My girlfriend is from thailand and never expiernced much american culture... so naturally as a nerd first thing i had her donwas watch star wars... we watch the first episode of the original movies and she was really into it and she was all exvited trying to figure out who princess leia was goi g to wind up with... lolol cant wait till she finds out ;)
@freemo @trinsec Random tidbit... My friend Chris Pirazzi wrote this book about having a Thai girlfriend.
https://www.amazon.com/Thailand-Fever-English-Chris-Pirazzi/dp/1887521488
Niccolò Pampaloni and I wrote a review on slow excitatory currents that involve AMPA receptors. They are more common than you might think.
It's now online, open access. It was part of the Physiological Society Symposium on Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors.
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP280877
Interesting theory about why guns are so loved in the US:
>White Southerners started cultivating the tradition of the home arsenal immediately after the Civil War because of insecurities and racial fears. During the rest of the 19th century, those anxieties metamorphosized into a fetishization of the firearm to the point that, in the present day, gun owners view their weapons as adding meaning and a sense of purpose to their lives.
@freemo hey i found out qoto pwa didn't have a proper logo so I asked Bing Image creator to make one based on the favicon.
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
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