As someone who is mostly agnostic, those who belive that absence of evidence equals evidence of absence belong in psychotherapy.

There is zero evidence either way, the best we can say is that we don’t know.

We never really had this issue, but I would try putting the folded towels in a cupboard with a door. As for furniture you could tey and fit some hard plastic over the favourite scratching area so she won’t get a grip with her claws.

We had our cat when we were doing a remodel (still going on at my parents, I still remember when the front porch was ripped out and the big job was starting back in 2000, but even before then the house was being remoddeled.

She loved to scrach against wodden posts so much so that over the years she had scratched away about a third of the equivalent of a twobyfour post.

We let her do that since the post would hold little weight, and it is relatively easy to swap if needed.

But did you lock the garage?

Glad to hear that, you take care!

Fantastic! I hope you have a great day!

Excellent, have a lovely day!

Good!

I don’t have a hairdryer. With 6mm hair that is not needed

When cats sharpen their claws on wood it keeps them at the right length.

The only time we needed to clip our cat’s claws was when she was getting old and couldn’t sharpen them herself.

We noticed it when she was getting more and more passive, and on a whim we looked ar her claws, they had grown into her pads on her paws, we started cliping them regularly, but only slightly, and she was soon feeling much better.

This happened after and accident when she was out and we thought she got lost, but after a few days she was back in our garden, she was clearly in pain so we took her to the vet and one of her rear legs had been dislocated, it took weeks to get it to heal, and after that event she started having trouble with her claws.

Yeah, they clearly forgot headphones.

Experts say that hurt their feelings

Here in Sweden I can pay my bills on my phone while at a 7-11, or anywhere else

Garrett set up a website selling Star Trek meme merch, foreverensign.com, I think he can take a joke. (:

I an not even American and even I am pissed at that dumb ruling.

And what is even more annoying is that I read that what is considered an official act is not clear, so a court will need to decide if an act was official or not, and that court will be the SCOTUS.

So they could easily decide that acts Biden performed was not official, but the same acts performed by Trump was official, and invent some crap about context being different in som complex way, so with this ruling they have moved the power from the POTUS to the SCOTUS while POTUS stays the fall guy.

I am glad I have a car this time around, living through Covid and only using public transport was not brilliant, despite living in a suburb of Stockholm where we have excellent public transport.

What exactly did companies gain from making Linux distros switch over to systemd?

If anything, the switch ment a loss of productivity as their staff needed to relearn stuff, not to mention loss of technical knowledge as there would be others who simply would not accept the change and leave the company when the change happened.

This means increased costs, either due to retraining, or due to needing to hire new staff which is expensive.

Meanwhile, I can’t see anything that would mean that companies would earn or even save enough money to make it worth the effort of making distros implement systemd.

Ok so doing it for direct gain seems to be out, but you mention “corpo sabotage of opensource”, I can’t really see that either, a developer won’t move a successful Linux project to Windows, AIX, Solaris, Darwin or HP-UX just because of a move to systemd.

So even indirect gain seems to be out, so “corpo sabotage” doesn’t really seem plausible.

But, I may be wrong, please, tell us how exactly a move to systemd has benefited companies enough that it would make the effort and expense to make a distro move to sytemd, let alone a majority of distros, worth it.

Last year, me and my mom was out driving, I we were hungry and fund a restaurant to have lunch at, someone must just have left because the parking spot closest to the entrance was free and I parked there.

Felt like a movie when the protagonist allways finds a parking spot by the entrance in a full parking lot.

This is perfectly fair, I saw several anti nuclear power articles before thls, and I approached it from a more general viewpoint.

But if the alternative is coal, I’d go nuclear.

Sigh, I have heard the economics argument for decades, and it basicially boils down to “we should have started 10 years ago”, well yeah, that would have been the ideal, but today is the second best day to do it.

Untill now, no one in this thread has addresses the baseload problem.

Ok, flywheels, that is an interesting concept, depwnsing on the connection to the motor/generator and how much energy is lost in the transmission it could absolutely work.

I also wonder how scalable it would be…

You say that I am wrong, fine I can take critism, but when I just keep seeing people saying “NO” to any resonable way to remove our dependence on fossils with in a resonable timeline.

Tell me when would renewables be able to completely take over from fossil power generation, I mean in the long run (20+ years without any fossil fueld plants or nuclear plants), and run reliably even during the dark and cold winters in say northern scandinavia?

Give me a resonable idea on that.

The nuclear process itself doesn’t produce co2, the construction of the building does, you are absolutely right about that.

This goes for all concrete needed for renewables as well, massive hydro power dams will produce far more co2 during construction than a nuclear powerplant.

It is obvious that the economixs have changed in 30 years, and they will change in the next 30 years as well. The hesitation of building new nuclear powerplants will not make the situation better. The best time to build nuclear powerplats was perhaps 30 years ago, the second best time to build them is today.

By using economics as an argument you are deliberately advocating against using all tools to reduce global warming.

Base load absolutely exists, without it our society would fall apart.

Nuclear power would give us time to reduce the baseload to managable levels and further develop renewables so they can cope and we can transition away from coal power that needs kilometer long trains of coal every day, to me that sounds like it is worth paying a bit extra to do it faster than drag our feet when we have the knowledge and capability to do it.

I bet that in 30 years when this debate is still going on, you will say that we should have started building nuclear plants 30 year ago because the economics has changed since then.

Standardisation will bring down the cost and time of building a powerplant.

I don’t think it is fair to compare the cost of nuclear against the cost of renewable power since they will fullfill different roles.

Renewables are great at dynamic demand, nuclear is great at base demand.

Hydro power has been shown to be quite harmful to local fish dammaging the eco system, but yes, some hydro should absolutely be used.

But renewables still can’t cut it for base demand.

I see nuclear powerplants as being a drop-in replacement for coal, oil and gas powerplats, buying us time to develop renewables further while also developing better and more efficient tech.