Engineer/Mathematician/Student. I’m not insane unless I’m in a schizoposting or distressing memes mood; I promise.

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Cake day: July 28th, 2023
  • hihi24522@lemm.eetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•American and British English spelling and pronunciations
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    3 days ago

    When I am talking about fibrous material, like individual strands of carbon in a composite, I naturally type “fibre” but when I talk about nutrition or the internet it’s “fiber”

    I also tend to spell armor armour and color colour despite being American.

    Oh and I write grey instead of gray.

    I also catch myself writing units like metre and litre instead of meter and liter sometimes.

    It really all depends on if there’s a spellchecker turned on that will tell me I’m spelling things wrong.

  • hihi24522@lemm.eetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Have Americans always been this stupid?
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    10 days ago

    I grew up in a small Utah town. The only four adults I ever remember hearing admit they were wrong especially when it came to politics or science or religion were my father and three of my high school teachers.

    All the rest would literally tell me that the research papers and encyclopedias I tried to cite as evidence were made up by either satan or some government deep state conspiracy. Or they’d say we can “agree to disagree” about shit like animals feeling pain and the flaws in eugenics (I wish I was joking)

    Yes, they have always been this stupid. Learning requires accepting when you’re wrong and the vast majority of people I knew growing up saw that as weakness.

    I thought it would be different when I got out of that place, and while living in a larger city is better, it’s not better by all that much.

  • hihi24522@lemm.eetoCurated Tumblr@sh.itjust.works•Share your storiesEnglish
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    7 months ago

    “The Yellow Wallpaper”

    Tap for spoiler

    It’s written as journal entries by a woman who may or may not have been insane before she got locked in an asylum or possibly just a room in her house by her husband. There’s a woman in the wallpaper who creepily crawls along the wall but actually it’s her shadow because she’s the creepy woman crawling around the room and rubbing up against the wall. Of course you don’t really know this until she starts really sounding crazy and starts ripping up the wallpaper trying to free the woman in the walls. In the end her husband returns home and either he faints or she fucking murders him with the blade she uses to sharpen her pencil. The book ends with her thinking she’s been freed, not by escaping through the now unlocked door but by entering the yellow wallpaper. There’s also a creepy film adaptation we watched that was… unsettling.

    It was quite scarring for most of the kids in my 7th grade class.

    Also I’ve only just now realized that wallpaper back then could have contained arsenic so going insane from being in contact with it constantly enough to stain your skin is a very real possibility.