u/lordfootjuice

Very minor drama, but I saw it so now you all have to as well.

A post was made to r/MadeMeSmile about a mother who got a keyboard tattooed on her arm in order for her son, who is autistic, to communicate with her by touching one letter at a time, plus "Yes/No" buttons, a smiley face button, and an "I love you" button.

Most of the comments saw it as very heartwarming and a sweet thing to do to communicate with your child. One user, doopie, did not.

>SmartVegatable7504: Smart mom and son team. Kudos.

>doopie: Or, what if you present a paper with keyboard printed on it? Tattooing keyboard on your skin is pretty stupid idea.

>SkinTightBoogiePI: Pretty sure you're trolling but think of it like this: You're out swimming, at the beach, it's raining. Any of those would make this better. Also, having it on your arm is gonna be a much more powerful symbol of "I am making time for you" than anything I can imagine.

>doopie: People jump at the first chance to tattoo anything on their body. You'd have to pay me million to tattoo anything on my body. It's a symbol of stupidity, nothing else. Draw stuff on paper or canvas.

>Maleficent_Button_58: Ok.... but what does you not wanting to get a tattoo have to do with someone else having a tattoo?

>doopie: You ever get a feeling of rolling your eyes when you witness someone doing something stupid? That's the feeling I get when I saw this thread.

>readyfredrickson: I couldnt imagine feeling this passionately against a mother finding a consistent and accessible way to communicate with her son. I hope you have things in your life that you feel this passionately good about and not just shitty.

>doopie: That's another crazy part: do we know if this even "works" for the autistic kid? What if she got that tattoo and the kid doesn't care about it, because he's autistic? If he's into keyboards, let him have a keyboard then.

>MaleficentBelle: I would imagine she knows her son better than you and didn't just run to get the tattoo with no thought. God you're so sour.

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BronzeFour: You're quite the miserable person aren't you, I hope life gets better for you bud. Stay strong. The suffering will pass.

>doopie: I respect my body.

>Big__Wheel: Hell yeah, my daughter used to ask for food in the morning but I respect my dishes to much to put food on them. Hopefully I hear from her next Thanksgiving.

>doopie: Dishes are part of life. Make some food for your daugher, maybe she would like it. Cleaning up afterwards is a small price to pay for that.

>twiceasmice: Tattoo's have been "part of life" for ages. You are just being dramatic.

>doopie: It's pretty shocking to see tattoo prevalence go from .1% to 30% during lifetime. Best case scenario it just spoils your appearance, worst case you might get cancer, like this WHO report points out: [link attached in actual comment]

Hey guys!! I work at an elementary school in a before-school latchkey program and we have a bunch of dinosaur toys, which leads to discussions about dinosaurs semi-frequently. I have heard them ask each other if birds are dinosaurs before, and I want to try to think of a concise way to explain it in a kid-friendly way in case they ever ask me lol. Thank you guys!

Hey guys,

I work at a school so I can’t go all-out with a costume during the kids’ Halloween party, but I’d still like to dress up. I have hair down to my thighs so I thought it’s be funny if I threw a hat on and put a pair of glasses on backwards to look like Cousin Itt if I was looked at from behind lol. Can’t put it in the front because I gotta be able to keep an eye on the kids obviously. Only problem is I also wear glasses and I am not 100% sure as to how I should attach the glasses on the back of my head? I have very thick hair so I could definitely hide something like a strap. Any ideas?

Hey guys! I recently attended a craft fair and got some of the prettiest crystal jewelry I have ever seen in my life. I need more from this seller and I got her card, but I have no idea where she’ll be next and she doesn’t have an online store. Would you guys be annoyed/is it in poor taste if a customer emailed you to ask if you’d be at any fairs/events in the area in the future? Thank you guys!!

I am 21 and graduated in 2023. Often times I hear people older than me talk about how they can't imagine the concept of active shooter drills, which is crazy to me because I can't imagine NOT doing them. It just feels like part of what you had to do at school like a fire drill or tornado drill.

In like first grade they had us practicing turning all the lights off and hiding in the corner of the room. Then when I was in high school, they changed it up a bit, so we had to decide how to react based on where the threat was in the building. They'd give a location over the P.A. during drills and we'd talk about how we would either flee the building or hide in the classroom and arm ourselves with whatever we could find to fight back. I remember our school police officer telling us to always map out in our heads at least two escape routes wherever we are in the building (I was a very anxious kid so this REALLY freaked me out. Still does)

If you were in school before Columbine, did you guys have school police officers and ID badges and drills to prep for this stuff? I cannot imagine not doing it and it scared me so much growing up, but was this stuff not even a thought back then??

A user on r/wellthatsucks posted a image of their miniature zen garden, titled "coworker spilled soil in my zen garden, then turned it on".

>i am so not zen rn.
permission to go home and lie down so my face isn’t beet red for my family photo tonight?

Mini zen gardens are small trays filled with sand that come with small rakes to create patterns in the sand. It is meant to encourage mindfulness/contemplation/etc. Users began to point out that an automated zen garden would go against a zen garden's entire purpose.

>Collapsed_Warmhole: Automatic Zen garden is as far a thing from the zen concept as I can come up with

>OvoidPovoid: What, you haven't automated your zen production yet?

>xSilver: The Zenisfactory game: Build Zen Miner, Automate Zen Flow, Achieve Enlightenment

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>Milam1996: The entire point of a zen garden is to focus solely on a single task to create a sense of mindfulness so you feel relaxed and calmed. An automated zen garden is like such a chefs kiss beautiful example of how utterly bastardised modern spirituality. Why don’t you also sell a course on how to maintain your automated zen garden.

