My brain went “woah, what was a scissor used for for 3k years if there weren’t any paper?”

Then I realized probably for all those hard-to-open packages new scissors come in. Duh.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel's_Loophole

The minister decided to go public

It almost sounds like he did it preemptively, which he did not. According to The Local

It started with Nyhetsbyrån Järva naming him last week,

and

In fact, the only government confirmation of his identity came inadvertently when the Moderate Party’s deputy party secretary phoned up the editor-in-chief of Västerbottens-kuriren to berate him for publishing the minister’s name.

https://www.thelocal.se/20250709/why-are-swedish-media-suddenly-naming-forssell-as-minister-in-white-supremacism-scandal

I thought it was an old post about not being able to marry during covid, my second thought was the dog.

I don’t follow the US politics to that degree, but do they not yet? The Swedish government is collaborating with the far right who considers even half of all people with a single foreign born parent (that is, legal or not, EU or not) to be part of the “replacement” that is, in their view, taking place, and need to go. So it is a kind of a common thing here.

This was very informative.

It would also be of interest to see the formulation of the questions. A lot of the far-right deny that their views are authoritarian or autocratic and just call it “democracy”. I wonder how narrow the questions and how well they can highlight a distiction between e.g. " democracy" (which may include autocratic rule) and “liberal democracy” (which would not include autocracy).

Nature is lazy to such a degree that it will even often stop you from doing whatever you are doing so that it can stop doing stuff. For example, Lenz’ Law

The current induced in a circuit due to a change in a magnetic field is directed to oppose the change in flux and to exert a mechanical force which opposes the motion.

So basically; if you start playing around with magnets and circuits, nature will induce currents in such a way to stop you. That is next level lazy.

I used to make raspberry wine. Super easy. Some raspberries, sugar, and yeast. Put it in a barrel, wait a while, get shitfaced.

I got one of those too. I called the customer service to get another path home because of disturbances, and they just have robot answering. The robot started halfway through the call just reading pure json at me, and then said “to get this information as a message press 1” or something. This is what I got:

Here is your journey from undefined to undefined: BUSS 506 towards Karolinska sjukhuset 09:36 from undefined 10:18 arrived at undefined. Link to your journey.

I tripped over a cord once and broke the screen on my laptop. I salvaged the disk for another purpuse. But I got some prime hardware here, it’s got video output, it’s got ram, and a cpu! I used it for my lectures; liveusb with some persistent storage on, put my slides on there and fire it up. Did not have to unplug the normal laptop from my office. Nothing magic really, but some students were puzzled.

Still, if true, when Trump leaves office all of these people must declare that all of this shit they did and said were lies and quit themselves.

If they really do not mean that the US daddy Trump attacking Iran is keeping us safe, and shit like that, then they need to say that at some point, and that is as soon as possible. That would be when Trumps leaves office, if that was indeed the purpose here; to stroke his ego. And if they do, they need to quit, bebause they lied and distorted reality for all of us.

And I don’t think they will. They will instead still defend this shit long after he is gone and with it: another step forward for far-right populism and their view.

We were moving between countries and could not bring it all. Transporting it would be the big hassle, and we dont need the like maybe some 100€ at most we could get for the stuff, so we put it up for free. Lots of people were bringing candy, store bought and even homemade, for the stuff they were getting. Very nice actually.

Not sure if true, but a Romanian I was working with said that their phones were randomly monitored. At some point his mom and some friend was talking over the phone and they are like “when is the next bus for the town now again?” and the agent goes “they go every 30 minutes today” or similar into their phone call.

I have not seen them in Germany nor in Sweden

I’ve also seen these in Italy. Quite genious.

Such a pain moving from a country where it is the default to a country where it is unheard of.

I did. I just wanted to share my thoughts on this one point so others may get some inspiration to write.

Fundamental rights impacts: The non-content data retained and accessed could provide information to authorities about the private life of persons to whom these data relate and thus interfere with the fundamental rights protecting their privacy (Art. 7 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union), their personal data (Art. 8) and their freedom of expression (Art. 11).

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Where the options considered in the impact assessment should limit fundamental rights, these will be weighed against the interference with such rights, and full consideration will be given to providing adequate safeguards to ensure their necessity and proportionality for achieving the intended objective.

I absolutely hate this. Why even have fundamental rights if you are gonna be “well, it would be more convenient to not follow these rights”. If they are fundamental, treat then as such.

It may only be possible to say so because I have not used windows in 20ish years, but I find mac to be completely horrible.

Super slow. Even the arm ones, to switch to the workspace where my vscode windows are takes like 4 seconds, starting bash (I have gone through my bashrc like 10 times) takes several seconds. After a boot it takes minutes before everything is loaded in the settings, meaning some settings are not available directly after boot (why is the settings window modular and dynamic like that?)

The mouse speed and accelleration just feels like I’m stuck in butter. I have made some config change outside of the settings to speed up the mouse, but I have to reboot to make them take effect is insane. Accelleration is suppose to be off, but that disgusting buttery feeling is still there. If I switch to linux it is not.

They had an update where they broke ssh. They fucking broke ssh for like two months. How the fuck am I suppose to work on it?

Not having a proper distinction between left and right opt/cmd/control which makes adapting keyboard layout to your personal workflow hard as shit.

You have to like click everything and random shit grabs the window focus all the time. So many times I have switched workspace or something and it displayed it but the focus is still left on the laptop or something. Randomly you have to click on a window instead of just using a keybind to get there.

After a day at work, forced to use mac, I just have to start my linux machine, even if I do not have anything to do on it, just to feel sane again.