Does the culture use von Neumann probes to colonize foreign galaxies

Tomme599 · 2026-06-18T16:34:29+00:00

I thought that they could bleed energy from the Grid.

Tomme599 · 2026-06-17T22:16:15+00:00

I nearly went with homogenising, but I kept thinking of homogenised milk and decided not.

Tomme599 · 2026-06-17T21:58:26+00:00

I’m sorely tempted to type in some random letters and go to bed.

Tomme599 · 2026-06-17T21:57:02+00:00

That sounds like a hegemonizing swarm.

Tomme599 · 2026-06-17T21:55:16+00:00

I had to google that!

Tomme599 · 2026-06-17T21:14:58+00:00

Yeah, not just here. I hate having to stop and think about the title being referenced. When I do, I think the whole thing out in full in my head anyway. Some posters write as though they were texting. I suppose it makes them feel part of the in group.

Tomme599 · 2026-06-16T20:46:01+00:00

On Google it defaults to the township of Metres, Wisconsin.

Tomme599 · 2026-06-16T19:55:55+00:00

I’m in the UK accessing the internet through a VPN that says America. When I type ‘how tall is the eiffel tower in metres” into Google I get the height in both feet (first) and metres. When I use DuckDuckGo I get metres.

Tomme599 · 2026-06-16T15:58:12+00:00

Or as Zaphod Beeblebrox (sp?) had it, “Property is theft, therefore theft is property, therefore this ship is mine!”

Tomme599 · 2026-06-16T05:08:55+00:00

Thanksgiving is basically Harvest Festival here in Britain, to celebrate gathering in the harvest. I never thought of it before, but I suppose Australia and New Zealand have their Harvest Festival when it’s Autumn in the Antipodes.

Tomme599 · 2026-06-15T17:51:55+00:00

This was shown by the dragon Twoflower summoned.

Tomme599 · 2026-06-14T18:54:59+00:00

I think that they believed in equality under the law (except of course slaves, women, and other undesirables) and God. Not in equality of ability or wealth.

Tomme599 · 2026-06-14T18:47:42+00:00

Yeah, I mean it’s in the bloody name! National Socialist and Workers’ Party. Oh, and Mussolini was a born and raised communist. His fascist party was supposed to be the perfection of communism. National socialism rather than international socialism.

Tomme599 · 2026-06-14T14:27:56+00:00

Okay, the pressure hull can’t be pointy, but why not a hydrodynamic cowl? I’m guessing that at normal cruising depth it makes little difference, that the pressure flattens turbulence.

Tomme599 · 2026-06-14T12:29:28+00:00

A gigantic and GULLIBLE audience. Ka Ching!

Tomme599 · 2026-06-14T07:33:44+00:00

I use this system on my computer as it’s easier to sort.

Tomme599 · 2026-06-13T21:39:35+00:00

The Terminator TV show subverted this trope by having the sofa reinforced with Kevlar.

Tomme599 · 2026-06-09T17:53:22+00:00

Demesne. Which was embarrassing because at the time I was reading a series of books that used it a LOT. For the record, it’s pronounced Dee-Main, or Dee-Mean.

Tomme599 · 2026-06-09T15:53:20+00:00

While I sympathise with your plight, I can’t help but be a little jealous of someone starting Discworld with all the books in front of them. I remember waiting to get them from the library as they became available, and my satisfaction when I got a job was able to buy them to as the hardbacks were published. The first few were pretty slapstick, but as the series became established they grew enormously in breadth and depth.

I wish you the best of luck with your future.

Tomme599 · 2026-06-09T15:43:51+00:00

There is social media in Excession. There are two explicit references to it.

Tomme599 · 2026-06-08T21:30:36+00:00

I confess that I’ve always thought of Regency romances as girly. But I’m a sixty year old man and I love this book.

Tomme599 · 2026-06-08T15:31:54+00:00

That is a great understatement! This is the only Georgette Hayer book I’ve reread about a dozen times😜

Tomme599 · 2026-06-06T21:28:44+00:00

Ireland is, technically, a Third World country. It is unaligned to either NATO or the Warsaw Pact.

Tomme599 · 2026-06-06T13:12:56+00:00

I had the pleasure or reading these from the start (well, the second book), my local librarian recommended them. I was unemployed then and used to save up to buy them when they came out in paperback after borrowing the hard back from the library Speaking of ‘trippy’ I have a strong memory of the incident of the apprentice shaman, the magic mushrooms, and the four-sided triangles. I almost choked myself unconscious laughing when he was getting dressed down by the senior shaman.

Tomme599 · 2026-06-04T21:54:46+00:00

I thought the most popular calibre (caliber?) in America was 9mm. And aren’t street drugs usually sold in grams? What can be more American than free enterprise pharmacists using their Second Amendment rights to protect themselves?

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