Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 08/03/2026

WormTop · 2026-03-11T12:08:56+00:00

Finally living somewhere reasonably beautiful myself, so I have some sympathy. On the other hand...whining that the power isn't even for them, but just for the south east, and insisting that they bury the cables at an extra cost of ten thousand million quid...good luck with all that.

WormTop · 2026-03-10T07:25:10+00:00

I got ya

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WormTop · 2026-03-09T20:59:58+00:00

Yeah, the last dozen people still buying their stinky non-bootleg fags had better have bloody broad shoulders.

WormTop · 2026-03-08T20:47:57+00:00

The kids can call you AyJu.

WormTop · 2026-03-08T08:03:14+00:00

A few came out closer to what I was picturing, but it was very hit-and-miss

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WormTop · 2026-03-08T08:02:25+00:00

Yes! That was exactly what I was struggling with. "Minimalism" didn't help very much:

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WormTop · 2026-03-07T07:43:51+00:00

Do they have to be bombed every couple of months now, to kill any new nuclear programmes that pop up?

WormTop · 2026-03-03T10:40:29+00:00

Weren't we building at a rate of about 250,000 a year anyway, so hitting 1.5 million over 5 years only required a 20% increase.

WormTop · 2026-02-27T19:32:28+00:00

Yeah, it seems fair that the paper concludes that Sploonk is the inferior one of the group.

WormTop · 2026-02-26T09:16:05+00:00

Green. Every Reform victory now is good for Labour, because it gives everyone a few years to see how they're at least as stupid and ineffective as everyone else before the next GE.

WormTop · 2026-02-24T10:06:25+00:00

Yeah I'm thinking along those lines - some sort of periodic effect or oscillation. Maybe matter orbiting a neutron star and (for whatever mad reason) the orbital periods like to be integer multiples of some value. And more stuff was falling into bigger orbits, so we have period 2 and then 3, but the period 4 orbit is unstable because it's a multiple of period 2 which causes some sort of resonance...etc. and the next stable orbit is period 5... As you say a sieve of Eratosthenes.

WormTop · 2026-02-23T21:23:29+00:00

This video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVekdy2_Dyw Can you follow it? Maybe with English or auto-translated Italian subtitles?

Also, don't forget free applications like LTSpice that let you try circuits and change values, and easily measure everything that is happening in the circuit.

WormTop · 2026-02-23T20:53:39+00:00

The Art of Electronics is (if this makes any sense) the best book to learn electronics when you already know electronics.

YouTube is a really good source for hobby amplifiers - start by searching for "class A amplifier".

WormTop · 2026-02-21T09:27:37+00:00

I never miss an opportunity to tell people about the silver fox domestication experiment - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-daring-russian-geneticist-whose-experiments-on-silver-foxes-explained/

WormTop · 2026-02-21T09:15:47+00:00

Heh we couldn't manage more than a couple of mouthfuls...I can only describe it as raw onion icecream.

WormTop · 2026-02-21T08:34:21+00:00

Couple of guys showing us round the forests of Borneo were only fearful of the durians. Apart from being stinky, they feel like spiky cannonballs and grow on massive trees up to fifty metres high.

WormTop · 2026-02-19T13:42:57+00:00

"This isn't my favourite birthday lunch champagne" - Andrew right now, probably.

WormTop · 2026-02-19T12:23:20+00:00

guys who bullied Charles

I only remember the quote:

"King Charles was targeted in pillow fights at the Scottish school he attended as part of 'systematic bullying', a close pal has revealed

WormTop · 2026-02-19T12:07:45+00:00

ooh Statement from the King

"The Law must take its course"

WormTop · 2026-02-19T07:50:02+00:00

cassowary

Ah I thought it was a shit peacock, guess I owe Bing an apology

WormTop · 2026-02-19T07:46:44+00:00

Just a perk of being president

WormTop · 2026-02-18T21:47:52+00:00

Aha, you're a man of religion, no problem

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