SwingingTheLamp
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- Comment on Lead writer Margaret Hamilton standing next to the finished Moon landing script 22 hours 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day ago:
The reason we don’t is because of the intense road rage it causes in drivers.
- Comment on Team Car! 1 day 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. 4 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 1 week ago:
He was into Pink Floyd before they were cool (or were born).
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 2 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 2 weeks ago:
This joke is vintage: Everyone Involved In Pizza’s Preparation, Delivery, Purchase Extremely High
- Comment on [deleted] 2 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? 2 weeks ago:
Consistency? Nah! Kind of like Christianity is actually three belief systems in s trenchcoat.
- Comment on Fucking AI bullshit 2 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 3 weeks 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.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 3 weeks ago:
Whatcha gonna drive it on? The streets and roads are a major source of CO2 by themselves.
- Comment on We hate him no matter who he represents. 3 weeks ago:
Even Nixon’s head as President of Earth ran a weirdly benign and relatively competent administration as President of Earth. Yes, because Futurama is a comedy, but with all of these fictional Presidents, I think many Americans have (or hopefully had) little concept of just how much of our stability and prosperity actually was due to the government. Fictional accounts of how badly a President can fuck the U.S. just wouldn’t’ve landed as plausible with a general audience.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Correct. They introduced Coca-Cola C2 about 20 years ago, essentially a mid-calorie mix of original and zero. It didn’t sell well.
- Comment on Are we really doing this again? 3 weeks ago:
Three days, no pooping. In the early days of Lemmy, a mysterious poster asked how to accomplish this feat, and would not say why.
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 3 weeks ago:
Nah, but the crash after which four people burned to death while talking to the 911 dispatcher because they couldn’t open the doors happened just outside my city.
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 3 weeks ago:
The only thing nuttier might be door release handles under the floor mats.
- Comment on Teserract may be opensource, but adding myself would feel disingenuous 3 weeks ago:
Likely your username alone was enough to make the list, what with the allusion to eating the rich.