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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Went to a Mediterranean restaurant for dinner with my wife. We celebrated her birthday, and so decided to check the dessert menu. We generally don’t get dessert, just never really lie thing, but this menu has a dessert called amygdalopita, which piques my interest. Why would they name it after part of the brain?

    And so upon further research, we discovered that the Greek word αμύγδαλο (amýgdalo) means almond. And this really got my wheels turning, because it brought back memory of EMT classes, way back in like 2003, where they talked about the amygdala being named such due tonit being almond shaped.

    So I like a dessert that not only tasted great, but also helped me make connections, maybe fire off some neurons I hadn’t in a while.






  • Crazy, but it’s almost like parenting can make the environment safer!

    Lemmy likes to portray Roblox the same way the 10pm news portrayed the Internet when I was in my preteens and teen years, like it was the wild west, everyone was a predator, etc. I let my kids hop on. Their friends include me, their mom (who has an account for some reason), each other, and the kids who live across the street. They like to play the platformers, and they invite me sometimes and we play them.

    They’ll get older and they’ll go explore the internet the same way I did. I spent my adolescence and teen years eventually in AIM chat rooms, then forums, and thn Skyping random people, and somehow didn’t become a terrorist, didn’t get predated. I also am of the school of thought that you need to learn things on your own, rather than have no exposure to things that could potentially be bad.







  • Dozzi92@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzUncle!
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    1 year ago

    Damn, I took electronics a few different times in my learning career. V=IR always stuck with me, and then P=VI. And so when I read current squared times resistance I squinted my eyes and replaced the V in the power equation with IR, and I was like woah. Neat.






  • There are definitely more niche subreddits that won’t exist here without their user base, and for those I still pop on over, and more than likely will continue to, except only from my PC now, which is probably good. Lemmy isn’t as active in my spheres as reddit was, and I’ll count it as a blessing because reddit was, for all intents and purposes, a waste of time. Or 90% boredom with 10% something else.