hedgehog

It's like Sonic but without the wangst or silly human-hedgehog snogging scenes. Count me in!

And I think I can claim learning my something new for the day in finding out that something like a sonic hedgehog pathway agonist exists.

Of course you see reposts of lame memes that hit the front page and wonder why the picture of your cute hedgehog submitted in good faith ends up in the spam void. There's supposed to be a user flag that tells the filter you're an approved submitter for a given subreddit; good luck getting that, I guess.

A hedgehogy capitalist might state the above as a broadly applicable principle. A foxy capitalist might opt for something like: "yes, many times increased freedom makes us prosper, but sometimes it doesn't, it depends, let's talk about the specifics".

In Russian there's an expression - to scare a hedgehog with a naked ass - which is exactly the case here, except it's really a shame that it's the space exploration that ends up suffering because of some bullshit political games.

The names get sillier: there's a sonic hedgehog expression inhibitor called robotnikinin, after Sonic the Hedgehog's nemesis Dr. Robotnik.