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 I Support Greater Saskatchewan 11 hours ago:
Goddamit. Now it’s Manitoba. 😡
- Comment on I Support Greater Saskatchewan 12 hours ago:
We want to spread his influence over a larger area to thin it out.
- Comment on I Support Greater Saskatchewan 13 hours ago:
Easy to draw, hard to spell.
- Comment on I Support Greater Saskatchewan 13 hours ago:
Truth.
- Comment on I Support Greater Saskatchewan 13 hours ago:
If you mean my shitpost worthy work in PowerPoint, you bet. Dammit I’m a doctor not a cartographer deadbeef!
- Comment on I Support Greater Saskatchewan 15 hours ago:
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- Comment on I Support Greater Saskatchewan 15 hours ago:
- Comment on I Support Greater Saskatchewan 15 hours ago:
They follow lines of latitude and longitude so straight lines on a curved surface. It’s slightly untrue on the Eastern border that looks like a jagged edge due to the dominion land survey. But it was meant to be straight.
- Comment on I Support Greater Saskatchewan 17 hours ago:
It wouldn’t be Saskatchewan then.
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- Comment on Welp 3 days ago:
You have that 100% wrong. Wealthy Viennese families were complaining that their adolescent daughters were making up stories about being meated by their fathers and uncles. Freud built an entire field around this idea of the I’d and subconscious desires rather than believe in child abuse. This book is written by a former Director of the Freud archives and explains the issue pretty well. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Assault_on_Truth
- Comment on WOMEN. 1 week ago:
Clearly you have never met stupid people. Lucky you.
- Comment on 20 Jobs that people once thought were irreplaceable are now just memories 1 week ago:
No. It was a novel from the 1960s maybe. There was a government department of telepathic planning or something. That scene was where a character was getting a tour of the recruitment facility.
- Comment on 20 Jobs that people once thought were irreplaceable are now just memories 1 week ago:
And we still have delivery people. The function has never gone away.
- Comment on 20 Jobs that people once thought were irreplaceable are now just memories 1 week ago:
I used to work construction and I learned that environments that keep hands busy and minds idle have a huge capacity to turn toxic. I think the lector provided entertainment and gave people something to talk about other than each other.
- Comment on 20 Jobs that people once thought were irreplaceable are now just memories 1 week ago:
That was part of a plot of a science fiction story that I can’t quite remember. The government was screening for psychics for a special branch. The applicants would show up and wait in a room with a psychic blasting “go through the small door”.
- Comment on 20 Jobs that people once thought were irreplaceable are now just memories 1 week ago:
Straight clickbait. My first thought before I clicked through was “I better not see knocker-upper in there…”. It was job number 1. No one thought these jobs were irreplaceable, many of them are just tasks in a larger process or the function still exists in a different context.
- Comment on I vaguely remember these but forgot what they were for 1 week ago:
We called those duotangs.
- Comment on There was an attempt... 1 week ago:
Scotland and Poland seem awfully judgy.
- Comment on There was an attempt... 2 weeks ago:
La maladie Anglaise.
- Comment on There was an attempt... 2 weeks ago:
It’s pretty clear the French are to blame.
- Comment on caught in 4k 2 weeks ago:
Polyp
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- Comment on Cultural impact 4 weeks ago:
Number 1 was a retelling of Ferngully the Last Rainforest. spotlightonfilm.com/…/avatar-vs-ferngully-the-las…
- Comment on Does changing your last name make sense when you’re not that name? 4 weeks ago:
Why does anyone care? The only issue I could see is if you want to change your name to “Tom Cruise” or “Elon Musk” for the purpose of perpetrating fraud. Otherwise who cares? That’s the whole point of being able to change your name.
- Comment on Language barrier 4 weeks ago:
A version of this happened to me when I was young. I was lucky enough to be invited to dinner with a famous scientist. I spent a good chunk of time pitching my work (looking for a faculty position). At the end of the night he apologized and said he was sure I was very interesting but he couldn’t hear over the music.
- Comment on Gold 4 weeks ago:
It’s not shit, it’s top 3 behind silver and copper. But those oxidize and gold doesn’t. So a gold coated silver core is what you want.
- Comment on References: [1] out of his ass 5 weeks ago:
It’s not like Penrose doesn’t get out of his depth pretty rapidly. I read The Empires New Mind and my first reaction was has the guy never heard of a heuristic? Brains aren’t perfect Turing machines but sloppy approximaters that make “eh, good enough” decisions.
- Comment on I didn't realize it was so bad 5 weeks ago:
I recently dropped a lot of weight and went from almost 5000 pounds to one year. I can highly recommend it.
- Comment on There is the face of a cat in this picture. Can you find it? 5 weeks ago:
I’m going to plead temporary insanity - I swear I saw a big face when I put it across the room. Now I don’t. 😄
