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 people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 1 day ago:
The ones I’ve always seen seem to be targeted to remote workers and solo practitioners - people who need some support space on a regular basis so there are service tiers and payment plans. I just need someplace to sit when the bat phone goes off. And yes I use headphones.
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 1 day ago:
ITT people with jobs where they have to be available vs those who do not.
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 1 day ago:
They do, and neither work in most cases.
I have used libraries before and they are great for this when they are close by. I’ve never used a co-working space - do they have drop in desks where I can just slip in to one in a storage city and give them $10 to sit for 30 minutes?
My need typically comes when I’m travelling and something comes up. Coffee shops are quick and convenient and they have always been used for this kind of thing. Right back to their historical origin as trading houses.
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 1 day ago:
Sorry my dude. Sometimes there ain’t no option. If internet cafes were still a thing I’d do them there.
- Comment on clean that up 2 days ago:
Boomers are older than the 1970s. The baby boom started at the end of the Second World War and ran until the early/mid 1960s. By the late 1960s we were deep into what used to be called the baby bust but eventually came to be known as GenX. People at the end of the boom from around 1960 to 1964 or so identify more closely with X and sometimes refer to themselves as Jones. I could write more about all of this but it is probably dull. One of the hallmarks of the break between the generations though was the availability of services, notably related to student grants and loans.
- Comment on Valid point 2 days ago:
Well…there is something to the life stages/cultural currency bits. I say that as GenX.
Growing up everything was about Boomers - 50s nostalgia was huge, every gritty character had been in Nam, movies were people in their 30s looking back to college, TV was about having babies. None of it meant anything to us. Kennedy was shot years before I was born. We didn’t remember Nam, Nixon or the Beatles. It just didn’t feel like there was cultural space for us and our issues weren’t worth discussing in public spaces.
- Comment on Valid point 2 days ago:
What’s an antiFamily card?
- Comment on clean that up 2 days ago:
Also GenX. Go fuck yourself.
- Comment on If the movie Falling Down with Michael Douglas was made today in these times would it be too meta on the current society? Or would it be seen as trying to push an agenda? 3 days ago:
He was proto-MAGA in the film. We just didn’t have a name for it then. He was a engineer working for a defense contractor whose life fell apart because he was an asshole, and there was a peace dividend. Instead of embracing change, or reflecting on macro-level impacts, he goes apeshit and takes it out on fellow citizens who he views as being out of step with his vision of the world.
- Comment on Since Endorphins and Serotonin are two completely different chemicals which give the biggest "High"? And does the release of some of one of them overcompensate for the other? How come? 3 days ago:
This is related to what I used to study. I’d say the difficulty with the question lays with how we interpret “biggest high”. Stimulation of those systems produces a qualitatively different user experience, and even more so depending on the dose, mechanism, and selectivity of the agonist. So serotonergic activation can produce experiences that range from relaxation to full blown psychedelic experiences. Activation of the opioid system can produce warm comfort to catatonia.
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 6 days ago:
I knew someone at a bar who would use 4 foot lengths of PVC tubes. They’d fill the tubes and freeze them. The bottom half would be clear and the top half would have all of the impurities etc. (or maybe the other way?). The dirty half would get smashed for the well and the clear part would get polished into spheres.
- Comment on That's some mighty fine lanes you got there! 6 days ago:
I used to do ERK! Back when half the literature referred to it as MAPK which confused all the microtubule associated protein people.
The fat caterpillar band is exactly what you see when you’ve overloaded the gel. You should drop the load and pull on an appropriate gel to able to see the gap between the 44 and 42 kd species. You may have an effect on just one.
The other issue is that if the lanes have that much protein your controls are all at ceiling. The effect could be due to variable loading but you can’t tell because one lane is at 10x ceiling and the next is at 2x ceiling. The controls look equal but you produce an effect on the target lanes. This isn’t even lab meeting quality. This is promising at the end of a shitty day quality.
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 6 days ago:
How does that work?
- Comment on That's some mighty fine lanes you got there! 1 week ago:
OP doesn’t know what a good Western look like. You could surf on those waves between lanes. And the wells were overloaded - just look at the fat, blurry bands.
- Comment on "Guess what's in my ass!" 1 week ago:
Shock. I have no idea who this guy is. You mean he might be into it?
- Comment on "Guess what's in my ass!" 1 week ago:
What’s left of a glass jar.
- Comment on Why can’t we swap our minds today? 1 week ago:
You have a category error that makes this hard to follow. Brains and minds are different things. The brain is a physical organ made of cells. A mind is the conceptual something that occurs when a brain is functioning.
- Comment on Mighty fine 1 week ago:
Swell piece of French art.
- Comment on It’s just apophenia 1 week ago:
#3?
- Comment on Don't let your mind be a jar 1 week ago:
Well I’m glad I asked. I’ll scratch “ass trauma glass jar videos” from my to-do list this weekend.
- Comment on Don't let your mind be a jar 1 week ago:
What’s the shadow on the left? It looks like someone shitting a battery.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the American dream? It came true! 1 week ago:
The absence of feet is classic Liefeld. The pouches are probably in the deluxe edition.
- Comment on How did we reach to having 18 required for voting in elections? 2 weeks ago:
The issue of when you are an adult is a trickier question than you might imagine. I have written in a previous answer about how children in North America would leave home around 13 or 14. There would be transitional spaces such as rooming houses or boarding houses before they were fully Independent, but they were fully functional “adults” by 15 or 16.
You can see this in the coming of age rituals for various cultures. The bar/bat mitzvah at age 13, the quinceanera at 15, the sweet sixteen for white folks. I do note that many of these are female centered and signal availability for dating/marriage. Boys just became men without much ceremony.
We still have a gradual introduction of rights and privileges with age. In my jurisdiction courts will consider a child’s wishes in divorce starting at age eight. You can be charged with a crime at age 12, you can work for wages at 14, you can drive at 16, vote at 18. Alcohol consumption is 19 where I live but is 18 in many parts of the country.
So why 18? It matches up with other markers of maturation like graduation from high school. Could it be 17? Probably. Should it be 16? Possibly. But 18 used to be an age of independence. You could expect to be leaving home and starting a life separate from your parents. That has certainly changed. If we were to keep things in alignment maybe we should push the age back into the mid-20s? 😆
- Comment on I just wanted a new recliner 2 weeks ago:
Amen. Everyday I get closer to a small acerage in nowheresville. I’d rather be close to cocktail bars and the opera, But running away is looking better and better.
- Comment on I just wanted a new recliner 2 weeks ago:
I was looking at the hand holding the cup.
- Comment on I just wanted a new recliner 2 weeks ago:
It’s too deepfried to tell, but there are a bunch of messed up areas.
- Comment on Men against bush 2 weeks ago:
Again, fair. I haven’t read Ms Daniel’s comments directly. I can fully accept that there was something other than aesthetics driving the change.
- Comment on Men against bush 2 weeks ago:
Fair. And it’s true that I haven’t watched all the porn that out there, but it was my first sight of naked pudendum. I’m confident it wasn’t the first ever. But the 60s and 70s were known as big bush era.
- Comment on Men against bush 2 weeks ago:
With full respect to Ms Daniels I think it predates DVDs. My first sight (and many others I suspect) was an actress by the name of Seka who was shaving in the 70s and possibly earlier. As she tells it she was an early innovator in glamming up porn with good hair and makeup. Shaving was part of an exotic look.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Navigation and tracking have improved since 1970.