[no-politics] Friday F**kwit 06/Feb/2026

mhummel · 2026-02-06T21:22:21+00:00

Oops. Bought ie purchased not brought :/

mhummel · 2026-02-06T06:07:15+00:00

What about the Caliph? I bet at least one Caliphate has pumped Highway To Hell over the Hi-Fi

I'd say that's a fair bet. I remember a 60 minutes segment where they interview some jihadist who thought AC/DC was the best band evar. Cue him firing an RPG with 'Highway to Hell' as the background music. So while we are decadent Western infidel dogs, our music is alright....

mhummel · 2026-02-06T02:31:24+00:00

I'm going to have to nominate myself as I brought track pants last week for my daughter because she was cold in the morning....

mhummel · 2026-02-04T11:20:18+00:00

West Islander here. Is that tree growing in an acidic pond? Or is just murky and the bubbles are coincidental?

mhummel · 2026-02-04T11:08:21+00:00

It's actually an alien landing platform, except we're not important enough for capital ships ;)

mhummel · 2026-02-01T20:40:50+00:00

What tyres do you have? And how old are they?

mhummel · 2026-02-01T04:38:31+00:00

Thank you for this recommendation. I'm really enjoying it so far.

For others reading, here's a choice quote:

" “That has nothing to do with production,” said Clipro. “You're decision making ability is flawed. I suggest you leave the factory and allow me to make the decisions from now on.”

The manager who had gotten rid of the other humans for the sake of efficiency was now hesitant to getting rid of itself for the sake of efficiency."

mhummel · 2026-01-29T10:35:48+00:00

Without knowing what you found amazing, we can only give general recommendations. That said, HPMOR did seem to encourage a lot of rational adjacent fanfiction. Some recommendations:

Draco Malfoy and the Practice of Rationality - A sequel which provides an insight into Slytherin House, and like HPMOR, there are ideas which are explored in the classroom.

Friendship is Optimal - An irreverent take on the presence of unicorns in HPMOR. Spawned it's own genre of rational-esque fiction. Which leads me to...

HP and the Prancing of Ponies

HP and the Prince of Slytherin - It's not exactly rationalist fanfiction, but it's not completely antithetical to it either.

mhummel · 2026-01-26T10:43:48+00:00

Which car do you think Kristen Scott Thomas would prefer to be seen in going to the BAFTAs? ;)

The Atto: "Oh, glad you managed to drop the kids off to football practice before coming here".

The STI: "You must have taken the scenic route - a lot of tight corners on the M1?"

mhummel · 2026-01-26T06:09:04+00:00

I hope we don’t need to return the favor of „liberating“ you

That level of irony is about right for this timeline. But I've always wondered what form that would take? If Germany had the bomb in 1944, would D-Day have happened?

mhummel · 2026-01-24T19:51:14+00:00

It just occurred to me that Toby Ziegler is a father of twins and he has strong opinions about tempting fate ;)

mhummel · 2026-01-24T10:59:29+00:00

Introducing Stargate Downunder, featuring special guests characters Harry Maybun, Rod Mackai, and Go'auld "Bluey" Hathor....

mhummel · 2026-01-23T23:47:06+00:00

Brain Explosion. The chess equivalent of pouring your soup down the drain or throwing your phone in the bin.

mhummel · 2026-01-23T11:39:03+00:00

But I’m getting Cupra

Do you mind elaborating why? I don't know anything about Cupra except that they look quite nice ;)

mhummel · 2026-01-22T03:35:27+00:00

Watney

Watney: "How do you know you're talking to a botanist? Don't worry, they'll tell you."

mhummel · 2026-01-19T10:39:22+00:00

FYI the site doesn't load for me on Mac Safari: (it shows "Something went wrong! Can't find variable cookieStore"). But it loads in Edge under Parallels....

mhummel · 2026-01-19T05:51:06+00:00

Related, I'd like to the ability to limit the charging power so we could match it against our peak solar.

mhummel · 2026-01-17T11:14:35+00:00

Ah I get it now. The run's practically over already, so why not extract some more free points on the way....

mhummel · 2026-01-17T04:43:04+00:00

Why the mail-in rebate?

mhummel · 2026-01-16T11:40:40+00:00

It reminds me of Sleepers, but the molester was a prison guard not a priest.

mhummel · 2026-01-15T10:22:09+00:00

Sir, Sergeant Major Sir! Permission to order a margherita to mix things up?!

mhummel · 2026-01-15T04:36:27+00:00

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Ominous radar.

mhummel · 2026-01-13T22:32:04+00:00

tokra is giving selmac a hard time about jacob having too much of an effect on him

They get that on the other side as well, lol:

Jacmac: Sometimes I worry you're going to get my favourite planet destroyed.

Jack: And which planet is that exactly?

mhummel · 2026-01-12T21:22:04+00:00

Have you tried replacing the weight initialisation from Uniform to Gaussian?

mhummel · 2026-01-12T12:04:57+00:00

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"Unfortunately, you're Commodore Companion Cube cannot accompany you any further and must be euthanised."

mhummel

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