Devi

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago

I'm going to say something different from most, this guy might be genuine, he might just be some kid thats a bit lost. He might be a scammer but we haven't heard proof of that yet.

HOWEVER, you can not move a stranger, however lovely, in with your teenage son. That's just not a thing. If he wants to come live with you, AND he can get there by himself, then why can't he live on the sofa? You also mention your siblings being supportive, why can't he share with them? Are they younger than you?

Could he even move there legally? Would there be immigration issues if he tried?

See if you can read the messages yourself between the two of them, try to work out who's suggesting these things. Is he talking about lack of money a lot? Is he constantly having 'situations' that your mom needs to fix?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

It definitely doesn't. Animal from the deep sea are used to being under higher pressure, that's an entirely different issue and not what I'm talking about.

Fish of any level will be supported in the water in a way that they won't in air so they haven't developed the structure of land animals to keep their organs from crushing each other.

Then there's a whole host of other issues that occur - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Physiological-responses-occurring-when-fish-are-removed-from-water-Effects-of-air_fig1_281930182#:~:text=exposure%20can%20be%20considered%20acute,(Ferguson%20and%20Tufts%201992).

Even when only removed from the water for a short time a proportion of the fish die after being put back. When the time is increased to do measurements, take photos, whatever else you want to do, the proportion that die shortly after increases quite quickly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The Octopuses solving puzzles is actually overblown a bit. I used to work in an aquarium and had to teach an octopus to open a jar to get its food out. They can do this, but they're not that smart so you need to break it into tiny steps. Even 'your food is inside the jar' was a difficult lesson.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Their bodies are also formed to exist supported by the water. When taken out their very bodies are crushing their organs. It's grim.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

They have one comment in their history and it's not kind so that isn't what they're looking for.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

All the little niche TV subs, there's a Doctor Who one here, which is soooo much nicer than the reddit one, but I haven't found any of my other shows. I'd quite like the trashy TV ones cause I joined facebook groups and I want to talk about like, internalised misogyny in Sister Wives, but all the discussions are like "Robyn has a fat bum, hahaha".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Primary is 4-11.

The extra 2 years are no longer optional. You can choose where you do them but you're not allowed to just not.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I flew to Inveness and stayed in a place called Beauly then just drove around really. I drove around Loch Ness stopping at all these little castles, then took a boat trip. I went whale watching fom Gairloch, that also took use to see seabirds in the Shiant Islands and some white tailed eagles, then over to the Cairngorns.

I knew the places we went would be cool obviously, but every drive was amazing, brilliant landscapes everywhere. I had lunch in these cool little pubs on mountainsides, stopped in cute little villages, I was leaving like 2 hours to get anywhere so we could stop multiple times just to get pictures and stare.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just put a UK address in?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago

I quite like cryptozoology, looking for proof of animals that don't officially exist. Loads of the animals over the decades have been found and proven and then they just go over to zoology and people still think of cryptozoology as a pseudoscience, it's really weird.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

It's definitely an option if you want to take more from them, but just paying the taxes they owe like the rest of us have to would make a huge difference.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (3 children)

You don't need to do anything fancy, just make them pay taxes. No loopholes, no moving your money to tax havens, accurate income calculations taxed correctly, gangs of auditors making sure it happens.

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