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 AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 2 days ago:
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 3 days ago:
I cleared all the question marks in Skellige in Witcher 3. I expected…something…anything?
- Comment on Huh? 1 week ago:
Aren’t these everywhere? Where I grew up they were called taverns, but this basically every bar that isn’t some scam for young people. Find yourself a dive bar and enjoy.
- Comment on Have you ever had a shave in a barber shop or spa? 1 week ago:
Not like that, no.
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 1 week ago:
Well we did have them. Still do in many cases although they are under pressure. And the Stronachs built their fortune through Magna supplying parts into manufacturing facilities.
I don’t know if we can cut those deals with China or not. But the low cost of those vehicles reflects low wages. So you can have cheap vehicles where every dollar supports a foreign economy, or more expensive vehicles where we pay a good wage to our friends and neighbours.
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 1 week ago:
I’m with you. My ideal vehicle would be the electric equivalent of the Mazda B2000 - compact single cab short bed pickup. Slate held some promise but I’m not sure that’s going to happen. The closest thing is the Maverick but it’s over-engineered and a crew cab.
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 1 week ago:
If you think this is a Kang and Kodos situation you are legitimately insane. On one side you have a PhD level economist (Oxon) who is former Governor of the National Banks of both Canada and England, and on the other you have a convoy supporting career politician who has been playing partisan gadfly since he was an undergraduate at University of Calgary.
Your quickness to bring in " throw away your vote" as aegitimate strategy screams of trolling.
- Comment on There aren't any ancient ruins with crazy traps and riddles 1 week ago:
Have I got a book series for you! Forensic accountant uncovers layers of bullshit in silicon valley by none other than our own @Pluralistic
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 1 week ago:
Well your realpolitik option is a supersized portion with Poilievre. Until we get proportional representation we are all jadtage.
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 1 week ago:
It’s a defensive posture. It’s those things that are keeping us from random 1,000,000% tariffs that would take a decade to litigate. Nobody wants it, but we kind of need to play along while we figure out how to get out of this mess.
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 1 week ago:
We were part of that cabal - it was called the auto pact. In a sane world it integrated our manufacturing processes so that we could be players rather than consumers. The Canadian market is small and fragmented so we don’t wield any power as a consumer nation. Be careful what you wish for.
- Comment on Eggs don't just grow on trees! 1 week ago:
discover.hubpages.com/living/A-Step-by-Step-Guide-to-Growing-Eggplant
- Comment on If it fits... 2 weeks ago:
Years ago I dated a woman who owned an Innocent I, an import that made the Mini look like a monster truck. Having that thing moved onto a sidewalk or spun sideways, backwards etc was a regular feature of our weekend’s.
- Comment on Is ice heavier than water? 2 weeks ago:
Density is mass by volume. The volume changes because of the crystalline lattice. The mass doesn’t change. I’m trying to decide if you’re trolling or not.
- Comment on Cuntry music 2 weeks ago:
Look son, it’s great that you want to participate in the conversation, but maybe get some experience with the basics and come on back. We’ll still be here and ready to talk.
- Comment on Cuntry music 2 weeks ago:
It ruins it. With stockings you can reach the prize. Pantyhose blocks access.
- Comment on Cuntry music 2 weeks ago:
Kris Kristofferson said that about Toby Keith.
Kris was a veteran who was anti-war. Keith was a loudmouth piece of shit “patriot” who never did shit for anyone. The occasion was a concert for Willie Nelson’s birthday and Keith was needling Kristofferson about not singing any of that pansy peace stuff.
- Comment on enclose.horse 3 weeks ago:
68!
- Comment on enclose.horse 3 weeks ago:
63
- Comment on Welcome to the thunderdome? 3 weeks ago:
A small fish with red fins and bright silver scales.
- Comment on Welcome to the thunderdome? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Welcome to the thunderdome? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Industrial Strength Shitpost 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
Never really. Mid-Atlantic was taught in elocution lessons but didn’t really exist outside film and theatre.
