It’s like they can turn their bones off at will

He looks like a wonderful little guy. His eyes are very expressive

Seems like this is due to a corruption scandal with high-paying jobs in the Moldovan air traffic authority? I don’t know much about Moldovan politics and a lot of articles seem to be keeping things very vague here

Like Alaric the Goth! Naming a black cat after the wrong kind of goth seemed funny to me. Also “Alaric” means king of everything, which seemed about right for him. I am glad to hear that his Ostrogothic kinsman is faring well

Of course!

Visi, he is named for the sacker of Rome

Well because I didn’t? Bizarre thing to be so hostile about. He didn’t pull it over himself, he just burrowed under it

Captivating eyes!

This is a far worse way to show YoY change

I suppose it probably depends on their coats quite a bit? One with a dense layer of down hair is effectively wearing a winter coat compared to another cat wearing a windcheater

But in general, their natural body temperatures are a degree or two higher than ours, which is probably part of why they love being so warm

They did, the simulated non-Brexit UK has roughly the same trajectory through covid

This is a comparison of Scotland (or rather, the UK, Scotland is just the worst-hit) against a hypothetical version of it that didn’t leave the EU

I doubt they’d be that dominant. Having lots of land is great, but having the technology to exploit harsher land only means that you’re bringing that harsher land up to (economic) parity with less harsh land

You also need people to actually do the work, and Russia’s population is large but not that large. It’s about the same as Mexico or Bangladesh, or to Germany and France together. Compare that to some of the world’s heavy hitters; the US has more than twice what Russia has, the EU has three times, and China and India have ten times

To make a comparison: how dominant is Canada in the world? It’s also huge, cold, and resource-rich. It’s wealthy enough to develop basically whatever it wants in its territory. It’s doing great. But is it massively out-competing Germany, France, or the UK?

How dare you level such accusations against a man so upstanding as Farage, he’s paid by a crypto billionaire. It was his party’s leader in Wales that got done for being bribed to be pro-Russia, and it’s a total coincidence that Farage says the same things

Ahh yeah, that’d make sense

Of all the letters to pick, Z is probably not the one to go for when the Russian army is using it as a symbol for their invasion

I would assume they named it W to play on the W/L win/lose thing. And if it magically did become popular it’d probably just be Dub

Huh, neat. I was never very good at thermodynamics

With the disclaimer that antimatter stuff is way beyond my proper physics knowledge, my understanding is that it does not. In fact, antimatter seems to behave pretty much exactly the same as regular matter in every way we’ve tested, it’s just that when it touches regular matter the two violently delete each other from the universe

I’m afraid that if you ever have a temperature of negative Kelvins, you have somehow invented new physics

This is a very confusing comment. What do the Kurds have to do with this, and what does the distribution of the world’s population have to do with it?