Only if they have also have ants available with good skills in anesthetizing

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Yes, very true

I seem to recall a study, years ago, which found that women are way more often filing for divorce.

It’s just good doggo manners to show their appreciation that they have a happy life with you

Within limits; if they become very flat, you wear them down and clearly pet them too often

It is, ivy would not get this color and the shape is wrong. Source: i have plenty of both vines and ivy in my garden

Even on Tor, if you use the clear web site provided in the link, yes, you will see the box asking for a subscription. You can click the x to get rid of it.

Ah, ok. I just noticed the popup. Of course i did click the link that was indicated in the post itself, not the title.

Which is what i used of course, and i still got the subscription wall

Subscription wall

It was a joke…

Birds? What birds?

There was a crowbro community on reddit. You made me remember a community i kind of miss here. We take walks around the neighbourhood and i never leave without food for the crows, jackdaws and magpies. One jackdaw pair lives across our house and as soon as i leave the house, he will wait for me. If i overlook him, or am in a rush on my bike, he will cut me off by flying right before my wheel. He learned that i will stop and give him treats. Now, some of his kids have learned it too.

There is also a crow who saw how we fed his parents. So, now, we have been feeding him for a couple of years too. He has a partner and when she notices us, she will call so that her partner knows there is food to be had.

It’s great to walk around, knowing that you make so many birds happy, which makes us happy too.

A receding hairline, apart from genetics, might happen when you tie your hair very, very tight. A loose tail would not be an issue.

I almost spit out my tea, thanks!

That’s really the key isn’t it! What the mind wants is so much more the struggle than what the body wants. Even though physical cravings can be awful, it’s the mind that steers the wheel. Thanks for sharing; i hope this sentence will help people abandon their addictions, whatever they may be.

As for me, i went cold turkey and it was very hard, the cravings were excruciating. That’s all i remember for side effects, those awful cravings

Oh, you asked for my motivation; to be an example for my kids and because i was about to get my first dog and i knew how sensitive their sense of smell was.

I vaguely remember Allen Carr, but what helped was a small book that i found in a second hand bookstore in Paris, which was called: Comment S’arreter De Fumer En Cinq Jours. A quick search learns that apparently it was written by Dr J. Wayne Mcfarland and Elman J. Folkenberg. It was in french, but that didn’t stop me, it was a small book and very helpful.

I was able to stop after trying to stop 7 times in two months. The 7th time worked. If i remember correctly i used breathing exercises and nicotine gum. I also avoided the couch where i would smoke after diner, instead doing something else.

The most important thing that helped was to change how i was thinking. Every attempt failed because i lit up a cigarette and then thinking; i failed, might as well continue smoking. However, the 7th time it dawned on me that smoking 1 cigarette does not mean you failed. You can put it out and just continue to not smoke. It was just the mind tricking me in continuing with my addiction. Thankfully, hardly anyone around me smoked and that was a great help. I stopped 22 years ago and i had been quite a heavy smoker, a packet of cigarettes a day.

I mimic their sounds and am not ashamed of it :-) Whether cats, dogs, or birds, or the pair of wild crows i feed outside, it doesn’t matter. I even mimic the sound of danger that our wild doves make when they see a sparrow hawk. So, if i see one while hand feeding a dove, i point and make the sound and look up very obviously so they know there is one circling around our garden (but often they notice before i do).