>s0me_great_reward: OP is getting absolutely roasted in the comments

>BaltimoreBrewer: As well they should be, I can't believe an automated zen garden is a thing, but then look at the world we live in, it shouldn't be a surprise 

>conardcanard: And then like... plucking the soil out would be a pretty zen act and maybe take a few minutes

>donkeyrocket: You think someone who buys an automated zen garden is going to do that? I wager OP is going to throw away all the sand and just buy new stuff.

Other users don't particularly see the issue with it being automated

>DonnyBravo21: Why do you get to define the point of a zen garden? Your take is extremely arrogant

>Milam1996: Because that’s what a zen garden is for…

>Some-Concentrate3229: Says who? Is it against the rules for me to buy one if I’m not following your prescribed use for it?

>IcyTransportation961: They exist for a reason, the person you replied to explained the reason

>Are you intentionally being obtuse? 

>Of course you can do what you want with it no one is stopping you

>Some-Concentrate3229: But what if I want to use it for a different reason? Why is that such an issue with you zen folks?

>IcyTransportation961: Did you miss the last sentence?

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>shewy92: Pretty satisfying looking to me

>ZioTron: Still distant from "Zen"

>SparseGhostC2C: Zen is about clearing your mind of conscious or intentional thought, and I think the idea of the zen garden is to occupy your hands with something pleasant like raking sand, to allow your mind to relax.

>If the garden tends itself, you don't really have a zen garden, you have an automatic sand sifting device.

>shewy92: But it's cool and relaxing to look at.

>SparseGhostC2C: Which is fine, but explicitly not the purpose of a zen garden, it is actually literally self-defeating. A zen garden is meant for you to tend manually, both the act of submitting to manual labor and experiencing the feel of raking the sand is the entire damn point.

>Having a machine do it for you literally defeats the purpose of having one at all, you can't delegate or automate practicing mindfulness

(in response to shewy92 saying it was satisfying)

>NoFewSatan: Zen doesn't mean satisfying.

>shewy92: Does to me

>NoFewSatan: That doesn't matter,e zen doesn't mean satisfying.

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>B-BoyStance: Lmao dude probably just wanted a cool decoration too

>I think these things are pretty neat (at least the ones with the little magnetic ball that can draw stuff in the sand). And it's not because I'm interested in practicing mindfulness.

>RadioSlayer: Is it because you're stupid?

>JDUDEROCKS: Redditors HATE when people enjoy something

(in response to s0me_great_reward's comment about OP getting roasted)

>spoonraker: I know right?

>OP bought a piece of amusing decor for his office that's obviously only visually inspired by a zen garden and not intended to actually perform the function of a zen garden. Now he's getting put on blast for not fucking off work to manually attend to it while he's annoyed because his colleague spilled dirt on it. I think OP knows it's not a "real" zen garden guys and I don't think he bought it specifically to be one.

>That said, the situation is objectively funny as an outsider. Including the savage comment roasting and all. So everyone just keep doing what you're doing.

>OP, bring a fine mesh sieve to work tomorrow or something and you'll have this sorted out in 5 minutes. Try to remain calm while doing it. I'm sorry. No I'm not.

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>Solkre: But what if I like to scoop out a big section and zone-out watching is slowly become even again?

>Just because this exists doesn't mean the manual one will little rakes stopped existing.

>DTux5249: Their point still remains that buying a Zen Garden for that sensation specifically - a religious tool to manage spiritual health - is very much a bastardization of that religion's core tenets. Seeing as these products are made specifically to sell a sort of spirituality, it highlights how disingenuous they are.

>Not that anyone actually Zen would give a damn, mind. It's sand with a bunch of rakes. But I think everyone in the comment section is just getting humour out of [man angry when sand that represents how we should not be angry at little things gets dirty]

Some one-off takes:

>HiTekLoLyfe: An automatic zen garden is fucking wild. Capitalism has gone too far.

>Tommy_want_wingy: It’s not zen if the fucking thing does it for you.

>Japjer: An automatic zen-garden is the single most insane thing I have seen today. Pairing this with you getting upset over something you can't control really makes this whole thing that much funnier.

>My guy: what the fuck?

>Boomhauer_Jeff: This may be the most unintentionally ironic post I’ve ever seen on Reddit. Getting upset about an automatic “zen garden.” Thats…it’s honestly hilarious.

I have seen more of this behavior this year than any other year, and I have been doing AF since 2019.

This sub is absolutely flooded with posts of people asking to be attacked, complaining they haven't received any attacks, upset they didn't get a revenge, asking if their art is "good enough" to participate, so much AI usage and tracing, complaining about their team not being in the lead, etc.

I mean what are we doing?? This game is about our shared love of art!! About how we all love making characters and want to draw other people's characters!! Who gets the most points and which team wins does not matter.

I understand it is disappointing to not receive any attacks, but we are only 1/3 of the way into the month yet. And there is a difference between being disappointed versus flooding the sub with posts begging for attacks and talking about how no one must like your art or characters because of it. I saw another user mention we need a megathread or something similar for people with low attacks to advertise themselves or something which I agree with so it doesn't clog up the sub. I saw people within the first few days complaining about how they haven't gotten anything. Plus, a lot of these users did not utilize tags, did not attack others, and did not advertise their profile.

The recent jokes about Tragedy and Mystery teaming up so Comedy doesn't win just sounds like normal competition banter to me. I was genuinely shocked when I saw people saying it felt cruel and malicious. People are not plotting on your downfall just because you are on Comedy. It's a joke! Nothing particularly special happens if you win and I feel like so many people are putting so much emphasis on if their team wins or not. I acknowledge it certainly can be a motivator, but to get genuinely upset over ribbing between teams is something I did not expect to see this year.

But all in all I think people need to remember this is a low-stakes game and is not life or death. It is okay to not win. It is okay for a team to beat yours. It is okay if someone doesn't revenge you. What, to me, is not okay is if you are getting genuinely upset and aggressive at other players due to these problems. Posting on the sub begging people to attack you or talking about how rude the other teams are for wanting to win instead of your team just boggles my mind.

