SwingingTheLamp
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- Submitted 4 days ago to [deleted] | 3 comments
- Comment on The pothole puzzle: the bumpy ride to fixing Britain’s broken roads 1 week ago:
Hey, I think I cracked it, folks!
Central to all of this, unsurprisingly, are councils’ shrivelled post-austerity budgets, and the ever-increasing challenge of keeping road networks up to scratch when their other statutory obligations such as special needs.
Turns out, roads are really bloody expensive.
- Comment on long live the queen 1 week ago:
Is this a common problem for Bri’ish men?
- Comment on Boomer comics 1 week ago:
I support the death penalty for private equity executives.
- Comment on Depluralize 2 weeks ago:
One Thing, One Place, One at a Time
- Comment on It do be like that tho 2 weeks ago:
The ‘80s called, they want their demented President talking points back.
- Comment on Ol Nancys lil poodle 2 weeks ago:
Clearly! But sometimes you can get a peek into a disordered brain, which is fascinating. But this is just incomprehensible.
- Comment on Ol Nancys lil poodle 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 5 weeks ago:
Only speaking for myself, the following are necessary, but not sufficient:
- Hand him over to the International Court of Justice, along with his entire regime. *…including Schumer and Fetterman.
- Initiate prosecution of the actual criminals without fear or favor: ICE, cops, Musk, DOGE, wage-thieving employers, et cetera.
- Lock up the billionaires. Don’t be a lawless dictator, though, there is 110% some good, legal reason that can be found. (But shoot ‘em if they resist.)
- Bomb the IDF out of existence and round up illegal foreign agents (AIPAC, et al.)
I have suggestions if they want to get serious on Day 2, as well.
- Comment on Get in the AI cube 5 weeks ago:
But if we just get rid of humans altogether, then the cube is also free for AI to build a huge data center to run agentic workflows.
- Comment on A long-ass way to write 'not parmesan'. 5 weeks ago:
Parmesan has become the type name, and Parmigiano Reggiano is the protected name for the Italian cheese. There’s actually an urban legend that the Parmesan made in Wisconsin is the more authentic, historically-accurate recipe, because the cheese made in Parma and Reggio Emilia has evolved over the years, while the immigrants in the United States stayed true to the old methods.
Slate has a long read on the topic.
TL;DR:
Neither one is “authentic.” Both Wisconsin Parmesan and Parmiggiano Reggiano have evolved independently.
- Comment on A long-ass way to write 'not parmesan'. 5 weeks ago:
It’s not exactly sawdust, but they do have to add cellulose to pre-grated cheese, otherwise it will re-form back into a block of cheese. (Same reason why pre-sliced cheese has those bits of paper between the slices.)
- Comment on 3.9% APR 5 weeks ago:
And with the pickup trucks, it’s the high center of gravity which makes them deathtraps.
- Comment on 3.9% APR 5 weeks ago:
And yet the Model F trucks are consistent best-sellers today.
- Comment on tuff enuff 1 month ago:
And tuff is rocks, so by the transitive property, science rocks.
- Comment on And it's now time for everyone's favorite game.... 1 month ago:
Oh. I was supposed to lick it? I, uh, might’ve eaten it.
- Comment on And it's now time for everyone's favorite game.... 1 month ago:
The bootlickers aren’t giving practical advice when they say it; they’re victim-blaming.
- Comment on And it's now time for everyone's favorite game.... 1 month ago:
Counterpoint: Philando Castile, Daniel Shaver, Renee Good.
That’s why it’s Bootlicker Bullshit Bingo card.
- Comment on type shit 1 month ago:
Again, I have to express doubt. I understand brain plasticity, and why some people can read Braille, while I cannot. (I haven’t put in the work.) Sensory receptors are specific to certain functions, though, and one type cannot assume the function of another if it’s not present. Nobody can read Braille on their lower back, because it lacks fine-touch receptors.
I did read a study which made a good point about perceived intensity of sensation not correlating with number of sensory receptors. I can understand why circumcision may not affect many men. However, I stand by my statement that you cannot perceive sensation from receptors that are gone. WRT the original comment, there are some men who do experience lowered or absent sexual sensation due to circumcision. Perhaps their brains are attuned to those receptors that are gone. Also, later in life sensory perception of all kinds naturally begins to fade, and the number of missing receptors become more evident.
