UncleArthur

joined 7 months ago
[–] UncleArthur@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In the UK, for a pack-a-day smoker, that's more like $140 a week.

[–] UncleArthur@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I remember in the GM series, she always ended the books on a cliffhanger, which may have been a brilliant marketing ploy but was simultaneously terrifying.

[–] UncleArthur@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The Saga of Pliocene Exile / Galactic Milieu series by Julian May. The best sci-fi books I've ever read for world-building and plot. Written in the '90s, hardly anyone remembers them, despite their success at the time.

[–] UncleArthur@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Good god! How many potatoes can one person eat?

[–] UncleArthur@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Annoyingly, my laptop seems to be working perfectly.

[–] UncleArthur@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)

That's a funny definition of 'accident'.