• oce 🐆@jlai.lu
    973·
    9 天前

    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?

  • Trump Rapes Kids@lemmy.world
    322·
    9 天前

    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·
      8 天前

      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.

      • Trump Rapes Kids@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 天前

        Oh my God, like who would waste time learning boring dusty old book stuff when they could be learning who’s going to cheat next on Love Island or watching people on youtube gossip about other people on youtube? It’s called reality tv because it’s real like we are and not dumb stuff boring people wrote in books.

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      8 天前

      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?”

      • Trump Rapes Kids@lemmy.world
        5·
        8 天前

        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·
          8 天前

          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

  • YaksPT@sh.itjust.works
    28·
    9 天前

    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. ☺️

    • jaycifer@lemmy.world
      17·
      9 天前

      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·
        8 天前

        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

  • Formfiller@lemmy.world
    18·
    8 天前

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

        • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
          3·
          8 天前

          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.

  • hactar42@lemmy.ml
    16·
    8 天前

    Because he had the thought, “uhh why don’t you ever about Spain during WW2?” Then he looked it up and started reading about Francisco Franco, then the Spanish Civil War, then the 1868 uprisings to overthrow Queen Isabella II, then King Amadeo I abdicated, which then lead to him wondering what the full trail was.

  • JCSpark@lemmy.ca
    14·
    8 天前

    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-

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    11·
    8 天前

    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.

  • AJMaxwell@lemmy.world
    10·
    9 天前

    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