I’m gonna be real with you all, I’m in Australia and it’s a little embarrassing how hard you think we have it over here compared to the shit I’ve heard from other places. Like don’t fuck with the animals and don’t put your hands in areas you can’t see and you’re golden. I’ve had to deal with random violence like three times in my 34 years here. It’s pretty alright here.
and don’t put your hands in areas you can’t see
Serious question: do you check your bed before you crawl into it for the night? Like, what’s the level of paranoia you guys have there? Does the room get a quick glance then you just go “yeah, I’m sure everything is fine”? Or do you turn all the lights on, rip the duvet up, and smack the bed frame to scare off any creepy crawlies that might be lingering about?
Probably the most I check in day to day life is just under the toilet seat before I sit on it. Haven’t yet had a spider under there yet but have definitely heard of it. Otherwise just being careful of huntsmen when you have something like two sheets of iron or wood, as they love to be in between them.
Have otherwise had little spiders come out from the car’s crevices while driving and calmly pulled over to deal with it.
Overall not really that paranoid or bad in Australia
Haha no not quite that paranoid. Nah it’s mostly a rule for like moving stuff around in the garden and if you’re in the bush or whatever. Like the shit you have to worry about will either let you know, or set up a home far away from you. Generally. So it’s kind of another way of saying don’t put you hand into a redback nest.
Though saying that most people have had harrowing huntsman spider encounters, often in bed. They’re the most common surprise as they actively move around to hunt prey, instead of building webs. They can’t really hurt humans, aside from hiding behind your sun visor in the car and scaring you half to death, like my girlfriend had last year. They are a non zero statistic in cause of car accidents unfortunately.
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Ya’ll fucking crazy
Eh, I see plenty of shit around the world that makes me happy I’m here. It’s fucking wild to think that after your cats have found yet another majestic galloping hand sized spider that you have to save from them.
You can’t fool me. I’ve seen your videogame prices.
One of the reasons stuff costs more in Australia is that there’s significantly more consumer protection. Steam originally didn’t allow refunds at all, and were fined AU$3 million as a result.
In Australia, it’s illegal to say “no refunds” or only exchange or refund as store credit both for physical and digital goods, and customers are always allowed to get a repair, refund or replacement if the product has issues. In the case of a game, that would be things like:
- Game breaking bugs or bug that significantly affects the experience but don’t completely break the game
- Changes that make the game behave significantly differently to how it was originally described on the site or in the documentation
- Games that initially support Linux but the company dropped Linux support later on, etc.
Steam’s policy of only refunding a purchase within 14 days of purchase and less than 2 hours of play time is also not legal in Australia. You can’t have conditions like that on a refund policy. They have a separate refund policy specifically for Australia which excludes the 14 day / 2 hour limits.
Appliances also have to last for as long as a ‘reasonable consumer’ thinks they should last. For example, even if your TV or fridge has a “1 year warranty”, the manufacturer will still have to repair, refund, or replace it if it breaks down in 3 years, as a regular person would assume that a fridge or TV should last more than 3 years. The store or manufacturer has to cover the cost of picking it up and delivering a replacement. It’s also illegal for a store to tell you that you have to contact the manufacturer - the place you bought the product from has to let you handle all warranty claims through them.
huh. that actually makes it sound worth it.
Look you’re right and the housing market is a catastrophe also
Is 🏴☠️ an option, or are USA (MPAA, RIAA, etc) claws too deep in 'straya and kiwiland?
ISPs can monitor and such, I’ve not gone into the intricacies of the laws myself. One can get around it all pretty easily.
Tbh game prices are actually not too bad here. I don’t pirate games, steam etc are just too reasonable, and I don’t buy them that often.
You can’t fool us. We know all of you are boxing kangaroos upsidedown just to get to work everyday.
Wait do you guys not? Next you’ll tell me you don’t eat your national animal
You know, at this point I think I’ll be surprised if I DON’T see somebody eating a bald eagle for Thanksgiving one of these years.
I think this meme is talking about how tough life is for any given organism in kind of a TierZoo sort of way.
Africa is harder than Australia. Not even close.
maybe you just spawn in the middle of austrailia desert with nothing
Thinking I’m on easy mode and then getting hit in the face with bear mace while crossing UCLA’s campus.
Thinking I’m on hard mode while I drive my Bentley through Plettenberg Bay.
Easy, medium and hard mode are just how much money you’re born into.
