• barsoap@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Yes of course spiders and snakes are only scary if they’re at least two metres high, noone would ever be worried about being bitten by a thing you didn’t see or hear coming.

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
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      6 months ago

      …you have very very fundamental misunderstandings about how spiders and snakes work.

      They don’t stalk people, they don’t deliberately seek out human habitats - quite the opposite in fact - and you pretty much have to provoke them into attacking.

      Around 3,000 snakebites are reported in Australia per year. We have a population of over 26 million. You’re more likely to get bitten by a meth head