It is just a game. It is not that deep. The focus should be on gifting art to other people who like OCs as much as you do. I want to think of ways that we can shift the community back to being about drawing each other's characters and not getting hung up on shit like points and teams.

This post was so utterly bizarre that I have to go read it again but I CANNOT for the life of me find it.

This woman had a cat that just turned 18 and she was going to do some sort of "prank" on library staff by taking her cat (I think was named Roxy?) to the library and asking if she could get her 18 year old registered to vote, then reveal it was a cat, then leave. She was asking if it was a good idea.

A few details I remember was her mentioning she'd do it at the more hectic library since "they'd be used to it", and that she also made a BestOfRedditorUpdates (or a similar sub) post about her own initial post. I can't find that post either but I remember the comments finding it odd that she was making a post about her own post. She had these really oddly descriptive captions about pics of her cat.

r/SCP is a subreddit dedicated to discussing the SCP Foundation. The SCP Foundation is massive collaborative online writing project about a secretive organization dedicated to containing anomalous entities and objects and shielding knowledge of their existence from the general public. Each entity, called an SCP and designated by a number (SCP-179, SCP-3000, etc) has its own dedicated informational article on the SCP Wiki. The SCP Foundation has spawned numerous different types of art inspired by the SCPs on the wiki, including drawings, games, and short films.

A user created a now-deleted (due to the sub's rules on AI) post to the subreddit advertising his upcoming SCP short film series, SCP Tapes, using an analog horror/found footage style. The series has not yet been released by OP, but YouTube premieres have been made for the episodes. The description of Episode 1 is as follows:

>In 1994, four field operatives were sent into a forest on a classified SCP Foundation mission. They recorded everything. None of them came back.

>What you are about to watch is the found footage recovered from Mission 1500937-Beta.

>These are the tapes the SCP Foundation was able to piece together.

>They have been cleared for viewing at clearance level five and above.
If you are watching this without clearance, stop now.

>If anything in these tapes looks familiar, do not share them.

>SCP Tapes is an analog horror found-footage miniseries.
Four episodes. Releasing weekly.

>Shot in the style of recovered VHS tapes from the early 1990s, reminiscent of analog horror, late night public access television, and classified government documentation. Inspired by SCP Foundation lore, found footage horror film, and analog horror YouTube series.

>If you are looking for analog horror, SCP Foundation horror, found footage horror, VHS horror aesthetic, this is for you.

>Mission reference: 1-5-0-0-9-3-7-Beta
Classification: Level 5
Status: watch in order. Do not skip.

Some commenters were not happy upon learning that generative AI was potentially used at some point during the project's creation, causing OP to snap back.

>AnEmissaryFromHell: Is this going to contain any generative AI shots or images like The Switch?

>OP: One shot uses a mix of in-camera work, digital VFX, and some AI-assisted enhancement in After Effects as part of the compositing pipeline. I did not prompt the shot in Seedance.

>Are you happy now?

>xlaauurraa: i'll be so for real, how defensive u are getting about someone asking you about using AI, which apparently u did/do use, is a massive turn off from watching this. its a no from me dog.

>Necroverdose: Yep, same for me. Was considering it, looked into the comments to see if it was AI slop, saw the rude comment from the creator, which is the only comment he left btw, huge turn off. Will not be watching any of that and actively avoiding it.

>Sekhmet-CustosAurora: It's very telling that you looked at the comments to see if it was slop instead of watching the video. Can't form an opinion for yourself, or simply choose not to?

>aghabio: I mean, it's a turn off for some people. They're pretty much valid in not wanting to see based on their personal preferences

OP responded to xlaauurraa's comment about their defensiveness regarding their AI usage.

>OP: Maybe you're right, it's just that it's the only thing he/she asks about. And it's like, my team and I put hundreds of hours into this, I personally spent more than a week handcrafting EAS screens, Windows95 screens, alarms and terminals, paid artists thousands and employed people to just get that comment..

>But hey, I understand. It's fair.
I just know how much work we put into it, which makes me a bit defensive about what we have created. I shouldn't be.

>xlaauurraa: I believe you put in the work, especially with there being actual filmed shots, the problem is once you start flirting with AI, no matter how much work you put it, its pretty much all negated because you used some form of AI and people are not going to support or respect it from an creative perspective.

>let me clear; this is not me shitting on you or trying to take away the work you did do, its just we are in a day and age where people are much more conscious about what they consume, and with the impacts of AI, people will avoid it; especially in creative fields.

>if you used AI once, people are going to keep asking.

>OP: I understand and it's obviously their right to do so.

>I separate the 2 things. I did not prompt the video in Seedance. I enhanced the VFX we made to make it fit the underlying effect we achieved on camera.

>I see it more as a VFX step in the pipeline than a "push the button, get AI video".

>But I understand people see it differently.

>And yes, I shouldn't get defensive.

>You were right to point that out. But I am very proud and attached to my work as any other filmmaker.

>xlaauurraa: I think if you genuinely did put in the time and effort, and didn't use GenAI shots like you say, you should be proud! thats amazing and a lot of people cant do that! I would say just try to thin out any form of AI, and maybe next time you post since people expect the AI, open with the fact no generative AI was used. people would probably be much more open to it!

Not everyone agreed with the anti-AI sentiment. One user replied to xlaauurraa's conversation with OP with:

>Head-Ad-2316: Have you considered not being an insufferable cunt about people's creative works?

>xlaauurraa: I kinda live in the state of being an insufferable cunt, so no probably not sorry :/

>Head-Ad-2316: Sad

Response from another user replying to xlaauurraa pointing out OP's defensiveness, which leads to another argument:

>Sekhmet-CustosAurora: They're defensive because this is the reaction people get when they say genAI was used in any way, instead of judging a project by its merits.

