DrBob

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you forgot rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (3 children)

I didn't forget. I have no idea who this person is. Wikipedia lists some music and other business ventures but no controversies or social activism. A soldier for money?

Day off to a great start! in c/funny@lemmy.world
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Surely a cup is closer than your phone.

Proto-meme. So old it spread by print and cats didn't rule the internet. in c/antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Richard Dawkins coined the term in The Selfish Gene to describe a unit of culture in the same way that a morpheme is a unit of meaning, a phoneme is a unit of aural language, and a grapheme is a unit of writing.

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Proto-meme. So old it spread by print and cats didn't rule the internet. (lemmy.ca)
 

Published in the New Yorker in 1993, the same year the world wide web went live.

Trump can pull the plug on the internet, and Europe can’t do anything about it in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 81 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Another short-term decision by America could lead to more long-term loss of wealth and influence.

US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas in c/boycottus@lemmy.ca
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's for F, M, and J visas, not tourists. F visas are for academic students, M is for vocational/non-academic study, and J is for work/study programs. None of them are for immigration.

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Purchased from FARK at the turn of the century. (lemmy.ca)
 
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Antediluvian meme (lemmy.ca)
 
How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

As was Last Vegas.

How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The creek is 3 feet wide in places and can dry up during dry seasons. The "lake" is 3 feet deep. The city was founded there because the governor owned land on the bald prairie, not the river valley where the fort and city already existed. Water is piped in from a lake several miles away.

How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Let me introduce you to Regina.

What's one beauty standard that you don't agree with? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 weeks ago

Fish lips.

There's no wrong way to stroke it in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 weeks ago

It's very short and perpendicular to the skin. It feels like velvet.

goals rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Can confirm.

If someone where to use the term "Adult Playground", what would you think it describes? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

Alcohol availability and a series of fun activities that would accommodate chilling with friends or opportunities to meet and mingle.

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whatever is on my phone (lemmy.ca)
 
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I didn't eat supper tonight. (lemmy.ca)
 

I ate so many cookies I wasn't hungry. I'm sure there will be regrets - I might need a Tums before bed.

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Friday Night (lemmy.ca)
 

I don't know if this is what your after, but I flew into Denver today. I ate a takeout burrito in my hotel room while watching tv. I'm going to be in bed by 8.

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So my wife thinks we're getting shelled tonight. (lemmy.ca)
 

She doesn't really watch hockey so I don't know what her opinion is worth. But she wanted to do Leafs Lucky Guess with me this morning. Evidently we are going to lose 16-1 or something.

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Do audits actually matter? (lemmy.ca)
 

The US 2nd circuit has ruled that auditors opinions aren't relevant in cases of investor fraud because the statements are too vague for people to rely on. Whut?

Wall Street Journal article here for those who have access.

Here is a professor's blog entry for a barrier free commentary on the importance of the case.

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What is the biggest corporate heel turn that you know? (lemmy.ca)
 

I was thinking about this after listening to Marc Andreassen blather on about how he doesn't trust government as a repository of trusted keys and other functions. He advocates for private companies to perform critical functions. Standard libertarian stuff in many respects.

The problem of course is that corporations lack accountability. They can shift terms and conditions or corporate purpose and there is little meaningful recourse except to stop using them. I can think of small examples that don't widely resonate (Mountain Equipment Co-op I'm thinking of you 🤬) but are there big examples that I'm missing?

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Recommendations for lightweight WSYWIG page editor? (lemmy.ca)
 

I am finally going to join the '90s and set up a blog. The audience is mostly students to show how the academic stuff blends with real world professional practice. I'm an adjunct so I have a foot in both worlds.

I have my domain names (parked for years) and free webhosting through my university - but the university doesn't provide any development tools. All of the recommended tools I've run across (weebly, wix, webflow etc.) either want to host the page, manage the domain name, or require a fee to link the page to my host. I'm simply looking for a low cost site builder where I can edit my files and move them to my webspace.

Any recommendations for a WSYWIG style editor? I'd be happy to not have to learn any actual coding, but will if I have to.

The last time I did any of this I was manually tagging static pages in notepad (lol).

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