Starting a war, forgetting your gun somewhere and only having your spare one to work with, making the payment on your medical bills, remembering if the McRib is back, worrying that the exploited people who did all the things you don’t feel like doing will be deported, and forgetting to tell the President “thank you” every day as a tribute to their brilliant leadership.

And her voice. Her and Emma Stone could get me going reading War and Peace.

My appreciation for snarky, smart-mouthed, tomboys is starting to make sense.

I can barely get a pair of combat boots to last a year, except for my RATs, best damn boots to kick shit in. I always blow out the sides or crack the sole where the toes flex as the sole wears slick.

I wish they still made the RATs, I would buy two pairs.

San Francisco, I am disappointed in you for not being the first.

There is a joke about being able to fit one in, but I just can’t make it work.

It is all connections and a box checking for the board and/or CEO.

The CEO can deflect bad outcomes on the consulting company for suggesting doing what the CEO had in mind to do, but didn’t have the board’s approval.

Corporate consulting is such a giant fucking grift and they are responsible for the enshitification of so much.

Why are there no employees to help you on the sales floor or at the register? The CEO wanted to hit a performance metric to maximize their bonus and brought in a consulting company to advise. The consulting company looked for low-hanging fruit, which is cutting costs in the form of payroll. The CEO dips when there is no meat left on the bone. The next CEO hires a consulting company to maximize the bonus and then you get fake sales to mask a following price increase. CEO dips and the next CEO’s consultants gives the consumer a rewards program to harvest data to sell and drive sales through psychological manipulation(See Kohl’s cash).

Corporate consultants are horrible people with business degrees looking to harvest marrow from a stripped corpse.

I do that and I just get called gay slurs.

I assume you mean for camping, you could, but the bird would probably love to chew through it and you are just inviting problems that shouldn’t exist. A cage would be smarter, but the while idea of taking a bird camping is just a dumb idea.

Easy to care for, not a great companion, usually not destructive for the sake of destruction and entertainment, almost no personality, can’t really mimmick sounds all that well, should have but doesn’t need a big cage, should have but doesn’t need as much time outside the cage as possible, shorter lifespan, bites are pretty weak but can still draw blood, doesn’t make a lot of loud noises, can’t play tricks on you and mimmick a laugh at your expense, more skiddish, low risk of psychological issues, harder to catch if they escape the cage or need to be put back quickly, cheap to buy and get setup for, hard to train.

They are good starter birds but don’t offer much of a parrot experience vs a cockatiel and far from an eclectus or bigger bird. Having a vet clipping their wings is wise so they are easier to catch without injury, but I favor full flight birds and I can catch a bird on the run with minimal difficulty.

Technically yes, but it is a far more tolerant species to inexperienced owners and can be a great starting point vs a budgie or finch.

OP wanted a parrot and I gave him a better option than an eclectus for his situation and experience.

Parrots are the type of animals that if you have to ask if you should get one, you shouldn’t.

They are like buying a permanent toddler with a pair of vice grips for a face that can develop trauma from innocuous things and well develop bad behaviors that have to be addressed appropriately or they will get worse. They can develop mental issues that can lead to self mutilation.

There is no guarantee that an eclectus will be anything like the bird you met. They all have different personalities and they are only vaguely similar. You can have one that is totally chill and loves to cuddle, or you can have one that has anxiety and will viciously attack water bottles and you have no idea what bird you have until it has gone through “puberty”.

If you want a bird, get a cockatiel, not a parrot.

Source: 25+ years of experience living with parrots and 4 years working in a pet store that sold parrots as the “bird guy”. My bird that has anxiety and viciously attacks water bottles is currently yelling from his cage because that is what he likes to do before bed for 10-15 minutes.

How a bird reacts to being abandoned in a strange location for a period of time depends on the bird and your relationship with the bird.

No, you can’t take a flying wild animal camping. The temperature alone would be a risk.

Yes, they can be fine riding in a vehicle if they are in a travel cage that is secure and possibly covered to minimize stress if the bird is overwhelmed. People lose their birds all the time for thinking a loose bird in a car is a smart idea.

Tell us you have no experience with parrots without telling us you have no experience with parrots.

I only heard that term when I moved to the Midwest. One of many odd things they say.

Why should you stop the hot chick at crystals and astrology? This is where you end up and you may not like it when she takes you there.

The rich, because you will still be poor and they will be there to sell you everything once the dust settles.

That’s like a 2/10. He has 3 points of contact.

In order for something to tip over, the center of mass has to move outside the area of the base and most of the weight is in the bottom part of the lift. So it is basically impossible without actively trying to tip it over.

I have done way sketchier shit than that. That is like a 4/10.

The floats are EZDocks, each with a carrying capacity of 3,000lbs, total capacity is 12,000lbs.

The lift is a JLG 3246es, which has a weight of less than 5,000lbs.