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 somebody has to do it! 1 week ago:
Behold wonders of the Beaver Deceiver!
- Comment on Is wearing crew socks over your leggings when training in the cold simply aesthetics or actually functional? 1 week ago:
Shoes are sized for socks.
- Comment on Did binders used to be called tablets? 2 weeks ago:
A tablet is a pad of paper that’s glued on one edge. You can flip the sheets or tear them out. The full name for a binder is a “loose leaf binder”. Because it’s designed to bind…loose sheets!
- Comment on Eat lead 4 weeks ago:
Thanks! I assumed it was rhetorical question but this waaaaay outside my area of expertise.
- Comment on Eat lead 4 weeks ago:
Is decay the only way to get lead? I mean if uranium gets synthesized can’t lead get made as well?
- Comment on Controversial picture to some 5 weeks ago:
Steak board?
- Comment on Why am I seeing "plan your voting day strategy" so often? 1 month ago:
It’s voter suppression. By limiting the number of voting locations and understanding them you make long lines where people will wait for hours to vote. By not allowing food or water to be handed out they hope people will get discouraged and leave the line. The official reason is that it could be construed as a bribe to vote a certain way.
- Comment on Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me? 1 month ago:
Pick lots of ballise fruit in White Orchard. It is tougher to find later on.
- Comment on 2real5me 1 month ago:
Let me introduce you gentleman to Doug Prasher.
- Comment on Is there a difference in meaning between the words *people* and *persons*? 2 months ago:
It may helpful to think of this in terms of human rights; some rights apply to individuals so even though there may a group of them we’d refer to them as persons e.g. displaced persons. Some rights are held collectively and we would refer to them as a people e.g. Indigenous People of the Amazon.
- Comment on how do I accept that a doctor earns more than double what I do? 2 months ago:
This true for every regulated profession. It’s not exceptional.
- Comment on Anon uses a phone book 2 months ago:
You should have seen the internet before 1993 lol.
- Comment on Anon uses a phone book 2 months ago:
I was a post-doc during this period. I had a mobile phone but data was eyebleedingly expensive, and there wasn’t much to do on mobile. Most companies had a minimal web presence and very little directed towards mobile. I drove across the US in 2009 and even then it was better to use the information preloaded on my Garmin than the mobile web.
- Comment on Anon uses a phone book 2 months ago:
This was a unique point in time when people had cell phones but had to carry a phonebook because there was no mobile internet. Some time between 1992 and 2005?
- Comment on Miku owo 2 months ago:
I’ve done the Burgess Shale hike. I was surprised to hear how few anomolacaris specimens there are. Lots of pieces, but very few segments are attached to each other. The species is now being found in China and I understand that some of those specimens are more complete.
- Comment on East Texas turns out for Ted Cruz’s Keep Texas, Texas Tour 2 months ago:
- Comment on East Texas turns out for Ted Cruz’s Keep Texas, Texas Tour 2 months ago:
Why would Trudeau do this!!??!!??
- Comment on East Texas turns out for Ted Cruz’s Keep Texas, Texas Tour 2 months ago:
Not for long though! Danielle Smith is mowing it down to make way for privatization the way God intended.
- Comment on 15 Best Cheesy '80s Sci-Fi Movies, Ranked 2 months ago:
How can this list even exist without They Live (1988)
- Comment on Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes 2 months ago:
Tell me you’ve never Witcher using a whole paragraph.
- Comment on WINDOWS93 3 months ago:
Half Life 3 was a true to life experience.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 "won't focus on Geralt," but his voice actor says he'll at least be "a part" of the RPG sequel 3 months ago:
Please please please let it be Lambert and Keira Metz squabbling all over the continent as they track something stupid.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
I blocked that annoying piece of shit. It added nothing to discussion.
- Comment on Anon sets the mood 3 months ago:
But what an intermission!
- Comment on Anon sets the mood 3 months ago:
Then go see 2001 A Space Odyssey. Wait until the IMAX release comes around.
- Comment on Deep Seamails 3 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
We don’t have any contact with candidates after the interview apart from a firm rejection. I’d love to provide feedback and advice to people but legal won’t let us.
- Comment on what is with child names like Aiden, Braiden etc? 3 months ago:
Lol. Check out Denmark. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_law
- Comment on what is with child names like Aiden, Braiden etc? 3 months ago:
Social diffusion is an explanation of how information spreads, not just names.
My understanding is that unique names and neologism have long been a feature of African-American culture where North American Caucasians followed a family naming tradition. I think what has happened is some celebrities have moved towards a unique name scheme. But it feels like a mainstreaming of AA culture more than anything.
The impetus has been there in Europe. Many nations have/had very restrictive rules about names. They’d only have rules against it if people were trying to do it. I had Swiss friends who were very excited that their daughter was born in Canada so they could name her “Sora” which wasn’t in the approved name list in Switzerland.
- Comment on Anon saves their vacation days 3 months ago:
I’m in Canada. For regular employment there are a minimum of 3 paid weeks holidays. Vacation pay comes out of every paycheck so it’s an entitlement. There is vacation hoarding, but mostly to take a while summer off or something. Nobody wants to get paid out for accumulated vaycay because the tax hit is monstrous.