Buttered toast with vegemite. (use olive-oil spread instead of butter if that’s an issue)

Breakfast of champions.

Nuclear weapons spread vast quantities of highly toxic, highly radioactive dust in all directions, clean into the stratosphere.

Any significant use of these weapons would render the entire planet uninhabitable, and cause total catastrophic breakdown of every ecosystem. Even if you survived the direct attack, there would be no clean air, no clean water - and in a very short time, no plants or animals. The forests and oceans would die, there’d be nothing left to cycle CO2 back to oxygen, the ocean currents would be disrupted, rainfall patterns would be destroyed (even if they weren’t coating everything in more radioactive dust), it would be impossible to grow food - the planet would simply stop sustaining life. And that’s not even counting nuclear winter, an ice age brought on by the sheer quantity of stratospheric dust blocking out the sunlight (not dissimilar to the meteor wiping out the dinosaurs)

It’s hard to cast yourself as a winner if you’re shitting your intestines out from radiation poisoning, with no hope whatsoever of anyone at all getting through this.

I’ve never had one, so I don’t know. I’ve always been irrationally nervous around bees, and I really, really don’t want to find out if I am or not.

Granted, but they look a whole lot more threatening than they are, which I felt was in the spirit of the thread.

There’s apparently one subspecies of huntsman that could make you a bit nauseous and headachey, but the majority aren’t going to do more than hurt a bit. And yeah, they’re cool.

Of course, I’m not going to take responsibility if you misidentify something else as a huntsman…

Huntsman spiders

They are large, and they gallop across your ceiling like demented gazelles, chasing down cockroaches.

However, they’re nonaggressive to humans, you’d have to seriously harrass one to provoke it into biting you, and the worst they could do to you is a beesting-like bite.

They’re also all named Kevin.

80s kid, grew up with 8-bit micros, learned to program because what else could you do with the things.

Went up the ladder through c64, amiga, msdos and windows, got sent a couple of network cards to review from my brother who worked for an electronics magazine, and that entailed setting up a bunch of PCs in a home lab kind of environment…

And from there I just flowed into tech support, and moved up into sysadmin.

I just didn’t have the resources and opportunities to become a full-on developer as I’d initially wanted - it would have taken more continuity and focus than I had available in my life at the time - and you need to get in on the ground floor and keep a constant trajectory if you want to keep up in that field.

But ferreting through log files and applying my full ADHD to arcane constellations of failure - that, I can do. Packrat brain, breadth-first search and random hyperfocus means I track down and fix all the weird shit that stumps my coworkers.

I’m basically button-mashing my way through the whole game, and somehow haven’t died yet. Just don’t tell anyone, or they might fix it.

Nope.

The mind is what the brain does; when the brain stops doing, the mind stops being.

I like modern westerns, stuff like True Grit.

I don’t know why; nothing could be further out of character for me. They just scratch a weird itch, I guess.

Jam, seriously. Plum jam is amazing.

Australia here, and yes, the tap water is perfectly fine and normal to drink straight out of the tap - no filtering or boiling needed.

Does FIDOnet count? Will you settle for USEnet?

1: Ten seconds from now, I have shit to do.

2: A week ago. “I bet you a billion dollars that sub implodes…”

Australian here. We aren’t drowning in murderous wildlife.

We do have deadly creatures, but the average person will likely never encounter them.

… we did have to ban a peppa pig episode about making friends with random spiders because aaaaa dear christ no, but apart from that really it’s fine here…

They should treat it like hashtags on mastodon.

Anyone can post to a #communityname. Local mods are responsible for content from their instance. If an instance doesn’t weed out shit posts, other instances can stop importing its content.