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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.

  • We have loved you since the dawn of time

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  • Math and science aren't history. Yes we owe an incredible debt to Islamic scholars for contributions to mathematics. That ain't history.

    If you took a university course in history, you studied from a western perspective. I will stand to be corrected but I don't know of any non-religious university that doesn't teach from the western tradition.

    Edited for grammer and fat fingers.

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    Bet you don't know what that metal button on the floor is?

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  • Us olds used them all the time.

  • We have loved you since the dawn of time

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  • The study of history is explicitly Eurocentric. Oral traditions are typically just accepted within a culture. The desire to compare, authenticate, calibrate, and contextualize is a Western philosophical tradition and absolutely tied to colonialism as far back as ancient Rome and Greece.

    That far from invalidates the approach.

  • We have loved you since the dawn of time

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  • "History" is typically dated from the advent of the written word. The oldest writing we have is from 5000-6000 BC (7-8k BCE). So the burial is part of a pre-historical period.

  • Welcome to the thunderdome?

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  • That's right. A small fish with red fins and bright silver scales. Spelling wasn't really standardized until the Elizabethan era. People spelled so it could be sounded out.

  • Welcome to the thunderdome?

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  • It's the fish scale meaning. If I could post all of the OED stuff here I would. The sense of flaking from a husk or rind is from the 1450s - onion skin is referenced in this sense. Oxide films like rust date in the 1520s, and scale for tooth tartar is from the 1590s.

  • Welcome to the thunderdome?

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  • That is correct. It's also a very modern sense of the word given the age of the root.

  • Welcome to the thunderdome?

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  • Welcome to the thunderdome?

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  • What was the last dvd/cd your burned? do you still use such media?

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  • Install disk for Mint. Older computer and couldn't figure out how else to do the install.

  • Random idea: a federated alternative to Amazon Prime built from independent shops?

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  • The innovation for Amazon isn't the product list, it's the logistics. Without centralized warehousing and distribution you've just recreated eBay or Etsy.

  • Industrial Strength Shitpost

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  • There are almost always two answers:

    • a) custom buttplug
    • b) exothermic reaction
    • source: I worked in an emergency room during training.

  • 50y

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  • It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects

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  • Quebecois French split from France ~400 years ago and has its own history. Acadian French has an even earlier split and can be very hard for Quebecois to understand.

  • It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects

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  • Only if they copied the movies. Stewie in the Family Guy speaks in a Mid-Atlantic accent which is why he pronounces his H's etc.

  • You've probably met someone who has killed a person

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  • Everyone I know has met a killer.

  • It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects

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  • I never really understood it until I met people from Iowa for the first time. They didn't have an accent in the way that San Diego doesn't have weather, just a climate.

  • It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects

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  • Never really. Mid-Atlantic was taught in elocution lessons but didn't really exist outside film and theatre.

  • It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects

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  • Midwest is classic "broadcast English". It's considered an almost neutral accent without a strong sense of place associated with it.