from a topological perspective, pizzas are also pyramids and cubes. from an enlightened topological perspective, pizzas are lines and points.

depends on the context, but σ is most often used to denote a member of a permutation group

don’t underestimate the frog in hot water effect. it can make it hard for some people to notice the dramatic increase if they aren’t paying close attention. it helps fascists gain power

i wish the oversized suit from 1984 was back in style

who’s sister?

every language has its own group of scoundrels

i was a teamaker today

it’s very telling that being pro palestine is immediately interpreted as being “anti israel”

no not like that

that’s what they tell you right before throwing you off the plane

the only problem with that is i’d need to change their mind again next year

unfortunately i don’t believe in uranium or numbers higher than 200, so this argument doesn’t work on me

Hasen first covered the issue on his blog last Saturday, where he cited 52 U.S.C. 10307©, the federal law that prohibits paying someone or accepting payment “either for registration to vote or for voting.” The penalty is $10,000 or up to five years in prison or both.

i wonder which of those penalties he’ll be getting

thank you for the explanation. that helps to clear things up a bit and it’s also nice to have some context for why things are the way they are in the language. i had always been told that the “ett/en” thing was just an arbitrary quirk of the language, so it’s nice to get a more concrete explanation of it.

the example you gave was also super helpful. i found it confusing that sometimes “hon” meant “it”. i had always been told (in casual conversations) that swedish wasn’t a gendered language, so that whole thing was quite confusing until now.

yeah it’s definitely a contender for first place

There is only two ways to protect a game against piracy, right? Either you don’t, or use our protection

this is the most denuvo quote i could possibly think of. it’s beyond parody, and yet, they went and said it anyway

interesting strategy to hire a lawyer for that instead of a psychologist

you’re right that lots of other languages have gendered nouns. however, swedish nouns are not gendered in the “traditional” sense. i.e., it is not the case that some nouns are “masculine” and others are “feminine”.

i think the wikipedia page does a good job of explaining it:

Nouns have one of two grammatical genders: common(utrum) and neuter (neutrum), which determine their definite forms as well as the form of any adjectives and articles used to describe them. Noun gender is largely arbitrary and must be memorized; however, around three quarters of all Swedish nouns are common gender. Living beings are often common nouns, like in en katt “a cat”, en häst “a horse”, en*fluga* “a fly”, etc.

edit: i wanted to clarify that this isn’t some major gripe i have with the language. i think all spoken languages are bound to have their own quirks and that’s okay, it can just make certain things a bit tricky when learning the language. as a whole, i think swedish is a very nice language

disposable vapes come with built in lithium batteries, while (most) disposable lighters don’t. so there is a very real difference between the two. but disposal lighters are also stupidly wasteful, so it would be nice to ban those as well.

i think you’re taking that quote out of context a bit. a few sentences later, the article says

Even physicians have weighed in on the shortcomings of B.M.I. The American Medical Association warned last year that B.M.I. is an imperfect metric that doesn’t account for racial, ethnic, age, sex and gender diversity. It can’t differentiate between individuals who carry a lot of muscle and those with fat in all the wrong places.

“Based on B.M.I., Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was a bodybuilder would have been categorized as obese and needing to lose weight,” said Dr. Wajahat Mehal, director of the Metabolic Health and Weight Loss Program at Yale University.

so the point they seem to be making is that, while BMI is controversial partly because people like to shoot the messenger, it’s also just not a reliable measurement in a medical context, even as a heuristic. the article also goes into more detail on its other shortcomings as well. the article also indicates how BMI was never intended to be used in a medical context. so, there are plenty of valid reasons for wanting a new metric.

but i do think the sentence you quoted isn’t really doing the author any favors in terms of trying to communicate the central point of the article.