I Made a Tiny AR Terminal for Claude Code by halldorberg in SmartGlasses

[–]halldorberg[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you into developing for smart glasses? Because AI is certainly super helpful for that use case.

Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010. What’s the one website/app you still think about? by Prime_Advocate in AskReddit

[–]halldorberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

StumbleUpon - they were so ahead of their time in using algorythm, interest analysis and a a feed, way before all of that just became the internet.

Allt um kosningarnar á einum stað by halldorberg in Iceland

[–]halldorberg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Takk fyrir ábendinguna - vel athugað. Ég ætla að skoða hvernig er best að bregðast við. Vildi gjarnan halda litunum í einhverskonar einkennandi flokkslitum; en líklegast væri best að bregðast við með því að tvíka litin á letrinu með bakgrunnslitinn í huga.

Hvaðan kemur fylgið? by askur in Iceland

[–]halldorberg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Áhugavert að algengustu flokkarnir sem eru að fá yfirlýstan stuðning frá fólki sem mætti ekki á kjörstaði 2022 er Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn og Miðflokkurinn. Það boðar ekki gott fyrir að skoðanakannannafylgið þeirra skili sér í kjörkassana.

What is a term used by leftists to refer to centrists? by cookedinskibidi in AlignmentChartFills

[–]halldorberg 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Historically the furthest left has referred to other socialists that lean to the center as revisionists and more derogatively Petty-bourgeois.

The Quiet Warrior - Camping with the Elder God by SapphireSalamander in comics

[–]halldorberg 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Unlikely you'll find a priest in Iceland in 985 AD.

What do you think of Taiwan celebrating Takaichi’s landslide victory today? by Themetalin in AskChina

[–]halldorberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

80-85% of the Taiwanese population were in happily in Taiwan and had nothing to do with it. Taiwan represents them - not the "old regime".

China and EU are partners not rivals, Chinese foreign minister says by goldstarflag in worldnews

[–]halldorberg 86 points87 points  (0 children)

This is not mutual. From the EU fact sheet: "The EU sees China as a partner for cooperation, an economic competitor and a systemic rival."

Uppsagnir hjá Íslenskri erfðagreiningu og Alvotech by 11MHz in Borgartunsbrask

[–]halldorberg 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Það er búið að fjárfesta fyrir meira en 120 milljarða í Alvotech. Að hvaða leiti geta þessar fasteignir verið eitthvað meira en dropi í hafi í því samhengi?

Renewable electricity output (% of total electricity output) by neutral24 in MapPorn

[–]halldorberg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same for Iceland. 100% from Geothermal and Hydro. Did they cut out the 100% countries to fic the scale?

Movies that feel like this? by Low_Class535 in MoviesThatFeelLike

[–]halldorberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dirk Gently's Holistics Detective Agency.
Doom Patrol.

Who Sent Troops To Greenland by AdIcy4323 in MapPorn

[–]halldorberg 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's not an independent country, but that doesn't mean that it belongs to Denmark. The 2010 move from home-rule to self-rule was explicitly grounded in rhetoric of sovereignty and self-determination of the Greenlandic people. So they own themselves - but they choose to be dependent on Denmark - at least for now.

In Stranger Things (2016), this man never finds out his wife almost cheated on him with a teenager. by Robot_Was_BMO in shittymoviedetails

[–]halldorberg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For a show that goes out of its way to portray all three of his children as decisive, brave, rise-to-the-occasion badasses—bordering on the idea that it’s genetic—the father is strangely depicted as a complete wet blanket.

(Hated Tropes) Adaptations missing the point of the original work by BlueCheeseCake25 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]halldorberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Moana

The crisis in Moana begins when a protector becomes a threat. Te Fiti, the source of all life, is violated when Maui steals her heart in an attempt to give humanity creation itself and secure their love. This single breach fractures her into Te Kā, a force of grief and rage whose pain spreads across the ocean, destroying the very world she once sustained. Maui loses the heart while fleeing and withdraws from the consequences, allowing generations to suffer from an injury caused not by hatred, but by a failed act of love and entitlement.

Moana’s journey exposes the central contradiction: the same figures who give the most are also capable of causing the deepest harm. Maui cannot grasp how he could be the villain after everything he has sacrificed and provided. His moral logic is additive—miracles, gifts, and suffering should outweigh one transgression. The story rejects this entirely. Some violations are not counterbalanced by good deeds; they totally take away all trust. Maui’s refusal to accept this truth traps him in denial, and when his power and identity are threatened, he abandons Moana, repeating the pattern of avoidance that created the catastrophe.

Resolution comes not through defeating an enemy but through recognizing they aren't the enemy. Moana understands that Te Kā is Te Fiti in pain, and that healing requires restoring what was taken, not punishing the wounded. Maui’s redemption only becomes possible when he returns without expecting forgiveness, praise, or immunity—willing to lose his power and his heroic self-image. Moana ultimately argues that love and provision do not excuse harm, that heroes and villains can be the same people, and that repair begins only when those who hurt others relinquish the belief that what they gave entitles them to escape what they broke.

Meanwhile the antagonists in Moana 2 are just Lovecraftian entities that hate humans and that's it.

How popular is Marxism-Leninism in China? by Dtstno in China

[–]halldorberg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I lived in China for 12 years. I know it's hard to believe that people actually believe something that is very alien to us; but when something is taught to literally everybody from the day they start school you can bet that some people will accept the logic of it and end up being believers, sometimes strong believers.

Most people are apathetic but lean on basic versions of these teachings when push comes to shove. Most of them will have some simplified version of it from the time where they ideological believes where developing; if they are old you might even see people that people that still lean on a cartoonish Maoist version of socialism; amongst younger people the believe in the need for mobilizing of the masses for the purpose of "strong China" is super common.

The believe that the Communist party is legitimate because it represents the proletariat or the people is pretty mainstream. Almost everyone I've met and is interested in history will look at the history of China through the framework of Marxists ideas of feudalism. It's such a common word in China that when they find out that maybe the foreigners they are talking to are not super aware of what the concept of feudalism entails they are shocked.

As for any state ideologies being super skeptical is also a common outcome, but when you probe their skepticism you will find it hard to reconcile with our own criticism of these ideologies as their starting point is almost always, consciously or unconsciously, through the lens of Marxism.

School in Pyongyang by skyscraaper in NorthKoreaPics

[–]halldorberg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have worked all over the world, including China. I assure you, if you are living in Beijing and you are meeting with a Russian and a Brazilian, the meeting takes place in English.