If there only was a way of throwing something fancy and expensive that explodes and defeats the radar via electronic effects at it from very far away.

Oh wait, there is. Just nuke the ionosphere somewhere above the vicinity of the radar and have the resulting EMP take it out.

Is that marmalade or jam?

The Battle of the Beams is a highly interesting and often overlooked detail of WW2.

Only 26 speeds? That’s pathetic. 32 speed transmissions are easily possible, do exist, and are less complicated to use than you might think, and the Morse shifter suggests.

A Standard heavy truck 16 speed transmission, combined with an off-road reduction in the transfer case, as very common in all wheel drives will do the trick. This will additionally give you at very least 4 speeds in reverse. (Technically, at least 8 reverse speeds, but most transmissions have a lock-out that prevents reverse and high range from being engaged at the same time)

Haven’t earlier Nicoles also occasionally been sent by a seemingly unrelated account?

This doesn’t scale at all. Also, it won’t work, because in order to be identified as a spammer, you need to be caught spamming first, which will only happen after the account has been activated AKA approved.

Even if it worked, the spammers would just resort to running their own instance(s), which would then have to be met with similar measures regarding defederating these instances, which would simply shift the problem to manually controlling which instance to federate with every time a new instance tries to federate, which will scale equally well.

That sounds like a great business idea. A photo booth where you pay for having your face spammed all over the internet.

If you stand in front of a mirror at midnight and say “But you can call me the Fediverse Chick 😎” three times, you will turn into Nicole. Source: I am become Nicole…

This is not even her final form.

Damn heretics having other Nicoles. I think it’s time for a crusade.

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I just received a blessing from the same Nicole!

But the account has already been banned. Looks like our religion is being persecuted.

Thou shalt not have other fediverse chicks beside Nicole.

Pigs won’t have the slightest problem with doing so. For feeding someone to chickens, some preparation might be needed due to the chickens’ small size.

You sure that nobody has sold you mislabeled unicorn meat?

Meat never was a staple food for large parts of the population in most places until relatively recent.

Have it chiseled into a slab of granite for better effect.

But if you eat too much of it, you’ll shit rainbows afterwards.

You would. Once the ox got too old to do useful work. (or injured) That’s what happened to old work horses, too. As well as to old milk cows. Of course meat from old animals tends to be of lower quality, so this tended to be sold off relatively cheap and often provided the only affordable meat for poor people.

Dogs and cats are carnivores. We don’t eat carnivores in general, regardless of domestication.

The problem with eating carnivores (and to some extent, omnivores) lies in the diseases they can carry (pork for instance has to be inspected for trichinosis), and accumulation of environmental toxins in their meat due to their position at the top of the food chain. Also, they tend to be more expensive to raise due to their food requirements.

The further up in the food chain an animal resides, the more scrutiny its meat needs in order to be safe to eat. For carnivores, that’s usually not worth the effort, as there isn’t all that much meat in a domestic cat or dog.

The only odd one out are horses, who we don’t eat in spite of them not being carnivores.

That’s really very much a cultural thing. In many cultures, horse meat used to be poor man’s meat, because you need to get rid of old horses unfit for work in one way or another and not eating the meat would be a waste, but meat of old animals usually isn’t necessarily of the best quality, so it was sold for relatively cheap. Over time, with declining reliance on horses as work animals, the availability of horse meat has declined and it turned into somewhat of a rare delicacy. Especially since the growing leisure horse industry doesn’t contribute a whole lot of horse meat fit for human consumption due to the medications used on leisure horses accumulating in the meat and not being exactly healthy for people.

If you remember the European horse meat scandal (a discount supermarket chain had been selling “beef” lasagna that contained horse meat instead of beef, the problem there wasn’t that the product was in any way unhealthy or dangerous, it was quality horse meat mislabeled as beef. It really was just a matter of deliberate mislabeling.