What do you mean way off? My opinion and personal preferences are way off? Huh?
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Really? What's your setup? That sounds cool
ʕ•̀ω•́ʔ✧That's the thing, they both feel like toys to me. I get frustrated by MacOS because it feels like the interface is fighting me at every step and I can't "just do something" the normal fast way. I had to use one very frequently at work, so you'd think I'd get used to it eventually, but I just got increasingly more frustrated every day
But on an iPad I don't care as much that everything is weird. Maybe because I don't try and do anything complicated on it. Like I basically just use it as a mini TV to watch YouTube or use apps. One time I installed a word processor and IDE on my iPad and also got similarly annoyed with it like Mac OS.
I suppose I just do not gel with any Apple OS in a productive setting. It feels extremely unintuitive and I have to carefully think about everything I do and how to do it. Though I am spoiled by Linux nowadays, and I'm used to how computers worked 20+ years ago. I don't like it when things try and help me, it just slows me down. Just give me the file system and command line lol. I want to understand and feel everything that's happening in the computer
Apologies if I make any mistakes in this message, I'm only semi-conscious right now from exhaustion and I don't trust my sentence structure
I've used both a lot. iPads are good, they get the job done. Macs piss me off
Yeah I didn't know about this back then, and I didn't think of pickles for some reason. I was hyper fixated on a "meal" solution
This was me. Turned out I had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I literally passed out during meetings and when driving home. Literally dragging myself out of bed and through the day semi conscious, running on stimulants and grit
I just kept slowly going downhill until one day I had a severe neurological event that I never recovered from, but forced me to address the issue and get it properly looked at. Most doctors told me it was in my head and I was just depressed or something. I had to see more than 20 types of doctor and specialist and it took years
Not saying this is what you have, there's a bunch of things that can cause chronic exhaustion, but this is not normally. Please don't ignore it
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.
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!
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.
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'̀-'́)งI'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
I use swipe to type on my phone which has weird mistakes sometimes (like three instead of the). I tried to write pantries and didn't notice it left out an r lol. I'm leaving it because it's funny
I'm not here to argue. I think you're conflating multiple things here. Vegetarianism is lower pollution yes, but it's still delivered via truck or ship, it's still usually plastic wrapped, etc. Pollution is systemically embedded in our entire society and economy, so blaming consumers is only blaming the smallest part of the problem.
If everyone in the world tomorrow stopped buying anything that was polluting... They'd probably starve to death. Our farms and logistics are simply not designed for this. It's all been "optimised" for the lowest cost to companies and consumers both. The only solution is to start at the top and work your way down.
Let's say you're a company that sells food. You care about the environment so you switch everything to green. Electric trucks and ships. No plastic packaging. Your operating costs triple, and you fall behind all your competitors. Most customers don't understand, don't care, or cannot afford your more expensive products, especially in this economy. You go out of business. The only way to make it work is to reshape everything so that pollution is no longer an integral part of everything. I don't know what that would look like though, I'm not that smart.
I'm millennial and I love both Gen X and Z humour. Millennial humour just makes me depressed. Boomer humour makes me uncomfortable