A: I just bought it. It’s working perfectly! I give it 5 stars.
B: I have a bridge to sell you…
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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:
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?
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…
Middle ground
I heard they were working on a middle ground between flat earthers and scientists. What’s that supposed to be? Cubic earth??
Header image by Stable Diffusion
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.
Trump’s amazing success
Trump is a bit like the mosquito who was out flying for the first time and when he got back his parents asked him: “So, how did it go?” And he replied: “It was an amazing success! Everybody applauded!”
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