- Comment on Sneacking a meme in before .world updates 1 month ago:
Imagine being so ignorant and/or racist to call out another nation for human trafficking from the United States.
- Comment on type shit 1 month ago:
That, uhh, sounds nice and all, but I don’t believe it. This doesn’t even make sense on the face of it: Why does removing one body part lead to phantom pain signals, but removing another body part lead to improved sensation? Do people who lose fingers develop better sensation in their remaining fingers to compensate? Wouldn’t it stand to reason then that some men would get phantom foreskin pain?
- Comment on type shit 1 month ago:
That is non-figuratively impossible. You can’t feel anything with nerve endings that have been removed.
- Comment on type shit 1 month ago:
There are several possible reasons why other men might be upset, although your own equipment still works perfectly normally:
Just like women’s sexual responses differ, men’s sexual responses may differ, as well. I’ve learned from a friend, who’s had many male partners, that some men get intense pleasure from manipulation of their foreskin. Some can even reach orgasm that way. I’ve learned from several (intact) men on Reddit and Lemmy that their primary source of sexual sensation is their foreskin, rather than their glans. Losing a major source of pleasure could be upsetting.
This same friend also reports that, in his experience, intact men have better awareness of their own state of arousal, and better control of it. In brief, they can “last longer.” This is anecdotal, of course, but I seem to recall reading some research to back that up. That’s part of the reason why he’s upset by his being circumcised.
“Circumcision” is not just one thing. It ranges from the traditional bris (a small snip at the tip of the penis, so that the tip of the glans just peeks out) to amputation of the entire mobile skin system of the penis (about 15 sq. in. of adult tissue gone). I would imagine that men who have drum-tight skin on their penises, and must use lube to facilitate penetration or masturbation, might not like it, whereas a man whose glans was still covered when his penis was flaccid might not notice much difference.
The dorsal nerve of the penis can be severed during the procedure, removing sensation from the glans almost entirely, leading to erectile and performance issues, as well as greatly reduced enjoyment of sex.
The healing of the circumcision wound can go not-quite-perfectly, leading to adhesions, assymetry, tight frenulums, phantom pain, and scarring. Journalist Gary Shteyngart wrote an essay about the odyssey of pain that he was thrown into when a skin bridge (an adhesion) on his penis became infected. Worse, I recall a letter published in Savage Love from a man whose circumcision scar was so thick and inelastic that it caused the end of his penis to go ischemic, then necrotic, and then fall off when he was an infant. He’s left with a stub of a penis, and a pretty good reason to be upset about circumcision, I’d say.
- Comment on This keeps me up at night 1 month ago:
Can’t fool me, I saw that post about re-charging your cat from a plasma globe…
- Comment on This keeps me up at night 1 month ago:
So then why do we have the idiom, “dead cat bounce”? Seems this would only work until the cat dies. (Entropy is a bastard.)
- Comment on The true meaning of love 1 month ago:
The account over 2 years old, and just became active recently, so it’s unlikely. There was another user who seemed to take personal affront to violet08, and it’s more likely to be him based on how over-the-top that account’s posts are.
- Comment on I'm 29 and my partner is only 28 am I exploiting her? 1 month ago:
I used to date a woman who’s a month older than me. She used to joke about robbing the cradle. Too bad I’m not as clever as the Futurama writers, or I would’ve insisted instead that I was robbing the grave.
- Comment on Beautiful 1 month ago:
At least it’s better than when they cast Paul Bettany as Maturin in that movie opposite Russell Crowe. He’s not even a turtle, he just studied them.
- Comment on What the Hell is this Bull shit ? 1 month ago:
The six-packs of bottles sold in grocery stores have been 500mL for years. Probably somebody filled the machine with them. (The label should say, “Not Labelled for Individual Sale” near the barcode, if so.)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Thank Thomas Jefferson for that brain damage. It has a lot to do with why most of our topsoil is now in the Gulf of Mexico.
