Zarobi

Sleep in a quantum superposition of left and right to reap the benefits of both

One time my dad gave me 37 cucumbers from his friend's farm, and I was just sitting there staring at a fridge completely full of cucumbers displacing everything else like what the hell do I do with 37 cucumbers???

Most recipes online are like, use 1 cucumber and 8 potatoes... I need a much higher cucumber to everything else ratio. I eventually found an ancient website online from the 90's outlining someone's grandma's recipe for peasant Polish soup from "the war". It was like a whole damn cucumber quest.

It was ok. Really made you feel like a peasant.

A lot of people here are allergic to anything spiritual

Don't forget proprietary features like DRM video that is actually completely impossible for anyone new since only Google etc have the licence to implement those technologies

I wouldn't get one, but I think they often look really beautiful. I'm not a fan of hodge-podge random IP characters but I've seen people with patterned sleeves and hands that I just want to keep looking at, they're so interesting

My ex had three separate Amazon prime subscriptions going at once for three separate accounts and only used one of them. It was a lot of money wasted for no reason. I'm convinced most people never actually look at their bank account. Once a month I go through the expenses and make sure they all add up, it's really not hard to do and catches weird stuff like this

Sounds very similar to our redback spiders then! I always thought they were beautiful… where I used to live my neighbour had a walk in bird house thing (is aviary the word?) where there was this absolute unit of a redback. Bigger than a golf ball, its web was a third of the entire bird house. Absolutely terrifying and stunning at the same time. I saw it actually eating small birds like finches occasionally which is just nuts. We used to catch bugs and throw them into the web and watch the spider go for it. Wouldn't want a bite from that lady though!

Vegetarians are happy at first, until they see me just devour a whole chicken once a month, then they give me the side eye lol. Vegans don't like that I eat dairy and eggs. Carnivores get annoyed when I have a meal of "rabbit food". I seem to annoy everyone 😂

I dunno, to me it's called having a varied diet and it's normal. Where I grew up, that's what you ate. Mostly plants, dairy from the cows/goats/sheep, eggs from the chickens. Then sometimes, the village would slaughter a goat, and you had a party and ate as much meat as you could because it doesn't preserve well. The animals were treated with respect, but we also ate them sometimes. It doesn't have to be mutually exclusive.

Food is a weird thing, I find people care a lot about what I eat for some reason. It feels like I'm not following some unspoken rules or something

This is because a Mac is basically a giant iPad with a keyboard. Everything is abstracted away, so if you're actually a computer person and try and take command of what's going on, the giant iPad will say "no you can't do that" constantly

It feels like trying to drive a car with no steering wheel or pedals, and you're expected to vibe your way through it with an overly helpful touchscreen interface running interference. Like just please God just give me the steering wheel

I feel like I get along with kids better than adults. Kids just wanna be silly and have fun. I can do silly. Adults get awkward and uncomfortable, like they have to remember how to do it and then are too busy being embarrassed to enjoy it

We keep the big hideous ones as pets to hunt the small deadly ones. Yes really.

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Huntsman's are the best. Even if they do bite you, it'll just make you feel dizzy and sleepy for a while, I've experienced this first hand. Do not Google a photo of social huntsman spiders though, they are ugly motherfuckers. They're gigantic and one of the biggest spiders in the world. I can't tolerate them indoors because they just make me sick to look at. Maybe I'm being dramatic. These guys will roam around and ruthlessly hunt down the deadly spiders, hence the name. But also you might have a midnight encounter when getting a glass of water. They are one of the only spiders that are social and understand group dynamics. They have families and share food. They have really good eyes for a spider, and will actually watch you as you retreat carefully. I hate how smart they are. Creepy fuckers. Wolf spiders are similar but less ugly and are solitary.

Daddy long legs (also known as cellar spiders, very different from the American daddy long legs) are also great at killing other spiders and cannot physically penetrate human skin with their fangs, making them completely harmless. They just chill in the corners of your house and you hardly notice them. Love these guys.

But yeah we try not to kill the "good spiders", because if you completely clean house, you'll get the "bad spiders". Even redbacks to an extent, I leave them alone if they're in the shed. They can kill almost everything and punch way above their weight class. I've seen them take out centipedes, giant cockroaches, all sorts. I relocate spiders if they're a problem like somewhere kids might get into, but mostly leave them be. Think of it like you have a mutual agreement with the barbarians to guard your walls, but they will try and sneak in sometimes.

Have you ever seen the movie Predator? That scene where he smacks the shoe before putting it on and a spider comes out? Do that every time. And don't leave laundry or towels lying on the floor. Shake out your linens. Don't trust gloves you've stored outside. Stuff like that. Then you should be fine. I live in South Australia so we don't have the deadly kind of funnel web, so I don't really worry about it that much. We do have other dangerous spiders but they tend to not live indoors thankfully. I may be desensitised to it though. I've been "blessed" with a biological signature that spiders and other insects find interesting, so I've been bitten hundreds of times in my life. One time I ended up with a really bad infection but some antibiotics sorted that out. I've heard that white tail spiders aren't actually dangerous and it's a myth... but that was the only one that got really badly infected, so I'm not so sure.

So yeah mostly we just don't encounter the dangerous spiders that often because we have a barrier ecosystem of less lethal spiders.

More reading: https://birdwatchinghq.com/spiders-of-south-australia/

Don't Americans have black widow spiders or something that are equally dangerous? To me this all seems fairly routine, surely other places in the world also have dangerous spiders in them? Everyone here is a bit of an expert in spiders out of necessity. I'm pretty sure it's taught in school how to recognise the dangerous spiders and snakes.

… but not for me! (ง'̀-'́)ง

At least it's good exercise

Being in a supportive environment and seeing LGBTQ+ people having happy free lives makes people more willing to explore their own identity. So it kind of spreads that in way

That's actually the episode that made me rethink how skill checks work at all... Like a 7 ft pile of muscle barbarian isn't actually that much stronger than a 4 ft halfling bard in DnD. In my mind, The Mountain just kicks the door down, and that's the end of it, or at least can destroy the lock with a greataxe. There's no need for subtlety in this situation. It seems silly that the entire concept of your character just doesn't work sometimes

It was very dodgy for a while, like Woolies owned the charity you were donating to, and the name was weird too. Basically "give us extra money and we might give homeless people our expired food items instead of throwing them in the trash" so you're paying them to deal with their own waste. But the name was like, Support Local Farmers or something I don't remember. Then they tightened the laws, and now it's only moderately dodgy because that money isn't separated out properly and only a percentage of it ends up going to the charity. That's the last I heard of it in Australia at least.

I'm not sure to be honest, I didn't get bitten when I visited Sydney. I'm guessing amberlamps carry the antivenom and get there quick, it's not subtle, you'll definitely notice if bitten. I've heard it's closer to a snake bite in terms of pain and reaction

That's good to hear. I think I was there just when they started adding laws to prevent that kind of thing, but before anyone cared about said laws

I don't buy meat, but I'll eat it if it's given to me. It's a treat to me, and I savour it when it happens. The downside is that vegetarians, vegans, and meat eaters all hate me 😂

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Stop hoarding

Studying religions is actually fun!

Google's New Remote Attestation Scheme is As Bad As Its Old One

Tattoos are stupid.

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I love this post because they said (Vegan) like it's a fallout skill check

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The land before time

Sick as hell

DM Sadism 101 rule

Damn you Sonic

Then they share their lifestyle on tiktok for likes

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dogs in france

I love this post because they said (Vegan) like it's a fallout skill check