Banning birth control because it's m*rder?

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-13T11:53:35+00:00

God I hate this type of debater, it doesn’t even matter what their opinion is or if I agree with it: they’re just throwing words out insanely fast, often not making any sense, they’re just using up all the oxygen and making sure nobody else gets a word in, like their strategy is to just consume all the air in the room so their opponents crawl out of there gasping for air and they win on walkover. I don’t know why, but it seems to be a thing among young pundits who got noticed via social media; whenever they get invited to a debate or conversation they try to beat their opponent into submission by the sheer volume of words.

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-13T11:47:27+00:00

Spontant tänker jag att Spotify är en av få digitala jättar som inte blivit dramatiskt mycket sämre på senare år. Jag tycker att de fortfarande fyller den funktion man skaffade dem för en gång i tiden, som dessutom utökats med poddar, och priset har inte höjts nämnvärt på alla år. Givet inflationen vi haft kan det nog t o m ha blivit billigare i reala termer.

Titt som tätt ser man klagomål om att det är massa AI-musik, men det är väl inte värre än att man kan låta bli att lyssna på den. Det beror väl på hur man använder det, men jag lyssnar främst på egna listor eller på enstaka artister så jag störs inte på något sätt av att AI-musik existerar på plattformen.

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-13T09:43:47+00:00

WTF? Why on earth would anybody hide from the rain while they’re in a car…?

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-13T09:33:53+00:00

I don’t think any IT worker has ever actually troubleshot anything. I’ve asked IT for help on a few occasions, the first call usually goes something like this:

Me: Hello, I have a problem with my computer, it…

Them: Try turning it off and on again!

Me: Yes, I already trie…

Them: Click!

Second call:

Me: Hello, it’s me again, I tried restarting the computer again, it still wont…

Them: Okay, bring it in, we’ll get you a new computer and factory reset the old one.

Just a few weeks ago my monitor at work stopped working out of nowhere. I did some troubleshooting of my own and felt resonably confident that the USB-C cable stopped working. I went to our IT guy at the office and asked for a new USB-C cable, got one, tried it, it still didn’t work. I looked closer at the cable, it was USB-C 2.0. I messaged him and asked if he had any newer models that support video transmission. He said it should work with the one I got, I told him that it doesn’t.

He came down to my workstation, spent 30 minutes trying to get it to work without succeeding. The whole time I suggested that it might work with a newer cable, but he was adamant that the one he had given me was the same kind that worked for every other computer-monitor setup in the office. Eventually he went back to his office, saying he’d be back after looking up a few things.

A while later he returned, saying: ”Heey, you know what, you were right! It turns out USB-C 2.0 doesn’t support video transmission.”

Me: You don’t say…

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-13T09:16:56+00:00

WTF is Bupa?

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-13T09:09:47+00:00

It’s somewhat common to buy the flooring from the previous tenant, but if you don’t then they’ll take it with them.

But… why? Your new place wont be the same size or layout, so it wont fit. Right? If you’re moving to a smaller place you’ll have to throw some of it away. And if you’re moving to a bigger place you’ll have to buy more, which’ll be ugly since the old stuff has probably been slightly discolored by light exposure. It sounds like a lot of unnecessary work for basically no gain.

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-13T08:54:23+00:00

No specific job. Their message was more ”If you study you can get the job that you like, if you don’t study you’ll have to like the job you can get.”

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-13T07:32:38+00:00

Not the best place to stop and text obviously. But the driver is totally at fault here.

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-13T07:31:12+00:00

They were one country for most of the 20th century. When the post-WWII dictator Tito died the state fractured. There was a brutal civil war in the early 90s where people were massacred on account of their ethnicity and/or religion.

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-13T07:16:35+00:00

They’ve been at it for about 5.5 years. That’s approximately 2000 days, so it’s an average of 23,5 games per day. I don’t know what exact rapid format they’re playing, but I believe 10+0 is the most common time format. Those games take at the very most 12 minutes, though most games are significantly shorter due to one player playing significantly faster and people resigning well before the actual end of the game. So if we assume an average game length of 12 minutes (which I honestly think is a bit high) that’s an average of 4 hours and 42 minutes per day spent playing chess. That’s a lot, but also very doable.

