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Dr. Bob

@ DrBob @lemmy.ca

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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.

  • Epstein survivors Sunday Super Bowl ad to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world

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  • I am and it loaded.

  • Trump threatens to block opening of US-Canada bridge

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  • If I hadn't heard the 99%Invisible episode about the Ambassador Bridge that story would have made a lot less sense. https://99percentinvisible.org/category/infrastructure/

    This article reads like the Maroun family have poked the beast, who is now angry that he didn't wet his beak.

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  • We might have invented baseball too.

    But we feel that way about curling, which we want to own, but was definitely invented in Scotland.

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    The Bizarre World of Music Rights for Figure Skating

    globalnews.ca /news/11657844/figure-skaters-face-music-rights-issues-at-games/

  • What would a sunrise look like, you stood on the imaginative surface of a black hole?

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  • What's going on there?

  • Have you ever momentarily forgotten a word, so you just make one up?

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  • I am sad to report that this is already a word. My condolences.

  • Anyone have a traditional dish that they love to eat?

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  • Grilled cheese sandwich.

  • Grindr Is Testing a Premium AI Tier With a $500 Monthly Price Tag

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  • If I understand Grindr correctly 3-4 times a month are rookie numbers.

  • How come decades in the 1900s look fairly well differentiated but from like 2004 on feels like a giant run on?

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  • Your impression of those decades is influenced by styling and design.

    Photos of actual people on the street show a lost less variation between the 1950s, 60s, and 70s than you might imagine. But when stylists want to cue the era they dial up tropes that are instantly recognizable. Bobby sox and poodle skirts are instantly recognizable as 1950s style, but it probably applied to only a small geographical area in a few urban areas. Similarly the greaser stereotype was not widespread. But now you'd believe that half of high schools were wearing white t-shirts and leather jackets.

    I lived through the punk scene. Half the people at the shows I went to look like they were part of a varsity basketball team. We had one friend who had spiked hair and people would cross the street to avoid him. The styling now would have you believe that most young people were decked out in eyeliner and bondage pants.

  • What's a word that's code for 'expensive'?

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  • Chic or Patrician if you want to be fancy about it.

  • What is one thing you wish was on the Fediverse?

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  • Government. I don't understand how they are still using the hellsites and that social app.

  • xkcd: Groundhog Day Meaning

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  • You can add my post 😀.

    Wikipedia gets strange in some articles, and this is definitely one of them. St Brigid is a Catholic thing, not a wheel of the year feast. Why the conflation here? I don't know.

    There are a number of articles that talk about the "awakening" aspect of Imbolc, and it is associated with other hibernating animals peeking out of their dens to see what's up. So the groundhog in the American context is a natural one.

  • xkcd: Groundhog Day Meaning

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  • You probably know this, but it's what remains of the Celtic festival of Imbolc. It's the first of the three spring festivals. Ostara you definitely know since it was coopted by the church along with the eggs and rabbit symbology.

  • France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom

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  •  ¯(ツ)_/¯. I didn't say it was a good reason.

  • France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom

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  • It's American.

  • Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say

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  • There is a lot of incremental research that gets transformed into ZOMG YOU GUYS!!! by the research office. The journals are full of papers demonstrating a complete rescue of a disease model ( and I'm an author on some of them). What the papers are really demonstrating is the inadequacy of the animal model.

  • Every man has his weakness. Mine was always just cigarettes.

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  • Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say

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  • Dude it's worse than that. I was a working neuroscientist for almost twenty years. So...jaded.

  • Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say

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  • We did something to the mice then rescued it in a different way. Hooray! Next we'll save test tubes from cancer...again.

  • US warns they will send fighter jets into Canadian airspace if F-35 deal doesn’t go through | The Independent

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    1. Does Canada have the kind of military aerospace background to speedrun a program like that? Genuinely don't know.

    60 years ago we did. The Avro Arrow program was unexpectedly killed just as production was getting read to ramp up. Why? Who the fuck knows.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow

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