Dr. Bob
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.
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Dr. Bob@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What episode/season/movie do you consider as the ending in an otherwise long running franchise, and Why?English41·1 month agoSeason one of Twin Peaks. Never should have been a season two. I’m ambivalent about Fire Walk With Me. Season 3 was a nice touch.
This wasn’t a published study. This was beers with the folks in the genetics lab at the hospital I worked at. No patient names or other identifying information was involved. They did tissue matching etc. and ran into the issue all the time. On a personal note two close friends have found out they had different biological dads than they thought they did. So maybe my perspective is skewed somewhat.
Incredibly common. I haven’t seen any recent estimates but I recall at one time that ~15% of children did not have the biological fathers than they thought they did. It’s not to point the finger at women - rates of infidelity may be even higher among men, it’s just harder to track independently.
Dr. Bob@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Advertising is the world's oldest technology. 30,000 years of development. Super powerful. What would it look like if literally everybody bought the latest scam?English1·2 months agoI’m a scholar. It means not pulling stuff from your ass and citing your sources.
Dr. Bob@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Advertising is the world's oldest technology. 30,000 years of development. Super powerful. What would it look like if literally everybody bought the latest scam?English2·2 months agoTechnology can therefore be defined both as an ensemble of deliberately created processes and objects that together accomplish some function as well as the associated knowledge and skills used in the conception, design, implementation, and operation of such technological artifacts.
O. L. de Weck, Technology Roadmapping and Development, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88346-1_1
Dr. Bob@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Advertising is the world's oldest technology. 30,000 years of development. Super powerful. What would it look like if literally everybody bought the latest scam?English51·2 months agoStart with your silly claim that “advertising”, as you define it, occurred 30,000 years ago. Any non-suppositional evidence please.
Dr. Bob@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Advertising is the world's oldest technology. 30,000 years of development. Super powerful. What would it look like if literally everybody bought the latest scam?English7·2 months agoWhat are you even on about? Persuasion is not advertising. And in the absence of a material culture for advertising, there is literally no basis for the 30,000 year claim. This is pure nonsense and the worst kind of bullshit.
Dr. Bob@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Advertising is the world's oldest technology. 30,000 years of development. Super powerful. What would it look like if literally everybody bought the latest scam?English261·2 months agoAdvertising is not a technology and there is no evidence that advertising occured 30,000 years ago. That time period predates capitalism, products and competition among manufacturers, and written language.
Go fuck yourself. This is someone who was a child when he watched his friends die to a school shooter. And then faced the worst that the rightwing noise machine could throw at him as they accused him of being a crisis actor and denied that the event happened at all. He has been attacked by politicians and media since before his voice changed. So fuck off with your milquetoast judgments about how something seems a bit “off” with his public persona.
Dr. Bob@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Did Leonard Cohen ever cover the song Woke Up This Morning (Got Myself A Gun)?English5·4 months agoHe was a Buddhist who spent a good many years living in a monastery on Mt. Baldy. The Sopranos is exactly the kind of project he wouldn’t be involved in.
Dr. Bob@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Did Leonard Cohen ever cover the song Woke Up This Morning (Got Myself A Gun)?English21·4 months agoWhy can’t we get accurate information about this?
Because the Internet has been broken by tech “innovation”. But no, no he didn’t.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks about this when he explains his own career. He realized the amount of effort he had in him was never going to change, so he wanted a field where earnings weren’t limited by his own effort - the dream of passive income. He became an expert on risk and a well known writer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb
Bonesofthemoon must be up there.
Aqualung by Jethro Tull may meet your needs. If you’re Will ng to flexible in your definitions the the Crane Wife cycle by the Decemberists might also fit .
133 communities and just 45 users. An old alt of mine is among them for a reason I can’t recall. Login trouble or something?
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Dr. Bob@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.ml•'Blade Runner 2049' Producers Sue Elon Musk, Tesla For Copyright InfringementEnglish7·9 months agoDesert wasn’t really a cyberpunk setting until BR 2049. Post-apocolyptic sure, MadMax had that stitched up in 1979, but not cyberpunk.
Dr. Bob@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How often do you change bedding and bath towels?English3·9 months agoSheets weekly. Towels twice a week, but I shower twice a day.
I thought Pushing Tin was the aircraft controllers movie.