>xlaauurraa: the merits is gone when you use GenAI and don't make it yourself. merit, by definition, is the quality of being good. there is no good quality in GenAI.

>Sekhmet-CustosAurora: So you think anything using GenAI is necessarily of poor quality?

>xlaauurraa: I think its lazy, uncreative, and horrible for the environment. (the last one being a fact.)

>I would rather take the worst movie ever made with hands and love, over a slop of words you sent to a machine.

>Sekhmet-CustosAurora: "I think its lazy"

>There is some merit to this. But tell me, is it lazy to use GenAI to save time, if you use the extra time to make something of a bigger scope than would've been possible?

>Like say you're a filmmaker who does most everything without AI but you use SeeDance for shots that would otherwise involve expensive, time-consuming SFX. Maybe you literally can't afford it.

>In that case, would it be wrong to use AI to 'save time and effort' if it meant you wouldn't have to cut your film in half? Or worse, not make it at all because you just don't have the budget?

>"uncreative"

>This is true in a lot of cases (I'm not gonna act like people don't make slop) but you obviously don't know what these tools are already capable of if you think this is necessarily the case. OP already made it clear that they weren't simply prompting shots.

>"horrible for the environment. (the last one being a fact.)"

>Do you think traditional VFX is horrible for the environment? Uses more energy and water than AI video generation for a similar shot would.

>"I would rather take the worst movie ever made with hands and love, over a slop of words you sent to a machine."

>So you don't actually care about the quality of the product, just whether it lives up to your purity test. That's what you're admitting here.

>xlaauurraa: hey, you have your views, and I have mine. im not gonna argue with you to try and change them. all I know is, data centers weren't destroying the water and environment in my hometown for the VFX in the lord of the ring films ✌️

Sekhmet is also seen further down in the thread arguing with another user over the project's AI use.

>Dahbootie420: Ai was used in the making of this content. Avoid.

>Sekhmet-CustosAurora: Avoid because your ideology demands you, or avoid because you think anything touching AI must necessarily be slop?

>Soup484: Because generative AI is a scourge to human creativity? I thought this was common sense.

>Sekhmet-CustosAurora: How is it a scourge to your creativity? If you don't like it don't use it. Does other people using it somehow impact your creativity?

>Soup484: Not mine, humanity. People will be less motivated to make actual art when a soulless machine that steals from others can churn out slop a hundred times faster than by hand. Replacing the arts is not the point of AI, and you are utterly deranged if you think it is.

>Sekhmet-CustosAurora: You have a lot less respect for humanity's love of art than I do if you think the existence of art-generating machines will diminish it for us.

>Did we stop playing Chess when machines started to beat humans?

>Soup484: No, because playing chess isn't art? I don't have a problem with chess playing robots, because it's a game and not art. I don't have a problem with TAS either, because again, it's a game. If you can't understand the difference between the creation of art, music, and writing and a machine playing a game, then I don't know what to tell you.

>Sekhmet-CustosAurora: Many chess players consider it an art form.

>Even if it's not an art form, so what? Did people stop making detailed, lifelike portraits once cameras were invented? Many did, sure - because they chose to move to the new art form, or focused their skills on something the machine couldn't do. But the art form did not disappear.

>Soup484: Stop acting like generative AI isn't theft, then we can talk seriously

>Sekhmet-CustosAurora: If you applied the same standards to humans as you did AI you'd call almost all artists thieves.

Sekhmet was not the only user who did not particularly see an issue with AI usage in the project (though they did also make an appearance in this thread):

>TheBeakedAvain: The moment people know you used AI in the process of making your film, they will immediately get mad and triggered. Even if it was used for something minor.

>Toadvinez: Yeah, cause it should be obvious by now that most people don’t want ANY generative ai in the media they consume

>Hex_Spirit_Booty: Only on reddit is there a loud minority of whiners about ai. Irl, most people don't give a shit

>zotobom: I'm not even millitant about genAI but that is a dogshit argument, most people don't know enough about factors involved with genAI usage to have a meaningful opinion one way or the other. That's like saying people don't give a shit about the sudan civil war - no, most people just don't /know/ about it lol. If you're only counting people with enough knowledge about the process I can guarantee you a vast majority will be negative about genAI usage

>Sekhmet-CustosAurora: I'm sure you, too, have some opinions that 'average redditors' are rabidly against to the point of delusion.

>zotobom: Could be worse, could be jumping from comment to comment on a post nothing to do with you just to go to bat for genAI

>Sekhmet-CustosAurora: I'm a pedant who cares about being correct. Cry about it.

And lastly, some one-off comments from other users

>VileGrifter: This account should be banned, and the youtube channel blacklisted from linking on the sub. We shouldn't be giving these people an inch.

>Forsaken_Meeting_428: Nooo I got excited and then I saw they slopped it :(

>Hu_Man76: Made with AI (cringe)

>Guyfromnowhere3: If you make a zero-AI version I will watch it. At this point it’s not about whether it’s generative or not, it’s not about what percentage of the work is actually AI, I don’t care what excuses there are. We need to show the world we won’t throw our attention at this shit so corporations stop thinking they can make money off it in the long run.

>CCSilver05: the penis event

I try to comment here a lot since I know there's quite a large influx of new members this year, but I feel like a good 90% of the questions posted here are blatantly spelled out in the rules. The past few weeks I've just seen crazy amounts of like

"Is it okay if I start drawing before it actually starts?"

"Can someone design me an OC as an attack?"

"Is 'DNI [insert anything other than adult/minor]' allowed?"

"Is traditional art allowed?"

"Can I trace?"

"Is referencing not allowed?"

"Are object show OCs allowed?"

"Are beginners allowed?"

