Compliments are hard to take for some, and it sounds like you find it patronizing and creepy. This is for this very reason that I was really hesitant as a woman to compliment men, I'm more or less the same generation.
One time late at night, I had no makeup on and was very frumpy, going to buy a six pack at 7eleven. There, a gorgeous gigantic drag queen told me "Giiiiiiirl, look at your faaaace, you're so gorgeous". It was so so so cool and made me feel like a queen. So from then on I thought fuck it, I don't get compliments often and when I do, it makes my day. So now I do whenever I am sincerely impressed or enjoy something.
Bah would you look at that, I thought we did. You are correct, the wolf came back on its own and was not artificially re-introduced. So a pack can be killed if it caused too much damages.
Tell me about it! In Switzerland they voted to reintroduce the wolf in the country a few years back and this year they voted to shoot an entire pack... Humans, maaaan! SMH.
I... what... I was a waitress in the 2000's. I was unsure about the job security so during my lunch break one day, I went to the phone company shop next door where they hired me, so reading your story was really unsettling until that point. Turned out I was bored with the city and left for another country shortly after. Didn't buy bitcoin later.
I'm on social but I can't log in the app because it says the instance is running an outdated version of pixelfed. Am I missing something?