DrBob

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[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry my dude. Sometimes there ain't no option. If internet cafes were still a thing I'd do them there.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 4 points 19 hours ago

Boomers are older than the 1970s. The baby boom started at the end of the Second World War and ran until the early/mid 1960s. By the late 1960s we were deep into what used to be called the baby bust but eventually came to be known as GenX. People at the end of the boom from around 1960 to 1964 or so identify more closely with X and sometimes refer to themselves as Jones. I could write more about all of this but it is probably dull. One of the hallmarks of the break between the generations though was the availability of services, notably related to student grants and loans.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 4 points 20 hours ago

Well...there is something to the life stages/cultural currency bits. I say that as GenX.

Growing up everything was about Boomers - 50s nostalgia was huge, every gritty character had been in Nam, movies were people in their 30s looking back to college, TV was about having babies. None of it meant anything to us. Kennedy was shot years before I was born. We didn't remember Nam, Nixon or the Beatles. It just didn't feel like there was cultural space for us and our issues weren't worth discussing in public spaces.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 6 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

What's an antiFamily card?

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Also GenX. Go fuck yourself.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Nobody expects great feats of strength. They look to nephews for manual labor.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They cached 1 oz of 💩 from each of the previous 3000 transports.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

France. So chill.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Must be crossing the equator.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago (7 children)

He was proto-MAGA in the film. We just didn't have a name for it then. He was a engineer working for a defense contractor whose life fell apart because he was an asshole, and there was a peace dividend. Instead of embracing change, or reflecting on macro-level impacts, he goes apeshit and takes it out on fellow citizens who he views as being out of step with his vision of the world.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is related to what I used to study. I'd say the difficulty with the question lays with how we interpret "biggest high". Stimulation of those systems produces a qualitatively different user experience, and even more so depending on the dose, mechanism, and selectivity of the agonist. So serotonergic activation can produce experiences that range from relaxation to full blown psychedelic experiences. Activation of the opioid system can produce warm comfort to catatonia.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Do you know how many time zones they have?" "Uh, yessir. Uh, four ... uh, no sir. I never really studied that up." "Eleven." "Eleven. It's not even funny." "Eleven." "Eleven. That's, that's ridiculous." "Eleven."

https://youtu.be/QDmWYVdN8ug

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Mogged by a footmaxxer.

 

Small businesses want a firm handshake and to look you in the eye. Jobseekers prefer electronic applications. No idea what the pay rates are.

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In the old days almost everyone skated to classical music which was almost always in the public domain.

A few years ago the rules shifted to allow skating to music with lyrics, which opened the door to contemporary tunes.

That change has come with a host of issues including broadcast rights if the performance is televised, or differing rights depending on the country of performance. A routine can be peformed in some competitions in some places but not others.

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Hansel and Gretel then Barber of Seville.

 

I am looking for an app that would let me listen to internet radio on one station, but would automatically jump to another at a set time.

The use case is pretty straightforward - I love the national news from CBC but hate everything else they do. I want to listen to good music then jump to CBC at the top of the hour for 10 minutes to catch the national news.

 

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

 
 
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