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[–] JCSpark@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I'm 100% in support of researching weird stuff that pops into my brain, as it often does. I've gone down some rabbit hole recently, and have lost hours to fascinating research.

-rant- I'm a little concerned that no one's mentioned how invasive it is to not only look at someone's phone over their shoulder, but to also take a picture, especially if they're relaxing at home (which seems to be the case).

I don't mean to make mountains of molehills, but I believe we're entitled to what little privacy we have left. If I'm reading up on the different varieties of sea cucumbers, I don't need my partner posting it online. -/rant-

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It used to be that if something sparked your curiosity, there weren't a lot of readily available sources for information, unless your parents bought an encyclopedia when you were a kid, but that went out of date pretty fast. Your interest in something had to be strong enough that you'd stake out some re to go to the library and do some research. You're not likely to do that unless you've got a new obsession with Spanish History, so your curiosity would go unfulfilled.

Today, we can answer almost any question in an instant, so why not indulge that curiosity? It's WRONG to question where that curiosity leads anyone. If it's Spanish history, or the Romans, or anything else, that's where their curiosity went, and that should always be encouraged, not questioned or mocked.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Curiosity is not weird.

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Like what's the progress of Wendelstein 7x fusion reactor right now?

[–] oce@jlai.lu 89 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I'm confused at why it mentions the male brain? Curiosity is genderless.

Edit: I didn't notice I was in a com that seems to be dedicated to this kind of angle?

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

yeah I'm not male and I do that all the time

[–] lastweakness@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Have you considered that you might be male? (/s)

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes lol. But I found out I'm just a butch heterosexual woman. Tbf that was very disapointing.

[–] lastweakness@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Damn, disappointing indeed... But don't worry, everyone loves women. At least, as long as they don't ask for their rights...

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Anyone can have a male brain. Brains are genderless!

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 week ago

nonono you are wrong. girls boring boys quirky. okay???? fun activity is male. always. boys cool girls lame. this is true. do not forget!!

[–] swagmoney@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago

pointlessly gendered memes convincing me that my gf is the man and I'm the woman O.o

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

When you see a thing mentioned and don't have a real understanding of it isn't it sort of natural to want to learn more and fix that?

It seems sort of backwards to laugh about that, and trying to stereotype it as a male thing implies that women have no interest in learning.

[–] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Some people never seem to develop a love for learning. And I feel really sorry for those people. Like, we were given the most complex object in the known universe between our ears and tons of people completely let it go to waste.

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, most needlessly gendered things are usually in the form of “hey fellow gender sharers, do you like to do common and popular thing as well?”

It’s the gender equivalent of “[Hometown] has the worst drivers, amirite?”

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you don't like the weather in [literally all dozen places I've lived even though they had completely different climates] just wait five minutes!

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

It's great when you get somewhere where that joke doesn't work. If you don't like the weather here, you should probably leave, it's not changing for a few months

[–] YaksDC@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just the other day I started reading about when the concept of atoms were first theorized. You can never tell what is going to pop into your brain. ☺️

[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

that term is ancient, like plato iirc

[–] parlaptie@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago

Epicurus, actually

[–] Gamechanger@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My favorite early model for Atoms the plum pudding model! Is it wrong, yes, but so is basically every other model.

[–] Shartyfartblast@piefed.zip 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I was actually taught this in 7th grade Earth Science (late 70s). I could never understand why they used that analogy. I have yet to this day ever had plum pudding, and why on gods green earth would you ever put plums in pudding in the first place?

why on gods green earth would you ever put plums in pudding in the first place?

Because you're British and one of the many, many things you call "pudding" is a substance Americans call "fruitcake."

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[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] jaycifer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Great, here I was about to say I thought the Habsburgs were Austrian, and now I have the Wikipedia page open for Habsburg Spain open. Thanks a lot, both sarcastically and unironically.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

They interbred with every European royal family. The Windsors are less Hapsburg than others, iirc they still have some. The Spanish were majorly hapsburg. The Russians too. Marie Antoinette was one too.

I don't think the Napoleons ever got super hapsburg though

[–] wieson@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Looked it up because my European history teacher in high school was an austriaboo who spelled it with a p, but apparently it's a less common and older variant found in American English

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was looking up the Na'vi language because a song contains it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=L4bZRIwI-QA

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

Oel ngati kameie, tsmukan.

TranslationI See you, brother.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I do stuff like this and I’m not a dude. I do have ADHD though. Maybe he also has ADHD? Weird generalization

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm a dude and I have ADHD and I also do this. It's probably an ADHD thing.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 days ago

The adhd version of this is that you end up with 37 new tabs in the background. Who in turn spawn even more

[–] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't have ADHD and I definitely do the wikipedia rabbithole thing.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Same. I'm neurtypical af (not a flex, just not interesting) and I'll go down rabbit holes from time to time if I find something to be interesting. And it's weird, my parents took me to Gettysburg to see the battlefields as a kid and it was boring as fuck. I have my own kids now and I'm debating taking them to Gettysburg to see the battlefields.

I think, as I've grown to learn more about the world, I make more connections to my own personal experiences, and so I find more things interesting. I can reasonably say I've experienced a lot, and so I find a connection with more random shit than I did when I was younger.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 12 points 1 week ago

Sometimes I remember something existed I need to learn all about it right away.

[–] ajmaxwell@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Currently open Wikipedia articles...

  • Muggsy Bogues, former NBA player
  • Mimolette Cheese
  • The Flying Nun, a 60s tv show starring Sally Field
  • Sharks in Captivity
  • Reverse Polish Notation

Ah Bogues was fun, what was he 5'3? One of if not the shortest player to ever play in the NBA.

[–] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I hope you are a space jam enjoyer

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[–] darthsundhaft@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And yet, somehow, we all expect the Spanish [Royal Family] Inbreeding.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well they did wind up hapsburgs

[–] wieson@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago
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[–] liking625@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Spanish monarchy, full of inbreed and thiefs...

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

But we already know they're white.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

This awful boy can fit so much incest

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 7 points 1 week ago
[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The stereotype is true, these are my open tabs on Wikipedia right now:

[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago
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