SwingingTheLamp
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- 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! 11 hours 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] 2 days 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] 2 days ago:
I feel like Homo sapiens sapiens is not getting its due, here.
- Comment on To be happy… 2 days ago:
And a blow dryer is just overkill evaporation.
- Comment on New Delhi - during lockdown vs now 2 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 2 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... 2 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 3 weeks 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! 3 weeks 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! 3 weeks 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! 3 weeks 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! 3 weeks 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! 3 weeks 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! 3 weeks 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! 3 weeks ago:
The reason we don’t is because of the intense road rage it causes in drivers.
- Comment on Team Car! 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 👏.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
He was into Pink Floyd before they were cool (or were born).
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 5 weeks ago:
It’s not the case. We had WISC-TV, the CBS affiliate, on channel 3 in our area. I seem to recall that one could switch between channel 2 and channel 3 on the Atari RF modulators, and later, VCRs could switch between channel 3 and channel 4. I think they used 2 and 3 because those were the first two channels, and the FCC wouldn’t allow two adjacent channels in the same area, so one of the two would always be unused for everybody. (Oddly, there was no TV channel 1.)
- Comment on should ring a bell with everyone 5 weeks ago:
This joke is vintage: Everyone Involved In Pizza’s Preparation, Delivery, Purchase Extremely High
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Look at this guy, bragging about being appreciated, and more than once in a life, too.
- Comment on And Miss The Opportunity To Tap That Ass? 5 weeks ago:
Consistency? Nah! Kind of like Christianity is actually three belief systems in s trenchcoat.
- Comment on Fucking AI bullshit 5 weeks ago:
On the not-funny side, I went to a city government meeting some years ago where they were debating a development plan that included back-in parking stalls on the street. One of the city alders objected to that on the grounds that people like himself, in late middle-age, no longer have the flexibility to turn around and look behind the vehicle when backing up. This was before widespread back-up cameras in cars, so the implication was that he (and others like him) were just YOLO’ing it backwards out into traffic without looking.
(Even dumber when you realize that one of the advantages of back-in parking is that you don’t need to twist around to look behind when backing into a stall.)
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 1 month 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.