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 load bearing worm 2 weeks ago:
I knew drug company scientists who didn’t trust anything in academia for this reason. The incentives were aligned on the wrong side of dishonesty. If stuff didn’t work out in pharma you just moved on to the next idea.
- Comment on wish i wasn't 3 15 years ago 2 weeks ago:
I too am old friend. I also read The Selfish Gene before the world glommed onto it.
- Comment on got denied during a threesome😩they said this is a strict limit 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Ballsacks are ok too during a DP, but I’m not going to kiss the guy. That’s just weird.
- Comment on load bearing worm 2 weeks ago:
I had a labmate who insisted on ph testing distilled water. Not because he was concerned about contamination, but because it was part of the ritual.
- Comment on wanna have a perfectly healthy guy take 1 recreationally so i can use him as a human dildo for hours 2 weeks ago:
I’m 60. They are useful for recreational purposes. Going one round is not a problem, but the second round? I used to measure refractory periods in minutes, then hours. Now I could use a calendar.
- Comment on Has there ever been a country who did not have an enemy or pick a fight? And was pretty much like all of you do you we will do us. kind of like isalationism but charitable when it counted? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have an answer for Afghanistan. We suck. Iraq? My understanding is that we wouldn’t go without a UN resolution which was not forthcoming. We have officers posted in other countries for various exchanges and they fought with their host countries. So we had a few hundred people there in various roles. I don’t know about the clandestine participant but.
- Comment on Has there ever been a country who did not have an enemy or pick a fight? And was pretty much like all of you do you we will do us. kind of like isalationism but charitable when it counted? 2 weeks ago:
We have. Notably during the World Wars. But we didn’t instigate those conflicts. We managed to avoid Viet Nam. We were involved in Korea but that was following a UN resolution.
- Comment on Has there ever been a country who did not have an enemy or pick a fight? And was pretty much like all of you do you we will do us. kind of like isalationism but charitable when it counted? 2 weeks ago:
Canada? We’ve been in a bunch of fights but haven’t picked them ourselves. Consider the bloody battle for Han Island as an example. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War
- Comment on The Future is Now! 3 weeks ago:
I’m suggesting that any company that has a robot that does this is in deep fucking trouble. They should pull an Allbirds and do an AI pump and dump because they are far behind the market.
- Comment on The Future is Now! 3 weeks ago:
What am I missing here?
- Comment on The Future is Now! 3 weeks ago:
The video I linked I shows the Intree robot running at 10 m/s…that’s a sub 3 minute mile. Anything so janky that there is a stretcher sitting by the starting line is either staged or generated. No company that is serious about the field is going to show themselves as being slthat far behind their competitors.
- Comment on The Future is Now! 3 weeks ago:
It has to be AI. This is the current state.
- Comment on “isn’t sleeping with men to maximize dad’s business deals / for favors basically prostitution?” 3 weeks ago:
Hotwife is a legitimate kink. It can be useful as well as satisfying.
- Comment on The future is bright... 3 weeks ago:
Each line is in white is an independent phrase. They follow a theme but aren’t meant to make a sentence.
- Comment on Interesting park sculpture 4 weeks ago:
I can’t quite put my finger on it.
- Comment on Interesting park sculpture 4 weeks ago:
Not really. I feel like the artist stopped short when there is so much more to explore.
- Comment on How do first time movie writers ensure someone along the way won't get ripped off? Like say Jay in the mail room sees your scripts and develops it himself, what recourse is there against mail clerk? 5 weeks ago:
Adding to this that anyone worth pitching does everything they can to avoid contact with unsolicited scripts. When they want one they grab one they’ve already optioned or go with established pros. So if the mailroom guy is your worry, then you’re already out of the running. And the mailroom guy won’t have any better luck with it anyways.
- Comment on LEARN THE TRUTH 5 weeks ago:
The rabbit doesn’t lay eggs. They are both Celtic fertility symbols. Ostara is a spring festival tied to the spring equinox focused on awakening and rebirth. The church of Rome repurposed it into Easter.
- Comment on I'm not saying that I agree. But I understand. 5 weeks ago:
What’s the scale on the left? There are 11 tick marks between major divisions so I don’t think it’s feet. And none of the numbers look like a 3 or 4 and she’s not 7 feet tall.
- Comment on Entrainment Entretainment 5 weeks ago:
One of the shittier starwars movies. That exchange was the best part.
- Comment on Please help me remember the name of a game. 1 month ago:
Was it Pong?
- Comment on Whatever you feel about Bond Films, Do you think it wouldn't be best they just ended it with the last film. 1 month ago:
Expect a Moneypenny spinoff. Or Secret Life of Q.
- Comment on When you're the last one on the bus and instantly start living like this 1 month ago:
You still can. Amtrak will haul it around for you. www.amtrak.com/privately-owned-rail-cars
- Comment on What was the first game you ever bought ? 1 month ago:
I just gave my DnD blue box set to a friend last week. I bought it in 1979 😄
- Comment on What was the first game you ever bought ? 1 month ago:
Pitfall by Activision for the Atari 2600. I’m old.
- Comment on Even Silicon Valley Says that AI Is a Bubble 1 month ago:
The argument that the bubble is good because some people will become really rich while a lot of people suffer just seems genuinely stupid.
- Comment on Migration minister fails UK citizenship test question 1 month ago:
92%. Canadian.
- Comment on Missing Letter 2 months ago:
File under ‘don’t mix your letter cases’.
- Comment on It should be a strict rule 2 months ago:
I can’t imagine the zoning bullshit that would have happened in that scenario. You can’t put a golf course anywhere on any patch of ground. That’s why there are course architects.
- Comment on It should be a strict rule 2 months ago:
Not a big deal. They move the holes every week to keep the wear on the green even. There is a hand tool that cuts the hole and you drop the plug in the old one. The cup is just a plastic sleeve. It takes less than 10 minutes a hole.