A good story about a bad day doesn’t have to be about complaining. It can be about learning from mistakes, a strange irony, the absurdity of coinciding factors, etc.

I picked some this year and made a nice potato soup with mixed in wild garlic. Simple and good.

If you ever do write with pen and paper, it takes little effort to focus on just one improvement. A first step could be to try to get a consistent height of letters. When I’m in a hurry my “o” and “i” become way smaller than, say, “e”. Just a quick look when you’re done writing and a reflection like “next time I’ll try to make this letter as tall as that letter when I write”. When all lower case letter are as tall, focus on something else, like ascender height or baseline. Maybe your “l” tilts more than your “t”, then that’s a good thing to fix. One small step at a time.

I guess. It invoked some emotion for sure, something that research and policies usually don’t. For me, I still don’t know what to do differently. I’ve heard the statistics and it’s scary and sad. I want women to be safe and equal and all that. But what’s the plan here, which path leads to a different world? Does it help if I just sit around and feel bad about myself? I don’t think so. It just alienates me from half of the human population. But what actually helps? The message I receive is mostly just “feel bad about yourself.”

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.

You know, that’s a good idea.

Reading bell hooks back in the day made me interested in understanding feminism. Things like the bear makes me go do other things and care less.

The second part of the Tractatus.

The world needs more people who think like you.

This is paraphrasing a swedish politician called Annie Lööf. She has been made fun of and ridiculed for that phrase for a long time.
However, that’s not what she said. The context was simplifying rules and regulations for companies, and she was asked if fewer rules would make it easier for companies to do illegal things. Her answer was: “In Sweden it has since long been illegal to run a business with criminal intent, and that will continue.” This “criminal intent” is the difficult part. If I buy and sell antiques that’s one thing, if I buy and sell stolen goods, that’s another. The difference is criminal intent.

I think we have the same terminology then, we also call them “flyttblock”. Is there a story behind them being called Devil’s rock? It sounds very finnish to me to be honest.

The ice sheet covering northern europe started to melt away, and with that we got what is called “glacial erratics”. Rocks had traveled from once place to another, and then settled. In Sweden we call those “giants throw”, because it was assumed that the only way those big rocks could be where they are was if a giant had thrown it.

It’s unusual to see the rounded r (ꝛ) after an a.

“Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can’t see them.”

The idea of a malicious entity causing spelling mistakes is very old. In medieval times they had a small demon called Titivillus.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titivillus

(RedHat) Enterprise Linux, with LCARS desktop.
https://lcarsde.github.io/

Yes, Swedish. Also, for unrelated reasons I reacted a bit triggered in my previous reply and my canadian girlfriend said that I was being an arrogant european, and I’m sorry about that.

My instructors have been from Region Skåne the last few years, maybe they’ve been taught different things.

I have to do CPR training once per year, and almost every time they’ve changed the recommendations. I don’t even remember the current recommendations now.

Yes. By convention based on old reasons though. When computer screens became common they were low resolution, and a whole genre of serif fonts were made to look good on screens and low-end printers. Good fonts, but adapted to look good in pixel grids. Microsoft made Georgia, Adobe had Utopia to serve the same need. A font like Centaur would just not survive on a screen. Sans serifs worked better, especially the ones with straight lines, Helvetica is easier than Optima on a screen. But now… phone screens and regular screens are good enough to display serifs, but now we are used to sans serifs online. But there’s no real reason for them anymore.