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 enclose.horse 2 days ago:
68!
- Comment on enclose.horse 2 days ago:
63
- Comment on Welcome to the thunderdome? 5 days ago:
A small fish with red fins and bright silver scales.
- Comment on Welcome to the thunderdome? 5 days ago:
It’s the fish scale meaning. If I could post all of the OED stuff here I would. The sense of flaking from a husk or rind is from the 1450s - onion skin is referenced in this sense. Oxide films like rust date in the 1520s, and scale for tooth tartar is from the 1590s.
- Comment on Welcome to the thunderdome? 5 days ago:
That is correct. It’s also a very modern sense of the word given the age of the root.
- Comment on Welcome to the thunderdome? 6 days ago:
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- Comment on Industrial Strength Shitpost 2 weeks ago:
There are almost always two answers:
- a) custom buttplug
- b) exothermic reaction
- source: I worked in an emergency room during training.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 2 weeks ago:
Quebecois French split from France ~400 years ago and has its own history. Acadian French has an even earlier split and can be very hard for Quebecois to understand.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 2 weeks ago:
Only if they copied the movies. Stewie in the Family Guy speaks in a Mid-Atlantic accent which is why he pronounces his H’s etc.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 2 weeks ago:
Everyone I know has met a killer.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 2 weeks ago:
I never really understood it until I met people from Iowa for the first time. They didn’t have an accent in the way that Sam Diego doesn’t have weather, just a climate.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 2 weeks ago:
Never really. Mid-Atlantic was taught in elocution lessons but didn’t really exist outside film and theatre.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 2 weeks ago:
Midwest is classic “broadcast English”. It’s considered an almost neutral accent without a strong sense of place associated with it.
- Comment on I need help finishing the SHITPO phonetic alphabet 3 weeks ago:
Kardashian
- Comment on The richest people in the world are morally bankrupt 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Mangina
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 3 weeks ago:
Worth less so harder to carry large amounts of capital.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 3 weeks 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? 5 weeks ago:
ADHD.
- Comment on A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team 5 weeks ago:
Not anymore.
- Comment on A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team 5 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 5 weeks ago:
You haven’t lived until you’ve had a pissing match on Quora, the home of the Superior Intellect™.
- Comment on Oechslegrad 5 weeks ago:
👏
- Comment on Fun Fact I bet you don't know 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Apples.
- Comment on card game shop 2 months 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" 2 months 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" 2 months ago:
😀
- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 2 months 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.
