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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.

  • The richest people in the world are morally bankrupt

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  • At a party hosted by a billionaire hedge fund manager, Kurt Vonnegut turns to Joseph Heller and says, “Our host made more money yesterday than you’ve made from Catch-22 over your whole life.”

    Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he’ll never have—enough.”

  • I need help pinching off the SHITPO phonetic alphabet

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  • Mangina

  • Is gold investing a scam?

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  • Worth less so harder to carry large amounts of capital.

  • Is gold investing a scam?

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  • Depends on your threat model. During speculative bubbles capital flows towards gainers no matter how crazy (NFTs anyone?). During corrections capital flows back towards commodities, and gold is .. er...the gold standard. It has a lot of industrial uses blah blah blah. Copper is also good for these purposes and is an interesting contrast.

    Nobody says "if you can't touch it, you don't own it" for copper or oil or pork bellies. That's because that advice isn't about using gold as an inflation hedge or safe harbour in a bear market. That advice is predicated on compete monetary collapse and the use of gold as currency. If you don't live in a space where you can grow some of your own food, and have access to potable water from your own well I wouldn't worry to much about it. You will starve to death or die in the food riots so gold won't help anyways.

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  • It helps with sound damping. A room without it needs a lot of soft surfaces to prevent it becoming an echo chamber. You can hear rooms "boom" after this is done.

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  • Ursula K LeGuin?

  • Please let me know

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  • Yes. But no kids and the gym is next to the office.

  • Why do some people have so many browser tabs open?

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  • ADHD.

  • A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team

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  • Not anymore.

  • A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team

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  • It's difficult to follow. It's like they are drunkenly telling their side of the story to someone who already knows what happened.

  • TIL

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  • Button, cremini, and portobello are all the same mushroom picked at different stages of growth.

  • Change my mind

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  • You haven't lived until you've had a pissing match on Quora, the home of the Superior Intellect™.

  • What's the oldest meme you have on your phone?

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  • Oechslegrad

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  • The stolen heat!

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  • Is it like that? I remember this being an issue in the 1970s. Even crappy old places that I lived in as a student had balancers. I think they've been required here since the...90s?

  • The stolen heat!

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  • This took me a minute. I can't remember the last time I was someplace that didn't have a balancing valve.

  • When will AI bubble pop?

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  • I remember flying into Las Vegas when the real estate bubble popped in 2009. You could see scraped land 30 minutes out, then pavement and services going in, then partial frames and then closed envelopes. All abandoned.

    Stupid money flowed in until the very last minute. The stupidest money kept going in thinking they'd buy the dip and catch that falling knife.

    People will add money even after it pops. I think it was Buffet who said that the only way to really make money is to sell too soon.

  • Fun Fact I bet you don't know

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  • Fun Fact I bet you don't know

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  • Fun fact: this is simply incorrect. It was simply an occupational descriptor. OED has a citation from 1380 when none of our current cultural baggage applied.