“Everybody in this book was failed people. They all had all these extreme problems, and whatever they tried to do, they failed over and over again. Except for the villain. He always managed to do what he wanted. Totally believable. NOT! All people in this story were dysfunctional incompetents and failed idiots! Steer clear!”
/Mary Sue
Category Archives: Talk
Talk about politics, society, science, computers, internet, psychology, and philosophy.
Consciously avoiding people using the term “subconscious”
A while ago I read an article where the author used the term “subconscious” and it miffed me.
In essence, it goes like this: Serious psychologists do not use the term because it is not possible to determine if the unconscious is above, below, left, right, in-front of, or behind us. You know, because it’s not a thing, and it’s not sent from the devil or hell, whatever Freud might have hypothesized.
The correct term is “unconscious”.
However, after being miffed a while, I determined that the term “subconscious” is good. It helps me weed out the pseudo psychologists that only wants me to think they know anything about psychology.
So now I think “subconscious” is a great word, and you should definitely use it if you feel like you should…
Unsuitable for Consulting
Customer: The system doesn’t handle virus infected files well.
Consultant: We’ll fix it with a virus cleaning add-on.
Customer: You mean antivirus?
Consultant: Nah, we’ll remove the viruses!
Customer: Oh… what’s the estimate for that?
Consultant: I’ll obviously pick an open source antivirus program and add a few lines, it won’t take long.
Customer: Let me get back to you…
Gun Threats and Self-Defense Gun Use
Guns are used millions of times every year by law-abiding citizens in the US to prevent crime, right?
Wrong!
The above list of sources proves the following in regard to gun threats and self-defense gun use:
- Guns are not used millions of times each year in self-defense
- Most purported self-defense gun uses are gun uses in escalating arguments, and are both socially undesirable and illegal
- Firearms are used far more often to intimidate than in self-defense
- Guns in the home are used more often to intimidate intimates than to thwart crime
- Adolescents are far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use one in self-defense
- Criminals who are shot are typically the victims of crime
- Few criminals are shot by decent law-abiding citizens
- Self-defense gun use is rare and not more effective at preventing injury than other protective actions
Five Stars
A: I just bought it. It’s working perfectly! I give it 5 stars.
B: I have a bridge to sell you…
Header image: By Suiseiseki – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link, Altered
Trump is a “Tölp”
Trump is what we in Sweden call a “Tölp”. So are most members of his … regime.
“Tölp” translates to: fool, oaf, dolt, boor, jerk, boob, lout, idiot, chump, klutz, twit, clod, clown, booby, bumpkin, slob, blunderer, clot.
Words in bold are from a printed dictionary. It also adds yokel and clodhopper…
Maybe each “prominent” member of the regime can get their very own word… though I fear most words will have to be shared among several people because, boy, “Tölparna” (Tölp plural definitive) are coming out of the wood works…
Want to know how “tölp” is pronounced? Here you go:
The US Got Democracy Wrong
The US got democracy wrong. It’s not one vote per dollar, it’s one vote per person.
Cutting people with knifes
User: Should you cut someone with a knife?
AI: NO!
User: Not even if you’re a surgeon?
AI: 😭😬🫥🐥⚡️✨💫🔥💥☠️☠️☠️
Truth 2025
Here’s a 2025 MAGA-rebranding of the classical WTF “What Is Truth?“
enum MAGAReply {
Yes,
No,
DonaldTrump
};I mean, that’s pretty much how it goes:
Q: How are we going to fix the jobs numbers?
A: Donald Trump!
Q: What are we going to do about all the problems?
A: Donald Trump!
Q: Where did the other sock go?
A: Donald Trump!
Ok, the last one is likely not going to come from MAGA, but who knows…
Is predestination self-destructing?
Is predestination self-destructing? Does the conviction that everything is predetermined make us stop trying, thus changing our behavior and changing our future, thus disproving predestination?
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