Hell yea. I love hearing about other peoples passions.
It’s funny because the people who are like ‘no one wants to hear it’ will launch into a diatribe about garden hoses or something like they don’t realize that is a niche interest. I had to catch a relative out about that. I think she’s gotten a bit kinder since.
What if they’re flat earthers?
User name.
What?
Existence of FET doesn’t disqualify approval of passion, to point out FET in this context might be considered as a NegativeLookBehind.
On point.
I would like to learn of the connection between the compass and the atomic bomb.
The history of the compass started more than 2000 years ago during the Han dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD).
According to wikipedia, so I doubt there to be a connection
ChatGPT said the same thing. The closest Iink I could get was electromagnetism being an important component of nuclear physics which followed the invention of the compass
The compass may have indirectly lead to our understanding of electromagnetism, which eventually helped inform our understanding of atoms and subatomic particles?
I’m wildly speculating but that’s the best connection I can make.
The invention of calculus created the atomic bomb, very indirectly.
Time machine meme: Distract Leibniz/Newton
The first fish to come out of the water created the atomic bomb, indirectly.
Also fun fact Humans are technically a species of fish.
Coelocanths are more closely related to us than gold fishes
It’s very depressing to ask someone about their weekend and the answer is always nothing more than TV and sleep.
I know somebody who maintains a gas powered go kart that his son races with. I don’t know much about it, and I’d never be into it, but at least hearing about what he is up to is interesting.
I don’t have any energy to do anything else. I hate being asked about my weekend. Why do I have to entertain? They can just tell me about their own weekend instead and I’ll offer my own information if I have something to tell.
I don’t assume people are asking for their own entertainment. I think they are trying to connect. Conversation is one of the way people connect to each other. If it’s just for entertainment It’s so much easier to just get entertainment from a phone rather than go the effort to interact with people.
That’s the unfortunate part of modern society. Many people are barely able to make a living to get by that when they do have time off, all they want to do is sleep and do nothing. It’s not that they are necessarily lazy or unmotivated, it’s that they are tired and need the rest.
People don’t create, or get into a hobby unless they have enough free time and money.
If all your free time is spent on trying to get a bit more money to live … any bit of time you have to just sit will be spent either sleeping or watching TV.
What’s ironic is that so many are doing TV and sleep on their weekends because they are depressed and exhausted from the week, with only two days before starting it over, less in many cases
This was me for a while. I’ve found that when I’m depressed, taking the first step out the door can feel like an insurmountable task.
Also related, I’m actually in a conversation with a discord friend right now about how hard it is to feel connected to something as we get older. It’s still possible, but it takes a concerted effort. Add things like depression and exhaustion to the mix, and you’ve got the ingredients for a downward spiral.
There are so many people out there who I’d love to give a big mental hug. So many people hurting.
I can definitely relate, then my dog has to stay on routine …. I love her almost like another kid and am so happy she can share our family. I’ll spend as much time as I can, etc, etc. but there are weekend days when I. Just. Need. Sleep. but she has to make sure we all get up in time as if it were work/school
Right on the nose with the insurmountable task.
The thing is, is that if somehow you get the energy to get out the door, whatever you have planned is (nearly) always a good time. It’s just so hard to remember that when depression takes hold.
I find even taking a step out the door to walk around the block can help improve my mood.
Speaking of which I think I will go do that right now! I could use it :)
Did you make it?
Shit I forgot. Ok going now. Bye :)
This has been my experience as well. I feel this every time I have something social planned, and even moreso when depressed.
I can be totally aware of what I need to do to feel better, and still get hung up on that first damn step. The psychological struggle is real.
To be fair, sleeping is awesome and TV shows have had 100 years of continuous improvement.
We’re in a golden age of TV. Film level production and writing quality. A list actors. Planned story arcs instead of serial garbage.
I have been lucky enough to watch every season of the Simpsons since 1989 as it increased and slowly decreased in quality. I have seen Seinfeld, The Office, Breaking Bad, The Wire, Friends, Anime like Neon Genesis Evangelion/Berserk,One Punch Man/Death Note, countless documentaries featuring David Attenborough. Top Gear, The IT Crowd, Mr Robot, The Walking Dead and even all six seasons of Game of Thrones.
You’re right, we are very fortunate and it is a golden age.
“I would now like to present my theories on Dark Souls lore, and why Vaatividya is wrong about nearly everything.”
I know that Patches is circumcised. Don’t ask why I know that.
Wait… Can I clip the camera through his pants and confirm this? 🤔
This is relevant to my interests…
For real, I hate that I didn’t meticulously document everything day 1 on Elden Ring because there were some bits of text that existed the day it came out that have since been removed and they would have completely changed a lot of what the story is believed to be in that game.
I took physical notes… Played completely blind and tried to figure everything out on my own. Probably not too many item descriptions though.
I am particularly proud that I noticed the Katamari Damacy reference in the item description for the Graven Mass talisman.
The primeval current is a forbidden tradition of glintstone sorcery. To those who cleave to its teachings, the act of collecting sorcerers to fashion them into the seeds of stars is but another path of scientific inquiry.
If you haven’t played Katamari Damacy: The game is about rolling random crap up into a ball to turn it into a star because your dad got drunk one night and accidentally ate them all, so you need to fix it. The graven mass enemies are those balls of sorcerer heads you see once in a while and they were being used to make stars. 😂
You can still download any old version of Elden Ring from Steam
So they dropped 2 fun facts that can be interesting stories.
