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 We're not just married. We are a team that solves problems together 14 hours ago:
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- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 14 hours ago:
I’ve been friends with HR people at a number of jobs. They generally party hard. I’ve also always had the understanding that if they have to walk me we’d be professional about it. I’ve never been let go.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 5 days ago:
“Government” has two meanings here. The oppostion has an official role in “governance” which is why they have offices, sit in committees, have research budgets, vote etc. In a minority government situation The backbenchers have a great deal of control over the process. Opposition included. The “GOVernment” controls the process to great extent.
This isn’t like the American system where the minority partner is relegated to the sides. The opposition play a very strong role in the parliamentary process. It doesn’t map well onto American politics at all.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 6 days ago:
That is the Westminster system. It’s fine in that the head of the executive only has power so long as they have the confidence of the elected members. If the elected members lose confidence then the government falls. The government is the house, so your vote does directly influence the government on either the government or opposition side. Don’t get too jealous of the American system - it’s a bloody mess in its own right.
- Comment on Have you ever been invited to a search party? 3 weeks ago:
Hi-viz and hiking boots.
- Comment on Do you still remember? 3 weeks ago:
Oldsmobile Delta 88. I learned to drive in the largest car the driving school had. The thinking was if I could maneuver that beast everything else should be easy. I guess it worked?
- Comment on I wonder if the spice girls still get along or if that "friendship never ends" thing was just a lie. 4 weeks ago:
The Spice Girls were real stuff. They were put together but revolted against the producers who were trying to control the group. In an infamous episode they stole the masters for what became the first album and released it themselves.
- Comment on Google Gemini is coming for your private apps. Here's how to stop it 5 weeks ago:
Not Pixel 6?
- Comment on I require nothing more 5 weeks ago:
I lived like this the first year of my postdoc and couldn’t have been happier. I had 4 place settings but only used one and washed it after every meal. Desk, computer, one camp chair, and an inflatable mattress. Stayed that way until my wife joined me my second year and made me get a real apartment.
- Comment on There's no wrong way to stroke it 1 month ago:
It’s very short and perpendicular to the skin. It feels like velvet.
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 1 month ago:
Better than almost every other option.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 months ago:
Well it is during a midlife crisis.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 months ago:
I have done all of these. None of them were a midlife crisis - that was straight fucking.
- Comment on Infinite glitch 2 months ago:
She was never quiet about this.
- Comment on Fresh 2 months ago:
Methane flavored.
- Comment on Remember, kids! Unregulated capitalism is not your friend! 2 months ago:
There would be blood loss to the limbs and nerve damage from any appreciable time strung out like that.
- Comment on Tity more tity, the Greed is sickening 2 months ago:
It’s just because pergin hasn’t hit the mainstream yet.
- Comment on Tity more tity, the Greed is sickening 2 months ago:
I had to look.
- Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range 2 months ago:
I have an older comment that goes through Tesla’s litany of woes and the stock goes up with every piece of bad news. It is being supported by something other than reality.
- 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. 3 months ago:
Midday on the subway. I knew someone who attended that school and it was literally part of intro performance.
- 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. 3 months 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 3 months 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. 3 months ago:
Great. Now what about all the other bots on the site?
- Comment on Asking the important questions 3 months ago:
Your late cat clearly had an “outie”.
- Comment on Asking the important questions 3 months ago:
Well does it!!??!? DON’T LEAVE US HANGING!!1!!1!
- Comment on Thought provoking tee shirt 3 months ago:
What is the bad news?
- Comment on Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days 3 months ago:
I’m not a phone person. What benefit does this provide?
- Comment on What is Superman's "kryptonite"? 3 months 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 3 months ago:
I’ll take two!
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 4 months ago:
My parents did. But that was before I was born, so the early 1960s.