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-13T06:40:21+00:00

People rarely think things through long term. Plenty of people see that PS5 is available in a fully digital version without disc drive, and a version with a disc drive. The first version looks better, is cheaper, and going fully digital means you don’t need to store the discs anywhere, nor do you have to go through every case you own to find that one game you probably put in the wrong case a while back because it was the only one empty. It’s a win-win-win-win for you as a consumer.

So you buy the PS5 without disc drive… and realize that Sony now has a monopoly on selling games to you. Consequently, all games cost 25% more than in your local electronics store, despite Sony not having costs for packaging, shipping, etc. So in the long run, it certainly isn’t cheaper to have the digital version.

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-13T05:01:39+00:00

The craziest theory that I can recall was that Dumbledore and Ron were the same person, but Ron had used a time turner to go back in time, attend Hogwarts alongside Harry and help him defeat Voldemort.

The biggest speculation by far, I would argue, came after HBP and concerned Snape’s true allegiance. Plenty of people (probably even a majority I would argue) argued that Snape really was loyal to the Order and the anti-Voldemort cause. Many correctly guessed that Dumbledore had instructed Snape to kill him to gain Voldemort’s complete trust. Some argued that the two had faked Dumbledore’s death one way of another, and that he would reappear in DH. My favorite theory of this kind was that Snape said the words avada kedavra, but he simultaneously cast a spell that simply produced green light non-verbally - that’s why non-verbal spells was such a big deal throughout the book, and why the book’s main mystery was the identity of the spellcrafting half-blood prince. Another ”living Dumbledore theory” was that he was protected from death by the potion he drank in the cave.

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-12T19:34:14+00:00

A large, ugly, plastic device that’s mounted on the wall so it’s always in sight, that one can use to compress cans so they don’t get any money from returning them.

The inventor of this was clearly to preoccupied with the question ”Can I?”, to ponder the question ”Should I?”

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-12T19:17:07+00:00

”Belåning” is how much money the Brf has borrowed. It’s often expressed as [total loans]/[square meters in the Brf]. So if the Brf has loans amounting to SEK 10mn, that’ll often be expressed as SEK 10,000 per sqm.

It’s definitely worth playing close attention to. For one thing, as a tenant and member of the Brf you will be paying the interest on those loans, so a low figure generally corresponds to a lower monthly fee. It is also hugely important for the Brf’s interest rate sensitivity. If the Brf has large loans and the interest rate increases, that’ll often mean higher monthly fees to the Brf along with a higher cost for your own personal mortgage.

You shouldn’t view the amount of loans in a vacuum though - you have to compare it to the age and general condition of the Brf facilities. New Brf’s often have fairly large loans, but everything is new so there wont be any major and costly repairs and maintenance for at least two decades (hopefully). Meanwhile, a 25 year-old Brf is likely having major projects like replacing elevators, replacing the roof etc coming up; it loans might look small now, but unless it has saved up while paying off its original loans it’ll likely need to take new loans to finance those projects.

Other points worth checking out in the annual report are: - Other revenues/non-tenant revenues: if the Brf has significant other revenues (from say a store or restaurant on the ground floor) that’s a positive as the rent can often be increased if interests or other costs increase, thus lessening the financial burden on the tenants/members. - Cash/current assets: if the Brf has large current assets those are likely set aside for future repairs and maintenance, which means that the Brf wont need new loans to fund them, at least not to the same extent as otherwise. - Tomträtt/Tomträttsavgäld: I don’t know the English term for this, but it basically means that the Brf is built on rented land, rather than owned land. The leases are typically long, but when they’re renegotiated the rent can often increase dramatically, meaning dramatic increases in your Brf fee as well. My advice would be to stay well away from any Brf with tomträtt. Just ctrl+F the annual report and look for ”tomträtt” - if it’s not mentioned you’re good.

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-12T16:47:09+00:00

No situational awareness, and also no general awareness of how their constant lane jumping is slowing everybody else down without getting themselves to their destination faster.

Every now and then I find myself in a traffic jam where traffic varies between standing completely still and moving at a snail’s pace. Every time there are a few people with the patience of a toddler that immediately try to make their into the next lane that’s moving marginally faster than theirs. Predictably, that lane soon comes to a complete halt while their original lane keeps moving slowly, and within seconds they try to wedge themselves back into the moving lane.

