SwingingTheLamp
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- Comment on Why is Mississippi taking so long to certify? The Democrat has 49 percent. The Republican 48.9 percent and the Independent has 2.1 percent. How hard is it to do simple math? 5 days ago:
Mississippi law allows ballots that are postmarked by election day, if they’re delivered within 5 business days. They can’t calculate the final count until the 10th.
- Comment on What a night 6 days ago:
You may be interested in seeing a report of what happens when bicyclists do just that .
- Comment on Elections Have Consequences 6 days ago:
Remember: Every accusation is a confession with that cult. Humans are not telepathic, so we can’t know what’s in anybody else’s mind. We can only guess at others’ motivations by analogy to what’s in our own heads. So when they hyperventilate about weird, sexual stuff that’s forced on them…
Well, hell, there are enough headlines about it that I think I don’t need to spell out the conclusion here.
- Comment on This guy already voted, did you ? 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure that Mitch McConnell is human, but the battery in the control device that they implanted in his brain was failing. (And now has failed.) That’s why they switched to putting one of their own in an ill-fitting human suit, and calling him “Ted” Cruz. Pretty sure they’re reptilians, which is why that volunteer has to engage in behavioral thermoregulation.
- Comment on This guy already voted, did you ? 1 week ago:
More convenient. The polling place is on the way to work, a few blocks from my house. The early voting locations are much further away. I have a friend who volunteers at a polling place every election, and he’s explained the procedure to me: Even if I voted in-person absentee (i.e. early), they keep my ballot sealed until election day, then it has to be transported to my polling place, and an election volunteer has to physically walk it through the same process of consulting the voter book, and placing it in the scanner.
It’s not quite the same, of course. I was behind one of these volunteers this morning, and he located a long list of voters in the book, rather than doing it one at a time. But, at the bottom line, my ballot has to be physically cast at my polling place on election day by somebody. So why not go do it myself?
- Comment on Two young action movie actors, Tom Holland and George Lazenby, both at 29 in their respective photos. Or: a 2020s man of action vs. a 1960s man of action. 1 week ago:
Not this crap again.
Dustin Hoffman was 30 years old in The Graduate (1967). Sean Connery looked like he could’ve been 30 in his high school yearbook photo. There have always been baby-faced actors, and actors who look older than their age. We could just as easily compare Dick van Dyke at age 30 in 1955 with Bill Skarsgård at age 30 in 2021, and reach similar conclusions about the effects of, say, highly-processed food and microplastics.
- Comment on Heels are for everyone✨ 1 week ago:
I find the whole history fascinating. European aristocracy adopted heeled shoes from the Mongols, and drastically increased the height of them. The whole point was that they were poorly adapted to everyday life, and signaled that the wearer had enough wealth and status to be idle and wear impractical things. Women adopted the fashion, and the heels on their shoes got slimmer, and the shoes got curvier. Then men stopped wearing heels, which were by then seen as delicate, fragile, and effete. Y’know, feminine traits.
The women-as-beauty-objects theme came back when early, 19th century photographers had the models wear heeled shoes in the erotica / pornography they started producing. Those shoes weren’t practical at all for standing or walking, but the models, uh, didn’t need to stand up. It wasn’t until the advent of cheap steel in the 20th century that the stiletto heel became structurally sound enough to walk on.
I just find it so bizarre that the high-heeled shoe is practically a torture device, and a historical symbol of female disempowerment and status as merely a sex object, and so many women adore them! It’s also strange how they made the transition from porn to office wear.
- Comment on why i love my country 1 week ago:
Seriously? I’ll call him President when he acts like one.
- Comment on *boioioioing* 2 weeks ago:
On second thought, do let the door hit you on the way out.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
Look at it this way, though: You have a system which limits the progress of far-right populists. Great! We don’t. But if we try to explain how the system screws us over, it’s just “excuses.” And our protests that get people out in the streets are “ineffective.”
We’re doing the same as you, which is everything legally and procedurally possible, and protesting, too. A little empathy, and understanding the limits of our system would be nice.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
It didn’t take long for you turn into an ass, though, did it?
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
Ditto.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
Yes, that is my point, too. Notice how the excuses start to fly when I apply the same (warranted) criticisms to other countries that so many non-Americans lob at the U.S. It doesn’t feel good, and doesn’t help anything, does it? Everybody should knock it off, and work together instead of basking in self-righteousness.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
I do, it’s a legislative body comprised of elected representatives from geographic areas, often based on proportional representation. But that shouldn’t prevent the French people from doing something about right-wing populism, and Le Pen in particular, any more than the U.S. system prevents Americans from doing something about it.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
But she holds national office. Why don’t French people “do something” about it?
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
Funny, though, I’m just repeating back word-for-word what other countries tell us Americans.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
Oh, prance around with some signs on a Saturday when they’re off work. So effective! /s
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
Sounds familiar.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
“Something.” Whatever it is we’re supposed to do, do it, so she doesn’t get elected.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
We’re told to “do something” about our President constantly. Do that.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
This criticism would hit so much harder if, say, the people of France would do something about the hard right, but, oh look, Marine Le Pen can run for president again? Sounds familiar.
- Comment on Sean Connery in 1964 (on the set of Goldfinger) and Thomas Brodie-Sangster in 2024. Both age 34 in their respective photos. 2 weeks ago:
But, you can only tell that because one used sunscreen, and one didn’t. Otherwise they’d look exactly identical. /s
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Mahatma Gandhi’s only fans
Yeah, that one is dark humor.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Naw, the picture is just a coincidence.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Well, would this joke have worked as Malcolm X’s Only Fans? Would anybody have bothered to message a friend to share that Warpigs username? There’s no connection to what Parks is known for, no parody or subversion of expectations, other than the transgression of presenting a respected, famous person as a low-status sex worker. And it only works for a woman.
(OTOH, Henry Kissinger’s Only Fans might work based on the incongruity of anybody thinking of such a ghoul in a sexual context.)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Or he’s using the gray-rock technique to confront pretty blatant misogyny.
- Comment on Who suffers da most 2 weeks ago:
This right here is how toxic masculinity is done. One of its main rules is: “Men don’t complain.” Height privilege is real, as described by another Lemming in this thread. But a shorter man lamenting that he’s on the wrong end of it is breaking the rule, so instead of sympathy, he gets told that he’s defective for having a natural, human reaction.
(Yes, I know I’m breaking the rule, too.)
- Comment on Why DDG is the superior serch engine 2 weeks ago:
I’d like to see the X-ray of that.
- Comment on Why DDG is the superior serch engine 2 weeks ago:
Why do non-US people get weirdly emotionally invested in it? I mean, if we’re criticizing, it’s worse that US recipes use cups and tablespoons (measures of volume) for ingredients (like flour) that should be measured by weight.
- Comment on Banana for scale 3 weeks ago:
It’s about 1 BTU per fluid ounce per degree Fahrenheit, so:
128 fl oz × (212 - 68)°F × 1BTU/fl oz•°F = 18,432 BTU
Add in the enthalpy of vaporization:
7.5 BTU/fl oz × 128 fl oz = 960 BTU
So, about 19,392 BTU.
I’m cooking pasta for dinner, and I didn’t do any calculations. I just put the water in the pot on the stove, and waited for it to boil. Which was kind of the point of my question. Metric is all neat and elegant, but that’s irrelevant in daily life, because if I did have to calculate the energy requirement, I’d have to look up the enthalpy value, because it’s not memorable, as well as figuring in the actual atmospheric pressure to determine the actual boiling temperature. It makes all the sense in the world to use SI where it matters (e.g. science experiments), but customary units persist because in so much of daily life, it doesn’t matter.