Curiosity is not weird.
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2026
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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.
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.
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available sources for information, unless your parents bought an encyclopedia when you were a kid, but that went out of date pretty fast.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.
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?
yeah I'm not male and I do that all the time
Have you considered that you might be male? (/s)
For some reason everything is gendered.
Anyone can have a male brain. Brains are genderless!
pointlessly gendered memes convincing me that my gf is the man and I'm the woman O.o
nonono you are wrong. girls boring boys quirky. okay???? fun activity is male. always. boys cool girls lame. this is true. do not forget!!
Like what's the progress of Wendelstein 7x fusion reactor right now?
Spanish monarchy, full of inbreed and thiefs...
But we already know they're white.
I do stuff like this and I’m not a dude. I do have ADHD though. Maybe he also has ADHD? Weird generalization
I'm a dude and I have ADHD and I also do this. It's probably an ADHD thing.
The adhd version of this is that you end up with 37 new tabs in the background. Who in turn spawn even more
I don't have ADHD and I definitely do the wikipedia rabbithole thing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?”
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!
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
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.
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. ☺️
that term is ancient, like plato iirc
Epicurus, actually
My favorite early model for Atoms the plum pudding model! Is it wrong, yes, but so is basically every other model.
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Sometimes I remember something existed I need to learn all about it right away.
Habsburgs is why.
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.
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
Habsburg with a B
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
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And yet, somehow, we all expect the Spanish [Royal Family] Inbreeding.
Well they did wind up hapsburgs
Well, it's honestly not that hard to expect something that is already history
I was looking up the Na'vi language because a song contains it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=L4bZRIwI-QA
Oel ngati kameie, tsmukan.
Translation
I See you, brother.
The stereotype is true, these are my open tabs on Wikipedia right now:
Yeah... 
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.
Reverse Polish Notation
That bumper sticker comic?
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This awful boy can fit so much incest
Learning??? No way
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