no, trees can stay very small for a long time if the conditions are not right for example if the available light is too little to sustain a bigger tree, if one of the bigger trees dies and more light and nutrients reach the small tree, they will then start to grow bigger that's how people make bonsai trees they meticulously create the conditions for the tree to be able to sustain itself and live but not too much so they stay small, there are decades old bonsai trees

I got back into reading through Dungeon Crawler Carl and now that I'm finished with that, I started to read The Colour of Magic because the discworld novels where recommended to me. Though I find as a non native english speaker the writing a little bit more challenging than DCC.

yeah this one of my worst nightmares/intrusive thoughts that can absolutely wreck my day when I get them

I bought a pair of boots from a lokal store, then I moved and the zipper broke. I bought the same pair from Amazon and send the broken pair back.

I haven't gone out of my way to listen to the radio or watch TV for about 8ish years.

My parents tried to fix their stiff guest bed by layering it with another firm mattress. As it turns out, math doesn't work that way; two 'hards' definitely do not make a 'soft'.

Pocket knife as a tool and self defense, right front pocket of my jacket. A lighter, I don't smoke but in case I or someone else wants to light something on fire, inside pocket of my jacket. And phone, keys and other stuff but it varies where I store them.

In case anyone is interested in watching a lengthy video essay about how that not the case here: YMS: Kimba the white lion

For soldering, it's soldering flux Literally translating the german word for it would be soldering fat.

(Am I not getting a joke here?😅)

It's flux

I have a feather pillow from Ikea that is a few years old at this point and it still fluffs up just as good as the day I got it. I wash it once or twice a year during the warmer months in the washing machine on a gentle cycle with a wool detergent and let it dry outside in the sun while regularly fluffing it and turning it around so it dries evenly and thoroughly.

While I don't like how feathers are harvested I also don't like how pillows with polyester filling get lumpy after a while and need to be replaced or repurposed because they stop providing adequate neck support. I'm crafty and have used pillow fillings for sewing projects and stuff like that, but already one pillow is enough filling for lots of projects and I can't craft enough to repurpose all so inevitably a lot would still end up in the dump.

All the while my parents still have some feather pillows from when I was a child that are still perfectly fluffy. So as log as I take good care of them, they will hopefully last me decades.

They are just for flavor not for eating. Can't recommend eating cloves or allspice berries either.