Notices by Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com), page 34

Pupils in a Norwegian school are learning how to power pose in order to feel more confident before presentations. #NordicWorldProblems

@loke @alva Norwegian Wikipedia defines "glugg" or "glugge" as "a small opening in a wall, door or roof. In some contexts, it is comparable to a peephole. The purpose of a glugge was to providea room with air and/or light. Modern glugges are often equipped with a hatch or a window, but can also be open. In old times, glugges were common and most of the stave churches and the oldest stone churches are equipped with such. It was also common in old fortresses."

@loke @alva Vägg just means wall (or rock face). Mur means masonry (or brick/stone wall). Both vindu and vindauge mean glass window in modern usage, but "vind-auge" is "wind-eye", so I suspect it was synonymous with "glugg"/"gluggi" at one point.

I once dated a Latina who clearly wanted a boyfriend who set boundaries for her. I was raised to treat women like adults, so that didn't work out. The next time I saw her, she was with her new husband, and she was calling him "daddy" in a really annoying voice. She found a guy who was willing to whip her into submission. That's just not me at all.

@alva Fönster and Fenster are from Latin "fenestra", but you probably knew that.

@alva Funny how Iceland calls it gluggi. Vindauge is probably what it was called in Norway before we switched to the Danish word, and Icelandic has Norwegian origins. The word glugg in Norwegian means peephole, and also, jokingly, eye.

I've noticed that my boss only really cares about giving me stuff to do if I bug him about it.

One of the new hires here, the daughter of a friend of the boss, said that her main task is debt collection, and also, anything the boss thinks is too boring to do.

As far as I can tell, the dream of bosses everywhere is to cleverly arrange things so they never have to do any work of their own.

@se7en How do you accidentally have sex with someone...

There are always a few people who take you the wrong way when you suggest that we should reduce the number of people on Earth to something more sustainable.

Don't they understand population dynamics? If you get the birth rates down, the problem will be solved.

Maybe they think this is murder too? After all, every sperm is sacred...

@thatbrickster

Suddenly got a flash of Jim Crow America here in Norway. A new cash register opened and a gipsy woman was in front of me. The cashier bluntly told her to get back in her line and then proceeded to serve me first. I didn't realise what was happening until afterwards. Norwegians discriminate heavily against gipsies. No one defends them. They're personas non gratas. Everyone just wants them to go away. It's pretty bizarre, with all this political correctness toward everyone else.

Forget the Baptists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Mormons and the Latter Day Saints. If you're a Norwegian-American, there is only one place to go...

Some people say you don't really need to use Lisp to gain the power of Lisp anymore, since many mainstream languages have implemented Lisp features now.

They say that Lisp is elegant, but real-world Lisps have hundreds of functions in the standard library and package dependency graphs no less complex than those found in JavaScript.

I still have difficulty finding problem domains where Lisp is a better fit than other interpreted dynamically typed languages.

I've noticed that corporate managers, policemen and other authority figures often seem to have a thing for "the belt", as in: If someone doesn't follow orders, they bring out the proverbial belt to give people a proverbial whipping, and they derive a perverse kind of pleasure from that.

Some women seek such men out. They seem to want a man who sets boundaries for them and shows them who's boss, and if they are with a man who doesn't do that, they don't respect him.

So, I was curious about why there is an association between American cops and donuts, and I came across a story about people calling donut shops to reach a cop, because this was apparently faster than calling 911.

@monerica We are talking about population growth versus economic growth, though. There is an argument that innovation drove the economic growth (GDP) of England during the industrial revolution, while the truth is that the GDP didn't grow quicker than usual during that time period.

@thatbrickster We just need to make the poor countries breed as slowly as we do. They'll eventually get there, but it wouldn't hurt to try to accelerate the process a bit...

Based on this, shrinking Earth's population down considerably seems to me like an even better idea than I thought.

Europe experienced something like it in the High Middle Ages. The Plague decimated populations yet left more resources on fewer hands. For a while there, Europeans lived the good life.

Rather fascinating theory about the Industrial Revolution, and how it didn't actually cause an acceleration in economic growth. The world was following a hyperbolic economic growth trajectory even before that, but the Malthusian Trap meant that population growth would always catch up and spread the resources thinly again. Our quality of living is mostly improving because we are breeding slower than we innovate, allowing fewer people to enjoy ever greater spoils.

Rather fascinating theory about the Industrial Revolution, and how it didn't actually cause an acceleration in economic growth. The world was following a hyperbolic economic growth trajectory even before that, but the Malthusian Trap meant that population growth would always catch up and spread the resources thinly again. Our quality of living is mostly improving because we are inventing ever better machines at a faster pace than our population growth. Fewer people enjoy greater spoils.

I have never understood how people can find the motivation to implement an idea there is no demand for yet.