Whale meat is not a common ingredient in sushi. Hunting whale does not affect most people who like sushi, but it does affect those people who enjoy trying more exotic sushi varieties regardless of their cultural or ethnic heritage.

I was going to go with Elfen Lied, but thanks for reminding me of the more desperately sad option.

I mean, that’s not entirely true. Or maybe the analogy isn’t entirely valid.

It’s more likely that we have come up with an incomplete model for the universe than that we have the absolutely correct one and we’re just not understanding it properly.

That was a hell of an episode and most of the reason I could never be bothered with Brotherhood.

Or you could do away with braces and represent code blocks only with indentation. I know my python bros are backing me up on this.

Not really.

I’m probably late to the correction party, but just in case no one has yet I’ll point out that Newcastle is one word. They’re from New South Wales, so we forgive them.

Most people think time is like a river that flows swift and sure in one direction. But I have seen the face of time, and I can tell you: they are wrong. Time is an ocean in a storm. You may wonder who I am or why I say this. Sit down and I will tell you a tale like none you have ever heard....

Hi Artiofab,

Starred for puns.

Now that I have seen this I only need some Brother Cadfael to get the complete set of my childhood historical detective reading:

I take exception to this. We have lots of *venomous* animals. What’s the point of an animal you have to eat to have it poison you?

I’m nowhere near an expert on this, but as I understand it gender is a spectrum and *sex* is binary. That’s not counting all the cases you’ve neglected under the label of hermaphroditism. I’m not at all sure you can make the generalisation that one set of parts is going to be dominant. Like I said, I’m not an expert,…

Have you read Glasshouse by Charles Stross? If not then I think you might like it.

It seems you have a much larger stake in this game than me, so I won’t push any harder. I’m sorry for whatever experience has led you to hate personality tests (maybe a horoscope killed your parents?)

Except I see this one as a bit more quantitative. The ‘roles’ it assigns are fluff to people to play. The breakdown at the end in terms of which analytical skills you posses/common biases you fall for seemed reasonable, with the accompanying caveat that 21 questions isn’t enough to be free of statistical error (which…

It may have something to do with the way my mother read it to me, but I find it perfectly whimsical with the kinda of gentle humour that’s perfect for a young child.

Assuming your goal is inter-stellar travel I’m not sure that would work. I haven’t done any theory on this, but my gut feeling is that you’ll change the properties of matter such that you still don’t get effective travel/communication.

But let’s be fair.