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Everyone has something they can't stop themselves from nerding out over - but often it's hard to find people to talk to about it. So go ahead, share your interests, and tell us about them!

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

At the risk of sounding edgy: Sex.

I live in the US. Sex, even just plain boring vanilla sex, is such a taboo topic. Everyone's uncomfortable about it, and that sucks. I think it's interesting, and fun, and there's so many things to talk about from actual activities to social constructs and more.

Whenever it comes up, I nerd out the same way I would when talking about a game I am currently obsessing over.

[–] Siethron@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Same! I have bad ADHD and my hyperfixations are often sex related.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago

Have you read 'Bonk'?

[–] Ubettawerk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

The idea of time. It’s insane to me to think about events happening at different times in different places. Or for the same event to take different amounts of time depending on your reference points.

The sun is 8 minutes away from us, so we are looking at it 8 minutes in the past. If it were to suddenly disappear, it would take 8 minutes for us to find out. That’s mine-blowing to me! It’s like the past, present, and future are all happening at the same time.

Nobody cares to humor me when I bring the topic up lol

[–] sep@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

So facinating, even gravity is affected by those 8 minutes. Iow we would rotate around a missing sun, for 8 minutes, same as with light.
This is all also related to relativity, that someone else wanted to talk about in this post, i am just saying ;)

[–] infinipurple@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I'll humour you! Time is fascinating and malleable and really quite intangible.

So, if you want, fire away with anything you find fascinating about the concept of time!