Category Archives: Talk

Talk about politics, society, science, computers, internet, psychology, and philosophy.

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

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:

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…

After upgrading macOS, [INSERT FUNCTION HERE] stopped working…

I just fixed a bug where macOS stopped announcing time.

The fix?

I unchecked the checkbox and checked it again.

It’s not the first time I have to do this in macOS. It seems they must have stored these settings in a very, very, very eccentric way. I’m voting for haikus…

So, the next time something stops working in macOS, try to switch it off and on again…

You know, like a flickering light bulb…

Are they using light bulbs to store these settings?

Who knows…