That movie is so relatable

Oooh, thank you! I love adding resources like this to tabs on my work computer. The nature of my job means I’m sometimes with kids with vastly different interests, so the more resources, the better.

Off-topic, but if anyone has/works with a kid who loves dinosaurs and prefers visual information, I also have a neat dinosaur size comparison page bookmarked.

A kid I worked with loved airplanes. When he played, it became a running joke that there would randomly be “turbulence!” and he’d wiggle around.

One day, he was playing with another kid, but he was a rocket ship this time. The other kid, knowing his joke, decided to playfully bump into him and say, “turbulence!”

This little five year old, with his toddler-esque voice, often asks big questions that can be hard to answer. After this, he asked me, “Is there turbulence in space?”

I mean, yes and no? I explained that it’s not turbulence like an airplane experiences, since there’s not enough air in space to do that, but there are other forces that can act on a rocket that can change how it moves.

Thankfully, he didn’t pry any further, because that’s the extent of the knowledge I can ELI5 on that topic. 😅

Depends on what I’m doing. It’s usually one voice, but if I’m trying to think through something or if my ADHD is turned up, I get what I call “the committee.” For thinking through something, different perspectives all chime in, and I like to imagine it like some kind of round table debate. I “talk” with myself through ideas, and sometimes I change my mind about what I do because ultimately I know the most sensible talking point is the right one.

If my ADHD is behind it, though, then it’s more like a room full of people all pointing out different things at the same time. One’s complaining that the noise outside is too loud. Another’s distracted by the birds out the window. Another voice is debating what I should eat next (even if I’m not hungry.) Yet another is trying to remember the lyrics to a random song. Then the “responsible adult” of the group is trying to get everyone else to STFU and focus on the task at hand.

I find that caffeine goes a long way in getting the committee to chill and listen to each other. It’s not too surprising that stimulants get them all in line, but it’s still interesting to experience.

I bet sketchy food producers also balked at the idea of ingredient lists when they were first rolled out. If you’re offering something to others and think they might not like something you used in it, maybe it’s better to avoid the thing rather than complain that you’re being forced to tell people about it.

That feeling when you’re trying to browse through a creator you like’s page for videos you haven’t seen yet, but you have to scroll past the dozens and dozens of things you’ve already watched, which each take time to load their thumbnails, making the task drag on for ages.

Which sucks when you’re the kind of person that craves novelty. Just because I watched a nature documentary about sharks doesn’t mean all I want to watch are shark videos. YouTube doesn’t seem to understand that.

Thankfully, a lot of people gave really good suggestions when I made this Ask Lemmy post a few months ago. I’m still working my way down the list. Whenever YouTube search fails to give me something new or interesting, I check back on that page and pick a channel somebody suggested. Otherwise, the algorithm gets real stale, real quick.

Their responses are clear and methodical, giving the impression that OP is genuinely trying to discuss a potentially-tricky subject in a calm, rational manner. If they were here to “stir up shit,” surely they’d be responding in a way that encourages more drama. From the evidence, I don’t believe that’s their intent at all.

Sometimes people want to discuss difficult topics, even if there’s a risk of people taking it the wrong way. I’d say OP’s doing a decent job encouraging civility, and that’s something I wish we could see more of online.

It says “chess enthusiast” on the left, but shows a chessboard on the right. Sounds like these two have more in common than they see.

Don’t worry, some of us are keeping the astronomy spirit alive in the younger generation. There’s a 5 year old kid I work with who can name tons of celestial objects that my coworkers have never heard of. It makes for fun inside jokes/references. Sometimes when we’re with another person, he’ll compare our distances to each other and say, “You’re Alpha Centauri A, I’m Alpha Centauri B, and he/she’s Proxima Centauri.”

I learned a NSFW animal fact the other day. There are some fish that care for their young by holding them in their mouth, it’s called mouthbrooding. That’s not the new or NSFW part though.

Ahh, nature. So beautiful. So like us.

Mid-Altantic region here. Every day I pass a billboard that says, “Shackled by lust? Jesus sets you free!”

Which does nothing but make me think, “I guess Jesus is into domming now.”

Lucifer, with a name meaning “bearer of light,” makes far more sense as a deity that encourages education.

Next time you feel “enlightened” by new knowledge, remember that Lucifer’s the one behind it. God would rather lock knowledge up in a tree and call its fruit “forbidden.”

I can’t imagine wanting to float untethered in space. I love space, astronomy is fascinating. Do I want to go there? Nope. I like being on land.

The idea of floating in the airless void with no connections to the one metal tube out there that can bring me back home is utterly terrifying. Props to Bruce (and other astronauts) for going with it, but whew boy, does the thought scare the crap out of me.

I don’t know what compelled me. I had to.

“He already survived in the vacuum of my mom. I mean, ‘My mom’s vacuum.’”

I write my best when I’m depressed. I’m okay with finding alternative routes for that, though weed isn’t one of them. I find weed helps me when I’m doing visual art, but when writing? Weed practically renders me incapable.

I now understand why writers’ usual substances of choice are alcohol and caffeine.

I’m not looking to have a baby, but I gotta admit that if I were an astronaut and the one-in-a-million chance of getting impregnated by floating sperm happened, that’d be incredible. I’d have the first baby conceived in space! What a cool story to have in a family’s lore.

Of course, that’s provided it survives the rest of the trip.

at least one

Imagine being the one and only person in space. I consider myself a pretty extreme loner, but even I think that would be terrifying.

Logic puzzles should be applied in more classrooms. Start with simple problems in elementary school, and progress to more challenging ones as students grow. Critical thinking needs to start early.