Gubbins is a fun word game, it’s a one time purchase and apparently part of the profits go to charity due to Hank Green investing in it in a creative way.

Trans people would still be a thing without socially defined gender roles. Even without gender, my sex was still wrong - my brain still told me, in times like trying to get comfortable to fall asleep, that my boobs weren’t supposed to be there.

Eh, Leibniz can be the calculus guy.

My professor mentioned it in the observational astronomy class I took in college. For anyone wondering, zodiacal dust is the stuff left over from the protoplanetary disc that didn’t become a planet. Any observations made along the plane of the solar system is looking through that dust and astronomers need to account for it in various ways.

Try !linuxmemes@Lemmy.world, official announcements shouldn’t be paired with jokes in questionable taste.

I have played quidditch, with the broom.

I spent more time trying not to trip over said broom than actually playing. And I’m somewhat athletic. It wasn’t great.

There is a type of cockroach that can fly, if it’s hot and humid enough. It lives in Florida, along with many other places.

I traveled around Central Florida quite a bit as a kid, I’ve never seen the Midwest style fireflies. I have seen a glowy luminescent bug in Florida though, it was like a glow stick green and had a constant light rather than a flash. Super weird looking.

Right after being gifted a gemstone.

“Hey, how’d you know I was hungry? This looks delicious!”

I was thinking this outfit would be fantastic in January.

Yes, I live in Minnesota, lol.

It was the first sonar-enabled gaming accessory.

Wait, that implies there are more sonar-enabled gaming accessories. Are there any?

We could all unionize and just take the first month off, set it in the deepest part of winter, January or so, and just set Christmas to be during that month. Although people might not be thrilled to move Christmas to after New Year’s.

We should all just switch to Unix time.

I’m in this photo and I don’t like it.

I’m two classes away from both a math and physics degree, and I’m planning to go back to school for computer science once my slumlord finally writes a new lease.

Re: Flatland and sequels

I’m on break from work so I can’t say much, but Flatland as societal commentary is really weird and dated, as geometry it still holds up though. I haven’t read Sphereland but I really liked a different sequel, Flatterland. Check out other stuff by that mathematician too, I really like his writing.

Burning DVDs I’m not sure I get, CDs though? There’s still people driving cars that lack Bluetooth, and some people like listening to a whole album uninterrupted by phone distractions and there’s something nice about physical media - it makes sense for most of the reasons vinyl makes sense, it doesn’t, but it’s fun anyway.

A friend of mine did that with VHS, beta, cassettes, and 8tracks back in the day and got busted by the FBI.

I studied physics, not engineering, in undergrad, so I knew about the joke, but I didn’t realize that snap was actually used in some cases. That’s really interesting!

At the college I used to go to, there’s a line of fruiting crabapple trees in front of the dining hall, while eating I’d enjoy watching the squirrels eat the fermenting fallen fruit and stumble around drunk.