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 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? 6 hours 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 1 day 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. 2 days 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 6 days ago:
One of the shittier starwars movies. That exchange was the best part.
- Comment on Please help me remember the name of a game. 6 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week ago:
Pitfall by Activision for the Atari 2600. I’m old.
- Comment on Even Silicon Valley Says that AI Is a Bubble 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
92%. Canadian.
- Comment on Missing Letter 4 weeks ago:
File under ‘don’t mix your letter cases’.
- Comment on It should be a strict rule 1 month 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 1 month 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.
- Comment on It should be a strict rule 1 month ago:
Is this someone who doesn’t understand what happens on a golf course?
- Comment on Not gonna lie, I kind like it 1 month ago:
1965 clocking in. I want slippers and some soup.
- Comment on Epstein survivors Sunday Super Bowl ad to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world 1 month ago:
I am and it loaded.
- Comment on How come decades in the 1900s look fairly well differentiated but from like 2004 on feels like a giant run on? 1 month ago:
Your impression of those decades is influenced by styling and design.
Photos of actual people on the street show a lost less variation between the 1950s, 60s, and 70s than you might imagine. But when stylists want to cue the era they dial up tropes that are instantly recognizable. Bobby sox and poodle skirts are instantly recognizable as 1950s style, but it probably applied to only a small geographical area in a few urban areas. Similarly the greaser stereotype was not widespread. But now you’d believe that half of high schools were wearing white t-shirts and leather jackets.
I lived through the punk scene. Half the people at the shows I went to look like they were part of a varsity basketball team. We had one friend who had spiked hair and people would cross the street to avoid him. The styling now would have you believe that most young people were decked out in eyeliner and bondage pants.
- Comment on Every man has his weakness. Mine was always just cigarettes. 2 months ago:
This is “the Cigarette Smoking Man” from the X-Files just in case anyone is missing the reference.
- Comment on Im dating myself but on the show NYPD Blue they showed the top part of Dennis Franz ass. In hingsight seems kinda mild but what was the huge uproar about back then? 2 months ago:
We didn’t see asses on TV. We still don’t see them on broadcast. It’s more common on cable.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 2 months ago:
I cleared all the question marks in Skellige in Witcher 3. I expected…something…anything?
- Comment on Huh? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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 Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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! 2 months ago:
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