I don’t know much about birds, so I looked this up - turns out, round cages like that one are bad for birds, because they only feel safe when they have corners so if they can’t find one, they become very anxious and scared and this can lead to health problems. That’s why cockatoos hate those cages and why this worker of the Saskatoon Parrot Rescue (Canada) is destroying it. So this bird (Pebble) isn’t upset at the loss of the cage, as some websites say, but is actually trying to join in by expressing its glee that the stupid thing is gone.
Another good thing is that the Daily Mail tagged this as WARNING: BIRD LANGUAGE and actually put ‘bleep’ sounds on every single fuck and fucking that comes out of that cockatoo’s beak.
1: yes those cages suck and good riddance to that one. You can make a round cage work by draping a sheet over the back half to give the bird a sense of shelter. But that cage is also WAAAY too small for a parrot that size.
2: you can get a good sense of that cockatoo’s previous owners and their behavior from the language that bird is using, and they probably should never have owned a cockatoo - BECAUSE
3: cockatoos are cuddly and intelligent but also very excitable birds who, very much like a three year old child, are prone to getting over-stimulated and then throwing fits and tantrums. This one is yelling because it’s getting worked up by all the crashing and noise - BECAUSE
4: screaming and mayhem are actually a bona fide parrot social activity! That cockatoo may indeed hate that cage, but also it’s getting excited at all the noise! and movement! and destroying! and pitching in with its own screaming and chattering because YAY IT’S SOCIAL NOISE TIME. (Social screaming hour is one of the things new parrot owners often don’t know about and are unprepared for. Parrots NEED to be loud sometimes.)
Notice this man quiets down after the crashing and banging, and de-escalates the cockatoo’s rising excitement by speaking to it in a normal tone, signifying to it that social screaming time is over for the moment. Cockatoos LOVE getting excited! But they aren’t always great self-soothers (especially if nobody ever taught it how) and sometimes you have to help them calm down to keep them from spinning up into a screaming fit. I have a feeling the cockatoo’s previous owners mostly just screamed back at it instead of soothing it.
If this all sounds weirdly high-level psychology for interacting with an animal, that’s because it is. That’s how smart the larger parrots are.
i think a big thing that disconcerts adults about learning new skills is that learning as an adult means you are very aware of how bad you are at the beginning in a way children aren’t.
i picked up the saxophone when i was 11 and played until i was about 17. by the end of it i was first chair in our highest ensemble, a district honor band player, etc. but at the beginning – and this is important – i was bad. for the first year or so, i had no rhythm, i couldn’t make my tongue line up with my fingers, i was consistently sharp, etc. etc. other kids actually made fun of me for my lack of skill.
but 11 year old me didn’t care. 11 year old me practiced, but she also thought that being able to play the pink panther made her incredible (i shudder in retrospect). i mean, i was aware i wasn’t a master, but my skill level didn’t deter me from wailing out those notes in a way that i’m sure had my band director questioning his career decisions.
right now, i’m trying to pick up the guitar. it’s a very different instrument from the saxophone, and i struggle a lot with things like strumming patterns and barre chords. and sometimes i don’t want to play, because i know i’m bad at guitar. and sometimes i beat myself up when stumbling through a poor acoustic rendition of Everybody Wants to Rule the World because it’s not how i want it to sound. and it’s made even more frustrating because i can navigate the saxophone so smoothly.
but then i remember that i have to think like a kid. i might not be the best at guitar by any stretch of the imagination, but every little bit of progress is still progress. humility is a big part of learning, but if you treat a practice session like your own private concert, it becomes so much more fun, even if you’re bad like i am. when you’re first picking up a skill, whether it be an instrument, or a language, or a fine art, no one is expecting you to be the yo yo ma of that thing. forget about how little you know about the skill and think instead about how much you have to learn – that’s fun! do your best!!
i find that as you get older, people think that you have less of an excuse to be bad at things, no matter when you started learning them
but after you get good suddenly people start praising you for “being ahead of the curve”
the instant you can start divesting yourself from this horrid world of expectation, the easier it becomes to try any new thing
Guys this is so important!! Give yourselves some slack and just keep on trucking! Just focus on yourself and be proud of what you have achieved so far. Even if what you achieved is a little thing, little pieces pile up eventually to something big! You’re doing great, keep it up :D
Oh, it costs money to sell me clothes that actually fit? I'm sorry, why am caring about this?
Anyone who’s ever bought clothing they’ve seen a model or a mannequin wearing has probably had that moment, when you get the item in your non-mannequin size, put it on, and… it just doesn’t fit well, now that it’s on a real person. Why does this happen?
