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 need help finishing the SHITPO phonetic alphabet 6 days ago:
Kardashian
- Comment on I need help finishing the SHITPO phonetic alphabet 1 week ago:
Mangina
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 1 week ago:
Worth less so harder to carry large amounts of capital.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 1 week ago:
Depends on your threat model. During speculative bubbles capital flows towards gainers no matter how crazy (NFTs anyone?). During corrections capital flows back towards commodities, and gold is … er…the gold standard. It has a lot of industrial uses blah blah blah. Copper is also good for these purposes and is an interesting contrast.
Nobody says “if you can’t touch it, you don’t own it” for copper or oil or pork bellies. That’s because that advice isn’t about using gold as an inflation hedge or safe harbour in a bear market. That advice is predicated on compete monetary collapse and the use of gold as currency. If you don’t live in a space where you can grow some of your own food, and have access to potable water from your own well I wouldn’t worry to much about it. You will starve to death or die in the food riots so gold won’t help anyways.
- Comment on Popcorn Ceiling Removal 1 week ago:
It helps with sound damping. A room without it needs a lot of soft surfaces to prevent it becoming an echo chamber. You can hear rooms “boom” after this is done.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 weeks ago:
ADHD.
- Comment on Change my mind 2 weeks ago:
You haven’t lived until you’ve had a pissing match on Quora, the home of the Superior Intellect™.
- Comment on Oechslegrad 3 weeks ago:
👏
- Comment on Fun Fact I bet you don't know 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact: this is simply incorrect. It was simply an occupational descriptor. OED has a citation from 1280 when none of our current cultural baggage applied.
- Comment on what is the best fruit to leave in a fridge? 5 weeks ago:
Apples.
- Comment on card game shop 1 month ago:
Are you made from sugar? I’m part of the two-a-day club. When I wake up and after the gym.
- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 1 month ago:
I do. Have a good what? Date?Sandwich? Shit? They have no idea what I’m up to next.
- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 1 month ago:
😀
- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 1 month ago:
I’m almost 60 and I have heard that from as long as I can remember. “Have a good one” though…I first heard that in the early 2000’s and it sounded stupid then. And it sounds stupid now.
- Comment on I have no idea what this is about 1 month ago:
It wasn’t a motorcycle, it was on water skis.
- Comment on Animal guessing game!!! 2 months ago:
Is it an asshole?
- Comment on JFC, who did this?! 2 months ago:
What is it?
- Comment on Dr.K Explains Tylenol and Autism 2 months ago:
Who the fuck is Dr K?
- Comment on US presidents are getting younger over time 2 months ago:
The fact that Trump was older when elected is part of the joke.
- Comment on US presidents are getting younger over time 2 months ago:
Whoosh
- Comment on Anonymity is dead and we’re all content now 2 months ago:
That’s interesting. In North America this was largely litigated during the era of film photography and common law went in the other direction. You do not have control over being recorded or photographed in a situation where there is not have a reasonable expectation of privacy - at least for non-commercial purposes. Restaurants and walking around in public are classic examples of this.
I honestly wasn’t even aware of jurisdictions that had an opposite approach.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Enjoy it. Am almost 60 and would love to be 37 again.
- Comment on *They drew First Blood, not me.* 3 months ago:
Thank you. I was seeing wood.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 months ago:
Source?
- Comment on We're not just married. We are a team that solves problems together 4 months ago:
?
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 4 months ago:
I’ve been friends with HR people at a number of jobs. They generally party hard. I’ve also always had the understanding that if they have to walk me we’d be professional about it. I’ve never been let go.
- Comment on flowers for the lost 4 months 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 4 months 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? 4 months 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 months 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.