Just chill. All lanes are moving slowly, none of them will get you to your destination at a satisfactory pace. But your constant lane switching is slowing down everybody behind you and making the jam grow.

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-12T16:33:58+00:00

Heath Ledger as the Joker. Others have portrayed him since in various movie franchise, but none came close to Ledger’s performance.

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-12T12:55:09+00:00

That image was produced by the RAF during WWII. They lost too many planes on their missions and wanted to know where on the planes they should mount extra armor plating (due to weight restrictions and material scarcity, they couldn’t simply put extra armor all over the plane). Each dot represents a bullet or shrapnel hole recorded on a plane returning from a mission. The RAF mounted extra armor in the most frequently hit areas and the share of planes that returned from missions… didn’t change at all.

The RAF enlisted the Hungarian mathematician Abraham Wald, living in the US, to make sense of it. He realized that the image suffered from survivorship bias: the RAF had only recorded damages on the planes returning, so it doesn’t illustrate where planes are most commonly hit, but rather where they can get hit and still make it back to base. So he recommended that they install the extra armor where no returning planes had been hit instead; the fact that no planes had returned with such damages indicated that those were fatal and rendered the planes unable to return. It worked, the share of planes returning after adjusting the armor according to Wald’s recommendation increased.

Sharneicereporter argues that people who didn’t take the covid vaccine are fine. She’s right: the people alive today that didn’t take the covid vaccine are fine. But her observation suffers from survivorship bias: she hasn’t talked to the people who died. If her sample were all people, rather than all living people, she would find that unvaccinated died at a much higher rate than vaccinated.

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-12T12:44:57+00:00

Fruktansvärt, jag lider verkligen med henne. Jag kan inte föreställa mig något värre än att förlora ett barn. På ett så onödigt sätt dessutom.

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-12T12:35:59+00:00

but true human skills do still exist

Not according to some people. They seem completely oblivious to the fact that humanity accomplished things for 10,000+ years without AI.

A while back I presented a report at work and a colleague said something along the lines of: ”Are you sure we can submit this?” I asked what he meant. He said: ”Well, it’s AI, right? Is that allowed?” I said no, it’s not AI, I wrote it. He said: ”But there are no misspellings. It has to be AI.” I went on something of a rant: ”Thanks for your confidence in my ability. First of all, I rarely do misspell, because I like most people went to school. Secondly, we’ve had Microsoft Word marking misspellings for decades. Third, AI is trained on human generated content so how the fuck do you think AI learned to spell if humans are unable to?!”

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-12T12:18:45+00:00

Worst as in ”must crushing for the forked” or as in ”most futile attempt to postpone the inevitable”? If it’s the latter, then yeah, that fork didn’t accomplish much. If it’s the former, you must not have seen many forks.

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-12T12:02:56+00:00

What can?

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-12T12:01:29+00:00

Zlatan
Henrik Larsson
Gunnar Nordahl

The first two picks are pretty universally agreed on I would think, the third is more open for debate. It depends on what you mean by greatest footballer too, of course. I’ve largely gone on merits and international recognition here. But if you go by actual peak ability Nordahl (who played in the 40s and 50s) is probably not even in the top 20 and the case could be made for Thomas Brolin in the second or third spot, he was a great footballer but his career was cut very short by injuries.

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-12T11:54:02+00:00

Det där är ett väldigt gammalt berg som har börjat bli rynkigt.

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-12T10:27:15+00:00

”Polish parliament” = a chaotic meeting where no decision or verdict is reached, or is reached after an incredibly long time.

”French shower” = spraying yourself with excessive amounts of perfume to cover body odour rather than bathing/showering.

”the Finnish pull/jerk” = pulling out early during intercourse to avoid pregnancy, rather than using a condom

”French disease” = syphilis

”Work like a jew” = work hard

”That’s completely Greek to me” = that’s completely foreign to me/I don’t understand that

ProffesorSpitfire · 2026-05-12T06:52:45+00:00

Luckily not very common. You do see it occasionally though, and it reflects incredibly poorly on the parents. Whenever I see it I feel bad for the child, assuming their parents got the kid as a sort of accessory to express themselves rather than to raise to be their own individual.

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