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 flowers for the lost 1 week ago:
Boobs squish at crash forces. The pressure with crash testing is keep every variable consistent so that results can be compared over time. I read an article years ago about the trouble of maintaining a supply of “tea rose” colored underwear for that reason.
- Comment on Worldbuilding 2 weeks ago:
This all true, but wood still burned. You think forest fires are bad now? Imagine several centuries of dry timber stacked up waiting for a lightning strike.
- Comment on Do you still remember? 3 weeks ago:
Oldsmobile Delta 88. I learned to drive in the largest car the driving school had. The thinking was if I could maneuver that beast everything else should be easy. I guess it worked?
- Comment on I require nothing more 5 weeks ago:
I lived like this the first year of my postdoc and couldn’t have been happier. I had 4 place settings but only used one and washed it after every meal. Desk, computer, one camp chair, and an inflatable mattress. Stayed that way until my wife joined me my second year and made me get a real apartment.
- Comment on There's no wrong way to stroke it 1 month ago:
It’s very short and perpendicular to the skin. It feels like velvet.
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 1 month ago:
Better than almost every other option.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 1 month ago:
It’s heavy innuendo but yeah, they did the deed. Ilsa asks Rick to choose for her because loves them both. He sets it up like he is running away with her but then does the ol’switcheroo and sends her and Laszlo off while he holds the Nazis at gunpoint. He ends up shooting Nazis and Capt. Renault covers for him.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 1 month ago:
Great romance requires a choice. It’s difficult to find a choice that matters, ideally it is something they already have, but are giving up. That’s why all the hallmark movies work because a big city girl is giving up her career to grow cucumbers or something. Making a choice to take a job somewhere else doesn’t work because it’s a future thing - giving up an opportunity is not the same as giving up a realized life situation. Infidelity really works because it’s a former dream, and it means giving up stability, status, comfort for the unknown.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 months ago:
Well it is during a midlife crisis.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 months ago:
I have done all of these. None of them were a midlife crisis - that was straight fucking.
- Comment on Infinite glitch 2 months ago:
She was never quiet about this.
- Comment on Fresh 2 months ago:
Methane flavored.
- Comment on We Went To Luigi's Trial. Here's What Everyone Is Missing. 2 months ago:
I can appreciate that. But a 60 Minutes segment is about a four minute read.
- Comment on We Went To Luigi's Trial. Here's What Everyone Is Missing. 2 months ago:
I think I have finally found a generation gap that I think is real; old people like me would rather read than watch. A lot of my students would rather watch than read.
- Comment on We Went To Luigi's Trial. Here's What Everyone Is Missing. 2 months ago:
People who post articles provide a summary of the article. So maybe you should post a video summarizing the video you think we should watch?
- Comment on We Went To Luigi's Trial. Here's What Everyone Is Missing. 2 months ago:
Why post a 14 minute video for what is probably a 3 minute read?
- Comment on Remember, kids! Unregulated capitalism is not your friend! 2 months ago:
There would be blood loss to the limbs and nerve damage from any appreciable time strung out like that.
- Comment on I'm gay and I dunno what it means 2 months ago:
In this thread: men who don’t understand women or hair.
- Comment on Tity more tity, the Greed is sickening 2 months ago:
It’s just because pergin hasn’t hit the mainstream yet.
- Comment on Tity more tity, the Greed is sickening 2 months ago:
I had to look.
- Comment on Researchers from the University of Zurich secret unethical experiment deployed AI-generated comments on Reddit to study how AI could be used to change views. 3 months ago:
Great. Now what about all the other bots on the site?
- Comment on Asking the important questions 3 months ago:
Your late cat clearly had an “outie”.
- Comment on Asking the important questions 3 months ago:
Well does it!!??!? DON’T LEAVE US HANGING!!1!!1!
- Comment on Thought provoking tee shirt 3 months ago:
What is the bad news?
- Comment on women are the devil 3 months ago:
No.
- Comment on What is Superman's "kryptonite"? 3 months ago:
True heterosexual love between a biological man and a biological woman. It’s why he never hooks up with Lois Lane and keeps sneaking peeks at Jimmy’s junk at the gym.
- Comment on No Weirdos 3 months ago:
I’ll take two!
- Comment on What's the best "good-bad" TV series you've seen? 4 months ago:
There was a show that ran on Canadian TV called Forever Knight. It was about a vampire detective who could only work the night shift and used the blood bank like a soup kitchen. It had surprising depth and rtich relationships among the the supporting cast. You had a sense that it was an actual community with a history and connections that existed outside the plotline. Also it had the best ending for a series I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 4 months ago:
My parents did. But that was before I was born, so the early 1960s.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 4 months ago:
Dictionaries are like cats. They just find their own home.