I don't ever want to make someone feel bad for asking questions since I'm glad they are trying to learn how the game works, but literally every single one of these is answered in the FAQ or in the rules. Idk I just feel like we'd have a lot less posts like "I drew these before the event actually started I can still use them right???" posts if people read the rules before asking.

Hey guys,

I have PKU and recently found paperwork from when I was born detailing my PKU. I noticed that in my family history, it specifically mentions that there is no Jewish or French Canadian ancestry in my family. Is PKU more common in Jewish people or French Canadians? If so then how and why does that happen?

Another one about animal drama, wahoo!!

User sinz_snakes made a post to r/snakes titled "Mystery eggs: I work at a reptile shop and some dude brought these eggs in asking us to incubate them, they refused but I took them in with plans to release them if they hatch, any ideas on species? (Oklahoma city location)", with a picture of the clutch attached to the post.

Some top comments encouraged OP to contact local rehabbers or to visit snake ID subreddits, but other users had concerns over the eggs potentially being invasive. OP did not share these concerns, however, as they live in Oklahoma, a state that OP says does not have invasive snakes.

>housevulture: You shouldn't just release random animals into the wild

>OP: They are native, they came from the wild haha

>lonepotatochip: Where did he get these eggs? Why take random eggs from the wild?

>OP: He was making a path through his wooded backyard and found em apparently

>lonepotatochip: He really should’ve just left them there. I really doubt they’re alive, they need to be kept in the same orientation or the embryo drowns in their own yolk, which it’s unlikely this man knew.

>OP: Yeah I think they are dead as well :/ still I couldn’t stop myself from trying to save em

OP's comment about the eggs being native was heavily downvoted, to which they commented

>OP: Why am I getting downvoted lmao these eggs were found in the forest gang

>Revolutionary_Sir_: Invasive species can also have eggs in the forrest.

>OP: If they are invasive I obviously won’t release them 😭 yall are flaming me for trying to save native wildlife, should I have just let em die?

Argument over whether OP even would be able to take care of the eggs

>YourStonerAunt: There’re plenty of invasive species of reptiles out there. They might be wild, but they don’t belong.

>Also, reptile eggs MUST have their tops marked before they’re moved or they’ll drown and die. It’s ok if you don’t know that, most people don’t, but if you don’t know that, you shouldn’t be trying to take care of them.

>OP: Please use yalls brain. I have an incubator because I’m a breeder. Yes I marked the eggs and candled them 😂

>Grouchy_Bullfrog_744: You really don't sound like a breeder when you don't know what to do with those eggs and ask here.

>OP: Literally all I asked was if anyone knew what species they were but okay keep making stuff up

>YourStonerAunt: Being a “breeder” doesn’t mean shit. If anything it just means you’re adding to an over abundance of animals that end up being neglected and/or abandoned for personal profit. There’s thousands of “breeders” out there and looking at your post history, you’re not even good one.

>Please use your brain cell, and just stop.

>OP: Ohhh brother this guy stinks. I breed tiger snakes, as far as I know they aren’t over abundant. I bred ball pythons ONCE just because I had a lot of friends who wanted one and honestly, I regret even breeding them once. And as I’ve said 100 times before. I literally only use Reddit for when something goes wrong and I need outside opinions, therefore it’s not anywhere near an accurate representation of my keeping skills. In any case fuck out of my face

Commenters are still worried about OP releasing an invasive species despite OP saying otherwise, so OP replies again stating they have no intention to release if they are invasive

>hellbugger: ...they could be an invasive species. I understand the desire to see what they are, but don't be foolish assuming they are fine to just release.

>OP: Look I’m sick of arguing with keyboard warriors so I’m gonna say this and be done with it

>1. ⁠THESE SNAKES ARE NATIVE, there are no invasive snakes in Oklahoma so it would be a 1 in a million chance to get non-native eggs. And whoever said that he could have brought them past state lines is an idiot, literally no benefit to doing that.

>⁠2. IF THEY ARENT NATIVE I OBVIOUSLY WONT RELEASE THEM.

>That’s all I have to say but I want to add that I’m extremely disappointed in this subreddit. I usually tell all my customers to come here for questions about their snakes but I’m not going to do that anymore if this is the reaction to a simple question. I’m getting called names and being argued into a wall because I’m trying to help native snake populations, not to mention that the embryos are probably already drowned. Anyway I’ll be copy and pasting this to any negative comments

>hellbugger: Shoulda been more specific in your post. Could have avoided you getting so pissed off. Update if they hatch.

Other users begin to raise concerns about OP's post history and the amount of animals they have.

>FeelingFluttery: I'm going to say this as nicely as possible:

>OP, looking at your post history, you should really consider downsizing your collection of pets and practice saying no to new additions.

>Within the last couple months, you've made posts about pets escaping, and help posts over aspects of your pets that, if you had done your research, you would have known. Rescuing unknown snake eggs, rescuing a boa with medical issues, not knowing your monitor lizard could eat whole eggs, or what a premolt looks like on your scorpion, scale damage on one of your snakes...one of your posts you say you have 17 snakes alone.

>It is okay to have a large collection, but you have a responsibility to care for every animal in your possession, and you should be knowledgable about each animal before it enters your home. It is not normal to have regular instances of pets escaping.

>There is no shame in rehoming animals if you have too many, and taking some time to take stock of what you do have and what it really takes to bring a new responsibility home.

>OP: Hey friend, I appreciate your concern but I care for my animals better then most people. They all have huge, separate enclosures and are cared for daily and extremely well at that. I rescue animals because I have the time, money and resources to do that. I even hire another person to care for them on days I work. I make a lot of money and I’m allowed to use it to care for animals. The reason I look super irresponsible is because I ONLY really use Reddit as a place for my questions and concerns, not as something that reflects my daily life. If you want a better grasp on the relationship I have with reptiles and their husbandry see my tictok

>serrated_edge321: Meanwhile, I've never had an animal escape... In my 30+ years of keeping lots of different pets. Not once.

