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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.

  • Is your life better or worse than your parents (I mean specifically your parents, not your parent's generation)? (Specify country)

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  • GenX Canada. Better by every measure. I don't have children so it has helped with financial stability to an amazing degree.

  • It should be a strict rule

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  • I can't imagine the zoning bullshit that would have happened in that scenario. You can't put a golf course anywhere on any patch of ground. That's why there are course architects.

  • It should be a strict rule

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  • Not a big deal. They move the holes every week to keep the wear on the green even. There is a hand tool that cuts the hole and you drop the plug in the old one. The cup is just a plastic sleeve. It takes less than 10 minutes a hole.

  • The AI bubble is NOT going to burst

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  • I think OP is too young to remember Nortel.

    I remember young people making this same argument during the real estate bubble in 2008.

  • It should be a strict rule

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  • Is this someone who doesn't understand what happens on a golf course?

  • Not gonna lie, I kinda like it

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  • 1965 clocking in. I want slippers and some soup.

  • Apparently Canadians are notorius cheaters in the sport of Curling

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  • The rules are silent on touching the stone. They are clear about not touching the handle. I don't disagree with you, but the granite is not the handle.

  • Bathroom

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  • Somebody saw the jackass movie.

  • Winter Olympics in crisis as athletes deplete entire stock of 10,000 free condoms

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  • Of course not. They have to get dressed to compete at their other sport at some point.

  • Winter Olympics in crisis as athletes deplete entire stock of 10,000 free condoms

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  • Best souvenir going. But also a lot of young people in peak physical condition. As someone I know commented "everyone is 10/10 from the neck down."

  • For Indigenous Americans it’s unthinkable, but true. ICE is arresting, detaining Native Americans.

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  • The goal is to terrorize the democratic base. Everything else is a lie.

  • 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.

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