[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

Very cute! We sadly had to hide our sheepskin once our two cats started tearing the wool out a bite at a time. Looks like you’re having better luck!

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

As the owner of 2 black cats… as far as I’m concerned all black cats are a superposition of each other until you get with a foot or so, spot the one tiny clue that gives them away, and they finally collapse into a specific cat.

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago

I don’t think that’s what the meme is claiming.

I think instead it’s just claiming that all fossils have the same implied increase in maximum size implied by the paper, not just T rex.

I’m guessing the illiterate paleo fans were excited that maybe T rex was king of the dinosaurs again, but the logic fails if all the dinosaurs get bigger max sizes…

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 4 points 4 months ago

I got “little miss naughty”. I am a man in my mid 30s, I never do pranks, I don’t go out of my way to cause trouble.

How can it see parts of my soul that I thought were lost?

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago

Well yeah, obviously the roads. The roads go without saying, don’t they?

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

Me in timberborn after I forget to unpause the farm and everyone starts starving

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 4 points 10 months ago

Militaries are typically tasked with protecting more than themselves. If someone invaded Britain then the military wouldn’t have to wait until the invaders had shot a soldier to start defending the country.

A better question is whether they are attacking US and UK citizens/ equipment.

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 3 points 11 months ago

Or maybe etymology is strongly discouraged amongst wizards, because spells work on the belief of the caster and any etymological knowledge could ruin a perfectly good spell. Every now and again a good spell-caster’s career is ruined because they sat near the wrong nerd at a bar and now can’t forget that in the original Morrispanian the word all their fire spells start with meant “tepid”.

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, especially right now. To be fair that’s mostly because solar is doing great as far as scale goes right now. Nuclear has near zero scale and lost all experience, so it’s more expensive than ever.

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, but also literally every industry starts that way. Start small and scale up. Nuclear’s special because we did it once and then almost completely stopped building them globally for so long that the capability faded away.

The tech shifted in the meantime, so even the knowledge that was preserved is for designs we wouldn’t want to build today.

It’s a weird situation.

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, one justification I’d heard was that it was a cheap and low risk way to revive the industry enough for bigger projects, but I’m not sure that’s particularly compelling.

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

You typed that into social media and posted it, just fyi.

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