Little racist there my guy. Also, America is pretty “hard mode” for a lot of people.
Is Bogan a race?
That’s the interesting thing about empire, it’s self similar. A whole class of people may grow up geographically in or near the core, but their experience of life has more in common with someone in the semi- or outer periphery in terms of access to necessities or stability of life.
Difficulty in America is pretty much down to your initial stats.
Initial stats and current location. Some places want you dead for being the way you were born.
The Galapagos deserves its own level at the top of this. It’s literally, “don’t eat any green apples you find on the island, okay?”
What??
The Galápagos is pretty much paradise. If you can, check it out some time.
Oh I get the apples now
For some reason New Guinea is included with Australia, even though the western half is owned by Indonesia, and the eastern half is its own country. Either way with the civil war going on there at the moment I’d much rather be living in Australia!
If you’re one of a tribe living in the jungle of West Papua, then yeah, it’s basically survival of the fittest there with no electricity or modern amenities. If you’re living in a city then it’s no different than the rest of the region, but with small risks of armed conflict with the separatist group.
Those are geographic boarders not polticals ones. New Guinea is included because, like Australia the country, its part of the continent of Australia.
Umm I don’t think New Guinea is part of the Australian continent. I live in Australia and they definitely didn’t teach us that in school
Wikipedia says it is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_(continent)
Like my teacher always said “Trust everything you read on the internet. Also you need to listen better”
We talking wilderness of Canada or population centers? Cuz there ain’t no way I’d go into Canadian bush without a shotgun.
There is No way i go into an American City without a shotgun.
Am Canadian - wtf?
The worst part would be the Arctic but you have bigger problems than polar bears
Bud, have you met a moose?
They’re the size of three deer and they have the personality of a Canadian Goose.
Moose and black bear aren’t like that unless you pissed them off
Grizzleys and Cougars you have to worry about but your shotgun’s noise is the most effective part of it
Maps without Japan.
And New Zealand
Fuck Japan.
A Certain Subsection Of Lemmy: “The Imperial Core™ makes life harder for the nations it exploits!”
Meme: “Life is harder in those nations.”
ACSOL: “Are you some kind of racist!?”
It’s really mind-boggling.
Also, ironically a bit ethnocentric to suggest that the challenges in the US or Europe are in any way on par with life in places like Brazil, India, Africa!
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Includes British Columbia in “easy mode”.
Nah, BC looks pretty, but if you unprepared off the beaten trails/roads, they’ll never find your body.
I don’t think we’re talking about wilderness in general… But housing and grocery prices are not particularly easy either.
If we aren’t talking about wilderness in general, then there is no reason for Australia to have it’s own category.
Seems to be an all round rubric partially political (more than a little based in Eurocentric standard) partially wilderness in which case Australia does kind of have BC beat. Like yes… We have moose grizzlies and wolverine but those are a pretty rare eldrich horror to stumble across. We don’t really have mouse-pocolypses, or dinnerplate sized crawlies that randomly just show up in our houses… And our critters are all round less venomous.
Like I grew up in a forestry household. Off trail can get spooky as fuck. But for a lot of the main points like exposure and microbial issues which is pretty much a problem everywhere we rank fairly tame. Most of our snakes and bugs are chill with highly survivable bites, our deserts are pretty temperate but in most of the heavily forested areas there’s a lot of foragables if you know what to look for and most of our big predators are easily scared off.
You say that, and yes, if you know what you’re doing its fine. Same applies to Australia.
We have thick rainforest vegitation so dense you can walk off a cliff and not realize it until you fall through.
I’m pretty sure significant portions of the medium and hard difficulties could be flip-flopped and most of Australia’s population doesn’t live in the PvE warzone you’re probably picturing in your head.
When are we talking about, here? Much of Europe is a disease-ridden mosquito swamp if you go back a few thousand years.
Apparently there is no life in Mexico
Or greenland. Kinda accurate, really
Just a yellow filter.
I invested all my xp into sneak and went from medium to easy.
Australia has a somewhat threadbare welfare state, though is more of a social democracy than the UK. And snakes and spiders are easier to avoid than Tories.
Have you ever been fucked up by an Emu?
Trick question, Emus don’t leave behind survivors. Or witnesses.
They leave witnesses.
They just trust the drop bears to hold up their end of the bargain.
You are several orders of magnitude more likely to be killed by another human than an animal or insert in Australia.
Well that just makes sense.
Through selection pressures the only surviving Australians are highly venomous.
