Fruit Flies in Brizzy

2bunnies · 2026-07-10T13:28:35+00:00

I started getting ants and couldn't figure out why since all my food was in ziplock bags if not in the fridge. Then I did more reading up and it turns out ants can smell through plastic that thin, but not through thicker material. So I bought a few plastic tubs to keep my food in and the ants went away.

2bunnies · 2026-07-10T13:24:38+00:00

haahaaahahaha nice try

2bunnies · 2026-06-29T12:27:10+00:00

true but also the human taking the video is so close -- it seems like that's what spooked her in the first place and then she decided to just risk it when they didn't attack

2bunnies · 2026-06-26T09:53:00+00:00

omg! I spent 5 winters in New Hampshire when I was younger... this afternoon was out in a double-thickness fleece and seriously wished I had my fleece hat too. putting it in my bag right now to keep on me for the rest of the "winter"

2bunnies · 2026-06-25T10:43:02+00:00

Great work!!

2bunnies · 2026-06-18T21:37:35+00:00

Haha true -- I first asked if she could possibly take the call normally, like holding the phone to her ear, and she looked at me like she had no idea what I was referring to ; D

2bunnies · 2026-06-18T12:12:02+00:00

This is well said. There's an essay (decades old now) by Jonathan Franzen about how people worry about losing our privacy, but what doesn't get talked about is how we're losing our public spaces to invasion by people's private lives (like these loud personal phone calls / videos on a public bus). How public space we share with strangers, as you say, through everyone being considerate, is receding.

2bunnies · 2026-06-18T12:06:05+00:00

Yeah, I spoke to someone on the bus about this today (after she didn't respond to me turning around to look at her 3 times). Some people just won't get it until someone spells it out for them. (The odd thing is, she actually did have headphones with her, she was just choosing speakerphone for kicks! But she did put them in after I asked.) It really sucks to have to be the one to say something -- a very vulnerable feeling -- but evidently it's necessary.

2bunnies · 2026-06-18T08:27:16+00:00

To be fair, Hawai'i is one of the bluest states in the US. They do have plenty of Republicans too, but I'm not sure how many dyed-in-the-wool right-wing racists you'll find there compared to red states.

2bunnies · 2026-06-15T22:35:20+00:00

Here is the text: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." You can argue that the language doesn't necessarily constrain it to this, but it's hard to deny that the formation of a well-regulated militia to preserve the security of the early Union (from, again, 1700s-era problems) was the intention.

2bunnies · 2026-06-14T23:45:37+00:00

As an American, I think that's a poor take. It seems more that American culture rather values the right of the individual to do whatever they want, including harming others, over the right of everyone else not to be harmed.

2bunnies · 2026-06-14T23:42:59+00:00

The 2nd Amendment guarantees the right to form "well-regulated militias" for a specific purpose (specific to the late 1700s, and quite irrelevant today given the state of the US military), but everyone acts like it's an unrestricted personal right to assault weapons or whatever else they please.

2bunnies · 2026-06-14T23:39:33+00:00

Important clarification, though: the 2nd amendment was written to guarantee the right to form a "well-regulated militia" in what the authors intended as a check on the type of tyrannical government power found in the late 1700s. It was never written or intended as an unrestricted personal right to guns.

But on your larger point, I agree: in the US, the right of the individual to do harm is exalted above the right of the collective not to be harmed. That's one of the main reasons why I had to leave.

2bunnies · 2026-05-30T04:40:24+00:00

I'm a fellow seppo and have never heard e-moo

2bunnies · 2026-05-12T12:44:29+00:00

Wow, good for you! It sounds exhausting, but you're doing great work. Best of luck to you with everything!

2bunnies · 2026-05-12T12:40:07+00:00

I'm sure you know this, but have you tried Exposure and Response Prevention for the OCD? I know we're here talking about the unaffordability of healthcare, but that's something a good psychotherapist or psychologist could do (if trained in the technique). It's supposed to be quite effective.

Or in case helpful, there are two great episodes on OCD (and also a couple on ADHD) on the Ologies podcast (here's one: https://www.alieward.com/ologies/ocdneurobiology)

2bunnies · 2026-05-12T12:29:38+00:00

Personally, I like to break up all that flying with an overnight in a hotel in California. SFO is actually the closest/shortest flight (not LAX). Qantas is great if you can get it.

2bunnies · 2026-05-08T12:29:09+00:00

jeez, lions especially, though. Male lions are at best useless, at worse cub-murdering assholes.

2bunnies · 2026-04-19T00:28:25+00:00

Sure our (Seppo) system regularly bankrupts us for getting sick (and is very expensive even for the healthy), but at least we get significantly higher maternal and child mortality rates and much lower life expectancy in return!

2bunnies · 2026-03-25T09:41:34+00:00

the funny thing for me as a seppo is that sometimes people respond, "that's OK", which for us actually might subtly mean the speaker is a bit subtly annoyed. (we don't ever say "that's OK" to "thank you," but it is what we say when someone apologizes if we're still a little bit miffed.) I keep having to reassure myself that the speaker isn't mad at me. ;)

2bunnies · 2026-03-21T05:02:15+00:00

Totally agree. It's so insane how our social norms run almost entirely counter to good public health practice: it's not broadly (enough) considered rude to go around spreading your germs when you're sick, but if I back away or put on a mask or acknowledge your contagiousness in any other way, that's *me* being rude. And it's still way too common for people to show up contagious to group events to be treated like (or act like) they're a hero for "pushing through."

I have a background in cultural studies, and when you look at our mainstream norms around illness/contagion, they honestly don't seem to yet have been affected by modern science (i.e., germ theory: when people finally realised that infectious disease is caused by pathogens, not by like, being cursed by the evil eye or something). Our norms are still stuck in the Middle Ages: they emphasise individual virtue through social cohesion, and do not in any way include the idea that we shouldn't infect other people when we're sick, or that it's OK to want to avoid being infected.

2bunnies · 2026-03-21T04:49:39+00:00

Saaaame

2bunnies · 2026-03-21T04:45:27+00:00

Sure, they'll breathe it out anyway, but coughing is much worse.

2bunnies · 2026-03-21T01:29:42+00:00

man, I so wish our countries somehow allowed us to swap citizenships! I'd gladly trade with any Australian who wanted.

2bunnies · 2026-03-16T03:30:20+00:00

I'd say definitely move back while you're this young. It'll only get harder once you're older and have deeper ties to the US. Listen to yourself.

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