>Never had skin/scale issues with my pets either. Once had to bring the frog to the vet, and she needed antibiotics. Dogs of course saw the vet regularly. Snake never had a single medical issue yet. Google is enough for answering normal questions.

>Your animals sound like they are maltreated. Please PLEASE give these eggs to a wildlife center and downsize your collection, for the good of the animals.

>OP: Shut the fuck up, my animals are NOT mistreated. Snakes get scale damage in their enclosures all the time, sorry that I don’t keep my animals in bare enclosures. Additionally I built most to their enclosures by hand so there’s weak points from time to time without me knowing. They are fixed the second I notice them and then no more escapes happen.

>Perfectiuum: Sorry ppl are making such drastic assumptions and being rude. 

>Your post history doesn’t come off as neglectful to me in anyway. If anything it seems good that you’re so on top of your animals that anything you don’t know you make sure to look into. 

>People here say u should know everything about an animal before getting it but I know people get traditional pets all the time without knowing specific things. There’s literally a subreddit dedicated to ppl who discover their cats have nipples and freak out thinking it’s a tumor lol.. but they aren’t neglectful just because they are unaware. 

>People have had animals escape accidentally. Cats run outside, snakes escape enclosures, does that make them neglectful? No. It’s a mistake. 

>Redditors love being assholes. Ur post history was really fun to read and it’s cool to see your different animals. I hope everything goes well with ur mystery eggs!

>OP: Thank you so much I really appreciate the kind words 💕 and yes I agree! Do I do hella research before getting an animal? Absolutely, but care sheets don’t explain a lot of things

OP says something about the temp they are incubating the eggs at after a commenter told them to contact a rehabber, leading to another argument

>MahesvaraCC: Different species will have different incubation requirements, so I encourage you to reach out to Wildcare.

>OP: Fair point haha okay will do I have them at 28 C for now

>StraightPollution672: So this is why the other comments are calling you out. People give you honest advice and you still won't take it, why are you even asking if you want to "let them hatch first" and you obviously don't even know how/ which temp etc. I really suggest you think harder about some of the comments people are making and about the number of animals you keep as well. Don't be so irresponsible please. Good luck to you and your animals

>OP (repeating somthing we have already seen): Look I’m sick of arguing with keyboard warriors so I’m gonna say this and be done with it

>⁠1. THESE SNAKES ARE NATIVE, there are no invasive snakes in Oklahoma so it would be a 1 in a million chance to get non-native eggs. And whoever said that he could have brought them past state lines is an idiot, literally no benefit to doing that.

>2. ⁠IF THEY ARENT NATIVE I OBVIOUSLY WONT RELEASE THEM.

>That’s all I have to say but I want to add that I’m extremely disappointed in this subreddit. I usually tell all my customers to come here for questions about their snakes but I’m not going to do that anymore if this is the reaction to a simple question. I’m getting called names and being argued into a wall because I’m trying to help native snake populations, not to mention that the embryos are probably already drowned. Anyway I’ll be copy and pasting this to any negative comments

>J6555321M: Well, I wasn’t judging you before……but you tell people to come to this place for snake advice? I’m going to have to judge a little bit for that hahaha

>I’m here because I like talking about snakes in the broadest of terms and it’s good to have a somewhat of a social media presence for sales, but I don’t consider this sub to be a source of good advice

>OP: I guess I was wrong haha, I always thought this was a really great place for people to learn about snakes, do you have a better site I can recommend?

Some users commented in defense of OP.

>BigBadBlock: I’m not a snake person, but wow most of the people here are insane. Thanks for trying to save these eggs. Hope that if some hatch you will be able to release them assuming they are native.

>This thread is crazy.

>burningtraesh: This thread is not crazy. We are aware of how releasing a random animal into the wild can fuck up a whole ecoystem. That’s literally what happened to Florida with Burmese pythons. OP doesnt even know what species it is and still wants to release them “for the good” when it can do more harm and damage than good. If it’s eggs of an already invasive species what then? Will OP just kill them or keep them with the other 20+ pets they already have? Both ways are just irresponsible

>BigBadBlock: OP has stated multiple times that they are inquiring on the species to determine if they are native. They are literally asking to make that decision. Never once have they said “I’m releasing these back to the wild no matter what hatches because…nature”.

>I don’t understand how that is bad. Explain it to me. Just jumping down people’s throats.

>burningtraesh: “I took them in with plans to release when they hatch”

>That’s it

>BigBadBlock: Because the underlying assumption is they are native. They were found outside. OP is asking for identification help. If they aren’t native, they said the opposite.

>“When they hatch I will know what they are, hello?”

>If someone responded right now “Holy crap, those are a rare endangered native species, please care for them and release them”, OP would be doing the right thing.

>Until the eggs hatch, if they ever do, it’s fair to say “my plan is to release them”. If they hatch and end up being something not safe or invasive and they still want to proceed, then you can make all of the sweeping statements above.

>This thread is wild!

>burningtraesh: Dude… let’s pretend they’re the super rare native species that is protected! OP is not allowed to take those eggs of the protected species because THEYRE PROTECTED. It’s like taking random eggs you dug from the beach and then asking on Reddit “guys I found these eggs on the beach I will hatch them and release them!” When it’s a sea turtles eggs. People want to play the hero by taking in baby birds, pups kittens and eggs and “caring for them” it causes more damage than people think. It’s a wild animal and a human taking it in will make it imprint on humans. Most of the time the baby animals that are found still have their parents but people think “oh cute baby I don’t see it’s parents so I’m taking it!”

>Also the dude who found those eggs and gave them to a store to hatch has 100% already killed the embryos by turning the eggs… even if OP rotated them back to the right side the damage is done because of the person that took these eggs and gave them away.

