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It has been determined that the tourist had attempted to engage with the animal from the shallows in an attempt to take photographs
The information is pretty scant but it sounds like maybe she was splashing around trying to get its attention.
It's really sad honestly. She's a double amputee now, and later in life so not likely to get a fancy new prosthetic.
Bull sharks are no joke. They're not as huge and scary as great whites but they're aggressive, and can operate in fresh water as well as salt water. Jeremy Wade did an episode on them in river monsters. Artificial canal estates tend to be infested with them.
I think the local authorities have some culpability in this. If you have sharks literally prowling around beaches full of clueless tourists then you have to close the beach. That's what we do at popular beaches in Australia when a shark is spotted.
I've discovered that I find drinking hot water to be very refreshing and hydrating. Just sip from a cup of hot water just like coffee or tea.
Its probably not very hydrating because you can't just chug half a litre like you can room temp.
Just saying, a preference for cold water even when it's cold is for sure a learned behaviour IMO.
Wow that's nuts.
That's just a dumb meme, nothing has been successfully able to kill me yet.
In all seriousness though, Australia is a popular destination for migrants.
Anyone with a pulse finds this sinister as fuck because it's obvious that no one would voluntarily participate in something like this.
I think any definition of "addiction" that includes SSRIs is so vague and general that it's unhelpful.
There aren't many things that people do that wouldn't cause a measurable withdrawal if discontinued.
Yeah what the fuck is that about.
I don't think it will get that far even.
Not sure if you're trying to be sarcastic but I'm having a hard time understanding your comments sorry.
Oh well in that case I'm sure it will be fine /s
The thing is it's so easy to verify that they're not addictive.
They're not just going to announce work camps for slaves are they.
Even if we're talking about illicit drugs, sending users to work camps is not a cure, it's just taking advantage of them.
This is a well established climate-change-laggard argument. It's the whataboutism logical fallacy.
Why should I take action, at great personal cost, when someone else is not taking action and will in fact benefit from my burden?
The Australian (and other) governments hide behind this same excuse. "Australia is just a small country, why should we take action when our CO2 production is just a small portion of that of other countries like China?".
I mean it's a good point, billionaires are worthy of great criticism, and Australia should be putting pressure on other countries, but at the same time we as individuals really do need to be taking action.
I do agree that polluting corporations use this narrative and I also find it infuriating. It's particularly palpable with plastic producers, as in plastic pollution is not their fault, but the fault of consumers failing to recycle. It's not the fault of consumers, it's the fault of regulators, who are elected by voters who are also consumers.
In summary, the whole thing is fucked and everyone sucks, but you still have to tidy up your own shit.
Is climate change an extinction level threat? I've never heard that.
I think we're firmly in "catastrophic disasters and famine that eradicates vast majority of the population" territory.
It's a question, as you said, of how severe the disasters and famine will be.
It sounds like slavery to me.
Suppose depression and anxiety can take a variety of different forms, arise from a variety of different causes, manifest in a variety of ways, and respond differently to a variety of treatments.
In your case your particular malady didn't respond to medication but did respond to other treatments.
It sounds like you can readily acknowledge that not everyone is experiencing the same illness and that often diet / exercise / lifestyle just isn't relevant.
The problem @simplejack@lemmy.world is referring to is when people who successfully treat their illness with diet and exercise assume that everyone elses illness will respond in the same way.
Is that really true?
It's pretty tough to migrate to Australia for example and I don't think this is really a relevant question.
Yeah it's just bonkers.
I'm not sure that rounding up everyone on SSRIs will work out how they planned though.
I don't think that's the point. They need a new labor force in these rural areas because they just deported the last one.
Kennedy said he planned to dedicate money generated from a sales tax on cannabis products to “creating wellness farms—drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country.” He added, “I’m going to create these wellness farms where they can go to get off of illegal drugs, off of opiates, but also illegal drugs, other psychiatric drugs, if they want to, to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall, and to spend time as much time as they need—three or four years if they need it—to learn to get reparented, to reconnect with communities.” The farm residents would grow their own organic food because, he suggested, many of their underlying problems could be “food-related.”
Hol up. They've gotten rid of all the people who used to pick fruit in rural areas, and now they want to send arbitrarily diagnosed "addicts" to these rural areas to live for "free".