SwingingTheLamp
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- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 1 day ago:
You’d also have to deal with all of the residents who pitch a screaming fit any time anybody suggests maybe possibly removing a parking space. Unfortunately, it’s a whole, self-reinforcing system, not just the fault of a few corporations.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 1 day ago:
Whatcha gonna drive it on? The streets and roads are a major source of CO2 by themselves.
- Comment on We hate him no matter who he represents. 2 days ago:
Even Nixon’s head as President of Earth ran a weirdly benign and relatively competent administration as President of Earth. Yes, because Futurama is a comedy, but with all of these fictional Presidents, I think many Americans have (or hopefully had) little concept of just how much of our stability and prosperity actually was due to the government. Fictional accounts of how badly a President can fuck the U.S. just wouldn’t’ve landed as plausible with a general audience.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Correct. They introduced Coca-Cola C2 about 20 years ago, essentially a mid-calorie mix of original and zero. It didn’t sell well.
- Comment on Are we really doing this again? 4 days ago:
Three days, no pooping. In the early days of Lemmy, a mysterious poster asked how to accomplish this feat, and would not say why.
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 5 days ago:
Nah, but the crash after which four people burned to death while talking to the 911 dispatcher because they couldn’t open the doors happened just outside my city.
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 5 days ago:
The only thing nuttier might be door release handles under the floor mats.
- Comment on Teserract may be opensource, but adding myself would feel disingenuous 6 days ago:
Likely your username alone was enough to make the list, what with the allusion to eating the rich.
- Comment on My 98 Oldsmobile 6 days ago:
What’s really jarring is to see the old, American land yachts back in the day on the road next to the grotesquely-oversized pickup trucks we see everywhere. They look, well, not exactly small, but nothing at all like the bloated whales in our memories. Heck, my grandfather’s Cadillac seemed enormous at 225 inches long (the longest ever production car at the time), but the base model of the Ford F series is now 232 inches.
- Comment on My 98 Oldsmobile 6 days ago:
Seriously. This is a 10th generation Oldsmobile 98, with a 4,000 pounds curb weight. That puts it in the same range as smaller crossover SUVs these days.
- Comment on I'll take it to all 2 place it goes! 1 week ago:
Curiously, I’ve never seen a seat on public transit soaked with pee. If the seats that you sit in are routinely pee-soaked, one might start to draw some conclusions about the source of the urine…
- Comment on She's just defending her country 1 week ago:
Hahaha, lame comeback.
- Comment on She's just defending her country 1 week ago:
“Genocide is a-okay because somebody was mean to me on the Internet.”
- Comment on She's just defending her country 1 week ago:
No, that’s how the Israel describes fetuses.
- Comment on Old but gud 1 week ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s not taboo, it’s just untestable, and therefore not amenable to scientific inquiry. It’s a definitional issue; people who think about untestable things beyond physical matter are philosophers or religious scholars.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I was making a general observation about the human condition. Like, when there’s an airline incident, there’s an investigation, an NTSB report, and the FAA usually issues a rule change in response. When a driver runs over a pedestrian, it barely makes local news, and even then, the headline is usually about the traffic delay.
- Comment on IRJ 2 weeks ago:
It’s certainly not definitive proof his mind is cooked. It’s yet another bit of evidence to throw on the enormous, and ever-growing, heap of evidence.
- Comment on There's plenty to go around 2 weeks ago:
More like a brigadier general of truth.
- Suggestion: Lindsey Graham should be interred in a mausoleum behind a closet door.media.piefed.zip ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to [deleted] | 4 comments
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s a tragedy every every time.
(Terms and conditions apply. Offer not valid in Palestine, in schools, on streets and roads, on death row, for most brown people, or in any situation involving an armed government agent, including, but but not limited to police officers, sheriffs deputies, ICE agents.)
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Counterpoint: I am human, with a heart that can contain hate, bitterness, joy, hope, and all sorts of other feelings. To quote the words of Walt Whitman, I am legion; I contain multitudes.
Today, celebrating the death of evil is joy, but even so hate and bitterness often get a bum rap. They are sometimes our best motivators to act to change injustice, and as such, are vital emotions.
- Comment on Major media company asks itself why major media companies aren't exposing what's going on--"Where's Mitch McConnell?" mystery exposes media failures 2 weeks ago:
The railroad workers’ strike really gave the game away as to whom the Democrats actually represent: Biden made some reasonable points about how a transportation shutdown would affect the economy and national security, which would’ve provided ample justification to nationalize the rails and use access to them as leverage. (With the side benefit of fixing most of Amtrak’s problems.) But there was no talk of the railroad companies feeling any of the pain. Protecting the economy was a burden that the workers had to shoulder alone.
- Comment on Same day shipping 2 weeks ago:
If there’s anything that I value most in my shitposts, it’s timeliness and accuracy. Now, I feel doubt creeping in… is horse plinko maybe not a real game?!
- Comment on GinkNo. 3 weeks ago:
Well, the pollen does grow an enormous (relatively) schlong to deliver its sperm into the stamen…
- Comment on GinkNo. 3 weeks ago:
No, it’s genetically the offspring of the plant, and contains at least one non-reproductive cell. Pollen produces the male gametes, so the seeds created from it produce the 3rd generation of plant, genetically speaking. (1st gen is pollen producer, 2nd gen is pollen, 3rd gen is seed.) It’s basically an ultra-minimal gametophyte stage.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Oh! Oh! Another good one to know is the Fundamental Attribution Error. That’s the double standard whereby people explain their own behavior in terms of extrinsic influences and pressures on themselves, so that even if they do bad things, it’s not their own fault. They had little choice, you see. But, in contrast, we can’t see the extrinsic influences and pressures on other people, so we explain their bad behavior as the result of intrinsic factors, i.e. they’re bad people.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The driving one is called the Lake Wobegon Effect. When everybody rates themselves as above-average at something, like driving, that’s definitionally impossible. The name comes from the segment, the News from Lake Wobegon, on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion, which Garrison Keillor would always sign off, “That’s the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.”
But yes, it’s so common that the phenomenon has a name.
- Comment on Give the People What They Want 3 weeks ago:
Also, the Donate button goes to the Immigrant Defense Fund.
- Comment on Large portrait of Hagrid 3 weeks ago:
Yikes, I’m not a Harry Potter follower, so this is not so bad having learned the connection, because at first I thought he had the poo emoji’s evil twin on his crotch.