Of course, there’s the simple reason that not every woman has the exact same proportions, but Quartz explains that the way brands take their designs from one size and scale it to create those same garments in other sizes can contribute to overly boxy blouses and ill-fitting jeans.
Brands use fit models to size their clothing up or down, choosing people with bodies that have ideal proportions for a standard size 6, for example. These models can help designers see how clothes look on an actual person when they’re walking or moving, and the human mannequins can offer helpful direct feedback as well, like, “This clings weirdly when I sit down.”
Clothing makers then use a process called grading to scale the dimensions of each item up or down, adding an inch to the bust of shirt here or more length to a pair of jeans there. The process isn’t uniform across the industry, of course.
This works okay when the sizes are closer to that of the fit model’s, but can lend a “distorted” or “stretched” factor in larger sizes, one fashion insider explained to Quartz. After all, human bodies don’t scale up uniformly in nature.
So what can brands do to fix this? For a start, hire larger fit models, instead of just using one model for every item the label offers, as many clothing makers do.
“Fit regularly on a professional fit model who is a size 18 or the size most sold by the brand, and conduct wear tests and/or size sets, Dale Noelle, the founder and president of True Model Management, a modeling agency that works with a large number of fit models, told Quartz.
This isn’t as easy as it sounds, however, as it costs time and money to use separate fit models for each garment of clothing. Some labels likely either don’t want to spend that dough, however, or don’t realize that there’s a reason to: If brands can’t sell badly fitting clothing in larger sizes, perhaps they decide they don’t have customers who want larger sizes, so they don’t design new products with them in mind
This is a problem for many shoppers, as Quartz notes that the average American woman is around a size 16 or 18 today. What does this mean? Brands could be missing out on a lot of sales, sales they could make if they invested in their fitting process.
One analyst for research firm NPD Group estimates that sales of plus-sized clothing — usually size 16 and up — are only half what they could be if there were only more options out there for shoppers.
Such an artificial standard: being held to your own promises. Obviously something that's very new to him.
As is the case with several recent high-profile films, the hype surrounding Donald Trump’s First 100 Days has eclipsed the actual production. At this point, it’s almost impossible to separate the two—and why should we? When a network or studio goes around town comparing their new release to Casablanca or Citizen Kane,…
Ok. You all thoughts/concerns are not only heard and truly taken into consideration but also will be some what as a guide/clue as what may be occurring by a woman’s unsaid subtle gesture(s). If I may extend an “olive branch”, so to speak, if you or any woman is interested in me, say hello and, possibly initiate a conversation. In maturity, I’ve learned that a hello from a woman may mean just a hello, but, depending on tone, body language, and nonverbal communication, I would “ try” to further the conversation, keep the “juices flowing”. Do you all, women, suggest us men just say hello and then ignore you????
Don’t ‘further the convo.’ Don’t initiate the convo. Leave us alone. We are trying to get to work/school/whatever destination, and we have zero indication if you or any man who tries to grab our attention will be the one who tries to kill us. Do not pass go. Do not collect 200 dollars. Leave us ALONE.
ok so Leia was heading to Obi-wan before the Battle of Scarif, and before she ever knew she or anyone would have the plans. It wasn’t just a last resort, “vader’s bout to get us we gotta go somewhere” decision. the fact that she was going to Obi-wan is probably the reason she was with the rebels and not on Alderaan.
so think in the context that a) Bail was knowingly sending his daughter, who has the genes of one of the most powerful force users ever, to go get a Jedi, b) Bail knew that he was sending the biological child of Anakin to Anakin’s former master and friend, c) Obi-wan definitely would knows who Leia is, d) Bail knows that Obi-wan is keeping an eye on Luke.
I’m not saying Bail Organa knowingly sent his force sensitive daughter to the only fully trained Jedi he knew how to get in touch with and also her force sensitive brother, but Bail Organa knowingly sent his force sensitive daughter to the only fully trained Jedi he knew how to get in touch with and also her force sensitive brother. Because he and Mon Mothma decided things had gotten to this point.
Someone in the tags said “Bail didn’t send the plans to Obi-wan. Bail sent Leia.”
YES. The Death Star plans were a last minute bonus. Bail’s actual plans for dealing with the Empire and the Death Star was LEIA
“are you really going to tear a friendship apart over different opinions??”
listen, I got tons of friends who like pineapple on their pizza, but once you reach that “you, your community, or other marginalized communities don’t deserve basic human rights or even perhaps the right to live” level, you should just accept that it’s your fault no one wants to be your friend.
