SwingingTheLamp
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- Comment on Wtf 9 hours ago:
- Comment on A Statement From The White House 14 hours ago:
BTW, this is one of those Mandela Effect things. The actual brand name is singular: Depend®
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- 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.
- Submitted 4 days ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- 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 [deleted] 1 week ago:
Apparently not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If you have the privilege to ignore “politics” while people are gravely suffering in real life, is it so hard to just ignore it in your Lemmy feed?
- Comment on If every accusation is a confession, the “woke mind virus” panic was a clear-cut admission of an existing opposite-ideology virus that's making many people very mentally ill 1 week ago:
Yes. Very much so. Calling it a “virus” is an analogy to simplify the concept to a sound bite, and an author like Neal Stephenson made a “mind virus” central to the plot of his book, Snow Crash. But strip away the literary liberties, and it’s based on real neuroscience. See, for example, this article from a few years ago.
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It is well-documented that for example words like “reptiles” and “parasites” were used by the Nazi regime to compare outsiders and minorities to animals. Strongmen throughout history have referred to targeted social groups as “rats” or “pests” or “a plague.” And it’s effective regardless of whether the people who hear this language are predisposed to jump to extreme conclusions. Once someone is tuned into these metaphors, their brain actually changes in ways that make them more likely to believe bigger lies, even conspiracy theories.
I have this pet theory that the fact that some of the first TV broadcasts were Hitler’s speeches is more than just a historical curiosity. Broadcast media (i.e. radio) had come along just a few years before. Right after it provided a way for authoritarian leaders like Hitler to reach great numbers of people with their spoken words., the world saw an explosion of right-wing populism at a scale never seen before. I suspect it’s not just a coincidence. (The Nazis certainly understood the propaganda opportunity.)
It certainly resembled a viral outbreak.
- Comment on There are people out there who could utterly smash world records but no-one will never know as they haven't taken up that sport. 1 week ago:
Would that be a human with ostrich legs, or an ostrich with a human body? Indeed, there are a lot of philosophical questions, but if we’re allowing technological augmentation, then Todd Reichert is indisputably human and managed 144 kph.
- Comment on There are people out there who could utterly smash world records but no-one will never know as they haven't taken up that sport. 1 week ago:
Kinesiologists and mechanical engineers are the who. Ostriches have a radically different body plan than humans, one that’s mechanically much more suited to running fast. Add long, lightweight legs which bend the other way and hence have advantageous leverage and a stride length of 3 to 5 meters. (Usain Bolt has a stride length of less than 2.5 meters, and he’s an outlier among humans.) Even if we genetically engineered a hyper-fast-twitch muscle fiber and springy tendons, those would just tear apart our joints when paired with the body mechanics and locomotion style we’re working with.
- 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 Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 1 week ago:
I have to give it this much respect: When I logged in to office.com (for work) recently and was confronted with the Copilot chat-box, I asked it how to disable Copilot. It was honest, and told me that it’s not possible because this is Microsoft’s new product strategy. Then, I asked how I could never see Copilot again.
It (no joke!) told me to install Linux.
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 1 week ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I dunno, when was the last time Japan dismembered a reporter at one of its consulates?
- Comment on You can checkout, but you can never checkin. You will only ever check in, or check-in 2 weeks ago:
In my mind, I can’t checkout, because it’s a noun or an adjective. I always do verbs, so I check out.
- 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 Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh 2 weeks ago:
On climate change, I gotta disagree. We have two major drivers of climate change: Greenhouse gas emissions, and land-use changes. The land-use changes go way back. We’re in the geological epoch called the Anthropocene, one in which humanity is the dominant force in shaping the biosphere. There’s some debate about it, but some scientists place the beginning of the Anthropocene as much as 15,000 years ago, driven by habitat destruction and resource extraction to support growing human populations. It takes a lot of natural resources to support each human to the standard to which we’ve become accustomed, and even the poor people in Western countries live a lifestyle that the Earth cannot sustain. It’s not just billionaires, it’s all of us.
Similarly with fossil fuels. We know that a handful of mega-corporations produce the fossil fuels responsible for the majority of greenhouse gas releases, but they’re not the ones releasing the gases. We can’t just abolish them and expect nothing to change about our daily lives. We’ve reached a point at which even working class people in the United States can order up a taxi for their beef burrito.
Instead, we can say that this wanton shredding of our natural inheritance enables flows of wealth that allow unscrupulous hands to skim criminal quantities off the top for their hoards. Even if we depose them, though, we’d still have the climate change problem to tackle.
- Comment on Remember those "Silly rabbit, Trix is for kids!" ads? Well, if that rabbit wants Trix so bad, the kids in the ad can just ask their parents to get another box and such for him - cereal problem solved. 2 weeks ago:
Seriously, though, Trix ads were a great example of psychological manipulation. They don’t try to convince you that Trix is desirable—because of course everybody wants Trix—instead they frame the question: Does the rabbit get any? It was an example of the Thinking Past The Sale technique.
- 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 An all in one PC is less all in one than a laptop (it's only one less part than a regular PC) 3 weeks ago:
I was gonna say that this was my favorite all-in-one, but then I remembered the mouse. And the keyboard is removable, so that’s, like, 2½ pieces?
- Comment on The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing 4 weeks ago:
On the other hand, some people blow their tops when I match singular they to singular verb forms. I think people just like getting angry.
- 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.
