Anonymous strawberry_hair 20w

Huh, when I say I’m looking for a nerdy girl I mean I want *her* to womansplain things to me lol. Like yes I do want to see your powerpoint presentation, thank you very much

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Anonymous sea_taco 20w

Preach! I wanna hear all ab her special interests and such

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Anonymous #3 20w

I mean yeah, not in a patronizing way tho, but because I love her This is why I despise the trope that smart men want dumb or uneducated women. I find it hard to believe any man who wants that is smart.

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Anonymous fartusaurelius 20w

Exactly, it’s more about passion and care than any specific “nerdy” hobby

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Anonymous benjamin.rush 20w

Exactlyyyy

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Anonymous sea_taco 20w

Oh thank god. Because that’s exactly how I am and I’ve been told I’m too nerdy before. I know a lot of nerdy women also have that experience.

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Anonymous loverboy 20w

Damn…. Why is that actually? I’m curious

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1) I can still ask questions 2) He and I broke up.

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Anonymous fartusaurelius 20w

That makes sense! That’s going to be comforting to a lot of my friends!

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Anonymous benjamin.rush 20w

You consider having an in-depth conversation something nerdy? Because I see that as extremely basic. Passion makes sense but

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I realize that came off rude but this is more of a question about my previous experience not right now.

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 20w

It depends on you mean by “in-depth”. Like are we talking about European monetary policy and hermetic texts or are we talking about the news

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Anonymous sea_taco 20w

I’m replying to Benjamin. He said that he wants to have an in-depth intellectual conversation. I’m wondering what that is.

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Anonymous #9 20w

Women in stem isn’t nerdy (coming from a women in stem)

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 20w

It’s close enough

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 20w

Im not very out of body when it comes to those words only fiction situations. I loved bg3 (and my girl) because i could actually be in it

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 20w

As a man in stem, some people not in stem view anyone in stem as nerdy 😭

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Anonymous #11 20w

I am in stem I’ll take anyone with half a brain and call them nerdy

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Anonymous #14 20w

no i dont even prefer women with glasses 😭

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 20w

I think it varies from person to person tbh, I’m not rly expecting ppl to discuss the role of Cartesian substance dualism in forming modernity as a philosophical enterprise with a through-line to capitalism & the climate crisis. I mean we could talk about that, but that’s more book-study dependent than anything novel. When I say in depth intellectual I mean the first principles of why and how you view things that matter most to you in life, sharing that view with me, and engaging in a discussion

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Anonymous benjamin.rush 20w

Bro is fluent in buzzwords

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 20w

From the largest to smallest manifestations of said views. That’s the more personal component, but the showcasing of passion is def central. Like they could tell me about the specifics of their fav marvel storyline or heck even birdwatching & I’d be interested in learning what they have to say bc they can go in depth on what they like/why. It doesn’t need to be some snooty philosophical thing, overall if I come away with a feeling of this person taught me something cool, that’s cool

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Anonymous #11 20w

That’s wild to me.

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Anonymous benjamin.rush 20w

I don’t mean to offend but I don’t know if you understand what you typed. You could’ve simplified it as just- Cartesian’s role in forming our modern expectations and its role in the climate crisis and capitalism as a whole. You made it overtly complicated and I don’t understand why. After all, by simplifying our words the barrier to entry becomes far smaller.

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Anonymous benjamin.rush 20w

So for you an in-depth conversation is simply the idea of you learning something new.

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Anonymous loverboy 20w

So is it too nerdy or just something you don’t personally enjoy?

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Anonymous sea_taco 20w

Yeah I kinda threw in the buzzwords as a way to showcase what isn’t necessary. Ppl tend to associate intellectual convos with jargon—which isn’t necessary. I’m okay with jargon personally, but anyone can have a convo about how they view the systems we live in, what they see as right/wrong, why, how, etc. Not everyone wants to have convos abt that stuff though. Which like that’s okay, but it’s not my vibe personally. I don’t need to have that convo all the time, it’d be annoying if it were

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Anonymous benjamin.rush 20w

I find unnecessary jargon just that, unnecessary. I’ve had far too many negative experiences with those (especially men) adding in particularly large words to explain a simple topic in order to appear more clever. It sounds like you’d just person someone who can explain their standpoint on life and why they feel that way.

