Sucks that I wouldn't be able to shitpost about it, though.

That's what mesh networking is for

I really hated the forced face to face time they wax nostalgic over in that article. Lectures that you had to attend in person and couldn't easily access after they were done, tutorial sessions where part of your final grade was received just for turning up, creating tutorials full of people who didn't want to be there and tutors trying to juggle so many people they couldn't meaningfully tutor anyone, effectively making it an enforced private study session...

I did not love my time at uni...

You know your friend better than we do. Do what you think is right, and make sure you're open to accepting that you'll get it wrong sometimes, and then self correct.

Oh, I include all of that in the woo! And the time dilation planet, where the time dilation was more intense than that found on the surface of a neutron star...

It's all woo!

As I said, I didn't like the movie, and that's exactly why. It tried to pass itself off on its scientific authenticity. It certainly lured me in with that, and then it sprung an endless stream of hand wavey science fiction woo.

As much as I hate the movie Interstellar and the magic woo woo it tried to pass off as science, one thing it did get right was the Black Hole visualisation. They generated the visualisation by using detailed, highly accurate models and data to show what a black hole actually looks like, before we'd ever seen one. The movie version isn't 100% accurate, because they dumbed it down for the movie, but even so it was still very accurate, and they also had the more accurate non movie version as a result, which generated scientific papers of its own!

Edit - Also, not a scientist, just a passionate nerd

The test is, are you punching down? That is to say, are you, from a position of privilege, ridiculing someone that lacks your privilege? If not, you're ok.

Giving google money is the opposite of great...

That we're all descended from convicts (though I am)

I use Cachy for the same reason :P

And I'm replying from lemmy!

Comprehensible input will be useful for both of you, but particularly for your wife if she already has some Spanish. Dreaming Spanish is what I've been using, but there's also plenty of comprehensible input channels on YouTube.