Be careful if you're heading out into nature once this is done. Snow melts and flash floods are always something to be wary of in SoCal.

Not a fatality but a few years ago they had to cancel the swim race to Rottnest because of a shark showing up.

Yeah I'm anxious about stonefish. Newish to Australia and Aussie husband tells me that rock socks (dunno what Aussies call them, the water shoes with rubber base) won't stop a barb. Will the stingray shuffle form of walking avoid them?

Yeah I'm in WA and this is the first I'm hearing of it.

Stonefish, blue ring octopus, sting rays, jellyfish, sharks, rip currents. Mostly similar to stuff NA has in the water, aside from the cute deadly octopus.

I was going off this Wikipedia article:

>In the Atlantic and the northeastern Pacific oceans, a tropical cyclone is generally referred to as a hurricane (from the name of the ancient Central American deity of wind, Huracan), in the Indian and south Pacific oceans it is called a cyclone, and in the northwestern Pacific it is called a typhoon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone

I'm still fuzzy on the terms - moved to Australia and they are different from the terms I learned in the states.

Thought cyclones were called hurricanes in USA?

Therapists are overloaded RL and many people can't afford them. An AI which can serve that role would help a lot of people work through issues. Don't understand the addiction and dopamine comment. Literally talking about therapy with an AI instead of a person.

For me, I wouldn't mind knowing they are AI. For me, I have a lot of past trauma that I just don't even really think about which I need to work through, but I'm pretty good at analysing events and patterns in my life once I sit and think about them. So an AI therapist would be kinda like guided jounaling with different calls to action based on therapy style.

The lack of human element might make people more honest and earnest about treatment, too. When I was younger, I wasn't really honest in therapy - I didn't want the therapist to think badly of me and I was afraid I'd be locked up if I talked about dark stuff. OTOH, AI therapy might increase paranoid avoidance of therapy since transcription of the session would be instant. There would have to be huge protocols for privacy.

>Can you confidently choose 5 careers you think will still be available to a regular person in 10 to 20 years?

Retail for specific necessary things, such as buying glasses. Receptionists, nurses, technicians for medical procedures. There absolutely will be folks too unnerved to visit services like these without a human element, especially if they are older.

This has the potential to really help with therapy and the mental health crisis, if good systems are developed. I would definitely use an AI therapist if they worked - a big issue with therapy is finding the right one you feel comfortable talking to who uses a method which clicks with you. Imagine if you could just try out a new digital personality or therapy style with a button click.

Ah, fair.

Wasn't this already possible with VOIP?

I moved to Perth a few years ago. Hoping to get that far north soon, look gorgeous! Thanks for sharing the pics!

WA resident or on a trip here? Your profile has great pics of the state!

What part of WA was this taken in?

Tbh, I always forget about Goodreads until it pops up at the end of an ebook and I accidentally dismiss it. I think I'm currently "reading" like 20-odd books on there.

For some reason, CO detectors are really rare here in Australia, so we've had to buy one of those portable ones. The employees at Bunnings (Aussie version of Home Depot) didn't even know what the monitors were when we went to buy one and there were only like 2 for sale to pick between. All my apartments in the states had one installed.