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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.

  • "shup up mom! you don't know how good i sound!"

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  • Also the Alberta separatist movements are backed by American oil companies Russian front groups.

    Fixed it for you.

  • Huh?

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  • Aren't these everywhere? Where I grew up they were called taverns, but this basically every bar that isn't some scam for young people. Find yourself a dive bar and enjoy.

  • What is an omelet? And is that what I make? If not, what DO I make?

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  • That is an omelette. What makes you think it's not?

  • Have you ever had a shave in a barber shop or spa?

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  • Not like that, no.

  • Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term?

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  • Well we did have them. Still do in many cases although they are under pressure. And the Stronachs built their fortune through Magna supplying parts into manufacturing facilities.

    I don't know if we can cut those deals with China or not. But the low cost of those vehicles reflects low wages. So you can have cheap vehicles where every dollar supports a foreign economy, or more expensive vehicles where we pay a good wage to our friends and neighbours.

  • Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term?

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  • I'm with you. My ideal vehicle would be the electric equivalent of the Mazda B2000 - compact single cab short bed pickup. Slate held some promise but I'm not sure that's going to happen. The closest thing is the Maverick but it's over-engineered and a crew cab.

  • Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term?

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  • If you think this is a Kang and Kodos situation you are legitimately insane. On one side you have a PhD level economist (Oxon) who is former Governor of the National Banks of both Canada and England, and on the other you have a convoy supporting career politician who has been playing partisan gadfly since he was an undergraduate at University of Calgary.

    Your quickness to bring in " throw away your vote" as legitimate strategy screams of trolling.

  • There aren't any ancient ruins with crazy traps and riddles

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  • Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term?

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  • Well your realpolitik option is a supersized portion with Poilievre. Until we get proportional representation we are all hostage.

  • Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term?

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  • It's a defensive posture. It's those things that are keeping us from random 1,000,000% tariffs that would take a decade to litigate. Nobody wants it, but we kind of need to play along while we figure out how to get out of this mess.

  • Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term?

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  • We were part of that cabal - it was called the auto pact. In a sane world it integrated our manufacturing processes so that we could be players rather than consumers. The Canadian market is small and fragmented so we don't wield any power as a consumer nation. Be careful what you wish for.

  • Eggs don't just grow on trees!

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  • I know. I'm sorry. Some mornings I just can't help myself. Once I'm fully caffeinated I can keep my little outbursts contained.

  • Lad takes a punch from Eddie Hall

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  • Somehow I think the little one is more impressive. Just a little lean for some momentum and the arm extension. The big one is wow! but you can see the whole coil and hip shift generating the power.

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  • Engage pedant mode!

    The Swedish word for moose is "älg".

    Moose is an Anglicized Algonquian word. The Algonquians didn't have a writing system so English just used the double o to represent sound phonetically.

    Ø is a sound that we don't really use in English, sort of a slightly backed and rounded "eux" as in the French "deux". Doubling it means you pronounce it twice - it's a a long vowel. M-eux-euxse.

    Pedant mode off!

  • Fetch me my powdered wig, I must join the Revolutionary War!

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  • Every Western European nation and their former colonies have their own gallery of powdered wig men. There is nothing uniquely American about this.

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    What’s the most meaningful “personal” gift you’ve received — and would a custom song feel sweet or cringe?

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  • 100% cringe. This hardly works even when the artist writes something personal directly to the person in their lives. Using you as a 3rd party to create a generic love song with some personalized bits screams "I don't know you well enough to get/make a meaningful gift".

    Writing a song for someone works when you speak to their emotional state and shows that the writer understands something deep that the receiver can't otherwise articulate. Three verses, a chorus, and a bridge singing about superficial features doesn't do that.

  • US World Cup boycotts grow as Trump threatens Mexico

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  • FIFA gave him a peace prize.

  • Satire rule

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  • The film is so much clearer than the book 😄 Even Ellis said that Bateman is such an unreliable narrator that it's not clear that any of the events happened at all. But I think you are 100% correct in that lead characters will always have a fandom that identifies with them no matter how repulsive the character is.

    Up thread I made a joke about Marty Supreme. There is a character who is an unrepentant piece of shit who manipulates, steals from, and headlights every other character in the movie. I already hear people saying it's inspirational because he followed his heart. No matter that he ruined the lives of every person around him.