“Oh haha sorry I was talking to my cat”

I really wonder sometimes if people are actually so bad with using their words or if they just play it up for Internet clicks.

They’re pretty common on raw denim, especially if it’s unsanforized (i.e. not preshrunk). It’s basically because when jeans stretch and shrink zippers can look weird (have you ever gotten that weird pants boner around the zipper?). They also have a fade pattern that’s pretty classic. I dont think they’re any less convenient than a zipper once they’re broken in and you’re used to them.

It also sounds like they targeted you specifically while you were waiting in line. So not only did they only approach you about it when they could’ve asked anybody, they approached you in a place where it’s hard for you to just walk away. That’s sus to me, I think your instincts were right to not give them an in.

Bit rude, yeah, but sometimes it’s better to be rude than let someone cross your boundaries. How much more awkward is it if you say “yes” or “maybe” and then they ask if they can borrow your phone or something and you have to evaluate whether you trust this random person while they’re looking right at you? A lot of people are definitely asking this way because it gets you to let your guard down and they know you would’ve said no if they’d just straight asked. Personally I tend to respond with “you can ask” or something like that. Making it pretty clear that I’m skeptical of what they’re going to ask. But my default assumption of other people in a city is that they’re potentially either trying to scam me or rob me.

That’s actually the chickadee’s warning call so it probably would not work for attracting them. Fun fact, more dees means more danger.

The lyrics go “chicka dee dee dee”

I’m actually kind of triggered by the multiple bulky key fobs.

Well, being pardoned wouldn’t shield them from civil liability. So assuming they still have money (trials are generally pretty expensive)there could be a lot of lawsuits incoming.

I just dont think you have as many short haul flights in the US where this sort of thing would not be as big of a deal. Nothing to do with safety.

In Europe on airlines like Ryanair, definitely. I don’t know if I see them taking off in the US.

It’s not hard but I do it infrequently enough that I have to watch a youtube video every time I do it.

The sad part is that as I get older, the hardest part has become threading the needle…

The first one reads like “someone said we weren’t legally allowed to refer to this as a boat”

Annnnd apparently thunder doesn’t parse markdown in titles.

Brown-headed cowbirds are brood parasites; they lay their eggs in nests of other species and then their chicks are raised by the birds who made the nest, often at the expense of the nest-owners’ offspring. Nature is really crazy sometimes.

5 robin eggs, 1 brown-headed cowbird egg.

I’m sure the majority of reddit users either don’t know or don’t care about the events of two summers ago. And with reddit cracking down on more and more content…they may not even know about all of the stuff reddit is cracking down on. How long until a crackdown on posts about reddit cracking down?

Looks like a female wood duck. They’re usually pretty shy.

Edit: Actually might be a mandarin duck judging by the male in the background. Don’t have those locally so I’m not real familiar.

Just throwing this out there…you can just hop over to another instance and voila! No bans.

(This seems like a flaw in the fediverse model, given how easy it is to instance hop.)

This is a little bit unfair to paleoartists. A lot of the drawings people are most familiar with came from a time when there was less evidence for feathers. They absolutely update drawings as more fossils are found that change the picture, but we don’t always go and look at the newest art. Just how much feather cover specific dinosaurs would have had is still a bit unknown but it’s unlikely they would have had anywhere near as much feather cover as modern birds.

I wish I didn’t.