Yeah I'll just load up all these landscaping supplies... Oh... Wait...

Hmm let's see what else you might like. Have you read Hyperion by Dan Simmons? That's well regarded.

I've been reading Peter F Hamilton lately, which are not perfect but they are a good read still. Particularly the Nights Dawn trilogy, but I've also enjoyed Pandora's star and Judas

You might try William Gibson if you haven't already. Starting with neuromancer and working your way through. I think those have a charm of their own reading them these days.

Do you read fantasy? The wheel of time is a classic worth reading.

Oh you like Terry Pratchett. You sir are clearly a person of taste. Have you read the discworld books?

Oh it's not my favourite of his books, that one goes to Excession for the great depiction of the culture Minds, but use of weapons is about the horrific things people do during war and the story about zakalwe and the chair is just so dark, especially when you finally realise who is who...also I am 40 so no doubt I emphasise more with older characters

Interesting take!

I've read a lot of his books but not this one. I think Use of Weapons had the most effect on me because the subject matter is also pretty extreme. He was a brilliant writer, one of my favourites, but he certainly got into some dark places in his writing, especially when it came to the human mind.

Have you read much else of his work?

No. You don't live in the real world obviously you live in some sort of bubble. Bikes are fine for exercise but as an actual means of transport they are ludicrously impractical.

Not to mention the health issues with knees and balls from long term riding. Bikes are not the answer.

I own a pretty nice bike but I hate riding it. It's uncomfortable and hot and hard work. I much prefer the train.

It's 30KM to my work in either blazing heat or torrential rain usually. That's a no from me. Most cities are simply not designed for this. There's a couple of places in europe where they kind of make this work but I don't see it as being practical in most places.

Wildly impractical. Cannot transport goods or multiple people or small children. Not suited to places with lots of hills or spread out cities. Not suited to places with very wet or very hot weather.

As if regular cars are affordable currently anyway.

They are starting to bring electric car incentives in in Australia. For instance you can lease an electric car now through salary sacrifice and not pay fringe benefit tax, effectively reducing your tax by a third of the cost of the car which is pretty good.

Bring on electric cars. I'm so sick of the poor city air quality, and the noise. Electric cars would be the biggest improvement we can make as a society honestly.

Goodbye stomach

What do they taste like?

The headline is click bait and has nothing to do with the article. The article is about using quantum entanglement to teleport energy from one particle to another. No energy is created, only moved.

I bet they fucking don't.

I approve of the mayo I'm just not sure it deserves its own letter.

So... Not a BLT then lol. Just a BL.

Huh would love to taste some. We don't get either on this continent. Maybe I'll take a Canadian holiday someday!

I see they are related to deer in the Cervidae family. So do they taste like venison? I had venison once, as kind of a hard sausage, very nice!

Ahh Canada! I wondered if it might be there. Very interesting. Are they hunted or farmed?

Fascinating. What culture eats this?

Excuse me... Moose?

Well I'm fucked

It was good when it first came out but going free to play kind of ruined it.

My galaxy buds don't seem to have any lag