SwingingTheLamp
@SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip
- Comment on Wtf 1 day ago:
- Comment on A Statement From The White House 1 day ago:
BTW, this is one of those Mandela Effect things. The actual brand name is singular: Depend®
- Comment on OK, it looks nice, but you get an award for it? 3 days ago:
If you do it well enough.
- Comment on I detect no errors of logic here 4 days ago:
That’s exactly what I mean. They know they’re into the most depraved shit, and they like it because it’s a way to break taboos and demonstrate their power. (Power is the real paraphilia.) I feel like it’s literally incomprehensible to them that somebody with the connections and influence to do it (e.g. Hunter Biden), too, just… wouldn’t. Because of course everybody wants to! So if Biden wasn’t in Epstein’s orbit, it must have driven them mad wondering what he was doing that was so much better (by their taboo-breaking standards) than what they were doing.
- Comment on I detect no errors of logic here 4 days ago:
It all makes sense to me now: The Grand Old Pedophiles were obsessed with Hunter Biden because, if he wasn’t in the Epstein files, he must’ve been into some real shit, right? Their minds just can’t process the idea that a powerful man would be satisfied with vanilla stuff like sex with consenting adults.
- Comment on Before you get vaccinated, consider this 5 days ago:
It wasn’t the vaccine, that was just a cursed year. Everybody born in 1798 has died, too.
- Comment on The dream! 6 days ago:
I was briefly tempted by a winterover job there. It’d be a pay cut, plus a year and a half of continuous winter, and I’m not totally convinced that the U.S. would still exist by the time they’re supposed to pick us up.
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- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 1 week ago:
Hahaha, that’s what I love the most! The downvotes come flying fast ’n furious on driving-related posts. It’s so consistent, across any social media or forum site. I can only speculate, but I think it’s the cognitive dissonance, because know from extensive real-life observation that driving makes people miserable and angry, even while they claim to enjoy it. Thus, it’s really easy to make observations that puncture the illusion.
Our criminal “justice” system sucks, period. It’s about vengeance, and racism, not about rehabilitation. We should reform it from top to bottom for every crime, not simply exempt one in particular because folks wanna zoom-zoom.
- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 1 week ago:
John could just follow the law. I love these discussions, because drivers get so angry when I call out their criminal behavior.
- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 1 week ago:
Oh, my heavens, a THIRD PARTY! /s
Yes, these devices cost money to produce, install, and operate. Don’t want to pay for one? Stop breaking the law.
- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 1 week ago:
Food is even more fundamental to survival than our four-wheeled toys, but if you habitually go to the grocery store and eat without paying, you’ll end up in jail. Shelter is more important, too, but that doesn’t mean that I can just take up residence in any house or apartment that I please. I’d go to jail for trying.
So, I really have no sympathy for the claim, “we can’t take away cars!” Take them away from people who can’t be bothered to follow the laws that let us live together in society, even though they knew the consequences. Maybe sell them off and use the funds to provide food and shelter to the homeless.
- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 1 week ago:
Agreed. The best solution, as always, is to design streets and roads so that driving unsafely feels unsafe, so that everybody naturally slows down. Until that happens, this is a good program.
- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 1 week ago:
What happened to “don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time,” or, “shoulda thought of that before breaking the law”?
- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 1 week ago:
This scheme would reduce ticket revenue, though. And if criminal scofflaws have to pay, good, fuck ‘em. The New York taxpayers shouldn’t take on the burden. They could avoid the cost trivially.
- Comment on Choina 1 week ago:
Bubba is aroused.
- Comment on Anyone? 1 week ago:
No, they told me I could stop.
Come to think of it, the word they used was “should”. They were really quite emphatic about it.
- Comment on Stop listening to them and anyone in government that endorses them 2 weeks ago:
So if this person no longer works for Pfizer, spill the beans! Tell us about all of the cures that it killed.
- Comment on Still have a couple unsmacked gobs, though 2 weeks ago:
My timbers have been shivered.
- Comment on major dick bong 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on [meme] choochoo 4 weeks ago:
From the passenger’s perspective, a taxi and a self-driving car are functionally identical. But back when Uber, Lyft, and the rest were offering cheap rides subsidized by VC money, all that happened was that they made traffic congestion slightly, but measurably, worse. People didn’t give up private cars in large numbers, though.
If we get self-driving cars, then people’s private cars can add to the problem by cruising around empty most of the time, and if they’re not in them, there’s nobody to be bothered by traffic delays. The only way to achieve the dream of eliminating gridlock would be to ban private cars. And if that were politically feasible, why not just do it now with transit?
- Comment on [meme] choochoo 4 weeks ago:
How will that help? By some studies, about 30% of traffic on downtown city streets is drivers circulating looking for street parking. With self-driving cars, they could cause congestion by circulating all day instead of parking.
- Comment on [meme] choochoo 4 weeks ago:
We haven’t banned cars, but my city did put a park-and-ride lot at each end of its one BRT line. It’s pretty great, now the haters get to complain that BRT is a failure because nobody rides it, AND that it’s useless because those lots are always full.
- Comment on The boy who was relentlessly bullied by his uncle 4 weeks ago:
Hey, is this the 500/10 guy?
- Comment on Noses run, feet smell 5 weeks ago:
Homonyms.
- Comment on Protein bar 5 weeks ago:
*Probiotic protein bar.
- Comment on Stay under the speed limit, guys. It's not worth it. 5 weeks ago:
If it makes you feel better to believe that, go ahead. For my part, I think it’s a pretty obvious truth that when the government makes an open-access highway for everybody to use, everybody is going to use it, even in ways you may not like. Especially when it makes driving the fastest and most convenient way to get around. (Making driving on the highway faster than public transit requires lots of infrastructure, and was a deliberate policy choice.)
- Comment on Stay under the speed limit, guys. It's not worth it. 5 weeks ago:
So there you have your answer as to why she’s on the highway to begin with!
- Comment on Stay under the speed limit, guys. It's not worth it. 1 month ago:
The other drivers could also take those different roads, too, and avoid the slow driver, no?
- Comment on Stay under the speed limit, guys. It's not worth it. 1 month ago:
Maybe your local government could do proper planning so that convenient and timely public transit would offer her a viable alternative to driving? Let’s not blame individuals for systemic problems.
