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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych@jamesbicycle.bsky.social |
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Clinical-community psychologist, cycologist. Retired from clinical practice. Consulting continues. Board member Saskatoon Cycles.
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Welcome the era of Ronald Reagan. Absolutely crazed threats ongoing against the USSR. Scenarios of nuclear winter & starvation in the cold after an initial 100 million killed. It may be hard to fathom, but it was as awful & fearful as today is without the internet. And effing Bonzo goes to Bitburg.
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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No re metformin. Don't get health care advice from the internet please.
www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/mi...
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We got a (discredited) inquiry into imagined political influence by environmental groups. Meanwhile, here's an oil exec EXPLAINING ON TAPE how they manipulate the media, civil servants, politicians & indigenous leaders. So… when are the hearings? <crickets>
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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The tune is v cheerful.
"When I was young and still naive, I thought that it was guaranteed
That things would change for better, not for worse
But now the place I'm born and grown is pillaged like the end of Rome
It feels just like we're going ninety in reverse"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_3_...
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Fascism made deals with capital in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany. It made similar deals with religion. Facism promises both a role in its grand faux-renewal of society.
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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She's funny. The manipulativeness of so much religion stated well.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=onES...
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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No, no aversion. Observational. Aversion is reserved for cilantro. But there's lamb fat that sticks and coats the insides of mouth. Similar to how peanut butter can. There are better food experiences.
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Pork is better choice imo. Have you ever eaten lamb when the fatty grease coats the inside of your mouth?
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Cook bear thoroughly...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
It's not generally eaten here except in times of scarcity. Historically bear grease was used to discourage mosquitos. Not exactly repellent. Fly paper on your skin. The smell was extra. Before DEET repellents. Consider: Alaska highway construction.
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Previously tech/media companies sued ppl for stuff like this:
"Ordinary moments of childhood were captured and scraped and put into this dataset..called LAION-5B..AI models are unable to forget the material they're trained on..."
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07...
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Being wealthly doesn't make you smart, sensible, of good character, kind nor decent. I thought we all knew that.
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Not anymore: "Turn on. Tune in. Drop out." How about this: "Turn on. Tune in. Take over."
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Pay tax where profits are earned. What a fair and simple concept that multinationals, tech & social media companies keep blocking in the USA. Because minimal fairness is bad? corruption. what?
www.dw.com/en/oecd-glob...
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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High temp on Canada Day yesterday of 17°C (63°F). Low last night of 9°C (48°F). 5.5" (14cm) of rain in the last 3 wks. Abnormal +++ IIUC the open Arctic Ocean has pushed the jetstream vigorously south. Cooking Americans. Cooling western Canada. With eastern Canada a dog's breakfast of.
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Dismayed to find myself thinking like my father did. He & family arrived in Canada 1942 after fleeing Germany to Indonesia/ Singapore in 1938. He echoed those who say "when people show & say who they are and their intensions, believe them, and prevent them". (A kind gentle man pushed to think THAT)
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Talk to some dog people. They start a week or 2 before, demonstrating to the geese it isn't a Good Place. It doesn't have cost anything or be professional. Just get a half-dozen (or more) dogs & owners to spend 20 mins daily chasing the "cobra chickens" away.
www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Hmm. 1848 & brutal supressions of all the hopeful revolutions in European capitals come to mind. (Good soundtrack with Les Misérables). Was France free after 1918? Mais non. The 1941 fall of the 3rd Republic was worse. Then Algeria & end of the Fourth. Look to France only for food & wine perhap.
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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When oil companies say they're going green. They're FOS. greenwashing.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KSdp...
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Tails is. Tor makes the VPN redundant for almost everyone. For Android phone, apps: Signal and Briar for comms. Blockada for tracker blocking. F-droid for apps. Turn location off. Use Insular from F-droid (Island from google play) allows stopping apps completely. Apple- well, no.
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Vapes and vaping restrictions. Under 18 require a prescription. Others must talk to a pharmacist first. Australian law.
www.msn.com/en-au/health...
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Russia using Facebook to interfere with UK election. They're coming for your election too. It's not just Facebook.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07...
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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viruses have butts viruses are geniuses- didn't evolve? what? (haiku)
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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If it were possible to have the judges who adjudged "low end" and didn't agree to protective measures named and required to answer questions about their decisions.... Do judges (and lawyers) feel responsibility for their decisions that lead to violence? do they care? should it matter?
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Who knew that the game Assburn was invented in Saskatoon? Does anyone else play it? Anywhere?
