Maybe not strictly, but yes it is.

Counterpoint, formic acid is delicious, it reminds me of malic acid, like apples.

Dammit I had to look it up. It’s sheep, sheep.

Hoist on my own petard I was

A group of Ferrets is called a Business, or Busyness

How could you use bundle when Business is the collective noun?

Their comment made me almost consider posting an emoji on Lemmy.

I had a long time partner who had her own things. It was pretty normal for us to talk during and after dinner, then retreat to our own worlds. She or I would ask what the other was doing sometimes, “nothing, just reading” meant you were 10 pages deep, and chasing all the citations.

Thank you, it was very nice of you to say. I really am better at it in person, I tend to get off on a lot more tangents, which can be interesting or tedious depending on your point of view.

There are some stunning areas in the diagonal, if I was a digital nomad with n EU passport that’s where I would base myself. Lots of beautiful old houses for little money, bit like Akiya in rural Japan.

Thank you very much

In the department of Cher Napoleon established a vast forest of Oak. The purpose was to have materiel ready to built ships for his navy. This was a strategic resource, the same way steel, tungsten, etc. are today.

With the changes in shipbuilding, at least for naval vessels, the need was diminished for timber masts and planking.

The city of Montluçon had been a producer of cast iron for a long time. Canals are an ideal way to transport that long distances.

The oak forests shifted to being a source of charcoal both for the charcoal itself and for the production of cast iron. The ‘pigs’, ingots of cast iron, could later be wrought or further refined into steel.

Pretty much the tl;dr is that demand dropped off, because Oak was no longer needed for war and higher quality iron could be sourced more cheaply from the north and east, with better connections. It was thought that upgrading the canal was not cost effective, so it slowly died.

The canal itself had issues, it often suffered from insufficient (water) influx, and leaks. It was not terribly well waterproofed as the area is low in clay soil. It’s quite lovely through many parts, though there are some dry areas. The Locks still exist, and many of the Lock Keepers houses are there. They were all built to the same plan from Oak and stone, with lovely Tomette (hexagonal terra cotta tile) floors in the kitchen.

There is of course more, where it links (it doesn’t exist in a vacuum), the general depopulation of what the French call the ‘Diagonal Void’, and probably other important things that i will remember next week and think ’ that’s important, why didn’t I write that down? Now they think I’m an idiot’.

Because narrow gauge is always the odd man out. If you used narrow gauge (and there are many, the term encompasses quite a few different sizes) there was a reason. Could be something like tight turn radii, or as simple as bigger costs more.

Finally someone who is interested in the stingless bees of central america, the minor canals of France, and narrow gauge rail in southeast asia.

So, what’s your first question? I bet it’s about the canal de berry and why it never sustained enough traffic to be upgraded to freycinet gauge.

I hate watching videos though too when I can just read instead.

Is it the anxiety of phone calls in general, and the lack of visual clues?

That’s not a bash OP, I just don’t care for videos and I hate Google.

ETA: I prefer reading because I feel like I can better determine bias that way.

brb, gonna edit the Wikipedia entry.

Autism can be broadly defined as when the brain is too spicy¹.

Some clinicians believe a treatment regimen may be possible through recent advances in Cool Ranch technology².

1. Zehzin et al. Journal of Lemmynology

2. Kolonaki. Institute for Advanced Ranch Studies

I didn’t know that site. It shows my IP being in a different country from either where I actually am, and where I say I am. It’s laden with trackers from Google, Twitter, and Bootstrap. UblockOrigin blocked that garbage.

Trying it two times it changed continents (I have not). Seems like bs to me.

Try deviceinfo.me , it’s much more accurate.

*thon

*then

That’s kinda easy though because much fewer people use less then many.

I could be totally off base. I only know my own experience. It’s possible that hers is similar, it’s equally possible that it isn’t. I’m sorry that is not more helpful but I wanted to put it out as another viewpoint.