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Industrial Strength Shitpost in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago

There are almost always two answers:

  • a) custom buttplug
  • b) exothermic reaction
  • source: I worked in an emergency room during training.
50y in c/historymemes@piefed.social
It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

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 in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

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 in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 days ago

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 in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (5 children)

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 in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 days ago (11 children)

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

Canada is planning for a possible 300,000 citizen army. Would you sign up? in c/AskCanada@lemmy.ca
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

Yes. If they'll have me.

I need help pinching off the SHITPO phonetic alphabet in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kardashian

The richest people in the world are morally bankrupt in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

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 in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Mangina

Is gold investing a scam? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Worth less so harder to carry large amounts of capital.

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

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

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Purchased from FARK at the turn of the century. (infosec.pub)
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Antediluvian meme (infosec.pub)
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whatever is on my phone (infosec.pub)
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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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