>When finding wild life it is best to leave it alone in most cases. Those eggs shouldve never been picked up and moved around for their own good.

>OP: It’s not like I picked them up. You people are OBSESSED with “what ifs” I live in Oklahoma and there’s only a handful of species these could belong to none of which are protected

>burningtraesh: I don’t understand why you’re getting angry at me? I never said you picked up the eggs I said the man who brought those to you should’ve left the eggs alone and wait before continuing with his work.

>You’re doing a good thing trying to give these eggs a chance at life but ignoring the fact that they could be non native or protected isn’t good

>And you’re still dodging the question of what you would do if they do end up being non native… also seeing your other posts and replies gives people bad feelings sorry to say that.

>OP: Shit it would be a miracle if they were somehow invasive seeing that Oklahoma has 0 invasive snake populations but I would keep/ give them to people and people can feel whatever type of way they want about it. I’m just getting really pissed ofc by the blatant narcissistic comments and people acting like they know the first thing about me

>burningtraesh: I understand the frustration you’re trying help and feel like people are against you helping. But I would like to tell you that, that’s not what we are trying to do.

>Your title is a bit misleading and made for example me think you wanted to release them without knowledge at all I get where youre coming from with Oklahoma not having invasive snakes, but there is always a chance of a pet snake escaping and reproducing in the wild and that’s where people’s concerns come from!

>But I’m glad that you have a plan for when they end up being invasive, it’s good to have just in case. Don’t wanna rub more dirt in the wound but people assuming things is not narcissistic of them. And thing is we don’t know shit about you that’s why we are concerned🤷 you could be someone without any experience trying to play hero to wild life and cause more harm than good. Given your previous posts it makes people even more concerned about your experience since from what I’ve seen all you’ve posted is questions on your animals which should already be known before the animal is coming home.

>Either way it’s not wrong to ask questions but I think you get what I mean or at least hope you do. If not then I can’t do more than this.

Key word shitty LOL

I was trying to click on something on a website, when a popup came up and I hit that on accident. If I recall correctly it was one of those fake "download now" popups, and it redirected me to a website called Get Safe Search for Chrome (I'm assuming it's a fake extension).

How do I tell what this is or if I just installed anything? I am very nervous about infostealers and have kinda been extra freaked out about them due to my friend recently getting one, where he had literally all his shit logged into and had to take his laptop to a repair shop since he was having issues when reinstalling Windows.

If the download did not complete, is there still a chance of me downloading an infostealer? The most recent thing I see in my downloads folder and my download history on my browser is from two months ago. I also did a Malwarebytes scan and found nothing (though from what I understand an antivirus scan won't do anything for infostealers). Does this mean I'm safe? What do I do?

I was trying to click on something on a website, when a popup came up and I hit that on accident. If I recall correctly it was one of those fake "download now" popups, and it redirected me to a website called Get Safe Search for Chrome (I'm assuming it's a fake extension).

How do I tell what this is or if I just installed anything? I am very nervous about infostealers and have kinda been extra freaked out about them due to my friend recently getting one, where he had literally all his shit logged into and had to take his laptop to a repair shop since he was having issues when reinstalling Windows.

If the download did not complete, is there still a chance of me downloading an infostealer? The most recent thing I see in my downloads folder and my download history on my browser is from two months ago. I also did a Malwarebytes scan and found nothing (though from what I understand an antivirus scan won't do anything for infostealers). Does this mean I'm safe? What do I do?

First time poster, bear with me.

A few days ago, a user on r/chinchilla posted an image of their new chinchilla cage

>OP: We just wanted the very best for our chinchillas took 1 week to build. All kilnd dried pine wood. We made everything little single piece by hand. We culked the tile down on the bottom all porcelain. It was a 1500$ build. All materials animal safe outside only paint and all the chinchillas supplies added to 1500 just for materials. Exotic pets are expensive and then the price for the 2 chinchilla themselves were 700$. That’s 1500 material price plus 700 on the 2 chinchillas themselves comes to about 2,200$ dropped on chinchillas🤣😍 worth every penny. #builds #projects #build #animals #worthit #enclosure #chinchillas

The cage did not appear to have very many hammocks or shelves that are typically seen in chinchilla cages to break any potential falls. A user pointed this out to the OP:

>probioticpeaches: Please add some sort of big hammock to break her fall.

>Chinchillas are extremely clumsy and if she were to miss a step at the very top and then fall down to the bottom she would be very hurt.

>Gorgeous cage, I just have a personal experience with my chinchilla missing his step and then breaking his leg.

OP doesn't seem to be concerned about this and is sure their chinchillas will be fine.

>OP: Sorry about your chinchilla ouch. Not fun. But thanks for the compliment. My chinchillas are very good jumpers tho as long as there is open space there built to jump 6 feet n land back down 6 feet without injury. Mine spring up bounce off the walls n fall all the way back down and they have not gotten hurt. Hope your chinchilla is doing better. Can’t help but wonder if ur chinchilla fell higher than 6 feet how old it was and if it got snagged on something like a bar. That would surly snap its limb in half.

The other user replies, revealing OP has only owned chinchillas for 14 days (contrasting with the commenter's over 20 years of experience):

>probioticpeaches: Respectfully you have been a chinchilla owner for 14 days, I’ve been a chinchilla owner for 20+ years and I am telling you that if your chinchilla accidentally missteps on one of those platforms and then falls down he will break a limb or worse and die.

>The fall my chinchilla had was from a height that was half the size of your cage, the limb broke because he clipped himself on the way down, he didn’t die because the height was not 6ft+.

>Why would you risk your animal being severely injured ? Are you ready to pay $1k + for the surgery? Just put a hammock in the middle and call it a day instead of risking your chinchillas life, please.

>It was NOT a fun emergency trip and it was NOT fun paying for the surgery.