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Anonymous benjamin.rush 20w

I hate reading stuff w/ low information density

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 20w

No I’d say there are two components: 1. You cogently explain what + how you think about things and why with dialogue 2. You teach me something

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Anonymous sea_taco 20w

Agreed. I’d much rather someone speak like an elementary schooler to explain themselves than like a doctor.

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 20w

imo the best explanations are so brief they’re almost incomprehensible

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Anonymous sea_taco 20w

I think jargon tends to be good for information density tbh, it’s the entire point of useful jargon at least. Like if you’re reading something in your field you want ppl to be rly specific while not spending too long explaining established concepts, so jargon is useful in those respects. In a convo with someone not in your field it isn’t useful at all. That’s why I set up the early framing as exactly what I think is not needed, to poke fun at it being unoriginal and not useful

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Anonymous sea_taco 20w

I see points of both. Obviously, we are going through a huge literacy crisis. But the way to solve it or improve upon our rates is not to over complicate things. Instead, we show that you can communicate your thoughts with smaller words and then substitute out some in order to make your point more clear with fewer words.

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Anonymous benjamin.rush 20w

That not at all true. I took classes on research and the most important thing my professor taught us was to apply to the lowest baseline. I want a 13 year old to pick up my study and be able to understand what I am discussing. That is how you make research available to the lowest denominator. Research studies frequently have word banks for this exact purpose.

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Anonymous benjamin.rush 20w

I don’t just mean jargon, I mean you reiterating the same idea for 4 sentences.

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Anonymous #3 20w

Confession I hate trains. I don’t see the appeal. I know a lot of autistics enjoy them but they are not my interest

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 20w

I think it depends on who your audience is. I think we agree when the audience is general/in normal situations, but in all honesty when I’m publishing research I’m really not doing it for 13 year olds, not college students, not professors, only rly for people in my field that actually have access to the journal it’s in. I’ll include relevant work and explanations, but it’s kinda just not academically viable for me to explain a tensor numerical method in quantum chemistry beyond the methodology

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 20w

I don’t mean “dumbing down” either. I mean “brevity is the soul of wit.”

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Anonymous sea_taco 20w

I’d agree on the brevity point, but how that unfolds depends on the audience and situation

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Anonymous benjamin.rush 20w

I need me an aphoristic shawty fr

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Anonymous benjamin.rush 20w

Bro ur literally polonius

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Anonymous sea_taco 20w

Bro the entire point of me using the jargon was a way to showcase exactly what I don’t mean 😭

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Anonymous benjamin.rush 20w

That is the third time you’ve said that

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 20w

I respect it but i honestly cannot understand. They are such a fucked up and interesting part of american history vis a vis government corruption, westward expansion, which cities became major cities, who gets to go where for how much money, extractive industries. And you can get on them and go places and theyve got big windows. I took the amtrak from wa dc to seattle last year and it was so cool to see goldenrod growing in literally every state across the country we went through.

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Anonymous benjamin.rush 20w

+ I addressed it 5 replies ago

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Anonymous #3 20w

Why trains specifically as opposed to formal logistics?

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Anonymous sea_taco 20w

Well my special interest broadly is land and its relations so anything at the intersection of urban development, environmental impacts, and sociopolitical forces is like an instant win in the autism department for me. I also really like buses and ferries. I do not like planes or cars.

