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 The richest people in the world are morally bankrupt 4 days ago:
At a party hosted by a billionaire hedge fund manager, Kurt Vonnegut turns to Joseph Heller and says, “Our host made more money yesterday than you’ve made from Catch-22 over your whole life.”
Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he’ll never have—enough.”
- Comment on I need help finishing the SHITPO phonetic alphabet 4 days ago:
Mangina
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 4 days ago:
Worth less so harder to carry large amounts of capital.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 4 days ago:
Depends on your threat model. During speculative bubbles capital flows towards gainers no matter how crazy (NFTs anyone?). During corrections capital flows back towards commodities, and gold is … er…the gold standard. It has a lot of industrial uses blah blah blah. Copper is also good for these purposes and is an interesting contrast.
Nobody says “if you can’t touch it, you don’t own it” for copper or oil or pork bellies. That’s because that advice isn’t about using gold as an inflation hedge or safe harbour in a bear market. That advice is predicated on compete monetary collapse and the use of gold as currency. If you don’t live in a space where you can grow some of your own food, and have access to potable water from your own well I wouldn’t worry to much about it. You will starve to death or die in the food riots so gold won’t help anyways.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 weeks ago:
ADHD.
- Comment on A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team 2 weeks ago:
Not anymore.
- Comment on A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team 2 weeks ago:
It’s difficult to follow. It’s like they are drunkenly telling their side of the story to someone who already knows what happened.
- Comment on Change my mind 2 weeks ago:
You haven’t lived until you’ve had a pissing match on Quora, the home of the Superior Intellect™.
- Comment on Oechslegrad 2 weeks ago:
👏
- Comment on Fun Fact I bet you don't know 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact: this is simply incorrect. It was simply an occupational descriptor. OED has a citation from 1280 when none of our current cultural baggage applied.
- Comment on what is the best fruit to leave in a fridge? 4 weeks ago:
Apples.
- Comment on card game shop 1 month ago:
Are you made from sugar? I’m part of the two-a-day club. When I wake up and after the gym.
- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 1 month ago:
I do. Have a good what? Date?Sandwich? Shit? They have no idea what I’m up to next.
- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 1 month ago:
😀
- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 1 month ago:
I’m almost 60 and I have heard that from as long as I can remember. “Have a good one” though…I first heard that in the early 2000’s and it sounded stupid then. And it sounds stupid now.
- Comment on I have no idea what this is about 1 month ago:
It wasn’t a motorcycle, it was on water skis.
- Comment on Animal guessing game!!! 2 months ago:
Is it an asshole?
- Comment on JFC, who did this?! 2 months ago:
What is it?
- Comment on US presidents are getting younger over time 2 months ago:
The fact that Trump was older when elected is part of the joke.
- Comment on US presidents are getting younger over time 2 months ago:
Whoosh
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Enjoy it. Am almost 60 and would love to be 37 again.
- Comment on *They drew First Blood, not me.* 3 months ago:
Thank you. I was seeing wood.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
If we can agree that children shouldn’t see beatings, torture, and murder, then sure.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 months ago:
Source?
- Comment on We're not just married. We are a team that solves problems together 3 months ago:
?
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 3 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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? 4 months ago:
Hi-viz and hiking boots.
- Comment on Do you still remember? 4 months 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?