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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A class action lawsuit against a religious school that gets government funding in Sask. This podcast I'm on came up again today. open.spotify.com/episode/16fb...
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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“As the political leader of Alberta, it is both my responsibility and my pleasure to decide if and when Albertans get to see a dentist,” I will then decide how many teeth they deserve to keep.”
www.thebeaverton.com/2024/06/dani...
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My IRL friends call me Chris
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“I’d rather personally pull the teeth out of the mouth of every low income Albertan than let [Trudeau] pay for them to see a dentist.”
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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The reason tech corporations accumulate power is so that they can be insulated from the consequences of the harms they wreak upon the rest of us...in order to externalize the costs of running a good system, reaping the profits of scale while we pay its costs.
pluralistic.net/2024/06/28/d...
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Same cover art photo. 1969, published by Simon & Shuster. The diff for France was conquest by Germany. The history doesn't quite rhyme. The fall of the Weimar Republic is a closer rhyme but for the economics and street fighting by private armies.
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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I'm worried for you, Americans. We're children of a common mother & father we Canadians. Your influence is great. Your politics are not great. How cld you get to point of chosing between rule of law & a personality? Please reassure me you'll figure it out & be alright. Like you've done in the past..
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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But there's better refrigeration now. Which is a Big Deal. It means we can always have ice cold beer. Which would have been great in Dresden. (I either heard him say this, read it, or made him say it in my mind)
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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"So it goes" and "Let us devote to unselfishness the frenzy we once gave gold and underpants."
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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I hear this from Americans. And I think to myself but there's reproductive health care, LGBTQ2+ adult and children's rights, library books, brown people, homeless... And mildly think further that it's easier if everyone thinks no one should have the right to be a jerk and all should have empathy.
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Intersectionality. If you're a brown person you're expected to show your face, and don't you dare wear a hood.
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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And over-assed chaps.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=TbN9...
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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13°C here right now. Rain. Again. (55°F). Lake's level is up 5½" from 4 wks ago. Climate change producing the heat south and east is pushing cold Arctic air south into the west along with the jet stream. The Arctic should be frozen this time of year. It isn't. Warm Arctic means cold here.
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Great plains and mountains to the Great Divide continuous with that ecology. First Nations (inconsistently) inform that beavers flooded so much, prairies and valleys were half bog. This is info from Canada but continuous with that ecology. Beavers were extirpated ~18th century.
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Erik Hoffner
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Want to opt out of Instagram and Facebook scraping your personal data for its generative AI rubbish? *Here’s a playbook to foil Meta* June 26 deadline to opt out!! I just followed these extremely helpful prompts and it seemed to work:
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Pwnallthethings
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ICC issues arrest warrants against former Russian Defense Minister Shoigu and its Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Gerasimov on charges of war crimes connected with the Russian invasion and war against Ukraine
www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Supposed to return summer 2020. Every single piece of shale has fossils on both sides. Every piece! 500 million years. Few experiences and places that shift a person's view of everything.
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Do you have a link to the reconstruction of Hallucigenia with the tentacles at the head end? I've seen the reversal of it well described, but not this reconstruction. No tentacles before. (And if you've not been to the Burgess Shale, Walcott quarry and Mt Stephens opposite, go!)
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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We're all crazy here. I'm crazy. You're crazy. How do you know I'm crazy?, said Alice. You must be, said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here. (Alice's Adventure in Wonderland)
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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To see this video. I would pay.
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Road violence, this time a drunk driver, killed another person in Saskatoon. We need safe active transportation so ppl go home to their loved ones. Nothing's okay.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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Western Canada, 54° north, RN we're near Saskatchewan-Manitoba, was 8°C overnight (46°F). Frost 2 nights ago. IIUC open Arctic Ocean (abnormal, shld be frozen) pushes the jet stream south & we're getting Arctic air. This is part of the cause of the trapped hot air to the south and east- "heat dome"
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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We played IRA versus the British. Teams of 3: firecracker, plasticine, match. We were assigned buildings to pretend blow up. Then the October Crisis happened (FLQ terrorism in Canada). www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/o...
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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I'm of the opinion- T2d is genetic susceptibility in many cases with the wrong culture of food, activity, stresses. Doesn't explain all, explains much. Some colleagues emphasize the genetics excessively IMO, discounting epigenetic influences on downstream gene expression.
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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"Not even wrong" with colleagues means "correct but misses too much". Thick skinned professionals. Never intended personally. It cuts to the chase. Sorry it offended you. My bad. Wrong context- too few characters to explain. My general intent is always to give knowledge away, what I know.
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