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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…
I heard they were working on a middle ground between flat earthers and scientists. What’s that supposed to be? Cubic earth??
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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 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!”
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…
Many years ago, I was working in a project with two programmers from London. These guys, being monolingual, were of the firm conviction that your verbal proficiency indicated competence, intelligence and ability to deal with… well language.
They called my attempts at English “Yoda English” so when the time came to add texts to the app we were building one of the Brits were put on the task.
The customer was not happy.
See, the language in question was not English but Swedish and having someone that didn’t understand a single word of Swedish do the language management produced one of my favorite misspellings of a Swedish word.
The guy had entered “gödkanna” where he should have entered “godkänna”.
Godkänna means “approve” or “confirm”.
Gödkanna doesn’t really exist in a dictionary, but it is a grammatically correct word since it’s possible to construct compound words in many different ways in Swedish (yes every writing app programmer on planet Earth, you heard me right! If you want to create a list of all possible Swedish words aspell-style, it’ll probably be a pretty long list—like listing all possible positive integers…—the local dictionary on my Mac currently contains a whopping 3404 “unknown” Swedish words… 😐)
Anyway, “gödkanna” is a compound of “göd” here used as a prefix relating to “göda” meaning fertilize and “kanna” meaning can/pitcher.
Fertilizer can.
A can of shit?
(As a parenthesis; at this writing, Google Translate suggests “manure can” as a translation of “gödkanna”…)
The customer being in Telecom, it is correct to assume they did not want to pay for a can of manure…
Trump playing 4D chess:
The rest of us should just pray no opponent goes for a nuclear opening…
The latest stunt of the US Junta now is to ban words like abortion, autism, birth, woman (not man but men that have sex with men), disability, diverse, race, minority, Native Americans…
Yeah, Trump can go fuck his minions.
Assumably, I’m banned in the Un*ted Sh*t of Amer*ca… so hey, I’d as likely visit this asshole of the world as I am to go on a fishing trip to the South Pole…
The Economist Democracy Index and Visual Capitalist classifies the United States as a flawed democracy.
The US is not a flawed democracy, it’s an emerging dictatorship.
Yes, for sure, some better president will take power. Yes, sure, they will not overreach as much as Donald Trump.
It doesn’t matter.
The unimaginable power of the president tells us that this is not a democracy. It may behave democratically, but hey, a tiger may not eat you… but it can… would you pet it?
I can only assume, once this thing emerges fully, it will erupt into a civil war… or, should we hope it does?
Otherwise, Trump could do the sensible thing and spontaneously combust. His whole gaggle of MAGA-minions could as well.
The way the economy is going, my 401K might turn into a 401-cave…
Four types of force majeure:
Which one of these describes Donald Trump? (Select all that apply…)
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