I’m just some geek.

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Cake day: February 27th, 2025

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  • I like my coffee strong, and a few days ago I put too much in the filter so it went over the edge when it started brewing. That clogged the hole where it was supposed to run out through at the bottom, causing it all to flow over the side instead. From there it went to the front edge the table, and into all the drawers except the very bottom one.

    I also don’t have a dishwasher… That was an annoying cleanup.








  • Same here.

    I learned to read at 3, and taught myself English before starting in school by reading all the text I came across on my Amiga, recognizing words that were similar to the Danish ones and slowly picking up more and more.

    I also got a My Little Professor at 3, a reverse calculator that gave problems to solve. My mom taught me addition, subtraction and multiplication, and my mothers “subtraction is the opposite of addition” was enough for me to figure division out. I did the hardest problems in all four categories in my head, with numbers with up to 4 digits, before starting in school too.

    I never did homework in school, only things that had to be turned in. I always had my hand up in class, because my innate curiosity and mental capacity meant that I could figure things out as the questions were written on the blackboard. The lax attitude stuck. *Edit: It wasn’t because I didn’t try to get things that required more work from me. I always asked for harder problems when doing work in class, because I always finished the problems we were given to do while in class and finish as homework before the class was done.

    My biggest problem growing up was bullying. I didn’t share interests with hardly any of my classmates, since I was at least 3 years ahead of them in my mental development. My best friend was 10 years old when I was 7, and he and I played Magic together because his classmates couldn’t figure it out. My glasses, small stature, and the fact that I changed schools twice didn’t help.



  • Well, the taxes we have here in Denmark are quite high. We either have the fourth highest rate of tax compared to GDP or the highest, depending on which source you go by. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_tax_revenue_to_GDP_ratio

    The thing is just that taxes means that the money gets spent directly on improving the lives of the people who live here, instead of people having to buy stuff like health care through companies that skim off the top, and who uses the money you pay them to employ people who try to find ways to not help you.

    Taxes helps ensure that everything runs efficiently. A healthier population who are more productive, infrastructure that prevents disruptions to business and daily lives alike, and ensuring that people don’t have to resort to crime if they lose their job or get ill. Crime is another source of inefficiency that gets significantly reduced.

    Everything helps ensure that the average person is in a much better state of mind, and mood is contagious - even those who pay the most benefit off of it, and pretty much everyone here agrees that it’s money well spent.

    In Danish politics, even the right wing would be considered leftists in the US - we have a lot of political parties (16 in parliament, with 4 of them being from the Faeroe Islands or Greenland).


  • Ja, både afstanden mellem jorden og Venus, og vinklen mellem linjen fra jorden til solen og linjen fra Venus til solen spiller en rolle.

    Når Venus er tættest på jorden, så er vinklen jeg beskrev ovenover 180 grader, og det betyder at solen skinner på den anden side af Venus end den vi kan se. Når solen ikke skinner på den side der vender mod os, så er der så godt som ingen lys fra Venus der kommer hertil.

    Når hele dagsiden af Venus peger mod Jorden, så er vinklen 0 grader - men det betyder også at Venus er på den anden side af solen, og så medfører afstanden at vi ikke får ret meget lys hertil. Desuden så er solen i samme retning som Venus, og det er svært at se planeten når der er så meget lys lige ved siden af.



  • Jeg er heller ikke så interesseret i edderkopper, pånær springedderkopperne. De er mere opmærksomme på deres omgivelser, og jeg elsker at man kan følge deres tanker hvis man kigger på deres opførsel. Det at de ikke kan dreje øjnene men roterer hele kroppen for at kigge rundt gør det meget nemmere at følge blikket.


  • Tak, men jeg fandt det ret hurtigt oppe under Communities i toppen. Scrollede bare de første 10-15 sider igennem efter at have valgt “all” for at se hvad der var jeg kunne være interesseret i, og søgte efter “physics” og “science”.

    På Reddit er r/AskPhysics nok den sub jeg bruger mest, sammen med r/Denmark.