SwingingTheLamp
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- Comment on Sudden rule 1 week ago:
Su-u-u-ure the rabbit didn’t have anything to do with anything. That exactly what a guilty rabbit would say.
- Comment on you can date the time period by popular catch phrases 1 week ago:
You can perhaps tell who the elderly are, if they ask if you’re reluctantly crouched at the starting line.
- Comment on ‘I feel invisible’: over-50s reveal harsh realities of trying to get a job 1 week ago:
If they call you on it, just say you’re ambitious and may run for President one day.
- Comment on Beer garden ready 1 week ago:
Sad. Back in the day, everybody could tell by the pixels that it was ‘shopped.
- Comment on Citizens United was never about helping people 2 weeks ago:
OWS didn’t fail. It was brutally crushed in a coup coordinated by the Obama administration.
- Comment on What is the name of this knot? And how does one tie it? 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps a variant on the trucker’s hitch? (Assuming that this was used to tie the canoe to the roof of a car.)
- Comment on Happy *blank*! 2 weeks ago:
Health* to America!
(* The RFK Jr version of health.)
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 3 weeks ago:
I will say that there’s immense value in symbolism, performative values, and simply being caught trying by voters. Yes the President will veto anything good, but fucking make him do it. Go on social media and the talk shows to rip him a new one for all of the good things that he’s actively preventing. Move the Overton Window. Change the terms of the public discourse.
Governing long ago moved beyond mere parliamentary procedure; it also needs to be a show that the people in the cheap seats (a.k.a. low-information voters) can watch.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m not very proficient in Spanish, so I don’t see where those numbers come from, but they’re clearly incomplete. Traffic deaths alone were 1.34 million in 2023, and unless it was mosquitoes driving…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I feel like Homo sapiens sapiens is not getting its due, here.
- Comment on To be happy… 3 weeks ago:
And a blow dryer is just overkill evaporation.
- Comment on New Delhi - during lockdown vs now 5 weeks ago:
This is kind of misleading. Delhi commonly experiences fog in the winter months. Since the same weather conditions that form fog (atmospheric stability) also cause pollution to accumulate rather than blow away, the city gets AQI spikes and fog at the same time. The photo on the right is smog, but also representative of what you’d see if there were no air pollution.
- Comment on The Woke Veggie Tale Leftists Won't Tell You About This One 5 weeks ago:
It was the Minoans. Well, at least there’s an argument to be made. The time and place match well for stories of such journeys to make it into the Iliad and the Odyssey.
- Comment on I had always wondered... 5 weeks ago:
Haha, my Lemmy blocklist is mostly empty… I have a pretty good idea already of what this will turn up.
- Comment on Lead writer Margaret Hamilton standing next to the finished Moon landing script 1 month ago:
Easy to confuse, but Judith Love Cohen was an electrical engineer who worked on the Apollo program, as well. She’s credited with work that saved the Apollo 13 astronauts. She later became Jack Black’s mom.
- Comment on Team Car! 1 month ago:
No, my apologies! It’s even a personal rule of mine to not tell people what they believe and experience.
- Comment on Team Car! 1 month ago:
I stop at stop at stop signs, and see others do, too. So it happens. Probably as often as drivers stop at stop signs.
- Comment on Team Car! 1 month ago:
Oh, I did do that, didn’t I? Crap. I meant it in the general-you sense. But still, cyclists obey the law more often than drivers when researchers do objective counts.
- Comment on Team Car! 1 month ago:
Bullshit. Cyclists obey the rules of the road at greater rates than drivers. It’s just that you expect drivers to behave like entitled dipshits, so their lawbreaking is less visible.
- Comment on Team Car! 1 month ago:
The Netherlands was as car-brained as most other countries. Then, they changed course after the Stop de Kindermoord (Stop Murdering Children) protests, and started to build for people outside of cars. The process of rebuilding is still underway, now, in 2026.
The difference is not that the Netherlands was originally built for bicycles. It was not. The difference is that Americans don’t give two shits about the lives of children.
- Comment on Team Car! 1 month ago:
I first found John Forester’s book in the library in the 90s, and it felt like a tome of secret, special knowledge. Then, I read more of it, and it did not match my experiences.
Jason Slaughter has now done a very extensive takedown video on his Not Just Bikes channel, which is far more congruent with what I have seen. Taking the lane is effective when there’s no other choice, when it’s too narrow for cars to pass, but drivers will try anyway.
Otherwise, there’s very little that’s safe about it.
- Comment on Team Car! 1 month ago:
The reason we don’t is because of the intense road rage it causes in drivers.
- Comment on Team Car! 1 month ago:
You say that, but drivers would lose their minds of bicyclists followed the same rules. Example: Taking the whole lane.
- Comment on They grow up so fast. 1 month ago:
Fun fact: Birth of an Electrician is one of Arthur lesser-known plays.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 month ago:
They’re supposed to, right? If they tasted good, then they’d just be Boomer soda full of HFCS, instead of a Millennial medicine-y vibe with “energy.”
- Comment on I'm interested. Any ideas? 1 month ago:
A millionaire with a private island? What is this— the 1930’s? You’ve got to be a millionaire just to retire these days, and even then, it’s not a sure bet.
- Comment on Delicious 1 month ago:
I know the pain. Reminds me of my last road trip, where the best hot food option available was a pizza place that charged an extra $4 for a chickpea crust. $19 for a tiny, shittier pizza. No, thanks. Doritos and soda FTL.
- Comment on Delicious 1 month ago:
Every time I see this meme, I get sad that there’s nobody selling cake in my car. But also glad, because why would they be in there?
- Comment on Fact Check 1 month ago:
What we learn here is that Mike Rogers thinks America may have deserved the 9/11 attacks. It’s an open, debatable question in his mind.
- Comment on Hmmm 1 month ago:
Yes, harm reduction is paramount. You must vote for and support the candidate who’ll kill only 700,000 people. It’s a moral imperative, because 700,000 is less than 5,000,000. Harm 👏 reduction 👏.