DrBob
@DrBob@lemmy.ca
Recovering academic now in public safety. You’ll find me kibitzing on brains (my academic expertise) to critical infrastructure and resilience (current worklife). Also hockey, games, music just because.
- Comment on Giant Study May Have Found The Ideal Amount of Coffee to Lower Stress 2 days ago:
Most useless kind of study. Participants were asked how much coffee they drank at the start of the study and never asked again. Thirteen years later their records got reviewed for mental health diagnoses. So there is no confirmation of what their coffee consumption actually was at the start, and no idea of how that consumption changed over the course of 13 years. Just bullshit.
- Comment on The fact that we have dreams is crazy. That we remember them is crazier. 4 days ago:
We don’t usually remember them. We have dream fragments but don’t usually remember entire dreams. And you probably only remember one when you will have 5-7 full dreams a night. You can train yourself to remember if you dream journal ( I did this for a while iny teens) and gave it up.
Number one they weren’t all that interesting in aggregate. Just bizarre and disturbing (most dream content has a negative emotional quality to it). Second you can get really good at remembering them, and it was taking an hour every morning just to write them all down.
- Comment on Migration minister fails UK citizenship test question 1 week ago:
92%. Canadian.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It would have no effect whatsoever. All of that learning stuff is forebrain function. It’s hard to acquire, and the first thing to go when under stress or intoxicated. People make all kinds of bad decisions when they know better. They splurge on vacations when they are already paying interest on credit card balances. They sleep with strangers while they want to keep a stable home life. They buy too much car or spend to much on clothes for little hits of feel good when they would be better off saving money.
Knowing something doesn’t equate to action. And the impulse to gamble can easily over ride some school lesson on poor odds of winning.
- Comment on It should be a strict rule 4 weeks ago:
I can’t imagine the zoning bullshit that would have happened in that scenario. You can’t put a golf course anywhere on any patch of ground. That’s why there are course architects.
- Comment on It should be a strict rule 4 weeks ago:
Not a big deal. They move the holes every week to keep the wear on the green even. There is a hand tool that cuts the hole and you drop the plug in the old one. The cup is just a plastic sleeve. It takes less than 10 minutes a hole.
- Comment on It should be a strict rule 4 weeks ago:
Is this someone who doesn’t understand what happens on a golf course?
- Comment on Not gonna lie, I kind like it 4 weeks ago:
1965 clocking in. I want slippers and some soup.
- Comment on Ikea 5 weeks ago:
Somebody saw the jackass movie.
- Comment on How come decades in the 1900s look fairly well differentiated but from like 2004 on feels like a giant run on? 1 month ago:
Your impression of those decades is influenced by styling and design.
Photos of actual people on the street show a lost less variation between the 1950s, 60s, and 70s than you might imagine. But when stylists want to cue the era they dial up tropes that are instantly recognizable. Bobby sox and poodle skirts are instantly recognizable as 1950s style, but it probably applied to only a small geographical area in a few urban areas. Similarly the greaser stereotype was not widespread. But now you’d believe that half of high schools were wearing white t-shirts and leather jackets.
I lived through the punk scene. Half the people at the shows I went to look like they were part of a varsity basketball team. We had one friend who had spiked hair and people would cross the street to avoid him. The styling now would have you believe that most young people were decked out in eyeliner and bondage pants.
- Comment on Every man has his weakness. Mine was always just cigarettes. 1 month ago:
This is “the Cigarette Smoking Man” from the X-Files just in case anyone is missing the reference.
- Comment on Im dating myself but on the show NYPD Blue they showed the top part of Dennis Franz ass. In hingsight seems kinda mild but what was the huge uproar about back then? 1 month ago:
We didn’t see asses on TV. We still don’t see them on broadcast. It’s more common on cable.
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 2 months ago:
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 2 months ago:
I cleared all the question marks in Skellige in Witcher 3. I expected…something…anything?
- Comment on Huh? 2 months ago:
Aren’t these everywhere? Where I grew up they were called taverns, but this basically every bar that isn’t some scam for young people. Find yourself a dive bar and enjoy.
- Comment on Have you ever had a shave in a barber shop or spa? 2 months ago:
Not like that, no.
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 2 months ago:
Well we did have them. Still do in many cases although they are under pressure. And the Stronachs built their fortune through Magna supplying parts into manufacturing facilities.
I don’t know if we can cut those deals with China or not. But the low cost of those vehicles reflects low wages. So you can have cheap vehicles where every dollar supports a foreign economy, or more expensive vehicles where we pay a good wage to our friends and neighbours.
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 2 months ago:
I’m with you. My ideal vehicle would be the electric equivalent of the Mazda B2000 - compact single cab short bed pickup. Slate held some promise but I’m not sure that’s going to happen. The closest thing is the Maverick but it’s over-engineered and a crew cab.
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 2 months ago:
If you think this is a Kang and Kodos situation you are legitimately insane. On one side you have a PhD level economist (Oxon) who is former Governor of the National Banks of both Canada and England, and on the other you have a convoy supporting career politician who has been playing partisan gadfly since he was an undergraduate at University of Calgary.
Your quickness to bring in " throw away your vote" as aegitimate strategy screams of trolling.
- Comment on There aren't any ancient ruins with crazy traps and riddles 2 months ago:
Have I got a book series for you! Forensic accountant uncovers layers of bullshit in silicon valley by none other than our own @Pluralistic
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 2 months ago:
Well your realpolitik option is a supersized portion with Poilievre. Until we get proportional representation we are all jadtage.
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 2 months ago:
It’s a defensive posture. It’s those things that are keeping us from random 1,000,000% tariffs that would take a decade to litigate. Nobody wants it, but we kind of need to play along while we figure out how to get out of this mess.
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 2 months ago:
We were part of that cabal - it was called the auto pact. In a sane world it integrated our manufacturing processes so that we could be players rather than consumers. The Canadian market is small and fragmented so we don’t wield any power as a consumer nation. Be careful what you wish for.
- Comment on Eggs don't just grow on trees! 2 months ago:
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- Comment on If it fits... 2 months ago:
Years ago I dated a woman who owned an Innocent I, an import that made the Mini look like a monster truck. Having that thing moved onto a sidewalk or spun sideways, backwards etc was a regular feature of our weekend’s.
- Comment on Is ice heavier than water? 2 months ago:
Density is mass by volume. The volume changes because of the crystalline lattice. The mass doesn’t change. I’m trying to decide if you’re trolling or not.
- Comment on Cuntry music 2 months ago:
Look son, it’s great that you want to participate in the conversation, but maybe get some experience with the basics and come on back. We’ll still be here and ready to talk.
- Comment on Cuntry music 2 months ago:
It ruins it. With stockings you can reach the prize. Pantyhose blocks access.
- Comment on Cuntry music 2 months ago:
Kris Kristofferson said that about Toby Keith.
Kris was a veteran who was anti-war. Keith was a loudmouth piece of shit “patriot” who never did shit for anyone. The occasion was a concert for Willie Nelson’s birthday and Keith was needling Kristofferson about not singing any of that pansy peace stuff.
- Comment on enclose.horse 2 months ago:
68!
