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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.

  • Dude transforms his backyard and surprises wife

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  • Amen. What does he think his truck is for?

  • Dude transforms his backyard and surprises wife

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  • I use black mulch but it's not painted. It's carbon dust.

  • Dude transforms his backyard and surprises wife

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  • Cardboard doesn't allow oxygen through. It's a worm death trap beneath. The barrier sucks but at least it allows water and oxygen to penetrate. But truth is with that much mulch they don't need a weed barrier.

  • This is a god I could get behind

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  • Ass at the time only meant donkey. It would be another 100 years before it took on the meaning of buttocks.

  • YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

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  • "Government" has two meanings here. The oppostion has an official role in "governance" which is why they have offices, sit in committees, have research budgets, vote etc. In a minority government situation The backbenchers have a great deal of control over the process. Opposition included. The "GOVernment" controls the process to great extent.

    This isn't like the American system where the minority partner is relegated to the sides. The opposition play a very strong role in the parliamentary process. It doesn't map well onto American politics at all.

  • YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

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  • That is the Westminster system. It's fine in that the head of the executive only has power so long as they have the confidence of the elected members. If the elected members lose confidence then the government falls. The government is the house, so your vote does directly influence the government on either the government or opposition side. Don't get too jealous of the American system - it's a bloody mess in its own right.

  • Illiterate Trump

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  • It looks like her left index finger is bent 40° out of plane from the middle finger. Like it was broken and never set.

  • Illiterate Trump

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  • Wtf is with those fingers? Is she a bare knuckle boxer?

  • It happens so fast

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  • Or just not funny. I should go back to pedantry.

  • It happens so fast

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  • Weak cocktail, sad garden. Adult better.

  • Time Magazine 100 Best Podcasts of All Time

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  • A list like this is always going to be controversial. But I cannot believe that The History of Englush didn't make the list.

  • Moore, Sir Roger Moore...

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  • They address this in the book From Russia With Love. Everybody knows the station chief of Instanbul is a spy. He doesn't even hide it. As he says, there are advantages and disadvantages. Certainly anyone with information knows where to go.

  • flowers for the lost

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  • 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.

    eta: http://www.lipkie.com/humor/1999/990430_36.htm

  • Worldbuilding

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  • 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.

  • Have you ever been invited to a search party?

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  • Hi-viz and hiking boots.

  • Do you still remember?

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  • 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?

  • Alberta's oil production is at a record high. Many Canadians don't understand why Albertan oil workers are so angry and talk about separatism. Reuters explains what's going on

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  • These articles are a great complement to each other.

  • r/israel in meltdown over Superman movie

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  • I'd agree with that. Basket in rushes vs capsule in the cornfield. But it's a weak linkage given that the abandoned orphan is a trope older than the bible.

  • r/israel in meltdown over Superman movie

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  • Superman ripped off Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter novels.

    John Carter was from Virginia but was transported to Mars where he exhibited super strength and great leaping ability due to the lower gravity. Siegalman and Shuster reversed the premise and had an alien come to earth with...great strength and great leaping ability due to the lower gravity. Flying came later. Nothing about Moshe.