Category Archives: Talk

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

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…

The Most Important WWII Memorial

What is the most important WWII memorial?
Americans: Normandy
The rest of the world: Auschwitz-Birkenau

This, likely, also explains the election of Donald Trump and the general shrug to his demolition of US democracy…

Americans haven’t been there. They haven’t done that…

Yet.

UPDATE: This is of course supposed to be “the most important memorial IN EUROPE”. Hiroshima would be the most important memorial in Asia. There could likely be a long discussion about which one is the most important one. Or we could just agree there are many and that those that put heroism before suffering are kind of childish and not really getting the lesson one should take away from WWII.

Free speech or die!

USA: Even offensive speech must be protected under the first amendment!
Europe: …says the guys who have never had their whole continent occupied by the Nazis

I’m not saying one is right, and the other is wrong, but it’s really easy for someone who doesn’t share the history of Europe to judge Europe’s cautious stance on certain types of hate speech. Especially when we live in a time when critical thinking and fact checking seems to be totally out of style and Hatred is the new Black…