OP then began to 'break it down very simply' for the other poster

>OP: Oh also if you don’t take my word take googles and basic common sense. If something can jump 6 feet naturally what does that mean to you? I’ll break this down really simply for you. It means that anything designed by and in nature naturally aka a chinchillas body is built to bounce and leap 6 feet high into the air. This means the chinchillas aerodynamics and gravity the chinchillas body parts is ment to then naturally drop back down 6 feet. These are not in box kept creatures. They live in solid bare hard rock cliffs high high high up. When you have a cage I’m assuming like yours. Your specific and it’s safe to Assume most chin owners chinchillas cages don’t have the room or adequate or adept space for these natural in nature aerodynamics to occur therefore causing great bodily injury such as your chinchilla clipped his limb. I want to assure you this would not happen if your cage had adequate space for him to jump without being cluttered as in he clips his limb n it snaps. Respectfully. My professional veterinary input.

>OP: Yeah I’m more educated than you respectfully. Of Course. Lmao my Chinchillas have fallen down 20303939303 straight to The bottom no injuries and hate to burst your bubble respectfully I’m a vet technician. For my Job. For 7 years. Yeah exactly he clipped his leg. That was not the heights fault like I said to you I can’t help but wonder if he got his limb stuck or hit clipped you name it that’s why his limb snapped. And im sorry you had to go through that. But my chins have the best care and I’m highly educated. My degree says so. lol. Respectfully of course.

At this point, another user steps in and begins debating with OP about their expertise

>DankserChinchi: No, you are not more educated, you are a newbie thinking you know everything because you read something on the internet. Respectfully...

>Countless chinchillas loose their lives every year because of falls.

>Try looking into Save the Wild Chinchillas for s habitat fact check. They are not meant to fall 6 feet down.

OP continues to state they allegedly are a vet and there is zero problem with the safety of their cage

>OP: I am more educated you pulled one bad quality and one channel input. I’m a vet lmao. So I am indeed more educated 🤣 my chinchillas don’t die and a lot of other peoples chinchillas do not Die by falling down 6 feet first off. They get hurt aka broken bones and fractures that’s 2 different things btw lol. Hope you can keep up with this rn I know your brain is special come on now lol stay with me here okay only a few more sentence to Go you can do it glen coco I believe in you. Fully🤣lmao fact check use google first thing it says chinchillas can jump 6 feet and land safe 6 feet down how they do in the literal mountains cuz there bodies is built for it okay. Anything that can jump naturally 6 feet can land back down 6 feet safely if there is no obstruction aka obstacles aka wooden ledges bars metal shelf’s in the way.

This commenter (and others) doubt whether OP is actually a vet or not

>DankserChinchi: If you truly are a vet, I pity your employer and your patients with the way you conduct yourself.

>agedlikesage: “First thing google says”… the AI? And you’re a vet? Yikes. Please don’t come crying to us when you’ve wasted all this money on a dead pet

>probioticpeaches: We both know you aren’t a vet or else you would know your chinchilla is a black velvet and not a black pearl.

Some favorite excerpts from OP's comments:

>OP: I simply respond to not argue but to educate and stand my Ground to all the 100s of people watching This all go down don’t know if you guys can see but I can see how many people are seeing these ans it’s in the 100s I’m doing some right 🤣

>OP: As you can see i have rage baited pissed off people so much with facts they delete there comments i don’t even know how to delete my comments on here im new to Reddit but this is a fire drama troll shit show of liberal hell and i love it 🤣 I’m Republican watch me get degraded by 25 people for saying that out loud on here lmao. 

>OP: Hey hey guess what. You wanna pitty my bank account? 🤣 and my 2,200$ chinchilla cage and my 700$ chinchillas play money baby my Boss love Me;)

>OP: But you said I’m 24 Rember you stalked mehhh🤣

I am trying to sort my characters by universe instead of having them all slapped together and unorganized lol, so I planned on putting an emoji in each OC's name and then defining what that emoji meant in my character perms. Characters with the same emoji in their name are from the same universe. Unicode characters are working, but I noticed if I copy and paste emojis, nothing happens. It's just blank. Is this a me issue or does Art Fight not recognize emojis?

Hey guys. Posting on behalf of a friend who does not use Reddit.

Recently, my friend downloaded a session hijacker and has been dealing with all of their accounts being compromised as a result. Their PayPal was one of the compromised accounts. The hacker transferred $270 from my friend's account to their own account via friends and family. They said their bank did not process it but it did go through on PayPal's end. PayPal said they were unable to help because due to it being a session hijacker, it appeared like my friend had done the transaction themselves.

Any advice is appreciated.

Recently my friend downloaded a session stealer on his laptop and is in the process of reinstalling Windows 11 (he has not yet, running into some issues lol). I previously posted worrying that me viewing the images sent by the hacker (good ol Mr. Beast crypto scam) in the Discord client could cause me to also download the session stealer, but was told that was not possible.

My friend is now on an alt account, one that was also compromised but has since had its password changed and he has access to it again. He sent me an image from his phone, and I hit "copy image" on it, but am now worried that I could somehow have downloaded the session stealer because his account has been compromised in the past.

(I do have OCD so maybe that is making me worry about scenarios that are most likely impossible when thought about rationally lol, but I am pretty uninformed on malware so I am not sure of its capabilities).

Are my accounts at risk, or am I good? Thank you guys.

Hey guys.

My friend has to reinstall Windows 11 due to downloading a session stealer. Neither of us are computer people, we have never done anything like this before, and we are struggling to understand how to do this.

They have a USB stick with more than 8GB free (57GB iirc) and formatted it to be a bootable USB with Rufus. When trying to select a place to install Windows 11 "Disk 0 Unallocated Space", they receive an error message.

"Setup does not support configuration of or installation to disks connected through a USB or IEEE 1394 port."

How do we fix this?

Thank you guys!