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Comment on Women should be able to open things in ~life.women
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Comment on Is there a way to filter out everything posted by a user? in ~tildes
fastpicket Link ParentA lot of people are in this thread like this. I had a user whose consistently tolerated misogyny nearly made me quit the site. Another kind user pointed me in the direction of Tildes Re-Extended....A lot of people are in this thread like this.
I had a user whose consistently tolerated misogyny nearly made me quit the site. Another kind user pointed me in the direction of Tildes Re-Extended. Now I just have him tagged as 'Do Not Engage' and I just keep scrolling.
I've got three others tagged for 'Just Asking Questions' consistently about LGBTQIA+ issues when they drop into ~LGBT, but that's about it. Mostly I use it to tag kind, friendly people, and it's a good reminder that there are far more kind people here than assholes.
I don't like how some long-term users skirt the 'Don't be An Asshole' policy by sealioning instead of just out-and-out using hate speech or insults, as they seem to really want to do. But it's not my website and I am not the sole moderator, so I've found the tag-and-scroll-past a happy medium between frustration and giving up Tildes entirely.
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Comment on The jungle huntsman spider of Queensland, Australia, is officially the world’s fastest spider in ~enviro
fastpicket LinkHey this is the most common spider in my house! I live quite close to a rainforest in Queensland and we deal with these a fair bit. I've never been bitten, nor known anyone to be bitten, but their...Hey this is the most common spider in my house! I live quite close to a rainforest in Queensland and we deal with these a fair bit.
I've never been bitten, nor known anyone to be bitten, but their fangs are large and visible. They use them for threat displays when you're trapping them to move them out of the house, especially on a flat surface as they can't see you as well as on walls or ceilings. They'll rear up and display their front legs as a threat display, which actually makes it easier to put the container over them, or just pick them up if they're not babies.
They're really good to have around the house, but not so much inside the house. They are excellent at pest control, mostly for cockroaches and small introduced mice. Most houses here are barrier sprayed inside to kill roaches and mosquitoes so we move our huntsmen outside to make sure they don't slowly die.
They do cause fatalities, but not in the way that you might think. There are car accidents because a jungle huntsman will quickly run across a dashboard, or from under a sunshade that's just been flipped to more cover. That is legitimately terrifying because people generally don't have time to go 'oh, non-venomous, big but not dangerous.' You just see a sprinting giant arachnid and it can be very difficult for some people to keep the car on the road under those circumstances.
It doesn't surprise me that they're the fastest just because of their leg-span and the fact that they're ambush predators. If you come to the East Coast of Australia, you're pretty unlikely to see one as their camouflage is excellent outdoors, and they only tend to come indoors during prolonged periods of rain.
My tip if you're visiting would be to check your car for them after a rainy night, probably as far down as Sydney. It's very hard to tell different species of huntsman apart from sight and even the relatively slower ones in non-tropical areas do the same car-hiding behaviour. Even the slower ones in temperate and oceanic climates tend to sprint when they're startled or feel vibrations, and a car is a startling vibrating box that they mistook for a comfortable dry hiding place.
But snake_case, what about all the men who are above or below average?! We can barely accomodate them! Are you seriously expecting the world to just accomodate women and men?!
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Men being the unquestioned default for everything, down to industrial design, is extraordinarily depressing. I'd imagine this dates back to male dominance in building codes and norms, engineering. Ultimately it's probably a historic artefact of men being in charge of finances, so 'this house/car is great for me'.
And because this'll probably get a comment like 'women actually make the majority of large household purchases now', women have only been allowed financial independence for a couple of generations. Imagine how long it'll take for that to through to design and accessibility without active effort.