Ásgeir Berg

I'm not even American.

What prompted him to say this?

Yes, except that has already happened once. Doing it twice is just inexplicable.

My point is that by not voting, that won't change.

Yes, but Trump got significantly more.

Yes, that's the part I don't understand when fascism is rampant among the other side.

Sure, but the Senate campaign is state-wide.

I cannot fathom this view in light of the situation and the fact that Texas always votes for Republicans.

Hvaðan kemur þessi hugmynd að allir nemendur á öllum skólastigum stundi ekkert nema kynjafræði?

Ég skil að sumir láti kynjafræði fara í taugarnar á sér en annar hver maður virðist halda að hún sé meginuppspretta allra vandamála í skólakerfinu.

It's true. The screenshots were floating around the Icelandic internet for a long time. What you are seeing is a translation of the original ones, which were in Icelandic.

Others included:

"You killed the dog? Why?"
"You're not cutting it as a man any more." (Hard for me to translate, this one.)

Þessi notkun á „hvörjar“ er eitthvað sem ég myndi vilja taka upp aftur. Tilvísunarfornafnið „sem“ er næstum alltaf notað og er svo ó-elegant í máli sem notar föll svona mikið.

It is a big loss for Labour because the voters collectively decided that the Greens were a more credible alternative to Reform.

That could have huge consequences in a first-past-the-post system.

Russell is right. If I recall my reading about this right, people used to put little tokens of what they were counting into a clay box of some sort. Eventually, people wrote a symbol on the box for the result.

It took very long time before people realised that the tokens and box were superfluous.

Leyfum ís­lenskum mennta­skóla­nemum að kynnast latínu! - Vísir Latína og latínunám lifir góðu lífi víða um heim. Mennta- og háskólar í þúsundatali bæði innan og utan Evrópu bjóða upp á kennslu í málinu. Enda er nám í latínu afskaplega skemmtilegt og latína lifand...

Smá innleg í umræðuna um fyrirhugaða skerðingu á latínukennslu í Menntaskólanum í Reykjavík:

www.visir.is/g/2026284838...

Alright, I'm going to need examples.

I was going to say that this is truly mad, and then I saw that @fennert.bsky.social had made essentially the same comment.

Tao should read Tanswell & Berg 2026.

Charlemagne also means "Charles the Great"—it's from a French meaning exactly that. He probably would have called himself "Carlo".

Karl Elísabetarson, Bretakonungur.

I would argue that these are not translations as such, no more than "Frakkland" is a translation of "France" or "Kína" a translation of "中国".

Back in the day, Icelanders would often refer to everyone with Icelandic versions of their name. That's where this comes from.

How could we ever see it? If there is some element of consciousness in, say an electron, then we would never be able to directly detect it—just as we can't directly detect consciousness in animals or even other people.

So the prediction is: “It predicts we all share this one universe with physical causes for effects.”

I'm not an expert, but I suppose a quick analogy for panpsychism would be: “It predicts we all share this one universe with panphysical causes for effects.”

Which we see, depends on which is true.

Which ones?

I think @philipgoff.bsky.social's point is that if two theories are confirmed by the same tests, then that is actually no difference between them.

I at least fail to see how panpsychism isn't compatible with all of these tests.

Wait, how exactly is physicalism testable?

It would be easy to make fun of the white collar workers but what he's describing is alienation in Marx's sense.

I would predict that this will have major social consequences.

One of the many reasons why course evaluations aren't... really a good idea.

Sure.

It seems to me just like a cynical way to subvert the views of the people you know are going to be most hostile to your product.

The New York Times is a disgrace and has been for a long time.