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If you zoom in really hard into how “electricity” works you find it mostly has to do with electromagnetic fields.

If you zoom in on electromagnetic fields you get quantum mechanics.

If you zoom in on quantum mechanics you find a lot of disagreement, basically the best scientists today still don’t fully understand our observations.

So in essence we still don't really understand electricity.

At best you get physics that describes phenomena like vanderwaals forces describes the magnet force but they don’t explain how to phenomena exist, how those forces form.

Or i am just to stupid to understand the current scientific meta. I have always been dissatisfied with how unrevealing physics was and how much questions it never answered while getting a passing grade though.

Currently programming an NES emulator. This is like the 5th iteration over the last 10 years since it's been an obsession of mine for years. Got kinda motivated to try it again since nintendo is burning all the switch emulators down and I want to get skilled enough to try one of those. So far I've got a near perfect 6502 emulator with BCD support (The NES uses a different version without, but I thought it'd be useful for later projects) written in rust, currently writing out the PPU and losing hair. I'm the most excited about this version because I actually sort of know what I'm doing now, I have horrible dyslexia and dysgraphia so I often failed to actually read technical docs all the way through, but I've improved a lot on that recently. Got the emulated CPU running software within about 6 hours combined effort, so we'll see how the rest goes.

I learned quite a lot yesterday about the creation of Call of Duty licence by the Infinity Ward studio. Quite interesting to see how the story unfold, and how defining to the whole industry a single studio could be

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Ward

One of my boyfriends is really into (and good at) fighting games. I haven't even played one in decades, and when I did it was just to button mash lol. I wanted to play with him so I've been deep diving into those. Now we play Battle Craze together.

I just found out that Christopher Columbus was apparently Jewish and Spanish. This was the least interesting fact I have learned in recent memory.

Learning more about Ancient Cahokia.

I started learning Japanese in my spare time as of Oct 1st, and in 2 weeks I've managed to learn both Hiragana and Katakana which means as long as it isn't written in Kanji I can now read Japanese! I have no idea what the words mean, but I can read them!

Shoutout to 'he', 'be' and 'pe' the only sounds with the same symbol in both Hiragana and Katakana.

After this comment got into reading this comic and learning about the élan school. I was gonna search how much of it is true but the comic is so long that the research will have to wait until tomorrow. If you have a lot of time, it's worth a read.

I was reading legal cases of divorced parents, one who wants to vaccinate their children and the other who doesn't, this weekend. The judge always sides with the parent who wants to vaccinate.

i can scroll around satellite maps of the earth for hours. i cant tell you how much of North America and Europe is just farmland, and how freaky northern Russia/Canada look even just through satellite pixels.

I've been reading a lot about personal finance. The Millionaire Next Door really opened my eyes.

I also learned about leading and lagging indicators and thought that was cool!

I played Adastra and it hit me super hard. Watching a bunch of critical analysis videos of it, I found that "post-Adastra depression" is a thing and I wasn't just losing my mind because I'm a freak.

I fell into a depression for a while so nothing, but recently my sense of curiosity is coming back. I've been reading about climate change. I feel like I've been bombarded by all sorts of information over the last few years and want to sort out at least a little of my confusion.

Oh and I got a VR headset and have been learning how to use the 3d paint app.

Read in a travel guide about the modern history of Cyprus, and it was not what my super-superficial knowledge made me expect to read. Did not dive into a rabbit hole though.