Sasha

My gender doc is an asshole and I want a new one… Just trying to sort out a missing pathology form and he emails me back in all caps screaming at me, misunderstands the situation, doesn’t help and treats me like I’m crazy. Well, I’m just doing what he told me to do last appointment “just email me I can sort it out in no time.”

Still don’t have the damn form so I guess he can get pissed off again that I haven’t done them, and its completely his own fault. I am so goddamn over medical professionals being shit.

I’m basically as old as gen z gets, '97. At home we only had dialup well after broadband was the norm, it wasn’t really worth using. Instead I learnt what the internet is and how it works at school in computer lab classes.

I was probably 7 or 8 when I made my first web page on our school intranet, they really pushed for us to be tech literate. The coolest part about this is that I grew up so tech literate that I was fully qualified for a job as a developer despite having no formal training. I did one introductory programming class in uni for a free HD and that was basically it.

Yeah, I absolutely understand the insanity of having the internet so available. We had it in my early days on school computers, but the real game changer has been smart phones. Being able to carry that information everywhere is the insane part to me.

Parents were strict, but I got around it really easily. I just used the wifi details my dad used for my Xbox to connect my iPod touch. I grew up on YouTube and podcasts from iTunes.

The only thing that keeps me sane while working for capitalists is that I get paid to do a lot of nothing

Oh god the case for a photon is super hard to talk about in any meaningful way, photons “see” every point in their journey as happening at the same instant of time and at the same place, null geodesics are nuts.

But yeah, the underlying mathematics that causes this can (kinda) just be pinned on the normalisation of the four velocity, which I think is what you’re describing.

Oh god, no fluid mechanics is way too difficult. I stuck to studying quantum effects of black holes, which is much easier.

(This isn’t a joke, it’s literally true)

Only a few really dry textbooks I’m afraid, it’s a subject that’s extremely difficult to explain in lay terms as the mathematics is so complicated.

That said if you’re feeling masochistic, Schultz’s first course in GR is the most approachable that I know.

It’s just meant as a physical analogue to demonstrate some features (namely how the shape of the sheet/gravity affects things that travel on/through it) in a way that people can understand easily.

Variational principle goes brrrrr

Oh yes let’s talk about my favourite subject ever!

The coolest thing I know of comes from wondering why bent spacetime makes you move at all. The answer is that you always move through time and the bending of spacetime actually turns a bit of time into space and vice versa.

This leads to my favourite saying about black holes, once you enter them you can no more escape falling to the singularity than you can escape tomorrow.

Constance? Never heard of her