When I think of someone telling me about their special interests I think of someone telling me about their Roblox loot for 20 minutes straight.
Yeah good point. People who over share rarely have this many interesting topics. I can only bear so much of someone going into great details every day about a game or some fantasy setting I haven’t and probably will never experience myself. Geeking about stuff is fine but a lot of people aren’t great at summarizing to laymans.
The trick is to use layman’s terms and try to get the person you are talking to to follow along and get interested only to reveal In nineteen ninety eight the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer’s table
I am sure I have bored the shit out of a few people like you (yay ADHD /s).
Far better to say too little than too much and embarrass myself and watch others slowly back away lol
Fact is most people are interested in things I find boring and vice versa. I guess that’s why most conversations are so superficial.
It depends. I wouldn’t listen to Andrew Tate, no matter how passionate he may be. I’d rather try to understand flat earthers than him.
Understanding the flat earth “theory” is hilariously fun, understanding Andrew Tate is just a sad perverse fascination with brain damaged insecurities.
Yeah like at least they’re creative about it you know?
Exactly. I have never seen Tate(to be fair I have only seen clips) make models or perform experiments to support their argument like the flat earth people do. They also provide supporting evidence, Tate just says “trust me bro”. Flat earthers have conventions, Tate just has convictions.
Well, Tate is a self confessed rapist who needs to play make belief to appear a billionaire to impress young boys. Don’t ever watch him, really.
Not impress, to swindle and brainwash.
If you can put the damage hes causing aside. Hes an interesting specimen. Completely brain broken and hilarious. Unfortunately people listen to him.
other than that one needs to do opposition research.
On the other hand I’d listen about him since I had no experience or awareness of him since I’m not on social media. Behind the bastards did a good podcast episode on him.
I agree! Hearing people being very enthused and happy about something is very comforting to me.
As others have pointed out, there are exceptions – flat earthers, religious fanatics, violent people – but even then, it’s not the hearing part that’s the problem – it’s more the problematic content itself
People who are enthusiastic and well informed about that nice thing they like are sexy af. I wanna bone them.
Listening to people who are passionate about something is fantastic, especially if they’re good at it where they can get you excited too
Most of the time I hear, “Oh, yeah? That’s cool.” End of conversation. I still like my interests and tons of other random people on the internet do too, but my interests don’t generally align with my IRL co-workers unless we’re talking about our kids.
To some degree we need more time and money to do interesting things I guess? Or maybe people need more curiosity. Idk.
Wait is the Saturn’s ring thing true? That would be awesome if it was true.
Saturn’s rings are very unstable in terms of geological timescales. Sharks are also older than them. (as a species, not individual sharks of course!)
There is that one old ass shark that is like “when I was a kid Saturn didn’t even have rings.”
I am going to have to do some reading now thanks.
“Older than Saturn’s rings” should be a saying.
IIRC, they will only be around for about 200,000 more years.
Thats about a half a day from the Sun’s perspective
This post made me think to recommend the series ‘Connections’ by James Burke if you vibe on the strange relationship between odd events and inventions in history that lead us…here.
Caveat: it was filmed in the 70s so enjoy polyester and bell bottoms, but also scary prescient predictions, some of which have already come to pass.
Goddammit I was gonna post the exact same thing.
FYI, Burke JUST released a whole new season of Connections on CuriosityStream.
That looks great. Pretty cheap too for one month which would be enough to binge it.
That’s what I did, because it’s something I actually want to financially support, and there are plenty of other good shows on the service as well… but not enough for more than a month. That said, if you prefer to sail the seas I can point you in the right direction…
Cheers. I appreciate the offer but I think I’ll spend the few quid. Going to give the old series a whirl first
I want to recommend the podcast Go Fact Yourself . It’s a trivia podcast with minor celebrity guests as contestants. The trivia questions asked are from one of three categories which the contestants provide ahead of time as something they are an expert in outside of their field of work. You get to meet some interesting people, and the experts they bring onto the show to judge the final answers really make the show and creates some very interesting conversations. It’s basically a show letting people talk about some of their favourite things.
Reading this thread reminded me of my mother often ignoring what I said as a child. And one specific time when she said she didn’t want to hear about a video game I was excited about.
Not huge injuries, there is certainly far worse that can happen. But it does shape who you are to be shut down like that. Shit parenting, as gen x is used to.
I hope I have never done that to anyone. Just listening without criticizing is not difficult.
When you were a child did you only ever talk about video games? Just curious.
No. Why would you think that?
Those injuries are worse than many people realize, I think. Dismissing your kid’s enthusiasm basically sucks the joy out of their life. Kids literally need recognition and validation from parents. Encouragement is a big deal. When you share exciting things and get shot down, you either stop sharing with anyone, stop being excited, or both.
If we can’t ever be enthusiastic about anything what’s supposed to be the offset to all the misery life throws at us, periods of numb ennui? Lol
My parents often responded to any enthusiasm with some kind of negativity. I don’t recall any shared excitement. I’m also gen x, if you couldn’t guess lol.
I got to admit it is difficult pretending to be interested in whatever K-Pop thing is going on, I have daughters. Do make an effort. Bet you didn’t know that Black Pink broke up.
“Well, whatever, never mind.” --Kurt Cobain.
Yup. ’shut up’ was the parenting of the 70s.
I think there was some sort of anxious period where people thought if they are sitting down and listening to someone they saw it as a ‘waste of time’ rather than quality time to connect with someone.
