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 If you see a bunch of otherwise normal people with the same odd behavior then you are probably seeing the effects of a marketing campign. The effects can last for years, even decades. 2 hours ago:
Or theatre students. They used to send them out to act weird in public to get over feeling self conscious.
- Comment on Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments 1 day ago:
- Comment on Researchers from the University of Zurich secret unethical experiment deployed AI-generated comments on Reddit to study how AI could be used to change views. 1 day ago:
Great. Now what about all the other bots on the site?
- Comment on Asking the important questions 3 days ago:
Your late cat clearly had an “outie”.
- Comment on Asking the important questions 3 days ago:
Well does it!!??!? DON’T LEAVE US HANGING!!1!!1!
- Comment on Thought provoking tee shirt 4 days ago:
What is the bad news?
- Comment on Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a phone person. What benefit does this provide?
- Comment on What is Superman's "kryptonite"? 2 weeks ago:
True heterosexual love between a biological man and a biological woman. It’s why he never hooks up with Lois Lane and keeps sneaking peeks at Jimmy’s junk at the gym.
- Comment on No Weirdos 2 weeks ago:
I’ll take two!
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
He is genuinely stupid. He’s infuriated because people push back.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 5 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. 5 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 5 weeks ago:
I know several people that have bought more than one wedding dress.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
You just need to interact with people. You’ll figure it out as you go like the rest of us.
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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] 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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? 3 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? 3 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…
