Dr. Bob @ DrBob @lemmy.ca

Recovering academic now in public safety. You'll find me kibitzing on brain

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Isn't that how Arnold Schwarzenegger was caught out?

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YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! I'M A MAN NOW!

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

Yeah but base building doesn't seem as sexy. LSD is the basis of every coffee plan - Long Slow Donuts.

I think it's hilariously stupid. It might have made more sense if it followed a training progression. Like move from coffee sprint to coffee racer, menu long run and then the marathon maybe? Sprint to marathon is some Goggins level shit.

I'm old and I don't think that's true. Frozen entrees have ways been on the light side. And frozen dinners for one would be 3 oz of meat, and a couple of spoonfuls of boiled peas or something.

Absolutely not. I loathe gestures my touchpad and disable everything I can.

The core issue is that the stock market doesn't really exist on fundamentals. If it did DJT wouldn't be trading at $34 on $4MM in revenue. Regulatory regimes are about to change and who knows what else. So it's not that that kind of analysis is wrong, but it's not super helpful either. Because the market can blunder on like this for decades, and regulations can turn on a dime.

I only watched the first 5 minutes and it didn't seem to be going anywhere. So what's the take home message, diversify your holdings?

Probably. But the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent so don't hold your breath waiting for a crash.

Yes.

No. This is a civil judgment. No pardon possible.

You are badly misinformed on this point.

Bonesofthemoon must be up there.

May I suggest Solaris by Stanislaw Lem? The alien is a sentient ocean that doesn't understand the distinction between past, present, or future, or between dreaming and wakefulness. It causes some issues...

It's a modern convention. In the Celtic calendar solstice marked the middle of winter and older Christmas carols mark Yule as midwinter. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1_R3GPkIDeM

I wish it were true, but Americanism have been creeping into our English for years. The Senate finally stepped in a few years ago to clarify this issue: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-debate-is-over-senate-of-canada-says-its-half-mast-not-half-staff-when-lowering-flags

But you can still find documents where CBC was confused on the issue: https://www.cbc.ca/news2/indepth/words/flagflap.html

The other one that drives me nuts is the insistence that only physicians can use the honorific of "doctor". It's actually become part of the Globe and Mail's style guide.

Only in America. And only in the 20th century. A mast is a vertical pole or structure. A staff is a handheld pole. We still have radio masts and masts on top of cranes. Flags fly from masts on land all the time. A ship's mast is called a mast because it's a big vertical pole. Somebody in U.S. got confused by this and insisted that flags fly on staffs (staves) on land.

eta: In American English, a flag flown halfway up its flagpole as a symbol of mourning is at half-staff, and a flag flown halfway up a ship’s mast to signal mourning or distress is at half-mast. The distinction does not run deep, though, as the terms are often mixed up, especially in unofficial contexts.

Outside North America, half-staff is not a widely used term, and half-mast is used in reference to half-raised flags both on land and at sea. Half-mast is also preferred in Canada for both uses, though half-staff appears more frequently there than it does outside North America.

Source: https://grammarist.com/usage/half-mast-half-staff/

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This is the answer I got over drinks with a senior military leader. It's too well known to hold anything interesting. He contrasted it with Mount Weather and the Cheyenne Complex. Those are still the sites for continuity of government because there is too much infrastructure to move. The sites just got additional hardening as the locations became known.