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 Is ice heavier than water? 1 day 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 1 day 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 days ago:
It ruins it. With stockings you can reach the prize. Pantyhose blocks access.
- Comment on Cuntry music 2 days 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 6 days ago:
68!
- Comment on enclose.horse 6 days ago:
63
- Comment on Welcome to the thunderdome? 1 week ago:
A small fish with red fins and bright silver scales.
- Comment on Welcome to the thunderdome? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Welcome to the thunderdome? 1 week ago:
- 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 I need help finishing the SHITPO phonetic alphabet 3 weeks ago:
Kardashian
- Comment on I need help finishing the SHITPO phonetic alphabet 4 weeks ago:
Mangina
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 4 weeks ago:
Worth less so harder to carry large amounts of capital.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 4 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 Popcorn Ceiling Removal 4 weeks ago:
It helps with sound damping. A room without it needs a lot of soft surfaces to prevent it becoming an echo chamber. You can hear rooms “boom” after this is done.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 5 weeks ago:
ADHD.
- Comment on Change my mind 1 month ago:
You haven’t lived until you’ve had a pissing match on Quora, the home of the Superior Intellect™.
- Comment on Oechslegrad 1 month 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.
- Comment on I have no idea what this is about 2 months ago:
It wasn’t a motorcycle, it was on water skis.
- Comment on Animal guessing game!!! 3 months ago:
Is it an asshole?
- Comment on JFC, who did this?! 3 months ago:
What is it?
- Comment on Dr.K Explains Tylenol and Autism 3 months ago:
Who the fuck is Dr K?
