Nudge stuff

You just have to find someone to be brave for.

I can't stop thinking about the onslaught of emotions Rocky must have felt the moment Grace's earth thinking machine was able to say his 1 right back in his own language.

Here we have this little alien who comes from a highly social species. Who left his mate behind on Erid. Who watched all 22 of his crew members die without explanation and without him being able to fix. Who was all alone. In space. For decades. And after all that loneliness, all that isolation, losing hope at saving his sun and his planet with no one to comfort him--who comes along but Dr. Ryland Grace. And Rocky must have been so excited to not be alone anymore. But not only is he no longer alone, but this strange alien from earth can record his voice in his language and play it back to him. He's been isolated for, what, 46 years? I can't imagine the longing he must have had to just hear someone's voice. And while this may be his own voice played back to him, it is a reminder that not only will he be able to communicate and connect to someone else, but he gets a piece of home, a piece of his own language to cling to and to keep him going.

It's also a stark indication that he can talk. He can talk! To someone else. And they'll understand!

That small, brief moment in the movie where Rocky hears his own voice and he freezes a little, the weight of understanding at what this means finally hits him, is such a small part of the movie but it hits me so hard.

step 1: use they/them pronouns

step 2: you are now a cool they/them

Being supportive of binary people is relatively simple, they have decided to sort themselves into one of the boxes that we have lots of experience interacting with. Being supportive of nonbinary people can be comparatively tricky, because you have to resist the urge to create box C and drop them all there. That's how we end up with various prejudices like "woman lite". Humans really, really like to categorize things. It helps us think. Unfortunately, sometimes it helps us think wrong.

This is a given.

If the last digit is divisible by 2 (a.k.a. even), then so is the whole number.

If the sum of the digits is divisible by 3, then so is the whole number. The recursivity of this means that if the sum has multiple digits, you can add them up again until you get a single digit and see if it's 3, 6, or 9.

Like the rule for 2, but check if the last two digits are divisible by 4.

If it ends in 5 or 0.

If the rules for both 2 and 3 apply.

No shortcut. Alas.

Like the rules for 2 and 4, but check if the last three digits are divisible by 8. (Yes, this pattern keeps going for 16, 32, etc.)

Like the rule for 3, but the sum of the digits (or the sum of the sum of the digits, etc.) must be 9.

For example, 294

29 4

4×2=8

29-8=21

21 is divisible by 7

Second example, 1946

194 6

6×2=12

194-12=182

182 is still large, so let do it again

18 2

2×2=4

18-4=14

“Lesson #1 how far can humans see”

@deltatxt made this into a fanfic!! It’s awsome!! Go check it out!! Blinking in the starlight