SwingingTheLamp
- 1 Post
- 21 Comments
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•tech never works for longEnglish
6·28 days agoKind of meta, but does anybody remember garage door openers back in the day? My family had one for which the “security” consisted of an 8-bit “key,” as in, the remote had 8 jumpers, and the lift unit had 8 DIP switches. You’d cut jumpers in a certain pattern, and flip the switches to match. What was fun was seeing how many garage doors around town we could open using the default pattern.
Smart locks have got to be at least a slight improvent, right?
And tuff is rocks, so by the transitive property, science rocks.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipto
Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•America is a car country. For decades, millions of families relied on inexpensive cars to get from home to work and school. Now, a growing number of americans can't afford one.English
1·1 month agoIn 1979, when my parents bought a new Dodge Aspen wagon, its price of $5,000 was around the median car price, at about ⅓ of the median annual wage. That’s about $22,000 in 2026 dollars, which is about ⅓ of the median annual wage now. But the median car price is up to $50,000.
That is non-figuratively impossible. You can’t feel anything with nerve endings that have been removed.
Hah! Just as I suspected, you all only call your sport (also played on a field) “football” when Americans are listening in order to mess with us.
(/j, of course)
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipto
Political Memes@lemmy.world•Could you imagine writing for the Onion right now?English
1·1 month agoIt ran an article like that years ago.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipto
Global News@lemmy.zip•French central bank nets €13bn by pulling gold out of US reservesEnglish
0·1 month agoThe article offers some insight. This was a series of 26 transactions over the course of a year. If the bank bought European gold for its holdings, then later sold the U.S. gold, a rising price over time would mean a net profit.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•hot girls hate fascism❤️🔥English
1·2 months agoMake this your year!
That’s pretty fishy.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipto
memes@hexbear.net•In regards to the upcoming Shitlib "No Kings" bullcrap:English
5·2 months agoIndeed, not everybody is ready for the truly effective stuff: Posting memes criticizing “shitlibs” on a niche social media site nobody has heard of.
Tap for spoiler
That very well could be!
Connections often throws in red herrings, so I thought that no way could Javert and Clouseau could be connected. Then I saw Gadget, but simply could not find another Inspector. (OTOH, Clouseau, hootenanny, Moscow, and dioxide all have two O’s.)
It does occur to me that I know a nannygoat, but never would’ve thought of it. Oh well.
Wow, this puzzle defeated me utterly. I got none.
Tap for spoiler
Never heard of Inspector Morse, never knew the name for a female goat, never heard of the prefix twi- (and it means ‘half’ in twilight, not two), and haze is not a hypnotic state by any definition I’ve heard.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.ziptoShitty Ask Lemmy@lemmy.ml•How old were you when you turned 30?English
1·2 months agoBased on the complaints on Lemmy about how everything (knees, backs, etc.) goes to hell once you turn 30, I haven’t yet…
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipto
askchapo@hexbear.net•So how does theoretical physics "work" exactly?English
2·2 months agoAt the risk of oversimplifying, the experimental branch of a field tries things to see what happens, while the theoretical branch takes those observations about the world and tries to explain why it’s like that. They don’t call it theoretical geology, because there’s essentially no such thing as experimental geology, so it’s redundant. (Ain’t nobody got time to run an experiment that lasts a few million years, or funding to buy a test planet.) Geologists can mostly only try to explain what we can see about the Earth. In physics, it’s the difference between bashing particles together to measure what flies off, versus figuring out why those particular things flew off.
They properly ought to be complementary, with the theorists coming up with new hypotheses for the experimentalists to test.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.ziptoShitty Ask Lemmy@lemmy.ml•Why do light bulbs get screwed in?English
2·2 months agoFestoon, bayonet, wedge base, and bi-pin bulbs: Are we a joke to you?
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipto
Science Memes@mander.xyz•Benefits are limnited, but I guess there's no end to the liminal space photographs you can takeEnglish
7·3 months agoTrue, but to be clear:
Limnology : oceanography :: Freshwater biologist : marine biologist
Ramirez is usually a MAGA shitstain, so this is progress, I guess?
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipto
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Worf, with a good questionEnglish
3·4 months agoAnd yet, somehow, people willingly step into it all the time!
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipto
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Worf, with a good questionEnglish
1·4 months agoAnother question: Why do they still do natural childbirth when they have transporters?




Only speaking for myself, the following are necessary, but not sufficient:
I have suggestions if they want to get serious on Day 2, as well.