SwingingTheLamp
@SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I recently learned through the grapevine about a person who identifies as a man, uses he/him pronouns, but had bottom surgery to have female genitalia. Personally, I can’t grok the urge to do either of these surgeries, but it’s fascinating to hear about the diversity of sexual identities. Thanks for sharing!
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- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 4 days ago:
For what it’s worth, I’d call that a failure of collaboration, rather than losing the competition, assuming she communicated what works for her in some reasonable manner. I mean, I’m assuming that they wouldn’t dump an unskilled man who’s open to improvement?
- Comment on Wink Wink Nudge Nudge 4 days ago:
My T-rex is going to take a bite out of your flying saucer, if you know what I mean. *wink*
- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 4 days ago:
Yeah, for many of us, the experience of women wanting sex is rare. All of those “I have a headache tonight” jokes didn’t just fall out of the sky. And, the expected retort to that example is, “obviously, you’re not very good at it, then,” which reinforces the idea that sex is a competitive event that a man has to develop his skills at in order to be allowed admission, rather than a collaborative activity for the enjoyment of both partners. Under that model, stuff which he enjoys and she doesn’t is “perverted,” and lots of us men end up thinking we’re some grotesque deviants for wanting.
- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 4 days ago:
With an extreme vore fetish, once is all you get.
- Comment on ngl kinda hoping people start arguing over this 1 week ago:
Always use the smaller roll first. If you use the bigger roll, it’ll become the smaller, and vice versa, until both run out at about the same time. If you always use the smaller roll, it’ll run out first, with the big roll in reserve, giving you a chance to replace the empty one with no TP supply disruption.
- Comment on Good point 1 week ago:
Pro tip: Not a good idea to carve one’s initials into a moose.
- Comment on Good point 1 week ago:
Fun fact: Orcas sometimes prey on moose.
- Comment on Goddammit 1 week ago:
He’s outside of the blast radius. (I’m assuming this is the aftermath of the guy in the foreground ripping ass, right?)
- Comment on Welcome to industrialization, bitchass 1 week ago:
In part, it was about states’ rights. Except, the South was opposed. It forced northern States to enforce its laws with the Fugitive Slave Act. The northern states’ insistence on their right to abolish slavery within their own borders was one of the big factors in the South seceding.
- Comment on Welcome to industrialization, bitchass 1 week ago:
Whoa. When you put of that way, it’s the Jevons Paradox again.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 1 week ago:
I read an interview, probably from NPR, but I can’t find it at the moment. The upshot was that caring for infants is insanely expensive, since they need one-on-one care pretty much continuously.
But parents can’t afford that cost, so, essentially, the price they charge for infant care is a loss-leader, and parents of older children (who need less supervision and thus more favorable staffing ratios) subsidize the cost of caring for infants. Daycare operators are barely keeping afloat.
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 2 weeks ago:
Our city buses do it as a routine part of many routes, as do school buses. Large trucks and construction vehicles, too. Me, when I’m towing my boat sometimes. Intersections inherently force vehicles into cross paths. That’s what an intersection is. So, if it’s dangerous, then we shouldn’t have intersections.
Call out the real problem here: shitty, entitled drivers.
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 weeks ago:
Yes, in general, but the mentally unstable lawbreaker (i.e. the driver who can be provoked into sociopathic behavior by a minor inconvenience) is at fault here.
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 weeks ago:
You raise a valid point about how our legal system can be used as a tool of oppression. However, in practice, the State Patrol here are generally pretty ethical, and they pull people over for speeding and reckless driving most of the time. Never for obeying the speed limit.
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 weeks ago:
Exceeding the speed limit is still not legal.
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 weeks ago:
I don’t do that, though, and even said so.
But even if I did, blaming me instead of the aggressive drivers is something.
- Comment on Pro tip 2 weeks ago:
Where I live, nudity is not by itself considered indecent, so this would not be true.
So, be sure to rub one out during the crime.
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 weeks ago:
For obeying the law, and acting courteously, I’m an entitled piece of shit. What a world we live in. What a world!
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 weeks ago:
Regardless of laws? Ah, so speeding is against the law, whodathunk? Funny that it’s the lawbreaker’s self-appointed duty to enforce the passing lane, which, again, isn’t a thing where I live.
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 weeks ago:
Lol, no.
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 weeks ago:
I can’t find it now, but the local newspaper asked the State Patrol about it some years ago. They were clear: They cannot issue tickets for “obstructing traffic” for driving at the limit in any lane.
It appears that the conflict described by the sheriff is that he’s reluctant to call breaking the speed limit the “normal flow of traffic.”
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 weeks ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 weeks ago:
As I’ve been reminded, it’s not your job to police other drivers’ behavior. 😉
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 weeks ago:
I’d just point out, as in my original comment, that is incorrect in Wisconsin. It is perfectly legal to drive at the speed limit in the left lane here. We don’t have any notion of a passing lane in state law.
Out of courtesy, I stay to the right, but almost every semi is doing 65MPH when the limit is 70MPH, the adaptive-cruise people hanging behind them are even slower. So, I pass them. Interestingly, by following the speed limit, I’ll encounter maybe one or two left-lane campers in a four-hour highway trip. It would seem that the people trying to police the behavior of slower (than they’d like) drivers in fast or passing lane are the greater problem.
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes you gotta pass speed-governed semis and adaptive-cruise folks; I’m not worried about criminals’ opinions of me.
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 weeks ago:
No, not if they’re travelling at about the speed limit.
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 weeks ago:
Incorrect in Wisconsin, FWIW. By law, we have the speed limit, and “slower traffic keep right.” And there’s no keeping-up-with-flow-of-traffic clause, either. So traveling at the limit in the left lane is completely legal, there’s no obligation to clear the way for lawbreakers.
- Comment on Conservative values 2 weeks ago:
Nah, three marriages == 3× the sanctity. It’s just math.