I guess it is just what you're used to. In my mind a deer is somewhat exotic, or cute. A 'nice' animal. Whereas to me a kangaroo is somewhat annoying, like a large rat. If I'm walking the dog at night I occasionally have to scare a mob off to clear our path. You can't pat them or approach too closely as they can attack if they feel threatened or scared. Rare, but I'm not going to take that chance. And so many end up as roadkill as fences tend not to stop them. So, not so nice overall.
Interesting to see all the different experiences from around the world.
I live on the outskirts of an Australian city, a couple of hundred metres away from farmland and national park. Opposite me we overlook a large public open space/park.
We have a resident family of magpies. There's a few cockatoos in the large gum tree next door. There are some kookaburras living in the park who sometimes visit the trees out the front of our place. The odd eagle circling high above. Too many mynas these days. Lots of rosellas and grass parrots. A smattering of finches.
There are tons of kangaroos around. They come into the park to feed at night. During the day they retreat into the national park and we see them when out walking the dog. I've run across echidnas and red belly black snakes in the national park, but not technically seen from my window, although we were maybe 15 minutes walk from my front door.
We get the occasional blue tongue lizard visiting our backyard. I found a eastern brown snake skin in the yard once too, but didn't see its owner. One of my neighbours reported one in his backyard last spring, and my kids have spotted one in the park on the way home from school once, so we know they're around. There are rabbits around here somewhere and we regularly see them on the nature strip out front at night.
We have the usual assortment of crawlies around. Ants. Spiders. Geckos. Midges. Flies.
There are a couple of horse ajistment places nearby and a pony club. It's not uncommon to see horses being exercised through the park. Two of our neighbours own horses and ride them home occasionally.
The clothes that juuuuust don't quite fit that I'm hoarding just in case I manage to lose that wright I've been trying to lose for the last thirty years now.
My son went for his driver's licence a little over a year ago. The examiner recorded the test on an iPad and showed me snippets afterwards of things he had to work on for his next attempt.
I drive a car built in 2018 and I'm really happy with the balance between buttons and screen.
I've got stalks for indicators, wipers and cruise control. Physical switches for lights, windows, mirrors, climate temp, fan, air source, defrost front and rear, odometer reset, driving mode, master door unlock and opening the boot/tailgate. Vents are manually operated and the glovebox and fuel tank flap are too. The steering wheel has physical buttons for media source, track skip/radio seek, phone calls, starting the voice control mic, and scroll wheels for volume and cycling through information displays on the small screen between the large analogue gauges on the dashboard. And a 10 inch touchscreen for everything else (reverse camera, media and maps, mostly, but includes all the car settings you don't fiddle with often, like light delays, beep volumes, summer time offset etc.).
Basically anything I'm likely to want to use whilst driving I can find and operate with at most a quick glance, if not by touch alone, and have immediate feedback that I got it right because I felt the switch/stalk/button move under my fingertips as I expected.
I've wondered what functions I'd be happy with moving from a physical control to the touchscreen or capacitive button. I haven't come up with a single one. Yet if I were to buy the latest version of this car just about anything that is currently a physical button is now a capacitive touch button. Yeah, no thanks.
We keep a list of possible meals. Just favourites we've gathered over time. Once a week we sit down as a family and work out a series of meals for the upcoming week. Then it's simple to work out what we need to get vs what we have already and do a shopping list on a whiteboard we keep for the purpose. Easy enough to mark items for purchase later (eg buy fresh closer to when we need them), or add staples as we run out. Whoever is doing the shopping just copies down what's on the board before they go.
Takes maybe an hour to do as a family, gets everyone involved in and involves the kids in family decision making.
When we built this house we specified power outlets in each toilet for exactly this reason. The low light levels from the motion sensor lamps we have don't sear your eyeballs when you get up in the middle of the night to pee.
I am choosing to interpret the instructions as dumping a full bottle of pancake mix into the rice cooker, cook twice, then tip out the resulting pancake-cake and slice it up thinly like a pressed ham. I guess slice extra thinly for crepes?
IIRC, the Mandarin for "four" sounds similar to "death", so it is considered unlucky/inauspicious. I think OP was subtly suggesting that the CCP would rather do something to avoid the consequences of climate change than not. Those consequences including social upheaval, resulting in an unhappy populace, resulting in their possible removal from power.
I guess it is just what you're used to. In my mind a deer is somewhat exotic, or cute. A 'nice' animal. Whereas to me a kangaroo is somewhat annoying, like a large rat. If I'm walking the dog at night I occasionally have to scare a mob off to clear our path. You can't pat them or approach too closely as they can attack if they feel threatened or scared. Rare, but I'm not going to take that chance. And so many end up as roadkill as fences tend not to stop them. So, not so nice overall.
Interesting to see all the different experiences from around the world.