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 We Went To Luigi's Trial. Here's What Everyone Is Missing. 10 hours 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 days 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 6 days ago:
In this thread: men who don’t understand women or hair.
- Comment on Tity more tity, the Greed is sickening 1 week ago:
It’s just because pergin hasn’t hit the mainstream yet.
- Comment on Tity more tity, the Greed is sickening 1 week 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. 4 weeks ago:
Great. Now what about all the other bots on the site?
- Comment on Asking the important questions 4 weeks ago:
Your late cat clearly had an “outie”.
- Comment on Asking the important questions 4 weeks ago:
Well does it!!??!? DON’T LEAVE US HANGING!!1!!1!
- Comment on Thought provoking tee shirt 4 weeks ago:
What is the bad news?
- Comment on women are the devil 5 weeks ago:
No.
- Comment on What is Superman's "kryptonite"? 1 month 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 1 month ago:
I’ll take two!
- Comment on What's the best "good-bad" TV series you've seen? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Dictionaries are like cats. They just find their own home.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 month ago:
I’m 60 so I’ll take 40.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
When I was in grad school I mentioned to the department chair that I frequently saw a mis-citation for an important paper in the field. He laughed and said he was responsible for it. He made an error in the 1980s and people copied his citation from the bibliography. He said it was a good guide to people who cited papers without reading them.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 2 months ago:
I don’t agree with this idea that Ys always need to start at zero. If you want to demonstrate volatility there is a good reason to chop the scale. Just be up front about what you’re doing and why you made that choice. It’s only misleading if you chop the scale and misrepresent the result.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 2 months ago:
1.4 billion missing from balance sheet. Stock goes up.
Every cyber truck in North America recalled. Stock goes up.
Tesla banned from Canadian EV rebate program due to evidence of institutionalized fraud. Stock goes up.
No idea what’s going on.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
How is this useful? Shouldn’t the female be deaf - or is there something about mosquito mating I don’t understand.
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 2 months ago:
Time. It’s very slow but will get them in the end.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You just need to interact with people. You’ll figure it out as you go like the rest of us.
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 2 months ago:
Chemists have moved away from cis and trans partly because of all of this. We use zusammen-together or entgegen-opposite now. I can attest to how politically charged a class about organic molecules can become.
I am not deeply versed on the socio-cultural side of it all, and there is clearly space to learn. I am reluctant to let cis hinge on a doctor’s proclamation but I’ll let it sit there for the moment.
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 2 months ago:
I also have a PhD. Not in genomics but in physiology. But we all do genetic work now.
The Dr. says that XX persons can become cis men. “CIS men” is explicitly about gender. I was trying to make the point (not very well as it turns out) that all of this hinges on definitions. So you have to unpack CIS men in this context. Without a sound understanding of the basics, all the rest is supposition.
And the gender identity and expression parts have nothing to do with gene expression, penetrance (giggity), DNA, RNA or epigenetic factors in gene expression.
Also the better example for the counter argument would probably be CAIS.
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 2 months ago:
I can try. The cis part means the person’s naughty bits are aligned with their gender identity. The male is their gender identity. So post-bottom surgery it’s perfectly possible. If you use different definitions for concepts though you will have difficulty making it work.
None of this has anything to do with the claimed PhD in genomics though. These are socio-cultural concepts. So they should stick their PhD where it belongs and address the arguments head on instead of trying to argue from authority.
- Comment on How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach? 2 months ago:
When I was in school in the 1970s it was because they couldn’t get French teachers from Quebec. The youth wanted to stay and build a sovereign Quebec. So they imported French teachers from France and I speak like a French Duke.
- Comment on I put lots of effort into my attempt at protest art and someone defaced it 2 months ago:
That’s not a face son.
- Comment on Anon watches some reruns 2 months ago:
I put flailing in quotes because I’m actually not moving at all. My partner will be laying next to me and completely unaware of what I’m going through. I feel like I’m struggling like mad but I’m absolutely still. So yeah.
- Comment on Anon watches some reruns 2 months ago:
Yuh-huh. I suffer from it occasionally and experience this right down to the “flailing” trying to wake up. Absolute torture.
- Comment on Anon watches some reruns 2 months ago:
Sleep paralysis. Worst shit ever.
