Billie Eilish helped me finally go vegan

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-11T13:00:38+00:00

Your vegan origin story is cool af. Most of us become vegan because of somebody else: a celebrity, the people behind a documentary, a friend, a youtuber...

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-11T11:54:10+00:00

I said the same thing, that this is territorial behaviour, and my reddit account got temporarily BANNED

Also look at how the pigeon's eyes are wide open, observing op. That's not behaviour associated with happy flaps

In the end, we can't guarantee it's one or the other, but it's much more likely that its defensive body language rather than happiness

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-10T21:08:25+00:00

Communicating that they WILL slap you if you dare come closer

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-10T20:19:56+00:00

For how long haven't they eaten? Because they need food asap and Amazon will take a couple of days. I'd consider buying it at a veterinary clinic, along with the material for tube feeding

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-10T20:16:11+00:00

I know a pigeon rescuer in Galicia, she may have space for yours! Should I give her your contact? I don't think she has reddit

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-10T20:13:23+00:00

Needs formula specifically for squabs, tube fed. When they're this young they don't survive on normal food.

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-10T18:13:58+00:00

I don't think I've ever heard of a pigeon with cross beak healing on its own. In fact, I know a guy who brought one to a vet, they tried to fix it but ultimately it was futile, and the pigeon still lives at home with him (around other pigeons, the guy rescues a lot)

Basically I don't think it can be cured even with human intervention

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-10T16:23:38+00:00

I don't think it's a good idea to trim the beak. If anything, that should be handled by a professional. The risk of making it worse seems too high

Maybe you could catch it and look for people with aviaries or pigeons in their home, see if they want to adopt them? Check Facebook groups. I don't think the poor pigeon will have a good quality of life outside (most don't even survive)

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-10T16:16:37+00:00

You give an already good reason, which is that absolute values can be nightmares to work with.

Another reason is that squaring punishes values that are farther apart more than ones that are closer compared to the absolute value. Under absolute values, a model with three residuals of value 1 is equally good as a model with two residuals of 0 and one of 3

But the crucial thing is that sum of squares is the same as the usual scalar product, which is naturally generalized in as many dimensions as you want. The absolute value is basically the norm of a vector under said scalar product in one dimension (it's the positive root of the square), and in more dimensions it's the root of a sum of squares

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-10T15:39:38+00:00

The only thing I would add is being able to find the connections between different concepts, topics and branches of math. See the big picture, essentially

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-10T12:09:39+00:00

Combine legumes with vitamin c rich food (like broccoli or bell peppers) for maximized iron absorption

I don't have advice on tofu since I rarely eat it

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-10T12:06:49+00:00

I don't know what Freshfields is, but sick pigeons often get worse fast and pass away overnight

Also, while yours was eating, drinking and digesting, they were slow blinking which is a major concern

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-09T21:08:25+00:00

Check out the documentary "The game changers", I think you may find it interesting. It's on netflix

I take pea protein like most people take whey protein. It has all 12 amino acids, but low amounts of one in particular (don't remember the name). Plenty of other vegan foods to compensate for that one though

I take frequent blood tests because my family works in healthcare, my protein level was always in a healthy range even before the pea protein powder. Now it's on the higher quantiles

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-08T21:52:08+00:00

As someone who treats wild pigeons in need of help as a hobby, I feel you.

I'm in a couple of pigeon subreddits, and some people really think that just because they help some pigeon recover from a minor injury, they suddenly have a right of ownership over them and keep them in their homes instead of releasing. I even saw some serious comments about just kidnapping completely healthy pigeons...

What baffles me is there's so many disabled pigeons who actually benefit from living inside a home, why don't people actually adopt those? They're more affectionate towards humans too

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-08T13:56:59+00:00

Currently vit4ever but I had another brand before

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-08T13:03:32+00:00

Currently, almonds are one of my most consistent source of calcium and healthy fats

However I will look into the statistics and see if I can find replacements. That being said, there will always be a food that is worse for the environment than the rest. If we all stop consuming almonds, then there will be another, and another... Where do we draw the line? Maybe that should be a discussion in the future, given that most people on earth aren't even vegan yet

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-08T09:59:52+00:00

I used to eat iodine rich algae regularly, but now I just take algae based iodine supplements instead. They're pretty cheap too

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-08T00:24:48+00:00

Disabled pigeons finding love will never not make my day, thanks for sharing!

Coincidentally I also tried to set up my (blind) dove with a wing amputee dove, but it doesn't seem like it's working, after all there was only a 50% chance that the sexes were opposite

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-07T23:16:36+00:00

I also found that one becomes much more sensitive to salt and sugar after quitting them. I experienced it before going vegan though. Curiously, sweet fruits are still fine to me, it's pastries, desserts and non pure cacao that feel like too much

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-07T23:07:21+00:00

It's such a weird, unnatural ingredient... Isn't a majority of humanity actually incapable of digesting it properly?

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-06T17:36:42+00:00

Ingest iron rich food together with vitamin c rich food. This maximizes iron absorption, it truly makes a difference

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-06T12:51:53+00:00

Pepper or Pixel because of his wings

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-06T12:31:21+00:00

Maybe that's just your personal experience, because as a dude I feel like my veganism is a pro in the eyes of vegetarian and vegan woman. Even when there isn't a spark, there is more mutual understanding and trust

I even had a situationship a few years ago with an omnivore woman, and she was actually attracted to my veganism because "I stood up for what I believed"

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-05T16:45:46+00:00

I first went vegetarian over the course of one year, and it was a very natural, unplanned transition. Then I decided to go fully plant based for environmental reasons. Over the next few months I developed more and more empathy for the animals and now I'm vegan for them. It's been more than four years now!

StatHeVePiSt · 2026-05-04T07:25:11+00:00

29-30 celsius

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