I 100% agree they are the absolute worst. They drive me crazy and can put me in a bad mood faster than coming across any of the actually dangerous things. Absolutely ridiculous.
Kids mess with those ants when they're 5 and are fine. Sure it hurts but not really different to a bee.
The only one I'd say the average Australian has above average exposure to is jellyfish, assuming they go to the beach even semi regularly. But I mean, they just float around, they aren't coming for you on the attack.
Spiders there's only 2-3 anyone actually worries about, they're rarely seen and even more rarely bite anyone. Same for snakes. You also won't die even if you do get bit unless you can't make it to a hospital/contact help for a very long time.
Crocodiles are barely a concern outside select areas (eg think whether the average American would be concerned about alligators at all).
Kangaroos can theoretically attack but generally want to keep to themselves. But also to give you an idea how much of a non issue they are there are zoos that don't even have them in pens, they just roam around with the people.
Edit: one thing I probably didn't make clear, the average Australian probably does see a high amount of spiders, what I meant is the average Australian doesn't typically see the actually dangerous spiders. I've seen them maybe 2-3 times in almost 40 years.
If you can't spot it by looking at it, you can definitely spot it by eating it. You don't even need to tell people to boycott this stuff, people are able to read brand names and won't rebuy brands that taste rubbish anyway.
Do games count? I got scammed on runescape out of a 50mil item which was a lot at the time (this was sometime around 2003-2005). 50-100 hours of time for me to get it at an estimate. It was a stupid mistake that I thought I was smart enough to avoid, with what I now recognise as classic signs of a scam (slightly too good to be true, moving goal posts, slightly odd but not entirely unreasonable requests, time sensitive).
But I can tell you I'm glad I got scammed young on a game, because it was a good lesson with very low actual harm (only time lost realistically) and made me WAY more wary of things.
My problem is at least other games have some benefits. Hand eye coordination, reflexes, critical thinking, problem solving skills, reading and comprehension skills.
Mobile games are designed to be as simple, accessible and most importantly easy as possible. They want you to feel like you're winning over and over and over with no real effort on your part. Obviously there are some exceptions, but still.
For sure. I've never outright banned it if they get access such as from their nan or play them on their laptop when they have time on it. I agree with everything you said. I'm just also not going to let them sit on my phone mindlessly playing them either.
Those apps make them want to pay. They make them want to play every X amount of time to get daily and timed bonuses. They play stupid ads that convince them to download more shitty games that do the same thing.
I don't tell them what to do. But I do have conversations with them so they think about things. I never tell them I think the games are rubbish. Maybe they love that game. And I don't like adults telling kids things they love are trash. I just try to guide them best I can.
It's so hard. I have an N64, Wii, Wii U, Switch, PS5. The N64, Wii and Wii U have every game available on them. Switch and PS5 have decent libraries.
I set a laptop up with emulators of the main consoles before N64 (Nintendo/Sega/Handhelds etc) with the top 100 games of each, all in a nice emulation station interface with box art and video previews, and my personal favourites favourited. I set up steam family sharing with my library of 500 games (with inappropriate ones filtered out but still massive).
Didn't ever buy them an ipad/tablet and never let them use my phone. Taught them how to use all of the things mentioned. Commonly play couch multiplayer games on these things with them. They're not bad at games either. Beat Celeste, Undertale, Super Metroid as a few examples.
And YET I'll still find my kids on the laptop playing rubbish flash games and shit, or asking their Nan to let them play on her phone.
It doesn't exactly. It's like Lemmy, where it's self hosted/someone is hosting it. So it depends entirely on which instance you use and who is hosting it and how much you trust them/what their values are.
Most though would fit into the right in the same area as SWISSCOWS.
I love the open back ones. Sennheiser HD 598. Had them 10 years.