More accurately, no one really breaks up friendships (or families) over differences of “opinion”, but they will do so over differences of fundamental issues of morality.
The fact that large numbers of people think that “moral positions, often about issues that are literally life and death” and “personal opinions” are interchangeable concepts is a large part of what’s wrong with society.
So, if all the bad guys from Leverage are real, so where's the team who's supposed to stop them?
After initial reports that the Dortmund bombing was perpetrated by an Islamist terrorist, it now looks like the bomber adhered to a different ideology—capitalism:
Police in Germany have charged a man suspected of being behind an attack on the Borussia Dortmund team bus.
Rather than having links to radical Islamism, he was a market trader hoping to make money if the price of shares in the team fell, prosecutors say.
The 28-year-old, identified only as Sergej W, was staying in the team's hotel in a room overlooking the street where the explosion took place.
Two people needed medical help after three bombs exploded near the bus.
The accused bomber apparently believed that his act of terrorism would enable him to gain credit in a culturally shared mythical world of abstract values. While Donald Trump tweets or comments every time a terrorist attack is perpetrated by someone with Islamist ties, he has been curiously silent about this one. Our national leaders must stand up to terrorism by calling it what it is, and leaders of the capitalist community must condemn this horrific act, and make clear that it does not represent their values.
Finn, any time a scrap of organic matter slips the surly bonds of the countertop to splat onto the floor: FOOD FOOD FOOD FOOD FOOD
We, his hapless parents, scrambling to collect a bit of vegetable or bread from the maw of our tiny beast, shrieking: YOU’RE AN OBLIGATE CARNIVORE, FINN! OBLIGATE CARNIVORE!!!
my nayme is finn and wen i’m not supposed to eat the thyng you drop you must be sure i give no crap i jump righte in i eat the scrap
This post is vastly more confusing if you’re thinking about Finn the Resistance fighter
our ability to belt out one entire three to five minute long song if we’re familiar with it like. suvi starts singing “hallelujah” to fill the quiet and is answered by liam all across the room in a p decent harmony. cora walks past and starts humming it enthusiastically even tho she can’t stay very long. gil joins in for the third refrain. ryder finishes it off with a passionate solo.
when they look around every alien is staring at them. vetra blinks and knocks her hands together. “that’s what you’re supposed to do when humans make those sounds right?” she asks kallo beside her, who mirrors her. everyone is a little stunned at the coordination and emotion in the performance and they all look equally moved. jaal might be crying. none of them know what a ‘hallelujah’ is, but they feel like they’ve come to understand it through this melody
they’re all extremely confused when all of the humans still continue on on their tasks without pause
edit; other songs include but are not limited to: bohemian rhapsody, mr. brightside, single ladies, no scrubs, and i will always love you
a good predictor of whether a species will end up being compatible with humans on long journeys is whether they are capable of understanding that ‘singing along’ is optional and humans do it because it’s fun. species that insist on assigning some biological or ceremonial importance to it will inevitably clash with their human crews sooner or later.
whereas species like the mertrans, who have their own infectious expressive behaviors, can integrate with humans indefinitely. on long-haul ships, a sort of hybrid culture evolves, where mertrans will thrum their throat sacs to provide percussion for human singalongs, and humans develop dance steps for mertran scratch/thumping episodes.
smart pirates avoid attacking ships where this has happened. despite being clownish, these species are also some of the most warlike, and offering violence to a closeknit mertran/human group provokes a reaction that is not only well-coordinated and heroic but prone to very bloody pranks.
there still are parts of the outer reaches where a mertran hand-signing “yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker” can clear a bar in seconds.
Perhaps you recall Rachael Leigh Cook’s memorable 1997 anti-drug commercial, in which she smashes not only an egg, but an entire kitchen, in an effort to illustrate the deleterious effects of snorting heroin. Now Cook and her egg-smeared frying pan are back—but the message is very different.
Oh puh-lease, R2-D2 has never apologized for anything in his life. #starwars #wisdomfromelementaryschool
I’m also skeptical about “compromise” under Chewbacca. I mean, unless you count “okay, if he can help us save Han I guess I won’t kill him.”
Look, “if you let me win this game I won’t tear your arms off” is a perfectly cromulent compromise.
a) I’m fairly convinced that Chewbacca has never actually torn off the arms of anyone who beat him at a game, or even threatened to; he just thinks it’s hilarious when Han tells other people he might.
b) “Do what I want or I will cause you physical harm” is not a compromise unless the physical harm was already a given.
And Obi-Wan only ever “talked it out” as a stalling tactic while Anakin outflanked whomever.
