 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 , 19 days ago

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

naevaTheRat , 19 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 , 19 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 , 19 days ago

https://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 , 19 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 , 19 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 , 18 days ago

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

naevaTheRat , 16 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.