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Anonymous sea_taco 20w

Yeah the only reason I reiterated was to make reeeally sure I wasn’t misunderstood as supporting jargon in normal convos, which I ended up being anyway. Ig it turned into a self fulfilling prophecy 💀

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Anonymous #3 20w

Was talking to a Japanese urban planning student a while back & she said the main reason we can’t get bullet trains is legit just our local land polices being too convoluted & localized, at least in the case of California for the SF->LA route

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Anonymous #3 20w

I think there’s a lot more interesting fucked up and ridiculous parts of American history to be interested in. The ways trains have impacted our society in theory is interesting, but it falls flat (in my opinion) when we talk about how different modes of transport changed. Even things like women’s fashion over the years is more interesting to me because of the direct impact that is still measurable. TLDR; trains are fine but I’ve heard the same boring facts about them so many times.

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 20w

The direct impact is measurable in contemporary life theres crazy economic implications to freight trains getting worse. Also idk how it falls flat like our train system sucks but thats what i find interesting. Like im not trying to convince you to like trains but im just saying the reasons i like them. They also have an impact on fashion rooting back to reconstruction era southern wealth concentration in shipping cotton to northern states where the clothes get made, which maintained disparity

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 20w

I dont enjoy it because i find it too nerdy. So, both lol

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Anonymous #3 20w

Oh no I’m not saying you can’t like trains! I’m just saying I don’t like the American ones.

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Anonymous #3 20w

Huh, neat! I’ve always been more drawn to formalized high-level systems than any specific application, so I was just curious to see why someone might hone in like that

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Anonymous benjamin.rush 20w

Ok, but as I said earlier. I wasn’t just talking about jargon.

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Anonymous sea_taco 20w

It’s time to close the schools boys

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 20w

Oh they super suck and why is fascinating to me. However will i still defend amtrak till the dsy i die even when my train was 2, 4, 8, or 16 hours late? Yes.

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Anonymous #3 20w

I’m so tired of Amtrak myself lol. Maybe that’s part of why I don’t like trains. But it’s awesome you do! I just find my interests elsewhere

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 20w

Amtrak is unfortunately a state of mind that requires a delusional amount of cope. Like yeah my train was 16 hours late but thats okay cuz all the parts that are usually at night are light and i can see a whole different side of the trip (and antelopes)

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Anonymous loverboy 19w

Rip I guess I’m too nerdy (I love d&d)

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Anonymous sea_taco 19w

Alright man, if someone asks a question of clarification after I’ve already made a brief point, I will answer that by going into more detail on what’s been said to offer said clarification, ie a longer reply

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Anonymous #3 19w

I feel like not enough ppl talk abt just how financialized the industry has gotten. Berkshire basically used the gov like a bludgeon against the workers against precision scheduled railroading a few years back for rly basic work demands imo. I sorta stopped keeping up w it after that tho, do you know of any way to actually track freight infrastructure post psr before getting processed at yards? Bc I tried looking into it and ngl doesn’t seem very doable for ppl not in the actual companies afaik

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Anonymous benjamin.rush 19w

Has gotten? Its been like that since the beginning lowkey, railroads got ahead of the game and got different labor laws than everybody else they can even have their own special cops. Psr suuucks and private railroads suuuck long live tacoma rail.

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Anonymous #3 19w

Also as far as tracking goes theyre very secretive, i only know sometimes cuz i got a buddy who works for bnsf. Foamer networks also are good at tracking if theres cool trains going through an area, i used to watch the nuclear waste ones. Union pacific big boy is touring rn and thats public. My sisters friend also made the tool amtraker which is a site that has live maps of all amtrak/vista trains (not bustitutions tho)

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Anonymous #3 19w

Yeah lol I just mean relatively speaking post ICC in the 90s, the level of self professed activist investor involvement since then has been a really modern trend with all the strip mining to cut costs for the operating ratio in a way it just wasn’t as much before. Though I think that’s a general trend across old industries tbh. Dude I’m 100% gonna check that tool out that’s so cool

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Anonymous benjamin.rush 19w

Ur right ur right! One day there will be one big railroad and it wont be conrail :(

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