Ásgeir Berg
asgeirberg.bsky.social
Ásgeir Berg
@asgeirberg.bsky.social
Philosopher at the Icelandic Institute of Philosophy.

http://www.asgeirberg.org/
Trump doesn't. But I think it can definitely help in some cases. Keir Starmer is messing up being PM in the UK probably for that reason.
November 15, 2025 at 8:48 AM
That's fair, and I think it can also be helpful in getting 1).

Keir Starmer is totally failing at 1) right now in the UK, and a big reason for that is that he doesn't seem to have many very strong views.
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
No, but I am not reading 1) that strongly—it doesn't exclude having strong views, just letting those strong views get in the way of 1)—which people on the non-right (I don't consider most Democrats left-wing) consistently fail to do.
November 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Of course, but if you fail at 1., your strongly held beliefs don't matter.
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Það vantar verulega mikið upp á fræðslu til almennings um þessi mál á Íslandi, ekki bara um þetta einstaka dæmi.
November 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Surely this must depend on the location. In any place I know, it's the total opposite.
November 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
In one of these, I had the option to choose "Wing Commander".
November 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
(Ég var að reyna að kommenta eins og hálfviti sem trúir ekki á loftslagsbreytingar. Hvernig tókst mér upp?)
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
And yet, there is still debate over if it is appropriate to call this fascism. It's absurd.
October 29, 2025 at 7:46 AM
A friend of mine recently did oral exams for everyone in his modules.
October 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
By saying "I do", you mean?
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
That's exactly what I thought, too. That if it's just a pronouncement, then whatever was being pronounced must have already happened.

But that's still puzzling—why did it happen?
October 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
So, when the priest performs his speech act, "I now pronounce you husband and wife" (that's what they say in the movies, I realised I have no idea what they actually say), what is the relationship of that to the marrying?
October 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
By "they" you mean, "the couple themselves"?
October 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Þeir vissu greinilega ekki að það er nóg að gefa bara peninga í eitt lið á staðnum.
October 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
On the model of "psychomachy", "psychiatry" and "psychotherapy" would seem to be the best options, unfortunately. None of these imply self-healing, however (or self-fighting).
October 28, 2025 at 9:22 AM
My grandfather and his brother both had the same name because my great-grandparents assumed that the one of them would die.
October 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I thought this was the menu at Hogwarts?
October 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
It's the implied cannibalism that bothers me.
October 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Hver þýðir nýjustu útgáfuna?
October 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM