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 Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 week ago:
My parents did. But that was before I was born, so the early 1960s.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 week ago:
Dictionaries are like cats. They just find their own home.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 week ago:
I’m 60 so I’ll take 40.
- Comment on Trump threatens 'far larger' tariffs if EU and Canada unite to do 'economic harm' to the U.S. 1 week ago:
He is genuinely stupid. He’s infuriated because people push back.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 2 weeks ago:
1.4 billion missing from balance sheet. Stock goes up.
Every cyber truck in North America recalled. Stock goes up.
Tesla banned from Canadian EV rebate program due to evidence of institutionalized fraud. Stock goes up.
No idea what’s going on.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 weeks ago:
How is this useful? Shouldn’t the female be deaf - or is there something about mosquito mating I don’t understand.
- Comment on DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy 2 weeks ago:
I know several people that have bought more than one wedding dress.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You just need to interact with people. You’ll figure it out as you go like the rest of us.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s your boyfriend’s kink, and a pretty common one. I’m also GenX and shaving/waxing is pretty normal for us for both sexes.
Historically, a pornstar named Seka was the first clean shaven woman I saw (yes it was a magazine spread). That was the 1980s and I was trimming by the 90s.
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 5 weeks ago:
¯_(ツ)_///¯ That’s just part of the fun. The colours are based RGB values so they are what they are.
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 5 weeks ago:
You and your friend can both do the test above and see exactly where your breakpoints are.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s the consumer market. It’s more expensive to manufacture with physical controls, keyboards, and moving parts. It wasn’t lack of consumer demand that killed the phono jack.
- Comment on If I was a Health Care CEO after Luigi and felt in fear of my life from someone else how would I hire security? What would be a good deal? And does security act like the Secret Service to take a bulle 1 month ago:
This is truer than you can imagine. At least from what he told me.
- Comment on If I was a Health Care CEO after Luigi and felt in fear of my life from someone else how would I hire security? What would be a good deal? And does security act like the Secret Service to take a bulle 1 month ago:
The wads of money stuffed in their pockets act like a pillow suit.
- Comment on Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women 1 month ago:
Dildos have been around a lot longer than that. allthatsinteresting.com/history-of-the-dildo
My understanding is that “hysteria” legitimized the use of the vibrator (not unlike how “weight loss” was used in the 1980s to prescribe fentanyl), but they were around before that, and probably would have found another way of entering the mainstream.
- Comment on If I was a Health Care CEO after Luigi and felt in fear of my life from someone else how would I hire security? What would be a good deal? And does security act like the Secret Service to take a bulle 1 month ago:
There are a lot of executive security firms. If you have the wallet They have emergency doctors on retainer, private hospitals, helicopters on standby. Yes they will take a bullet for you, but you’ll pay for that privilege. I knew someone who worked for one of the firms in a managerial role.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Could you summarize? I’m not watching that.
- Comment on The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis 1 month ago:
And the answer is"What is the Poisson Distribution" Alex.
There is literally a distribution that describes the occurences of low probability events in large populations. It was developed to study deaths by horse kick in the Prussian army. So confidence intervals never come into it. You’re applying Stats for Communications Majors reasoning to an adult problem.
- Comment on The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis 1 month ago:
Are you telling me that 35,000 vehicles is not a sufficient sample size to assess safety? Are you for real?
- Comment on The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis 1 month ago:
You can draw conclusions because there’s only 35,000 on the road. That is a terrible rate.
- Comment on would you buy a compact laptop that has spacebar touch sensitivity and allows you to adjust input sensitivity, giving it dual purpose (a spacebar and a mouse)+ it has integrated A5 printer in it? 2 months ago:
Absolutely not. I loathe gestures my touchpad and disable everything I can.
- Comment on What is the origin of aliens looking like humans? Why and when did it become the norm? 2 months ago:
May I suggest Solaris by Stanislaw Lem? The alien is a sentient ocean that doesn’t understand the distinction between past, present, or future, or between dreaming and wakefulness. It causes some issues…
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 3 months ago:
It’s a modern convention. In the Celtic calendar solstice marked the middle of winter and older Christmas carols mark Yule as midwinter. m.youtube.com/watch?v=1_R3GPkIDeM
- Comment on wtf Cambrian 4 months ago:
PRE-Cambrian my dude. The Cambrian explosion of life is associated with conventional body plans.
- Comment on somebody has to do it! 4 months ago:
Behold wonders of the Beaver Deceiver!
- Comment on The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books 5 months ago:
I am a professor. I’m fine with choosing to consume shorter media - I read very few novels any more either. I think the point that the students appear unable to read long form. It actually matches up with my own experience where incoming students have never had to write long form either.
- Comment on The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books 5 months ago:
I’m curious what the downvoted was for.
- Comment on Eat lead 5 months ago:
Thanks! I assumed it was rhetorical question but this waaaaay outside my area of expertise.
- Comment on Eat lead 5 months ago:
Is decay the only way to get lead? I mean if uranium gets synthesized can’t lead get made as well?